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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26980	One sheet for the ministry against the malignants of all sorts by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing B1335; ESTC R13471	14,605	17

Father or Mother And the experience of sound Christians will keep them closer and help them much against this inhumanity what ever hypocrites may do 17. And if these Malignants had not Pharaohs heart they would sure have considered that the experience of all Ages tells them that still the most wicked have been the enemies of the Ministry and the most godly have most obeyed and honoured them in the Lord and that this enmity hath been the common brand of the rebellious and the fore-runner of the heavy wrath of God and that it hath gone worst with the enemies and best with the friends of a godly Ministry Do I need to prove this which is so much of the substance of the old Testament and the New Was it the friends or enemies of all the Prophets Apostles and Ministers of Christ that Scripture and all good writers do commend Do not the names of all Malignants against the godly Ministry stink above ground as the shame of mankind except those that are buried out of hearing or those that were converted 18. Nay such are noted for the highest sort of the wicked upon earth worse then Drunkards Whore-mongers and such filthy beasts The persecutors of Gods Ministers have been ever taken as walking Devils And the hottest of Gods wrath hath faln upon them Take two instances 1. When the Jews went into Captivity this was the very cause 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets till the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy 2. And when the Jews were cut quite off from the Church and made Vagabonds on the earth this was the very cause Acts 28. 28. Be it known therefore to you that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles and that they will hear it 1 Thes. 2. 15 16. These Jews both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sin alway for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 19. It is the Devils own part that these Malignants act For it is he that is the great enemy of Christ and the Saints and he that is the accuser of the Brethren which accuseth them before God day and night And is not this the work of Quakers Drunkards Papists and all Malignants But the Lord will rebuke them and be the glory of his servants Zach. 3. 1 2. He shewed me Joshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him And the Lord said unto Satan The Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem 20. These Malignants do most of them condemn themselves for they honour the antient Ministers of Christ that are dead even while they oppose and hate the present that are living who are the nearest imitaters of their Doctrine and life that are on earth The name of Peter and Paul and John they honour and some of them keep holy-dayes for them And at the same time hate and reproach those that preach the same Doctrine and that because they tread in their steps They honour the names of Austin and Chrysostom and Hierom and other Ancients and hate those that preach and live as they did They speak honourably of the Martyrs that were burned to death for the Doctrine of Christ and at the same time they hate us for doing as they did What difference between the calling doctrine and lives of those martyred Ministers and these that are now alive O wretched hypocrites do you not know that these Apostles Fathers and other Ministers did suffer in their time from such as you as we now do and more Hear what Christ saith to such as you Matth. 23. 29 30 31. Wo to your Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites because ye build the tombes of the Prophets and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous and say If we had been in the dayes of our Fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets Ye are witnesses to your selves that ye are the children of them which killed the Prophets fill ye up then the measure of your Fathers Ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers how can ye escape the damnation of Hell 21. Moreover these Malignants do harden themselves against the freshest of the Judgements of God which some of their own hands have executed and justifie the persecutors and succeed them in their fury Have you forgotten what God hath done here against the Papal enemies of the Gospel and Ministry in 88. and the Powder-plot and many other times Have you already forgotten how the persecutots of a godly Ministry have sped within these sixteen years in England and Ireland And dare you now stand up in their room and make your selves the heirs of their sin and punishment and justifie them in all their Malignity What do you but justifie them when you rave against and revile the same sort of Ministers and many of the same persons whom the former Malignants persecuted and oppose the same sort of Ministers that the Papists burned And would not you do the like by them if you had power in your hands Can any wise man doubt of it Whether Papists and Quakers and Drunkards that now make it their work to make the Ministry odious would not soon dispatch them if they could Blessed be the great Protector of the Church for were it not for him our lives would soon be a prey to your cruelty 22. And indeed if these Malignants had their wills they would undo themselves and cut down the bough they stand upon and destroy the little hope and help that is yet left for their miserable souls It is for the sake of Gods servants among them that judgements are so long kept off them And as long as the Gospel and Ministry remains salvation is offered them the Voyce of mercy is calling after them Repent and live They have the light shining in their eyes which may at last convince them as Paul was convinced of his persecution the voyce which they despise may possibly awake them Though they have less hope then others yet there is some But if they had their will and were rid of the Ministry alas what would the forlorn wretches do Then they might damn themselves without disturbance and go quietly to hell and no body stop them and say Why do you so 23. And I pray you consider what it is that these men would have What if the Ministers were all cast out would they have any to do Gods work in their stead or none If none you may see what they are doing if any Who and where are they Is it not horrible Pride if all these silly souls do think that they can do it better themselves And what else do Quakers