worketh good glory Rom. 2. 10. There is a glory in the Law Rom. 12. 23. and the Gospel is called glory 2 Cor. 4. 4. And there is a vaine glory Gal. 5. 26. There is a glory of the Saints Ephes 3. 13. and a glory in affliction and then there is a glory of the Church Ephes 5. 21. and there is a glory in their shame Phil. 3. 19. the Saints were the glory of the Apostles 2 Thes 1. 20. There is a glory of the Whoore Revel 18. 7. and there is a glory of the Gentiles Revel 22. 24. for the Gentiles shall bring their glory to the Saints Revel 1. 26. also there is an earthly glory and there is a heavenly glory a glory in Grace and a glory in Glory and that is the glory of all glories CHAP. VIII Of Faith NOw the Text saith The just shall live by his faith and therefore I shall endeavour to speake a word or two of Faith it is that whereby we live in Grace and it is that whereby we are carried on to Glory now there is a faith of the History and there is a faith of the Mystery there is a faith of Miracles and there is a legall faith there is a temporary faith and an Evangelicall faith and the last is most excellent being the faith of the Gospell that carries us on to Salvation and in the next place I shall shew you what faith is Now faith or beleefe is an obedience to or a living in all the commands of the Gospell to Salvation now it doth appeare that faith or beleefe is obedience because unbeleefe is counted rebellion or disobedience for such as beleeve and obey are justified John 3. 36. for he giveth the Holy Ghost to those that obey him Act. 5. 32. And know you not that to whom you yeeld your selves servants to obey his servants yee are to whom you obey whether of sinne unto death or of obedience to life Rom. 6. 16. and ye have purified your soules in obeying the truth 2 Pet. 1. 22. and thus you see faith or obedience justifieth the creature for thereby he is justified and such as are unbeleevers and disobedient are condemned when Christ shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance to those that obey not the Gospel 2 Thess 1. 8. for to those that are disobedient Christ is a stone to stumble at and a rock to be offended at to such as stumble at the Word being disobedient and obey not that whereon they were set 1 Pet. 2. 7 8. that all those might be damned which obey not the truth but obey unrighteousnesse 1 Thess 2. 10. 12. and thus you see that faith or beleefe is obedience and rebellion or unbeleefe is disobedience now the great controversie will be whether it is Christs worke or the Creatures worke to act faith now the greatest part hold that it is Christs worke to act faith and some few hold that it is the Creatures worke to act faith now the greatest part can never be in the best way and therefore I shall side with the lesser part for they say the fault is in the Creature that he doth not beleeve and the greatest Party say it is not the Creatures worke to beleeve it is Christs worke to act faith and so they lay all the unbeleefe upon Christ and therefore I shal prove that it is the Creatures work and not Christs to act faith And first it is the Creatures worke to beleeve because Christ hath done his work for Christs worke was to obey the Commands of his Father and to set forth such a way to the world as they were to stand to and to establish that way for life and death and this was his worke enjoyned him from the Father which he did in setting downe the minde of the Father in all things that were necessary to salvation which he did and sealed the Doctrine of the Father with his blood and did his worke and therefore he saith If you keepe my Commandements yee shall abide in my love as I have kept my Fathers Commandements and abide in his love John 15. 10. Christs worke was to obey the Commands of the Father and our worke is to obey the Commands of the Sonne and therefore it is our worke to beleeve and not Christs 2. That Christ hath done his worke will appeare because Christ is entred into his rest and sure he did not enter before he had done his worke for he said He had finished his course and done all things that the Father commanded him by perfecting the way of Salvation to all the world and giving Commandement unto his Apostles to establish that Gospel to the whole earth and all things as he had commanded them as you may see Mat. 28. Act. 1. 2. and when he had finished his whole worke he ascended to the Father and is entred into his rest Heb. 4. saying To him that over cometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in his throne Revel 3. 21. and therefore it doth appeare that it is not Christs worke to act faith in the Creature except you will call him in question from his rest which I thinke you dare not 3. If it be Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then the fault will lye in Christ that the Creature doth not beleeve and then the Father may question the Sonne for all the unbeleefe in the world seeing you say it was Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then all the fault will lye upon him for if he had acted faith the Creature should have beleeved and so the Father might call the Son to an account for all the unbeleefe of the Creature and what is this thinke you but to pluck Christ out of his throne and to take him from his rest 4. If it be Christs worke to act faith in the Creature then the Creature