Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
child_n aaron_n congregation_n israel_n 2,066 5 7.8338 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
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

There are 2 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

THE DEVIL Was and Is the Old Informer AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS HE that is an Informer is a Persecutor and Spoiler and a Destroyer and the DEVIL is the Head of all Informers Persecutors and Destroyers of the RIGHTEOUS He is an Adversary of the Happiness of all God's People and an Accuser of them He is a Serpent an Enemy to all that which is good See his Emnity against Adam and Eve and against their Happiness how it did appear against Adam and Eve in Genesis And see his Enmity in the Sodomites who vexed Just and Righteous Lot's Soul from day to day and Noah a Preacher of Righteousness to the old ungodly World who did not regard him no more than Sodom did Lot but the one was drowned and the other was turned into Ashes And see the Serpent's Enmity in the Jews and in Corah Dathan and Abiram against Moses and what became of them who would have stoned him And you may see the Enmity of the Serpent in the Jews against the Prophets and did not both the ten Tribes and the two Tribes go into Captivity for disobeying the Lord like their Father Adam in their Enmity against his Prophets and righteous People And likewise you may see the Enmity of the Serpent in the Jews against Christ and his Apostles insomuch that Christ called the Jews Serpents and of their Father the Devil and what became of those Jews were they not scatter'd among all Nations and Jerusalem and their Place of Worship destroyed And ●hat Condition is all Christendom in that is erred from the Holy Ghost and Power the Apostles ●ere in have they not received the unclean ghost or foul spirit of the Devil the Enmity Adversary Accuser and Destroyer that old Informer that makes them to destroy one another makes them to envy and accuse and Informers and Destroyers of the Righteous And that foul spirit or unclean ghost hath brought Christendom all on heaps one against another that are not in the Spirit and Power of Christ the Apostles were in And in Iob chap. 1 2. there you may see the Devil and Satan who was the Enmity and Murderer appeared against Iob and his Sons and Daughters to the spoiling of his Goods yea and his Wife who said unto Iob Curse God and dye but Iob called her A foolish Woman and did not sin with his Lips though he lost his Sons and Daughters and his Goods and was stript of all and though the Devill Satan said unto the Lord If that he would put his hand against Job Job would curse him to his face Chap. 1. ver 11. And again Satan the Informer said Skin for skin yea all that a man hath will he give for his Life but put forth thine Hand now and touch his Bone and Flesh and he will Curse thee to thy face Job 2. But in all these false Informations of the Devill who was a murderer and a Lyar from the beginning and so was proved and manifest to be both a murderer and a lyar and a false accuser for Job blessed the Lord and did not sin with his Lips Iob 1 2. Chapters And Iob's Friends were miserable Comforters for the Lord said His Wrath was kindled against them for they had not spoken right of the Lord as his Servant Iob had and therefore Iob was to pray to the Lord for them and the Lord heard Iob's Prayer for them And Ioseph's mistris was a wicked Informer to her husband against innocent Ioseph first she Informed the men of her house then she Infocmed her husband whose wrath was kindled against him that he took him and cast him into prison And all this was because Ioseph would not yeild unto his Mistriss's wickedness and Sin against God so here was the Serpent and the Devil the adversary appeared against Innocent Joseph whom God was withal and made him to prosper Genesis 40. But in Proverbs 7. you may see how the Woman with the attire of a Harlot and subtilty of heart whose feet abides not in her House and lieth in wait in every Corner of the Street in Twie-light in the Evening in the black and dark Night deceived the Young Man void of understanding for they that have understanding will shun her for by the means of a Whorish Woman a man is brought to a piece of Bread and the Adulterous will hunt for the precious Life of the Righteous And though the Informers and Archers did sorely grieve Joseph and shot at him and hated him yet his bow abode in strength and Joseph's Brethren did envie him for his Dream but his Father Jacob observed his sayings And you may see how Pharoah King of Aegypt informed his People the Aegyptians against the Children of Israel and set Task-Masters over them that made their lives bitter and the Aegyptian Task-Masters obeyed Pharaoh's Commands and made them to make Brick without Straw and serve with Rigour But the Hebrew-Midwives would not obey Pharaoh to kill the Men-Children and the more Pharaoh and his Task-Masters persecuted and opprest them the more they Multiplyed But what became of Pharaoh and all his Persecutors and Informers at Last Did not God overthrow them in the Sea and deliver his People There Ran a Young man and told Moses and said Illdad and Madad were Prophecying in the Camp and one said unto Moses My Lord forbid them and Moses said unto him Enviest thou for my sake would God that all the Lords People were Prophets and that the Lord mould put his Spirit upon them Numb 11. Here Moses did not give Credit to those Informers but rather reproved them encouraged the Prophets desiring that all the Lords People were Prophets So Moses was far off from saying have them before a