Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

I answer, First, as Chrysostom, because they do ¹suffer the same things that Christ suffers; you shall find the reproaches of Gods people, and the reproaches of Christ are just alike one another. In Psal. 42. 6, 7, 8. there are three things upon which Christ seems to be reproached, and they are the three special things upon which Christians are reproached: As first the outward means of Christ in the world, I am a worm and no man, so the outward, mean and low condition of Gods people subjects them to reproach. Secondly, Christ bore the world ²in hand that he trusted in God, and depended upon God, and no outward help; and therefore they said, Let us see whether he will deliver him, being he trusted in him; so the men of the world scorn at Gods people, because they speak so much of God, and trusting in God. Thirdly, they reproached him, because he said, God delighted in him; so because the Saints of God do profess their relations to God, and do expect an especial love of God, therefore the world reproaches them.

I answer, First, as Chrysostome, because they do ¹suffer the same things that Christ suffers; you shall finde the reproaches of Gods people, and the reproaches of Christ are just alike one another. In Psal. 42. 6, 7, 8. there are three things upon which Christ seems to be reproached, and they are the three special things upon which Christians are reproached: As first the outward means of Christ in the world, I am a worm and no man, so the outward, mean and low condition of Gods people subjects them to reproach. Secondly, Christ bore the world ²in hand that he trusted in God, and depended upon God, and no outward help; and therefore they said, Let us see whether he will deliver him, being he trusted in him; so the men of the world scorn at Gods people, because they speak so much of God, and trusting in God. Thirdly, they reproached him, because he said, God delighted in him; so because the Saints of God do profess their relations to God, and do expect an especial love of God, therefore the world reproaches them.