hath a good excuse and may say there is no cause wherefore he should be condemned for not beleeving seeing it was not his worke to beleeve but the fault was in Christ who did not act faith in him and therefore he was not to blame because it was not his worke to beleeve but Christs worke and therefore no reason he should be condemned for anothers fault and so you would excuse the Creature and condemne Christ 5. Christ doth not act faith in the Creature because he shall judge the Creature for not beleeving for it were improper that he should be the Judge that were in the fault and condemne the creature for not beleeving when it was never his worke to beleeve and so the creature might reply unto the Judge that he did condemne him falsely to condemne the creature for not beleeving when it was Christs work to act faith and not the creatures and thus you see what sad effects would follow this Tenent that it is Christs worke to act faith in the creature 6. If it be
great ones and the eyes of the priests and people lest they should obey the glorious Gospel of Christ 2 Cor. 4. 4. and for this cause there is so few that imbrace the Gospell because men love the praise of men more then the praise of God 4 Reason Is because there is so few of the great ones believe the Gospell and this was the plea of the Scribes and Pharisees against Christ Have any of the rulers believed on him John 7. 48. The Pharisees knowing this that the multitude would follow the great ones whether right or wrong whether their way were true or false and this is as true in our dayes for if the great ones would believe and follow the Gospell then would the inferiour ones and if the Priests would imbrace the Gospell then would the people and so as Christ saith The blind lead the blind and so they both fall into the ditch for as the Apostle saith ye see your calling brethren how that not many mighty not many noble not many learned but the poore receive the Gospell 1 Cor. 1. the contemptible ones of the worâ—â— the great ones â—allowing in their fleshly felicity and worldly glory and therefore it â—â— that so few imbrace the Gospel of Christ 5 Reason Is the high esteem of the persons of some and the dis-esteem of the persons of others and thus did the Scribes and Pharisees vilifie the Person of Christ in their saying Is not this the Carpenters son Marke 6. 3. 4. being offended at him and declaring against him saying Art thou greater then our father Abraham and the Prophets John 8. 53. and thus they undervalued the Person of Christ to make his doctrine contemptible in abasing his Person that thereby they might set up themselves saying We are Abrahams children John 8. 39. but for this fellow we know not whence he is John 9. 29. and thus did the proud Scribes and Pharisees of those times contemne Christ and his Apostles as if they were the basest men in the world and thus they do in these dayes highly esteem of the persons of so me if he be an University man and have learned the spirit as they conceive at the University with the knowledge of the humane tongues and have received his humane degrees then they admire his Person and esteem him some great man or divine person having bought the spirit at the University as the people conceive and that which he hath bought at the Schools he sels it for spirit though indeed it be nothing but a Tract of Fathers and Authors which he hath got by art compacting a Sermon out of Fathers and Authours and the like and preaches but the judgements of other men and those mens persons are esteemed as the only men in the world and all other men rejected though never so able and godly because they come not in by the doore of humane inventions their persons are despised as contemptible and so their doctrine is despised being never so holy and true because their persons are contemptible which is a main cause and reason wherefore so few imbrace the Gospell of Christ 6 Reason Wherefore so few imbrace the Gospell is this because the Lord hath been pleased in all Ages to reveale his truth to a company of contemptible ones in the worlds eye as you may see both under the Law and Gospell as under the Law the Lord called Moses a shepheard to feed his flock who was feeding the sheep of his father Exod. 3. And the Lord called him to feed his people Israel and also David a shepheard who was tending of his fathers flock And the Lord called him 〈◊〉 the ewes and made him a shepheard in Is 〈…〉 and then there was Elisha a plow-man and Amos a heards-man Amos 1. And thus you see under the Law how the Lord did reveale his truth and under the Gospell you have Christ and his Disciples who were poor contemptible men in the world and as Matthew a Publican and Peter James and John fisher-men with Paul a Tent-maker And thus you see that the Lord did reveale his truth by a company of trades-men which the Apostle Paul doth so gloriously confirm 1 Cor. 1. against the proud Rabbies of those times and justifies his poor brethren in the Ministry saying you see your calling brethren how that not many wise mighty or noble are called to the Ministry but God hath called the foolish to confound the wise and the weake to confound the mighty and things that are not in the worlds â—ye as any thing hath God chosen to bring to â—aught things that are esteemed in the world And this the Lord doth that no flesh should boast or glory in his presence and therefore the Apostle saith Where is the wise where is the Scribe and disputer of this world for the Lord hath made foolish the wisdome of this world 1 Cor. 1. 