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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35355	A parish looking-glasse for persecutors of ministers ... or, The persecuted ministers apologie published by Richard Culmer ... in defence of his father, Richard Culmer ...	Culmer, Richard, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing C7482; ESTC R17172	38,802	44

in these times may behold as in a glasse the vilenesse of their sinne and the great displeasure of God against them for it If they look into the Scripture or later Histories and daily experience We read 2 Chron 36. 14 15. And the Lord God of their Fathers sent unto them by his Messengers rising up betimes and sending them because he had compassion on his house and on his dwelling place But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of God arose against his people till there was no remedy Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees who slow their young men with the sword in the house of their Sanctuary c. And Ahab and Jezabel persecuted the Prophets of God but dogs licked up the bloud of Ahab after he was slain and dogs did eat persecuting Jezabel The children which did mock and miscall Elisha the Prophet and Minister of God were two and fourty of them torn in pieces by wilde Bears 2 Kings 2. They were the children of Persecutors of Gods Ministers and spake their parents language The Persecutors of the Prophet Jeremiah said Come let us devise devices against Jeremiah let us smite him with the tongue Jer. 18. 18. Therefore God delivered up their children to the famine and their bloud was poured out by force of the sword Those that persecuted our Saviour the great Shepherd and did perswade people not to hear him preach saying He is mad and hath a Devil why hear ye him Joh. 10. 20. and would stone him though he spake as never man spake and did works which never man did yet they having begun to persecute him did sinne against the light of their own conscience and against the holy Ghost to make good their begun acts and hold up their reputation and did persecute him to the death What became of those persecutors Is not their judgement eternal in hell for their unpardonable sinne Alexender the Coppersmith and other Persecutors of the Apostles have their woful reward though they clamoured and articled against St Paul as a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition c. These things are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come and teach Ministers now for their comfort what Christ spake Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you for so persecuted they the Prophets that were before you And if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you But some men will not be warned by other mens harms and examples therefore they are made examples to others Our late Bishops and their Adherents are a rare and remarkable president of Gods Judgments on Persecutors of faithfull Ministers which sin made them ripe for their deserved downfall But their Persecutions ended at the beginning of the long Parliament Then the iron teeth of those beasts were knockt out and the iron yoaks which they had put on Ministers necks were all pull'd off But when the Ecclesiastical Courts were taken away the people took lawlesse liberty to themselves to put as it were a hogs yoak on Ministers necks and did persecute faithful Ministers sent unto them as sheep among wolves Oh what woorying and wearying out most precious Ministers by word and deed by tearing and tugging lyings and slanderings revilings and defraudings and withholding their maintenance by confederacy And these Persecutions especially in point of maintenance continue very great at this day all the Nation over people being encouraged hereunto for want of better Laws for Tything and of more speedy execution of justice according to the Laws that are in force Many hundreds of faithfull Ministers in England may justly write such books against their Persecutors to awaken the Christian Magistrate and warn Persecutors against whom their cries are gone up to Heaven and have brought down vengeance upon very many And their complaints and moans by words are daily heard and may be read some in print and in their Bils against thousands in the Court of Exchequer where relief is certain but so long waited for that in the mean time the poor Ministers and their families perish And oft-times the parties or witnesses or both die or the Tyth-robber breaks and runs the Countrey which is usuall before the Cause come to hearing I could shew Persecutors many very fresh examples of their sinne and of punishments on people that have lately persecuted faithfull Ministers in several Parishes as that of Mr E. K. of Dover in 1644. who came out of his seat and joyned in the hurliburly made in St James Church against Mr Vincent a godly able Minister who was sent thither by the Parliament and persecuted him otherwise But the Persecutor persecuted himself a little after by laying violent hands on himself and was a self-executioner by hanging himself This and many such bleeding examples may be produced touching the hand of God against such Persecutors enough to fill volumes But I shall now only instance in the Persecutors of Mr Richard Culmer heretofore of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge Master of Arts and now Minister of Mynster in the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent whose Persecutors are now very few living in that Parish but mighty and numerous elswhere even those of the Popish Prelatical and Cavalier Party that never saw him because of his activenesse against their Cause They have printed two libellous Books against him and often articled against him and raised Persecution against him to the shedding of his bloud c. as the ensuing History shews And to have their wils against him if it be possible to ruine him they have lately petitioned against him to his Highnesse himself and since publickly boasted against him in their confidence now to prevail against him which hath caused this Apology to be published in his just defence and for vindication of the truth This man after he left the free Grammer-school at Canterbury being senior of all that School then consisting of above two hundred Scholars in the time of Mr Roger Raven the King of Schoolmasters as he was deservedly styled at his Funeral an eminent godly learned yet persecuted and silenced Minister lived about eight years a Student in Magdalen-Colledge in Cambridge And being afterwards Minister of Goodnestone in East-Kent was persecuted from thence by Arch-bishop Laud only for refusing to publish the Kings Book for Sabbath-recreations See the History of that Arch-bishops Tryal in the Index letter C. Culmer And he continued three years and seven moneths silenced before the first Parliament was called In all which time he got not one farthing by his Ministry having seven children so little that he could and did carry them all at once on his back And to adde to his Persecutions by the Prelate he was persecuted by the Patronesse Mrs P. whose Posterity hath felt some reward of Persecution who immediately upon his silencing gave his Living away to Mr A. H. who for lucre of that