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The sixth temptation or sort of exercise is that the godly shall be coldrife [cold] in love one toward another, and not find respect and credit readily one of another, and that because they shall see iniquity and hypocrisy so abound in the visible church as one shall suspect another, and not dare to trust…

The fifth temptation or sort of exercise is the arising of many false teachers within the Church who shall brangle [dispute] the faith of the godly and deceive many. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651) Matthew 24:11 Meaning – Many False Prophets Shall Arise Christians…

The fourth temptation or fourth sort of exercise of Christ’s disciples is the apostasy of professors when persecution arises for the gospel. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651) Matthew 24:10 Meaning – Then Shall Many Be Offended This is a narrow trial when many who…

The third sort of the exercise of Christ’s disciples is persecution, imprisonment and slaughter. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651) Matthew 24:9 Meaning – They Shall Deliver You Up to Be Afflicted, and Shall Kill You Christians must resolve, for the gospel to lose their…

Matthew 24:8 Meaning – Beginning of Sorrows When such evils befall nations in God’s displeasure for their sins, and specially for abusing the gospel, it is but a beginning of the sorrows which God will bring at length upon this wicked world; for all these are the beginning of sorrows. Dickson, David – A Brief…

Matthew 24:7 Meaning – Nation Shall Rise Against Nation It is decreed in heaven to punish the wickedness of the world and specially the contempt of the gospel by yoking of kingdoms and nations one against another, and to plague all by famine and pestilence and earthquakes in divers places; for it is foretold That…

Another sort of the temptations of the church is the terror of wars. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651) Matthew 24:6 Meaning – Ye Shall Hear of Wars If wars fall out about religion and the gospel, it is no small trial; therefore he tell…