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Especially hence it is recorded of Davids brethren, and fathers house, 1 Sam. 22. 1. When David was persecuted, and came to the Cave of Adullam, when they heard it, they went down thither to him; they ventured the displeasure, the rage of Saul, the forfeiting ⟨p. 231⟩all their estates, to go down to David their brother, both his father and mother was there, though very old now, as appears ver. 3. Basils forwardness ¹in appearing for his friend in danger, mightily affected Chrysostom: he tells of him, that he hazarded himself much, to deliver his friend in danger, and being blamed by some for venturing so much, he gave this answer, I have not learned to love otherwise, I know ²not how to manifest my love but thus.

1. 1Chrys. l. 2. de Sacerd.
2. 2Ego aliter amare non didici.

Seventhly, when Gods people suffer most in Gods cause, it is then most honourable to be called forth to ¹appear for it, to assist in it. Amongst the Persians, the left hand is accounted the most honourable. Xenophon reports of Cyrus, that those whom he honoured most, he placed at his left hand, upon this ground, because that hand was weakest, and most subject to danger; the most honourable of the kingdom were set to defend, where there was most weakness and most danger: If the people of God be brought low, if they be brought under by affliction, if the cause of God in them seem to be in danger, then to come in and appear, to stand by them, and for them, this is honourable.