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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41028	A plain record, or declaration shewing the origin, root and race of persecutors together with the nature, practice and end of that generation ... so their reward will be according to their work / [by] H.F.	H. F. (Henry Fell)	1661 (1661)	Wing F605; ESTC R28625	14,938	20

wickedness Persecution Who divined for money and taught for hire and judged for gifts rewards they had no Answer from God and this was the fruit of their Persecution and Persecutors Formality and Blindness Whom the Prophets had foretold how they had served God with their lips but their hearts were removed far from him And how they would Sacrifice and Offer and cry the Temple of the Lord and yet live in their Abominations Which Offerings and Sacrifice God had no respect to more than Cain's whose hands were full of blood And told them their Oblations and Sacrifices were no more to him than to blesse an Idol and he that Offered a Sacrifice as he that cut off a Doggs neck or slew a man For they were Persecutors Nahum Ioel Haggi Zachary Let the Children of Israel the Jews see their Transgression And see how the Judgements of the Lord came upon them for their Transgressions and Persecution The Edomites who were the Children of Esau were Persecutors of Jacob and his seed as ye may read in the Prophecy of Obadia where the Lord saith to Edom The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clifts of the Rocks whose habitation is high that saiest in thy heart Who shall bring me down to the ground How are the things of Esau searched out how are his hidden things brought to light The mighty men of Teman shall be dismayed to the end that every one of Mount Esau may be cut off by slaughter For thy Violence against thy brother Iacob shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off for ever Shall not I in that day destroy the wise men out of Edom and the understanding out of mount Esau Because thou stoodest on the other side in the day that the Strangers carried away Israel Captive and Forreigners entered into his gates and cast Lots upon Jerusalem even thou wast as one of them But thou shouldest not have looked on thy Brother in that day when he became a stranger neither shouldest thou have rejoyced over the Children of Judah in the day of their destruction nor have spoken proudly in the day of their distresse nor shouldest thou have entred into their gates nor looked on their affliction in the day of their Calamity nor have laid hands on their Substance in the day of their Calamity nor shouldest thou have stood in the crosse Way to cut off those of his that did escape nor delivered those that did remain Therefore as thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall return upon thine own head and thou shalt be as though thou hadst not been So there was an End of Edom the Persecutor Herod Persecuted John Baptist to death and caused his head to be cut off He being Voluptuous and delighted in his Daughters Dancing gave her in stead of the one half of his Kingdom the Head of the Just John Baptist But mark the End of that Persecutor Was he not eaten to death with Worms And marke what became of him that Persecuted and proceeded against James and killed him with a Sword and Persecuted Peter and Persecuted and Killed the Innocent Children at Bethlehem in madness when they could not find the Child Jesus who fled from the Persecuting Tyrant into Egypt And the Pharisees told Christ that he should go from thence for Herod would kill him Who answered and said Go tell that Fox Behold I cast out Devils and will heal still to day and to morrow and the third day I shall be perfected And he took up a Lamentation over Jerusalem and said Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem which killest the Prophets and stonest them that were sent to thee how often would I have gathered thy Children as a Hen doth her Chickens and ye would not Therefore is your House left unto you desolate c. There was the reward of their Persecution The Iewes Persecuted Christ who came of them according to the flesh and mocked and scoffed at Him and despised Him and blasphemed and said He had a devil and buffeted him and smote Him with a reed and spit in His face and Crowned Him with thorns among whom at His Birth He had no place but in the Manger in the Stable But mark the end of these Persecutors Priests Professors and Rulers Did not the Lord bring the Heathen upon them according to Christs Prophecy and destroyed their Citys and Temple and scattered them over all Nations and many of them were carryed Captives into Egypt There is the End of all Persecuting Professors in the Mouth and Lipps without Life and Power Paul was a Persecutor and a yeelder to Persecution when Steven was stoned the Witnesses layd down their Cloaths at Sauls feet to whom the Lord shewed Mercy which in most of his Epistles he confesseth and his Unworthinesse that he should find Mercy seeing he Persecuted Oh ye Persecutors consider therefore and remember what a great Thing it is to find Mercy as Paul did who Confessed it to his very last as you may Read in his Epistle to Timothy The Iews Persecuted Steven to death who was full of the holy Ghost But the Jews who resisted it as their forefathers did they Professed the Words given forth by the holy Ghost but mind their End Were they not destroyed when Jerusalem was compassed about with Armies and was layd on heaps and not one stone of the Temple left upon another that should not be thrown down Christ said that His Disciples should be Persecuted from City to City and scourged and halled out of the Synagogues and carried before Rulers and cast into Prison for His Name sake which was fulfilled upon them according to Christ's words And he said a day of Vengeance should come and told them they had Persecuted Zacharias and Killed him between the Temple and the Altar and that the Temple should be thrown down And the true Christians in the Primitive times were no Persecutors but Lovers of Enemies and tender of all Men this was their Doctrine and Practice which is beyond Jews and Heathens and Hypocritical Christians that are Apostatized both from the Life Doctrine and Practice of Christ and the Apostles in the Primitive times And the Council threatned James and John and Beat them and Commanded them not to speak any more in the Name of Jesus John gave forth the Revelations and was Persecuted and Banished and he Prophesied of the Beast the false Poophet the Dragon and the false Church should Persecute Kill and Destroy and drink the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs and make War with the Remnant of the Seed of the woman And then Establish the Beasts Worship the Dragons false Church wherein all Nations should drink her Cup and so go on until their sins should reach to Heaven and come into remembrance before God And that God would in the end plague the Whore and burn her flesh with fire and take the Beast and false Prophet the old Dragon and cast

them alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with Brimstone and all that drink of the Whores Cup and worship the Beast shall be tormented and drink the Cup of the Indignation of the Lord God Almighty And here is the end of those wicked Persecutors Iudas the Persecutor who betrayed his Master and kissed him and sold him to the Priests for Thirty Pieces of Silver who thirsted after his Blood the Blood of the Innocent But mark his end with his Company with their Swords and Staves He hanged himself The Iews persecuted Paul up and down from place to place after he came to receive the Mercy which many now receive his Words but persecute his Life And after that he came to exercise his Conscience to keep it void of offence towards God and towards man then they did account Paul an Heretick and a mover of Sedition and a Pestilent Fellow and one who turned the World up-side down and was accounted not fit to live upon the Earth when many of the Jews and Proselytes that feared God followed Paul and Barnabas who exhorted them to continue in the Grace of God But when the rest of the Jews saw the People they were full of envy and spake against Paul and railed on them And they stirred up certain devout women and chief men of the City and raised Persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their Coasts But they shook off the Dust of their Feet as a Witness against these Persecutors Forty of the Jews bound themselves with an Oath and conspired together with the Priests and Council to kill Paul but were prevented by the Chief Captain Again when the Jews saw Paul in the Temple they moved all the People and laid hands on him crying Men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth all men every-where against the People and the Law and this Place Moreover he hath brought Grecians into the Temple and hath polluted this holy Place Then all the City was moved and the People ran together and they took Paul and drew him out of the Temple to kill him but were prevented by the chief Captain who rescued him out of their hands and they cryed against him Away with such a fellow from the Earth for it is not meet that he should live So Paul found more favour from the Romans who were Heathen than from his own Nation who were Jews and the greatest Professors then in the World And Ananias the High-Priest and the Elders and Tertullus the Orator accused Paul unto Felix the Governour and told him that they had found Paul a pestilent fellow and a mover of Sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a chief maintainer of the Sect of the Nazarites and would have polluted the Temple and afterwards the High-Priests and the chief of the Jews appeared before Festus against Paul and would have had him sent him to Jerusalem and they laid wait by the way to have killed him But ye may read what was the end of all these bloody Persecutors who drew nigh unto God with their lips and with their mouthes honoured him but removed their hearts far off from him So the lip-servers will-worshippers will persecute now as the Jews did of old But they that worship God in Spirit and in Truth which the Devil is out of cannot persecute for they can love Enemies and bless those that curse them and pray for them that persecute them and do good for evil So these are the true Christians and followers of Christ The Word of the Lord God to you all Let no one persecute about Church Worship Religion Maintenance and Ministry that profess themselves to be Christians For Christ gives no such Command nor Example but to love Enemies for He rebuked his Disciples who would have had Fire come down from Heaven on them who would not receive them and were contrary-minded to them as the Prophet had done Therefore Christ who fulfilled the Law and the Prophets rebuked their zeal and told them He came not to destroy mens lives but to save them Therefore ye that are Persecutors and Destroyers of Mens Lives ye are not in Christ's Mind Life nor Doctrine nor the Spiritual men that wrestle with Spiritual weapons but you are carnal of which as I said before the Devil was the author and the beginner of And the Lamb and the Saints and the Bride and his Wife shall have the Victory the First and the Last shall reign wherein Alpha and Omega shall be known over the Persecutors the Begining and the End the Lamb of God's Kingdom the First and the Last So now in these last days the Prophets of the Lord have warned the Turk warned the Pope and warned most of the Kings in Christendom of their Persecution whose Field lies like a Field of Blood who staines the Earth with it that the Inhabiters of it are Vagabonds like Cain that killed the Righteous so that the Earth doth not yeeld her full strength Therefore are there so many Beggars desolate people in Poverty among them Peter and Jude prophesied and saw a persecuting Cain that would kill about Religion was getting up among the Christians before their decease which would be Preachers or Teachers who were by the Apostles judged John in the Revelations saw Iezebel that would be a Prophet and a Teacher among the Churches which Iezebel was a Persecuter and a drinker of the Blood of the Saints and Prophets whom John rebuked and such as set her up and followed her Therefore O consider Have not Persecutors been set up by a Law since the Apostles dayes and the Doctrine of Christ trampled under foot which teacheth to love Enemies and overcome evil with good And have you not read in Heb. 11. how they persecuted the Saints and spoiled the Saints goods and how they wandered in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins of whom the World was not worthy who lived in Dens and Caves of the Earth And again he saith I saw the Beast and the Kings of the Earth and their Armies gathered together to make war against Him that sate upon the white horse who was cloathed with a Vesture dipt in blood the Lord Jesus Christ whose Name was called The Word of God and against his Army the Saints that were with Him And the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought Miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the Mark of the Beast and them that worshipped his Image These both were cast alive into the Lake of Fire burning with Brimstone And the Remnant were slain with the Sword of him that sat upon the white horse which proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls of the aire were filled with their flesh And this was the end of those Persecutors The Ministers of Unrighteousness and false Apostles and Messengers of Satan and his Ministers were the Persecutors of the Righteous like their Father the Devil and walked in his steps as