67. Now cannot _you_ join in all this? Is it not the very language of your heart? O when will you take knowledge, that _our_ whole concern, our constant labour is, to bring all the world to the religion which you feel, to solid, inward, vital religion! What _power_ is it then that keeps us asunder? _Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? If it be, give me thy hand. Come with me and see_, and rejoice in _my zeal for the Lord_. No difference between us (if thou art a child of God) can be so considerable as our agreement is. If we differ in smaller things, we agree in that which is greatest of all. How is it possible then that _you_ should be induced, to think or speak evil of us? How could it ever come into your mind, to oppose us, or weaken our hands? How long shall we complain of the wounds which we receive in the house of our friends? Surely the children of this world are still _wiser in their generation than the children of light_. Satan is not divided against himself: Why are they who are on the Lord’s side against us? How is it that _wisdom is_ not _justified of her_ own _children_? 68. Is it, because you have heard, “That we only make religion a cloak for covetousness? And because you have heard abundance of particulars alleged in support of that general charge?” ’Tis probable, you may also have heard, “How much we have _gained_ by preaching already:” and, to crown all, “That we are only papists in disguise, who are undermining and destroying the church?” 69. “You have heard this.” Well: and can you believe it? Have you then never heard the fifth chapter of St. _Matthew_? I would to God you could believe it. What is written there? How readest thou? _Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my name’s sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you_: namely, by _reviling_ them, and _saying all manner of evil_ of them _falsely_. Do not you know, that this (as well as all other scriptures) must needs be fulfilled? If so, take knowledge, that this day also it is fulfilled in your ears. For our Lord’s sake, and for the sake of his gospel which we preach, _men do revile us and persecute us, and_ (blessed be God, who giveth us to rejoice therein) _say all manner of evil of us falsely_. And how can it be otherwise? _The disciple is not above his master. It is enough for the disciple, that he be as his master, and the servant as his Lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his houshold?_