Mace(i)
19 but even to the morose. for it is a recommendation to the divine favour, to suffer unjust persecution
20 from a principle of conscience. what glory is there in suffering corporal punishment for real offences? but if you meet with ill usage for doing your duty, and bear it with constancy,
21 this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,
22 leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd,
23 who, when he was reviled, did not revile again: when he was in his sufferings, he did not threat, but referr'd his cause to the righteous judge.