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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60325	The practices of persecutors delivered in a sermon on the fourteenth verse of the foure score six Psalme / b Mr. Archibald Skeldie.	Skeldie, Archibald.	1645 (1645)	Wing S3932; ESTC R20904	44,206	68

Because meek and merciful men are most like God who glorieth in his mercy so fierce and cruel men are most like Satan who delights in cruelty to whom is given the name of a destroyer in the 20. of the Revelation because he taketh pleasure to destroy the creatures of God so that when he cannot extend his malice to men he is content to exercise his cruelty on beasts as the Gospel telleth us of the legion of devils that drowned the Swine Thirdly Because our happinesse standeth in an union with God and the neernes of our accesse to God augmenteth our blessednesse according to the saying of the Psalmist * Psal 65.4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and whom thou causeth to come to thee Cruell men can have no society nor fellowship with God * Psal 5.6 Who abhorreth the bloud-thirstie for amongst all things that can be presented to the minde or senses of man there is not any two things so contrary to another as the mercifull Creator and cruell creature 4. Because albeit cruel and malicious men for a time may get liberty to exercise their fury yet in end they shal not escape the vengeance of God which is the just reward of their cruelty Amongst the Pagans Hercules and Theseus were famous that subdued and punished cruell men by whom many had beene injured and oppressed And shall it not much more concerne the glory of Gods power justice to render to cruel men the reward of their cruelty It was observed by Plato the Philosopher (o) Nullus tam severe inimicum saum ulcisci potest quam deus solet miserorum oppressores Plato in Timaeo That there is no man upon earth so sevirly can take vengeance on his enemie as the Lord God useth to take vengeance on such as oppresse poore men This vengeance the Lord some time executeth by the hand of man which did make * Iudges 1.7 Adonibezek to acknowledge the justice of God albeit it often falleth out that men whom God useth as instruments of his justice looke not to the glory of God but to sacisfie their owne vindictive humour * Isai 33.1 Woe to thee that oppresseth for when thou shalt cease another shall oppresse thee The Meeds and the Persians were no lesse cruell to the Caldeans nor they had been to the people of God but more frequently the Lord plagueth cruell men by his own immediate hand with visible judgements in the sight of the world to the glory of the power justice of God We read in the history of the Macabees that the bowels of the cruel Antiochus were tormented who had caused the bowels of others to be tormented and in the Iewish history we read of the punishment of cruel Herod the great for his crueltie as well against his owne Children as against the Nobles and people of the Iews The Scripture likewise telleth us of the condigne punishment of the wicked * 2 Chro 21.8 Iehoram king of Iudah And in the sea of histories it is related of the cruel and bloudy Attila king of the Huns who was never moved with tears of any to shew mercy or pitie but as he delighted in the sheding of humane bloud while he lived he was overtaken by the vengeance of divine justice in his greatest triumph in his mariage day for he was chocked with his own bloud which did flow abundantly from divers parts of his body untill his wretched life was finished There are infinite examples both in Ecclesiastick historie in the book of the Martyrs of the just punishment wherewith the cruell persecutors of the Saintes of God in all ages have beene plagued therefore it was worthily observed by Cyprian (p) Certi sumuset fidenres quod inultum non remanet quod perpetimur quantoque mator fuerit persecutionis iniuriatanto et iustior pro persecutione viudicta Cypreanus tract coutra Demetrium We are sure confident that what we suffer shall not be unrevenged and the greater the wrong of the persecution be somuch the more just and grievous shall be the revenge which God shall take of the persecutors The Second use which here is to be observed whensoever we heare of the cruelty of wicked men against the Saints of God in any place of the world and when we our selves are threatned with their cruel hostility then we should put up our humble prayer to the Lord our God We should pray to God to be delivered from cruell enemies for two reasons that if he will chastise us for our sins and offences he would doe it with his own hand and not give us * up to the will of our enemies For David wisely choosed * to fall into the hand of God rather than into the hand of men Thus we should pray for two reasons First because no favour towards the Saints can be expected at the hands of their persecutors Secondly because God to whom the Saints pray is both willing to heare and able to helpe First I say because no favour but extreme cruelty to the people of God may be expected at the hands of the cruell enemies of God and his people as Ieremie speaketh of the king of Babylon * which did show no mercy to the people of the Iews The Scripture compareth persecution to a floud of water for as a floud of water is not like an ordinary river which runneth along in its owne channell but altogether overfloweth banke and brae and violently carieth away whatsoever it overtaketh So persecution is not like an ordinary war betwixt two Nations that can give take reasonable quarters as occasion is offered but persecution passeth the bounds of Humanity and breaketh the bonds of Nature and committeth outragious crueltie that Humane sense abhorreth the committing whereof maketh the eares to tingle the flesh to quake and the heart to tremble (q) Quamquam animits meminisse horret luctuque refugit Virg. lib. 2. Aentid So that the minde of man will abhorre the remembrance thereof with greife and sorrow We need not to call to minde the antient examples of cruelty that are registrate in Ecclesiastick history seeing of later times we heard of the Spanish inquisition and that which hath beene used in the prison houses and pillories of England while as the tyranny of the Prelates advanced to that hight that it could not stand and that these yeares by-past hath beene more than barbarously practiced by the Irish Rebels against the Saints and servants of God All this should make us draw near to God by humble prayer that we be not exposed to the cruelty of our enemies especially seeing as Solomon saith * The very mercies of the wicked are cruell For whatsoever favour cruell persecutors offer to the people of God is alwayes upon conditions that are worse than death For as Wizards and Witches when they cure mens bodies of diseases bring greater hurt to their soules by the use of unlawfull meanes whereby they draw guilt