He that by two or three witnesses was convicted of violating Moses's law, was put to death without mercy.

'Twas by faith that Abraham, when put to the trial, offered up Isaac: HE offered up his darling son, to whose posterity the promises were to be made good:

Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:

you have condemn'd the just, you have put him to death, though he did not oppose you.

that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:

for this reason I shall never omit to put you in mind of these things, however knowing you are already, and settled in the truth.

but I say to the rest that are in Thyatira, who do not follow this doctrine, and have not been initiated in the depths, as they are called, of satan, I will put upon you no other burden, but what you have:

"I shall come with surprize, happy he that is upon the watch, and keepeth his garments pure, that his vices may not put him to shame."

for God hath put it in their hearts to execute his designs, in agreeing to give their kingdom to the beast, until the divine oracles shall be accomplished.