20. And therefore behold saith the Lord I will do a work in your dayes saith the Lord that you will not believe though 〈◊〉 declared unto you for the wisdome of your wise men shall perish and I will make the deviners mad Esa 29. 14. Act. 23. Oh behold and wonder ye Ministers of England and ye Rabbies and Doctors ye have been exalted up to Heaven but you shall be brought down for you have sought your selves more then Jesus Christ and your own honour more then his you have sought to set up your selves and to abace Christ and have been ashamed to tonfess his Gospel before men for fear of losing your earthly honours and preferments and have denied the holy one of Israel in perverting his wayes and changing his Ordinances and have been time-servers and served your selves and not Christ and therefore the Lord hath a quarrel against you and wil confound your wisdom and make you to be despised before the people and will shake off your fleshly glorying that you may glory in the Lord and this the Lord will do by raysing up men to preach the Gospel and you shall be cast out as a contemptible thing because you have been a hinderance and not a furtherance to the Gospel of Christ for the Idolizing of your persons is a reason wherefore so few believe and obey the Gospel of Christ 7. Reason Wherefore so few imbrace and obey the Gospel is because the wayes of the Gospel are persecuted wayes for no sooner Christ the great Minister of God came to preach the Gospel to the People but the high Priest and Doctors sought to destroy him Mat 2. and how was he persecuted of the Learned Rabbies and was forst to flee from one place to another and was persecuted wheresoever he came and had not where to hide his head while the great Doctors were slourishing in their earthly glory and pompe rejoycing at the troubles of the Sonne of God and like Foxes lay lurking in their holes to watch for his ruin and nothing would serve them but his death crying his blood be upon us
deceived with the false miracles of Mahâ—â—â—â— wherein he hath deluded them to this present day through the devill and his instruments together with their false miracles wherein they are kept in blindnesse as also the Pope with the Latin Church deceiving the world and themselves with their false miracles which they much boast of whereby they judge their way to be right because the Devill and the Pope work miracles to confirme their way which indeed the Scriptures did foretel that the Latin Beast would deceive the world with his false miracles Revel 13. 13 14. But these spirits are the spirits of devils deceiving the Kings of the earth and the whole world Revel 16. 14. But the Lord will take that beastly worship of the Beast together with the Beast and the false Prophet with his lying spirit that wrought miracles to deceive the people and will cast them into the lake of his wraâ—h forever and ever Revel 19. â— Now there is some objections to be answered as Joel 2. where the Lord doth foretell that young men shall see visions and old men shall dream dreams and that that prophesie is in part to be fulfilled To the which I do reply with the words of Peter who had a more spirituall discerning then any in these dayes to discerne the truth of prophesies that that prophesie was fulfilled upon them when the visions of the Lord did appear unto them in Acts 2 1 2 3. who were the Lords young men who were to declare the minde of God to the whole earth and that being such a publick prophesie it was publickly fulfilled to perfect a publick work to the admiration of the beholders who were very desirous to know what was the meaning of those strange works and the Apostle flies to the prophesie of Joel for their refuge and tels them it was no more then what was prophesied of them and that they might now see that prophesie fulfilled Acts 2. 16. 17 18. and that those were the dayes that were spoken of before being glorious Gospel-times in which the Lord was to accomplish his promise that there might be nothing wanting to ratifie confirm the truth of the Gospell so that this prophesie being extraordinary 〈◊〉 doth appeare by the Apostlâ—â— words if any do pretend in these dayes the like revelations they must also shew the like effects which I think they cannot 10. I shall speake a word or two of Gospell-visions whereby it will appear that that there are no such visions in these dayes and first those visions did appeare in aâ—visible manner to the sight of the beholders Luke 3. and Acts 2. and then secondly they were able to confirme what was revealed in the vision to them by a visible signe or wonder and thirdly they were able to speak in an extraordinary manner to convince the gain-sayers and fourthly those visions were for the truth and not against it so that from hence I conclude that the cause is taken away because the effect ceaseth for if they prove the like visions they must also prove the like visible manifestations or else they are false visions And as for the dreamers there spoken of you may see that was fully fulfilled in those dayes in the Scribes and Pharisees those old and ancient Doctours of those times who stood dreaming as men amazed when they beheld the Lord Christ and his Apostles the mirrour of the world to preach such glorious doctrine accompanied with such glorious miracles and their doctrine being so strange and rare and so unanswerable preaching with such authority and so mightily convincing the gain-sayers the Doctors also themselves being so wonderfully confuted that we may truly say That they were in a dream or trance whereby the prophesie was truly fulfilled 2. Object is in Marke 16. These signes shall follow those that do believe So that hence they do inferre That there is no true Gospel-Preachers but such as work miracles which if this be true then there is no faith in England because no true Ministry for faith comes by hearing Rom. 10. 