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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94747	Seven particulars, containing as followeth, I. Against oppressors. II. Magistrates vvork and honor. III. A meditation for magistrates upon Dan. 12.4. IV. Of hanging for theft, filling the land with blood. V. To the high & lofty in the earth, who exalt themselves by discent or blood. VI. Of ministers maintenance, two extreams. VII. Of persecuting for speaking in the synagogues (by many called churches.) Given forth for publique service by W.T.	Tomlinson, William.	1657 (1657)	Wing T1851; Thomason E936_9; ESTC R203824	25,801	41

not to live on the Gospel and so beyond their power 2. Much lesse are they to contend or strive for the things of this world for that 's contrary to the Spirit of the Gospel which is to bring forth peace into the earth through suffering wrong The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men 2 Tim. 2.24 3. And least of all are they to go to Law for them for that 's to nourish a spirit that 's quite to the spirit of Christ and gives an ill example in the world quite contrary to the example of Christ and his followers 1 Cor. 6.7 This was formerly given in writing to one who occasioned it by Discourse who stood in the latter Extream and therefore doth it abound rather in the rectifying of that onely the summing up into Particulars in the end is added Of persecuting men for speaking in the Synagogues by many called Churches HEar ye deaf and see ye blind ye that have a hand in this persecution hear and consider before ye be made to hear with judgements Where will you find any like your selves that have done so Under whose Example can you shelter your selves Did ever any of the Saints of God do so as you do To whom will you turn for your pattern Will you make that your pattern where Christ made a Scourge and whipped the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple then must the persecuted whip out you for it 's you that are the Buyers and the Sellers who buy your Authority to speak and then sell the Word of God for money as you account it Christ whipt out such and the Apostles whipt out such out of Fellowship and part in Ministring of the Word saying Thy money perish with thee Thou who hast thought the gift of God to be sold for money thou hast neither part nor lot in this business Now therefore you that stand divining for money are they that are to be whipt out if any be to be whipt out for you are the Buyers and Sellers If you flye from that Example I know not where you 'l find another either among Jews or Gentiles for I never find that either the Jews or Gentiles did persecute men out of their Synagogues singly for speaking as you do Christ Jesus our Lord though accounted a Deceiver by the chief Priests and Rulers and religious devout Pharisees yet had free liberty to speak in the Synagogues amongst them and was never persecuted upon that account but when they wonld persecute or lay wait to entrap him it was or his Doctrine to accuse him of Blasphemy or some dangerous Doctrine as they accounted it But you persecute for speaking whether the Doctrine be good or bad Therefore see how far you are fallen below the Synagogues of the Jewes and how much more unreasonable you are become then they They would not persecute but for Blasphemy as they thought or some hainous seducing Doctrine But you persecute for speaking only if a man do but open his mouth in your Synagogues to speak Have patience to look a little upon the moderation of the Jews in their Synagogues Lu. 4.15.16 It is said there of Christ that He taught in their Synagogues being glorified of all And he came to Nazareth where He had been brought up with his parents his Father a Carpenter and Himselfe too as they sometimes called Him and there as his custom was He went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up for to read and preach to them and there was delivered to Him the book of the Prophet Jsaias See here though he was brought up among them a Carpenter and as an ordinary man of an inferior Trade yet they were so far from hindring of him from speaking that they furthered him gave him the book to read But for all that before he had done they all were filled with wrath and rose up and thrust him out of the City and led him unto the Brow of a Hill whereon their City was built that they might cast him down head-long Vers 28.29 See the mad rage and violence of this people against him whom a little before they admired for the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth Vers 22. I lay their example before you that you may see your selves this rageing people who would have done thus to him yet had more moderation then you for they did not use violence to him for speaking in the Synagogue but furthered him though a Carpenter to speake among them only were in rage when his Doctrine cut them But you are in a rage and persecute if a man do but offer to speak among you And therefore you are worse more vile more wicked more unreasonable then these rageing Jewes were others see this of you clearly though wrath blind your own eyes that you cannot see your selves herein so that it may as truly be said of you as it was of the false Prophets Who is blind as my servant and deaf as my messenger so reputed by themselves though they ran and God sent them not As Christ Jesus accounted but a Carpenter by them had this liberty in the Synagogues of the Jewes to speak preach among them so also his Apostles had the same liberty Saul who also was called Paul preached Christ in the Synagogues that he is the Son of God Act. 9 20. Though they took counsell to kill him Ver. 23 being exceedingly mad against him for his Doctrine yet was he permitted to speak and reason and dispute in the Synagogues and never persecuted singly for speaking there We do not find that he or any of the Apostles were hindred from speaking in any of the Synagogues where they came but had free liberty to speak though they sought their lives for their Doctrine being look't upon as Seducers Act. 13.5 Barnabas and Saul being sent forth and come to Salamis they preached the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jewes Vers 14.15 When they were come to Anti●ch in Pisidia they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day sate down And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets the Rulers of the Synagogue sent unto them saying ye men and Brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say on It seems they offered to speake and the Rulers of the Synagogue observing it sent to them to say on if they had any word of exhortation for the people They were not such enemies to the peoples good as to hinder them of a word of exhortation though from strangers comming in into their Synagogue therefore they were more honest to the people then you now are who will not suffer any word of exhortation but hale out to prisons and stocks They durst hear what any one had to say But your consciences being filled with guilt and so with wrath against that which would stir up that guilt in you and open the eyes of others to see it you are more unreasonable and