“But this is a shaking trial,” might they reply: “is our
condition such, that men, in killing us, will think to approve their
consciences to God?” “Yea, they will,” saith our Saviour; “but yet, that
you be not mistaken, nor trouble your consciences about their confidences,
know that their blind and desperate ignorance is the cause of their fury
and persuasion,” verse
3, “These things will they do unto you, because they have not
known the Father, nor me.”