trusts thereon shall not be confounded. it will prove an honour to you, who believe; but to the incredulous, the same stone, which is the chief of the angle,

As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce you.

My dear brethren, don't be surpriz'd at your being brought as it were to the test of fire; as if some strange thing had happen'd to you.

resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do.