17. even by hearing the word preached and how shall he preach except he be sent so that if there be no Preachers there is no faith then there is no salvatioÌ„ for if the Ministry of faith cease then faith must cease which if so then to what purpose do your Ministers teach seeing they work no miracles so that by this Tenent both you and your Ministers are in a false way And further if our salvation depend upon miracles would God have been wanting think you ever since the Apostles time to have sent them into the world to have perfected their salvation to the full for certainly if we could not have been saved without them God would never have been wanting to have sent them But God had so fully before confirmed the Gospel with such Ministers and Miracles which is sufficient to confirm the truth in all Ages 3. Objection But we have been in a great confusion for many hundred of years together ard in a great confusion amongst us to know the truth and how shall we know without a miracle to confirm it to us To the which I reply and how shall we know the truth by a Miracle seeing a pretender may do the like and so you may take a false Miracle for a true or how will you prove that your Miracle to be true if not by the word or else it may be false for ought you know must not the word try your miracle whether it be true or false and therefore to the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to that they are in a false way Isaiah 8. for the word of the Lord is powerfull and sharper then a two-edged Sword Heb. 4. 12. to pierce through all the false wayes of men and to cut in peeces all false worships whatsoever and it is a searcher of the heart and a tryer of the raines to search into all the hearts of men and their actions to judge them according to their works 2. Who must end all contentions must not the word which is able to satisfie all doubts and to direct us in all our wayes and what need we fear having so glorious a Guide as the Gospel is can you find a better Rule to walk by or a better Guide to lead you which is the Resolver of all doubts for if the word cannot satisfie you who can And now I shall speak a word or two for the word of my God for where will you find a Christ but in the word and where will you find the promises of Christ but in the Word doth not the Word hold forth Christ to you and holds forth the promise to you doth not the word shew you the way of life if you would know what Doctrine is right doth not the word shew you what Doctrine and what worship you ought to observe doth not the word hold forth unto you holiness and unholiness life and
covenant Now the parties covenanting are the Father and Son for the Father strikes a covenant with the Son that he should teach all men and to do his will in declaring glad tidings to all the sonnes and daughters of men and to manifest his love to the world as you may see John 3. 16. so that if they do imbrace the grace and mercy offered them they may live and this doth appear by the words of the Father himselfe that this is truth for he saith As I live I will not the death of a sinner but that he live Ezek. 18. 32. and doth manifest the same in Isai 49. 6. where he saith That it was a small or light thing that Christ should be his servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob and to restore the desolations of Israel but I will also give thee a light to the Gentiles and thou shalt be my salvation to the end of the earth to establish the earth and to cause to inherit the desolate heritages that thou maist say to the prisoners come forth and to them that are in darknesse shew your selves Isai 19. 6. 8. 9. And thus you see the Engagement of the Father For it is good and acceptable in his sight that he will have all 〈◊〉 to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 3. 4. and consulteth not that any man should perish but that all men should come to repentance 2 Pet. 3. 9. And for this end the Father hath inabled the Son with all sufficiency being full of grace and truth and giving all power into his hands whereby he might be the better inabled to do the same and thus the Father frees himselfe in giving all sufficient power unto the Son whereby he might teach all men and to performe the Covenant on his part and thus you see the incomprehensible love of the Father that he should engage himselfe thus unto the world that he would send his Son to be a Teacher to all the world so that this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light And so it doth appear that the Father is not wanting on his part to give light unto the Son that the Son might not be wanting on his part to give light to the world And then in the next place the Son strikes a covenant with the Father for these are the parties covenanting as you may see 1 Tim. 2. â— For there is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus who is called the â—â—gel of the Covenant And the Mediatour between God and man who strikes a covenant with the Father saying Lo I come to do thy will O God for thus it is written of me in the volume of thy book to do thy will O God Heb. 10. 