THE WORLD'S HATRED TO LIVING SAINTS.
There is a generation of men, that will praise and adore the saints in heaven, and yet mock and afflict the saints on earth; so that were all those saints alive again, whom they so much honor in their day, I dare affirm, they would persecute them in their persons. Like the Jews, they can garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and yet play the Jew with the persons of the righteous. Dissembling world! thy tongue embalms a dead saint whilst thy hand strikes a wound into the living, and thou canst praise God for those that are departed in the faith, and yet persecute God in those that will not depart from the faith. O foolish world! thou must needs condemn thyself, for thy praise hath left thy practice without excuse.