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Eighthly, this appearing for the Saints, and joining with them in their affliction, shall be highly rewarded ¹of God. When David was in his affliction, persecuted by Saul, Abiathar fled to him with the Ephod, and abode with him; Although self-respects might move him, Saul having slain his father, and fourscore and four priests of the Lord, and if he had not escaped, he had gone to it too; yet because he was with David in his affliction, mark how Solomon respects him for it, 1 Kings 2. 26. Thou art worthy ⟨p. 232⟩of death, but I will not put thee to death, but go to Anathoth, to thine own fields, because thou barest the Ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

Eighthly, this appearing for the Saints, and joyning with them in their affliction, shall be highly rewarded ¹of God. When David was in his affliction, persecuted by Saul, Abiathar fled to him with the Ephod, and abode with him; Although self-respects might move him, Saul having slain his father, and fourscore and four priests of the Lord, and if he had not escaped, he had gone to it too; yet because he was with David in his affliction, mark how Solomon respects him for it, 1 Kings 2. 26. Thou art worthy ⟨p. 232⟩of death, but I will not put thee to death, but go to Anathoth, to thine own fields, because thou barest the Ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

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