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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91915	The Christian subject: a treatise directing a Christian to a peaceable conversation sutable to an holy calling. Wherein are answered those ordinary objections, of haresy, tyranny, usurpation, breaeh [sic] of covenant. Which some make as a sufficient plea to take them off from a chearfull obedience to this present government. / Written by Iohn Rocket, Minister of the Gospell at Hickling in Nottinghamshire.	Rocket, John.	1651 (1651)	Wing R1763; Thomason E646_2; ESTC R205971	80,124	163

entreated them yet when again they have regained their power nothing would satisfy them but the blood of Saints not to reckon that inhumane recreation the Turk hath taken in the deaths of Christians when he had satisfyed his lust then his malice not to mencion that cruelty of old which in men exceeded that in unreasonable and unsensible creatures the miraculous acknowledgements of the Creatures that they were the servants of the most high God would not convince nor abate the fury of those mad persecutors who when the fire would not take hold on Polycarp run him thorow with their swords insomuch that his bloud extinguisht the fire when the hungry beasts would not fasten upon Blandina they cast her into prison But what need we speak of Hethens whose cruelty hath beene greater to a Christian not Idolizing then to a Iew we read of the intended cruelty of Iulian the Apostat but now he becomes a Hethen in his Religion and worse then usually any were in his cruell resolutions We have them that beare themselves up as the only Church of God in this world yet we read of their infernall plot against the Parliament of this Nation their brutish usage of the poore Hethen in the West-Indies our Marian persecution the Parisian massacre the Irish rebellion examples unparaleld by Hethens Let us consider of what Spirit the Arian is and how he hath dealt with the Saints of God when he hath sate in the Throne and at the Sterne of Common-wealths they have inflicted Banishment Imprisonment Death it selfe on them We have them thus described by an Historian Arianismus totas orientis Ecclesias Antiochenam Lyndan Panopl lib. 2. c. 16 Alexandrinam Constantinopolitanam Hierosolimitanam expulsis orthodoxis occupavit atque occidente ejecto in exilium Liberio Felicem i● Romanam sedem substituunt Even as Christ suffered by all Nations so his members suffer by by all hands in all Nations under all Governments whatsoever the outward policy of people be if their Rulers be bad the Saints of God shall be disturbed and persecuted therefore we have many comparisons betwixt the ungodly of the world and the people of God in Scripture amongst many these are called Sheep Vines the other are called Lyons Oakes of Bashan not only to signify the weaknesse of the one and the strength of the other but the contrariety of their disposition such difference hath been from the begining and such dealing shall the Church receive from the prevailing ungodly to the end of the world Secondly As to the deprivall of the purity nay the denyall of any enjoyment of the Ordinances or exercises of Godlinesse in any part of the publique worship of God It is to manifest how sadly the Church of God hath travailed herein many times that not only the worship it selfe hath been destroyed but the worshippers likewise that upon the restauration of his worship God hath undertaken a work almost equall to our creation to get servants Isa 44.3 4 5. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and flouds upon the dry ground I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine off-spring and they shall spring up as among the grasse as willowes by the water-courses one shall say I am the Lords and another shall call himselfe by the name of Jacob and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord and surname himselfe by the name of Israel In Elijahs time there was none left that durst publiquely acknowledge and embrace the Ordinances of God insomuch that the Prophet who should be best acquainted with the servants of God thought they had been all backsliden the same Church afterwards makes this her complaint Lam. 2.9 The Law is no more her Prophets also finde no vision from the Lord. And the Prophet speaks of a company only left in secret that durst privately talk of the Name of God Mal. 3.16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heared it and a Book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his Name When Constantine the Great set upon and encouraged others to the work of Reformation the multitude of the Arians was objected to him as likely not to bee wrought upon and so to hinder the work he answered Non referre numerum magnum vel parvum nam Iudaeorum Ecclesia in Babylone constituta ad tres pueros redacta fuit it matterd not whether the number of a Church were few or many for the visible Church of the Jewes in Babylon was reduced to three and we read of no more that withstood their impious Decrees in publique And before his time in persecutions of those Centuries we finde that the publique places for Worship which some Hethens tolerated by some pious Emperors erected were subverted to the very foundation and the maintenance of the Ministers thereof substracted and whether man or woman Military or Civil Magistrate or Subject if accused thus Christianus est it was condemnation sufficient then to sin was to live to be innocent was death If Polycarp would swear and forswear revile and deny Christ he should become guiltlesse It was a very sad and grievous judgment threatned against Israel that as it should be without a Magistracy so without a Ministry and so far without that there should not be left the very form of godlinesse amongst them not men that durst or would serve the Lord though in an erroneous way if it should bear but the least resemblance of his commanded Worship and how frequent and grievous the complaints of the Church were under this let the Scripture testify No lesse was prophesied by Paul concerning the Church but then in her swadling cloathes and sucking in the soft principles of Religion 2 Thes 2.3 4. Let no man deceius you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sinne be revealed the sonne of perdition Who opposeth and exalteth himselfe above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God which was not long ere it was accomplished when she began but to strengthen and wax beautifull in the eyes of the world even in the dayes of that proud and blasphemous Emperor Caius who set up his own Image in the Temple of the Jewes and in all other Christian Churches to be worshiped as at large and learnedly you may see it paraled by Grotius in hunc locum Thessal and chronologed by faithful Eusebtus in Hist Eccles de temp sub Caio And of the sad condicion of the Church in this respect under a Christian Antichrist it was prophesied by one to this purpose That what the people of God should have Abbas Ioachim in Apoc. Electi Der sapient sibi ipsis id quod sapi ent ut tamen praedicare publicè non praesumunt