1. And so the Son covenants with the Father to do his will For I came to do the will of him that sent me and to declare his mind to the world and so he teaches all men as he himselfe doth declare when he saith When I am ascended I will draw all men unto me John 12. 32. And these are the words of Christ who was never wanting to fulfill his word for he drawes all men as you shall see First By the Works of creation As the heavens declare the glory of God and the earth sheweth forth his handy-worke day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night teacheth knowledge and there is no place where their voyce is not heard for their line is gone through the whole earth and their words unto the end of the world Psam 19. 1. 2. 3. and thus you see Christ drawes all men by the works of creation every creature indeed being a Gospel-Teacher Col. 1. 23. For that which may be known of God is manifest in them even the eternall power of God and the Godhead so that they are left without excuse Rom. 1. 19. 20. so that Christ drawes all men by the workes of creation which are as a naturall eye to see the Sun Secondly Christ drawes all men by Gospel-manifestation and therefore the Gospell is to â—e preached to all Nations Mat. 28. and thâ—â—ery creature Marke 16. And they have not obeyed the Gospel is not for want of hearing for the sound of the Gospel is gone through the earth and their words unto the end of the world Rom. 10. 18. The Gospell being preached to every or in every creature as you may see Col. 1. 29. and therefore Christ himselfe doth declare that the Gospell must be preached to all the world as you may see Mat. 24. 14. for a witnesse to all the world before the end shall come And thus Christ is not wanting to preach the Gospell For as by the sinne of one man death came upon all men to judgement even so by the righteousnesse of one the free-gift came upon all men to justification of life Rom. 5. 19. For this is the command of God that all men should believe in the Son he that doth not maketh God a lyer because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son 1 John 5. 10. And thus you may see that Christ is not wanting on his part to teach all men For this was the end of his coming that all men through him might believe Thirdly He drawes all men by the spirits revelation which was prophesied of before that he would poure out of his spirit upon all flesh Joel 2. 28. and that all flesh should see the salvation of God Mat. 3. 8. 〈◊〉 that grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching them Tit. 2 11. so that all men through him might believe John 1. 7. For he is the light of the world and the true light that lightens every man that cometh into the world John 1. 9. And thus he hath promised to do unto the worst of men as to the simple ones and such as delight in their scorning yea unto fools that hate knowledge and would have poured his spirit upon them had not they rejected it as you may see Prov. 1. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. saying Vnto you Oh men do I call and my voice is to the sonnes of men but seeing I have called and you have refused I will also refuse you saith the Lord. And thus you see the truth of this thing now will you say that Christ is wanting to teach any man the way to salvation whereby he might be saved and if he be you will lay the fault in him which he doth deny saying This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and they love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evill and will not come to the light John 3. 19. 20. And thus I have shewed you how Christ doth performe his part of the covenant in a word or two which is to teach all men whereby they might believe and imbrace the Gospell and lay hold of eternall life
is a condemnation and you shal then find there is a condemnation and I shall shew you the judgements of this condemnation First One judgement of this condemnation is hell which is a hidden place of Gods anger and wrath for as the joyes of heaven are hidden joyes so also the torments of hell are hid for no man is able to apprehend how terrible the torments of hell are which makes the divels to tremble for saith the Lord An anger is kindled in my wrath which shall burn to the lowest hell Deut. 32. 22. And all the wicked and all nations that forget God shall go own to bell Psal 9. 17. and Tophet is prepared of old for the King as well as the begger you may see Esay 30. 33. And when Christ shall say to the wicked Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his angels Mat. 25. 41. And the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment ver 46. When Christ shall come in flaming fire with his migty Angels to render vengeance to those that know not God and obey not the Gospel of Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thes 1. 7. 8. 