The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

The like is read of Hezekiah, who defending his City Jerusalem, and resisting proud Sennacherib, no doubt obeying the counsel of Isaiah, ¹at length was so oppressed with sorrow and shame, by the blasphemous words of Rabshakeh, that he had no other refuge, but in the Temple of the Lord (as a man desperate and without comfort) to open ⟨p. 59⟩the disdainful letters sent unto him by that haughty and proud tyrant.

The like is read of Hezekiah, who defending his City Ierusalem, and resisting proud Sennacherib, no doubt obeying the counsell of Isaiah, ¹at length was so oppressed with sorrow and shame, by the blasphemous words of Rabshakeh, that he had no other refuge, but in the Temple of the Lord (as a man desperate and without comfort) to open ⟨p. 59⟩the disdainfull letters sent unto him by that hauty and proud tyrant.

1. 1Isai. 36, 37.

By these and many Histories mo, it is most evident, that the more nigh salvation and deliverance approacheth,¹ the more vehement is the temptation and trouble.

1. 1Note.