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A40160 The devil was and is the old informer against the righteous Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1682 (1682) Wing F1794; ESTC R30470 10,146 14

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crew twice did not the Truth that Christ spoke to the High Priest put him into such a Wrath or Rage that he tore or rent his Clothes And were not Peter and Iohn haled before Ananias the High Priests Court where the Rulers Elders and Scribes and Iohn and Alexander and many of the Kindred of the High Priest were gathered together and did not they set Peter and Iohn in the midst and exaamin them and charged them to speak no more in the Name of Iesus but Peter and Iohn said unto them Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you or unto God judge ye for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard then the High Priest threatned them and let them go Act. 4. And again you may may see how the High Priest and all that were with him were filled with Indignation and rose up against the Apostles and cast them into the common Prison but the Lord delivered them And you may see all along in many places of Acts how the Jews rose up against the Apostles and how that one of the Officers came and told the Chief Priests Captain That the Apostles were preaching in the Temple which they cast into Prison and the Captain and the Officers brought them and set them before the Council and the high Priest and they took counsel to slay them but Gamaliel said unto them Refrain your selves from these men and let them alone for if this Work or this Counsel be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God you cannot overthrow it lest happily ye be found even to fight against God And his Counsel swayed and stopt the High Priest and his Court for Murdering of them And Saul he made Havock of the Church entring into every house and haling men and women committing them to prison and Saul yet breathed out Threatnings and Slaughters against the Disciples of the Lord and went to the High Priest and desired of him Letters to Damascus to the Synagogues If he found any of this Way whether they were men or women he might bring them bound to Jerusalem So his Authority was from the Chief Priest to persecute but Christ met him in the way and told him It was hard for him to kick against the Pricks and said unto him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me for he was persecuting Christ in his Members and Christ converted him and after some time sent him to Damascus to preach his Gospel where he was going to persecute but after many dayes that he had preach't the Gospel at Damascus the Iews there took counsel to kill him and they watch't night and day at the Gates to kill him but the Disciples of Christ took Paul by night and let him down by the Wall in a Basket and so he scaped those murdering Professors without Possession as you may see in Act. 9. So he that went to persecute at Damascus was persecuted at Damascus for preaching Christ whom he was going to persecute and here you may see how the Persecutors were Confounded And in Act. 14. there you may see how the unbelieving Iews stir'd up the Gentiles made their minds evil-affected against the Brethren and Elimas the Sorcerer withstood Barnabas and Paul to turn away the Deputy from the Faith Here you may see the professing Jews and the Sorcerer were found in one spirit but the Jews were spiritually blind with Evil and God struck Elimas naturally blind and the Jews which were more than forty that came to the Chief Priests and Elders and said unto them how that they had bound themselves under a Curse that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul and the Chief Priests and the Council were to mannage this matter for these Murderers then they were to send to the Captain that kept Paul a Prisoner to bring him out of the Castle which was his Prison to the Chief Priests and Elders under a pretence that they would enquire something of him and these Murderers were ready to murder him before ever he came near them but the Captain of the Castle understanding the thing the Lord put it in his mind to send Paul away by which the Innocent esc●p't the hands of these Murdering Informers and Lyars which the Chief Priests and Counsel had a hand in and Paul had more Mercy from the Roman Captain than he had from the professing Jews and their Priests And after a while Ananias the high Priest with the Elders with a certain Orator named Tertullus informed the Governour Faelix against Paul and after a great deal of dawbing plausible expressions as you may see in Acts 24. said they We have found this man a Pestilent Fellow a Mover of Sedition among all the Jews throughout the World and a Ringleader of the Sect of the Nazareans and so after many grievous false Charges they laid against Paul Paul had liberty to clear himself from their Lyes and Slanders and false Informations and when they had kept Paul about two years in Prison there Festus came into the Province then the High Priest and chief of the Jews informed him against Paul and desired favour against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem the Jews lying in wait in the way to kill him but Festus said unto them Which among you are able go down to Cesaria to accuse this man and when they came there they laid many grievous Complaints against Paul which they could not prove and so the Lord delivered him out of these Murderous Informers hands though Festus would have done the Jews a pleasure as having Paul up to Ierissalem to be judged there by him but Paul appealing unto Caesar prevented him and the Jews and the high Priest of their Design against him as you may see in Act. 25. more at ●●rge And what became of Jezebel with her informing Letters that she wrote in Ahab's name to the Elders and Nobles that were in the City dwelling with Naboth who bid them Proclaim a Fast and set up Naboth on high among the People and sent two Sons of Belial before him to bear witness against him saying Thou didst Blaspheme God and the King and then carry him out and stone him that he may dye and they did so according to Iezebel's Information and when they had killed him she and her Husband took possession of his Estate but what Destruction came upon Ahub and Jezebel and all that took their part as you may read the entence and Judgment 1 King 21. And therefore let all Murderers Informers and Sons of Belial take heed who seek the Destruction of the Righteous in that they bring Destruction upon themselves as you may see all along in the Scriptures what was the End of such whether they were high or low Priest Professor or Prophane the Righteous God spared none and therefore read the Scriptures from one end of the Book to the other there you may see the fad Examples and Judgments that have come on such whom the Devil who was the great Informer hath made Lyars and Informers False Witnesses and False Accusers against the Righteous and let them be like so many Way-marks to shun the Evil but Christ is come to destroy the Devil and his Works and to bruise his Head who was the Informer against Job and the False Teacher and Informer of Adam and Eve to transgress the Command of God therefore if Christ destroyeth the Father of all such Informers Persecutors and Lyars and False Witnesses his Children may fear Destruction and the Saints canning Halelujah over the Devil Satan Serpent and all his Followers that do his work whom the Living God will Reward accordingly G. FOX THE END LONDON Printed by JOHN BRINGHVRST at the Sign of the BOOK in Grace-Church Street 1682.