The World's Hatred to Living Saints.
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There is a generation of men, that will praise the saints who are gone to heaven—and yet mock and afflict the saints on earth;so that were all those saints alive again, whom they now so much honour, I dare affirm, they would persecute them.
Like the Jews, they can garnish the sepulchres of the righteous—and yet they are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!
Dissembling world! your tongue embalms a dead saint—while your hand inflicts a wound on the living saints!
You can praise God for those who are departed in the faith—and yet persecute God in those who will not depart from the faith.
O foolish world, you must of necessity condemn yourself—for your praise has left your practice without excuse!