9. and this is one judgement of this condemnation The second judgemeâ—◠〈◊〉 the fire of hell which is the fire of Gods 〈◊〉 and is the wrath and anger of God which shall burn and consume for ever for if our materiall fire which was made to warm to comfort and refresh the creature be so terrible what do you think the fire of hell is that is made for tormenâ— when God himselfe doth invent torment how terrible will it be for the wrath of the Lord like a river of brimstone doth kindle the fire of hell Esay 30. 33. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse of men that withhold the truth in unrighteousnesse Rom. 1. 18 And the fire of the wrath is everlasting and never goes out Mat. 25. 41. Thirdly The worme never dies and this worme I conceive to be an accusing conscience judging and accusing a sinfull and wicked creature for all his abominations that he hath committed in rejecting the love of God and the grace and mercy offered in Jesus Christ whereby he might have been freed from that wrath to come had he imbraced the grace and mercy offered but now he is lost for ever through his own default and hath lost the glory that he might have had and must abide the wrath of God for ever and thus the worme never dies Marke 9. 25. Fourthly There shall be weeping gnashing of teeth for now there will be a wonderfull change for those that formerly have lived in all pleasure and delight and have been haters of God and contemners of all good and rejoycing in their pleasures and delights and have glutted themselves with the pleasures of this world with their scorns and jears and rejoycings against the troubles of the people of God and mocking at their troubles and rejoycing at their calamity with their injoying all the pleasures of this life taking their fill in the eyes of this world but now comes their woe their rejoycing will be turned to mourning for woe be to you that laugh now in your wickedness for you shall weep Oh what a change will there be when all their joy will be turned into weeping for there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth they that have glutted themselves with their made joy shal now have enought of weeping they shall now weep houle bewaile their condition with weeping for ever and this is another judgement of this condemnation Mat. 13. 42. 50. chap. 24. 51. chap. 25. 30. 5. They shall be cast into utter darkness for they have done the works of darkness and their reward shall be that they shall be cast into utter darkness it would be a hell for a man to live all his lifetime in some dark place where he should never see the light all his life-time How terrible was the darkness in Egypt that might be felt Exod. 10. 23. that no man rose from his place for three dayes it was so dark and they were so amazed with darkness but what will the darkness of Hell be think you it is utter darkness where they shal be deprived of the light for ever from the light of God of Christ and from the light of grace and glory and never more to see the light Mat. 8. 12. chap. 12. 13. ch 25. 30. 6. The consideration of the losse of their time what they are and what they might have been had they improved that precious time that was afforded them whereby they might have been precious Saints in Heaven and to have enjoyed the presence of God and of Christ of Saints and Angels to have been in glory with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and with all the Saints in glory had they improved that pretious time which the Lord did afford them who was waiting upon them to do them good by tendering grace to them day by day and they rejecting all the motions of his spirit and despised his grace and mercy offered them and so may blame themselves not him O how wil this strike to their hearts think you when they consider their losse and themselves the cause there of and now are lost Creatures for ever how will this aggravate their woe O consider this all you that forget God before it is too late while you have time and while it is called to day harden not your hearts least you fall into the anger of God â—â—id so 〈◊〉 you up in his wrath into that terrible condemnation for our God is a consuming fire Seventhly They shall receive every one according to their deeds and their wickednes then those that have been most vile shall receive according to their vileness the proud shall receive according to their pride for terrible is that God that judgeth them so much covetousnesse so much wrath so much drunkennesse so much of the anger of God shall be powred upon them so much swearing so much payment for oaths so much whoring so much torment so much pleasure in the world so much displeasure and sorrow so much honour in the world so much dishonour with God and look how much they have been persecutors of the Saints and people of God so much they shall be persecuted for thus saith the Lord I will measure unto them according to their works Now will the Lord call all their wickednesse into remembrance which have been forgotten so many hundred of years but now are called to remembrance for though he suffered them long yet now he will pay them home at last and this will be an aggravation of their condemnation Eighthly Their worm â—hall neveâ— die nor the fire of Gods wrath shall never be put out for he suffered them for a moment to delight themselves in sinne but he will punish them for ever