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A45695 A Scriptural chronicle of Satans incendiaries viz., hard-hearted persecutors and malicious informers with their work, wages, and ends, who were instruments of cruelty against true worshippers / collected by Charles Harriss. Harriss, Charles. 1670 (1670) Wing H919; ESTC R336 13,462 20

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A Scriptural CHRONICLE OF Satans Incendiaries VIZ. Hard-hearted Persecutors AND Malicious Informers With their Work Wages and Ends who were Instruments of Cruelty against true Worshippers Collected by Charles Harriss Isa 33.1 Wo to thee that spoilest and thou wast not spiled c. And Chap. 25.11 And he shall bring down their Pride together with the Spoils of their Hands Matth. 23.32 Fill ye up then the Measure of your Fathers Verse 33. Ye Serpents ye Generation of Vipers how can ye escape the Damnation of Hell Printed in the Year 1670. A Scriptural Chronicle THis may serve as a Touch-stone for all Persecutors to be tryed by who profess the holy Scripture to be their Rule that so all may see whose steps they tread in whose work they are doing and whose Rule they walk by and what is the reward they may expect in the end THe Devil was and is the Master of Envy and Murder and Cain was one of his Children and learned of his father the Author of wickedness to be a Persecutor about Religion and slew righteous Abel because his own works were evil and Abels were perfect and for doing this wicked act of Murder the Lord pronounced him accursed And the Curse still hangs over the heads of all such who walk by Cains rule and tread in his steps of Murder about Religion Also just Lot was persecuted by the Sodomites because he was a Righteous man and entertained the Angel of God although the Meeting was so small that there was but two besides his own Family yet the Sodomites gathered together both young and old and beset his house and endeavoured to break the door thinking to abuse or murder Gods Ministers that were sent to call Lot out of Sodom so that people may see how the Sodomites formerly were unwilling to let one escape out of sin they would have all to be wicked like themselves when Lots love reacht forth to his Kindred desiring them to go forth with him be saved telling them how the Judgments of God would come upon them if they still continued among those wicked people and his words seemed to them as an idle Tale but what was the end of those Persecutors first they were smitten with blindness the day of visitation passed over them afterwards were consumed with Fire Brimstone so all those that assault righteous mens houses and break down their doors to persecute the Servants of God are seen to walk by the Sodomites rule Also Is●mael he was a Persecutor and a Mocker it s said His hand was against every man and he was a wilde man so let all Mockers see what Stock and Birth they are ofsAlso Esau was a prophane man and a Persecutor though he was called a Lord yet he was a rough spirited man as his Stock are at this day and threatned to kill Jacob the true Worshipper and went on in his envy till a day of Repentance was hid from his eyes and the Sentence was pronounced Because of thy violence against thy Brother shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off forever So all you that tread Esaus steps consider his end and what your own is like to be Also Pharoah the King was a wicked Tyrant over the Lord's People and when the Lord sent his holy Servants to exhort his People to depart out of Aegypt and to be separate from those uncircumcised Heathens and come forth and worship him in the beauty of Holiness then this Pharaoh hardened his heart and made Laws to oppress Gods People and refused to give them liberty to obey the Lord or to have the free exercise of their Consciences towards him nevertheless in the end we read they did depart and gave up to answer the mind of God howbeit then Pharaoh and all his Host turned persecutors indeavouring by violence to hinder them from having their liberty to serve the God of their Fathers but still would have kept them in darkness and bondage among the Uncircumcised to follow the inventions and worship of the Magitians and Sorcerers and Hirelings of Aegypt but in due time the Lord wrought deliverance for his People the true Worshippers but the Persecutors and false Worshippers the Lord overturned with an overflowing Destruction And certainly their end cannot be happy who follow the Aegyptians rule Also Jeroboam and Ahab were wicked Kings and they set up false Worship and refused to walk in the holy Way of God themselves but persecuted them that walked in it and when the Prophets of the Lord came in love and warned and reproved them for their false Worships and Wickedness then they like unwise Kings counted them their Enemies and persecuted them Even one of the Prophets spoke to the King in the time of his Worship so that false Worshippers as they use to do now cryed Lay hold on him for he disturbs me but remember that hand that he stretched forth against the Prophet was withered and we see it was the manner of the true Prophets never to flatter Kings in their wickedness for when Ahab the King had taken Naboths Free-hold from him and had caused one more righteous then himself to be stoned to death then the good Prophet Elijah came to him to whom the King said Haste thou found me out Oh my ENEMY to whom the Prophet answered I have found thee because thou hast sold thy self to work wickedness c. And because they set up false Worship and persecuted and imprisoned and killed the Servants of the Lord Even a curse came upon them and their Families and it was said He that dieth of Jeroboam and of Ahab in the City the Dogs shall eat if in the Fields the Fowls shall eat them And Ahab himself was slain in his Chariot and his Blood run out so that when the Chariot was washed the Dogs licked his Blood And much more might be said of several unrighteous Kings as Baasha Ahaz Hosheas Manasseth Ammon c. How they ran into Pride and Hautiness and refused to walk in the Way of the Lord but set up false Worship and drew and compelled the People to it and very often thereby made Israel of old to sin notwithstanding the Lord still sent his Prophets then to warn them though for the same the Prophets were persecuted and stoned murdered and counted Deceivers for which cause the Lord brought a heavy Curse and sore Judgments upon those Kings Families and also upon the People that joyned with them in their false worship Also King Zedekiah he persecuted the Prophet of the Lord and the Princes and the false Prophets joyned with him and the Priests would have had the Lord's Servant to have been put to death and they counted him a Mad-man and smote him and put him in the Stocks also in Prisons and a myerie Dungeon So People may see how busie the Priests and false Prophets were formerly and how directly these in ourdayes tread in their steps But what was the Wages and End