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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28894	A looking-glass discovering to all people what image they bear by which the true Jew is known from the false, and the Christian in nature from him that is so in name only ... : with directions for such as live in error, how they may leave their error, how they may leave their error ... : with a few words to informers who make it their work to inform against their neighbours for meeting together peaceably in the fear of the Lord ... / by a follower of Him, Edward Bourne.	Bourne, Edward, d. 1708.	1671 (1671)	Wing B3847; ESTC R28496	17,816	28

your selves from being injurious to such your Sin will be the less and you may expect to receive comfort from God in that respect who is just and holy and will reward all according to their Works You may do well to consider the fearfull end of some mentioned in the Scriptures who made it their business to Inform against the Righteous who fell into the Snares they had laid for the Righteous as Hammon who informed against Mordecai the Jew and those who informed against Daniel and take warning thereby see Esther 7.10 c. and Daniel 6.24 Surely Friends if you shall think to increase your Riches thereby and to be the more prosperous because thereof certainly you will find it otherwise such doing will not tend to your good but harm they will bring a Curse upon you and not a Blessing For God will set himself against you for his People's sakes who have no helper in the Earth and plead their Cause with you to your great overthrow and destruction except you repent of such doings before it be to late and do no more after the same manner again But if you will not take warning but are resolved to go on in these things in opposition against God and his People for so may your doings be justly said to be then will you find the Lords Power stronger then yours and him greater in might and strength then you all to subdue you and lay you low for rising and lifting your selves up against his Heritage and in the mean time we shall with his help bear what we may suffer by you with patience and not resist in a way of hostility but stand still to see the Salvation of God So remember you were thus far cautioned and warned to have a care what you do touching things of this nature And be it known that we do not Meet in pretence to Worship God with an intent to Plot and contrive Insurrections for this we detest and abhor but peaceably to exhort and stir up one anothers pure minds unto that which is good that the Lord may be glorified by us and we built upon the Foundation that God hath laid in Sion which is Elect and Pretious the Rock of Ages and of Generations the chief Corner-stone of which Building is Christ Jesus which none can know and witness but by taking heed to that good thing in them which did never consent to Sin but did ever testifie against it and reprove and condemn for it which calls unto all to follow peace and holiness with all People without which whatever People do profess they cannot see God And therefore you that are evil Workers to that in you which lets you see the evil of your Wayes to that take heed that thereby you may be led therefrom unto God that your hearts may be purified and made clean and you washed from your Sins and from your filthiness with Christ's Blood that you may appear spotless before the Throne of God and the Lamb that his Name may be in your foreheads and you blessed with seeing and living in his presence where there is joy unspeakable and glorious Thus have I finished this Work which who can receive it let them and if they receive any profit thereby let them give Glory to God Now whether any shall hear or forbear to hear it I am satisfied that I have done my Duty herein To God alone be all Honour and Glory Given even as it is due from me and all his everywhere for evermore Amen Worcester Cit● Prison where I have long suffered Imprisonment for Righteousness sake sometimes with many of my dear Friends and sometimes alone and yet I am not alone for the mighty God is with me to uphold me in my Sufferings who makes things easie which otherwise would be hard The 10th of the 11th Moneth 1670. E. B. Postscript WOuld God that all that do account themselves the Ministers of Christ were really so then would they not be like the false Prophets mention'd in the Scriptures as many of them be who did preach for Hire and divine for Money and sought for their Gain from their Quarters and prepar'd War against them that put not into their Mouthes Micah 3.5 nor like them that Christ cry'd Wo against Who loved to be call'd of men Masters and lov'd the chiefest Places in the Assemblies c. see Mat. 23. Neither would 〈◊〉 be like the false Teachers mention'd by the Apostle ●hat taught for filthy Lucre and through Covetousness made Merchandize of people see 2 Pet. 2.3 c. and be serious in the consideration thereof But I would have them like his Ministers whom they take upon them to be viz. The Ministers of Christ Jesus who preached freely as they had freely receiv'd and labour'd to keep the Gospel without charge and us'd not their Power but deny'd themselves of what they might lawfully have done that they might cut off occasion from them that desir'd it and to be Followers of Christ Jesus taking him for their Example and Pattern in all things walking in all Lowliness and Meekness and Gentleness and Patience as he did See how the Servant of the Lord is to be quallified 2 Tim. 2.24 c. So when they appear thus we may believe they are the Ministers of Christ and have the Gospel to preach but not before I would they might own the Grace of God to teach them that they may be thus And they that say they are Christian Magistrates I desire they may make it appear by forbearing to persecute and imprison him in his Members What shall Christians persecute Christians If they that are persecuted are Blarneless in the sight of God for which they suffer their Persecutors cannot be so in causing them to suffer Let this be consider'd as it ought in the Fear of God by such It is said in the Revelations The Devil shall cast some of you into Prison see Revel 2.10 So it doth concern such to see that they do not the Devil's work herein lest Iniquity be laid to their Charge for the same if it went ill with them that did not visit Christ in Prison can it go well think ye with them that casts him in who are guilty herein the Lord forgive them So the Magistrate if he would not bear the Sword in vain must be a Terror to the Evil-doer and a Praise to them that do Well for for this end was he impower'd to Govern by the Lord and not to do contrary So in few words the Magistrate is to rule and govern as he should be rul'd and govern'd by the Lord God that he may answer the end of the Lord therein by doing that which is right in his sight otherwise he provokes the Lord against himself who is the Judge of all the Earth and will do right in the Cause of the Poor and in the Cause of the Oppressed c. whose Ear is open to hear their Cry and when the measure of their Sufferings is fill'd up then doth his own Arm bring Salvation So it is by continuing in the Faith and Patience that Victory is obtain'd over the Beast and over his Image over his Mark and over the number of his Name So the Lord keep his Suffering People every where in believing in him and patiently to submit unto his holy Will that thereby we may prevail against the Enemy of our Souls in our selves and in others in all his Besetments Amen The Sufferings of the People of God call'd Quakers in Worcestershire have been much by Imprisonment and otherwise sometimes some of them for some years past And there are some in Prison now who have suffer'd as Prisoners many years And some have suffer'd though not many much loss of their Goods and by Imprisonment since the late Act came forth in all which we can and do Rejoyce it being for the Testimony of our pure Consciences and not for any Evil we have done an Account of whose Sufferings may be given more at large hereafter if God shall make way for the same Edward Bourn THE END