Magistrate and Fine them 20 l. apiece for speaking And what became of all those that went to search the Land of Canaan and brought an evil report upon the Land of Canaan cont●ary to God's promise and to Joshua and Caleb that these false Informers made the Congregation so envious that they were ready to stone Moses and did not those false Informers and them that joyned with them their Carcasses fall in the Wilderness Numb 14. And what became of Corah Dathan and Abiram and the 250. Princes that were famous in the Congregation and men of renown which told Moses and Aaron Ye take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation were holy every one of them for the Lord is among them wherefore then lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord. See what high words these Informers could speak to insense the Congregation against Moses and Aaron and such as feared God Did not the Earth swallow up Corah and his Company alive and did not a Fire come from the Lord and consume the 250. men And on the morrow all the Congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and told him He had killed the people of the Lord Did not the Wrath of the Lord go out against them and
there dyed of the Plague 14700. of them So here was the End of those Murmurers or Informers and Rebels against the Lord his Truth and People Numb 16. And again you may see what Moab said unto the Elders of Median against the Children of Israel and Balack sent the Elders of Moab and the Elders of Median to Balaam with Rewards of Divination in their hands to Curse the Jews the People of God but the Lord forbad Balaam to curse them though Balaam loved the Reward of Unrighteousness and Balack sent yet again Princes more honourable than the first Elders and Balack told Balaam He would promote him to great Honour if he would Curse the Children of Israel But see what came upon Balaam his Ass reproved him and the Lord made him to speak that which confounded Balaam and after was not Balaam and the Medionites destroyed Numb 22. 31. Here you may see how the Enemy appeared in Balack who would have destroyed the Jews but the Lord prevented him and Balaam And many Informers were against David but especially Doedg the Edomite which informed Saul against David and Ahimelech the Priest and all his Father's house because he received David and Saul commanded his Foot-men to slay the Priests but Saul's Servants would not put forth their Hands to fall upon the Priests of the Lord and Saul bid Doedg the Edomite the Informer and he fell upon them and slew eighty five persons on that day that wore the Linnen Ephod and Nob the City of the Priests smote he with the edge of the Sword both Men Women Children and Sucklings And here you may see the Informer was a Murderer of the Innocent 1 Sam. 22. And in chap. 23 25 26. you may see how the Informers went to Saul and informed him against David And you may see in Psal 52. how David prophesied the Destruction of Doedg the Edomite who came and told Saul and said unto him David is come in the house of Ahemelec And in Ezra 4. there you may see several Informers writ Letters against Jerusalem to Artaxerces to hinder the building of the City Jerusalem And you may see how busie Tobiah and the Arabians and the Amonites and Ashdodites and Sandbalat were against the Jews when they built Jerusalem and how that Tobiah and Sandbalat hired the False Prophet to prophesie against Nehemiah but their Prophecies their Works came to nought for the Lord helped his People against them whom the Serpent made Enemies and Adversaries and Informers against them And Hamon that great Informer against Mordecai and the Jews Hamon said unto King Ahashuerus There is a certain people scattered abroad in all the Province of thy Kingdom and their Laws are diverse from all people neither keep they the King's Laws therefore it is not for the King's profit to suffer them if it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay Ten Thousand Talents of Silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business to bring it into the King's Treasuries Now here you may see the Devil the Destroyer who is the Enemy and Adversary of God's People how this Informer hath exceeded all the Informers before and all the Informers in our times for instead of being an Informer to get Money he would give the King Money to destroy God's People yea 10000. Talents of Silver and he got the King's Seal for it too to seal his Writing but for all this what became of Hamon was not he hanged on the Gallows which he built for Mordecai and abundance of his Confederates destroyed and there was the End of proud Hamon whom the Destroyer lead to be an Informer and a Destroyer who was destroyed upon the Gallows that he built for another And in Jer. 38. Pashur with many others we●e Informers against Jeremiah to Zedekiah the King and you may see this Pashur the Son of a Priest had put Jeremiah in the Stocks and smote him and the envious Informers said unto Zedekiah whom the Devil stirred up to murder him We beseech thee O King let Jeremiah be put to death for he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in the City and the hands of all the people in speaking such words unto them for Jeremiah seeks not the welfare of this people but their hurt then Zedekiah said He is in your hands for the King is not he that can do any thing against you Then they took Ieremiah and let him down with Cords into the Dungeon and he sunk in the Mire and the Aethiopian one of the King's Eunuchs told the King what these Informers had done and how that Ieremiah would dye in the Dungeon and the King bid him take thirty men with him and take up Jeremiah before he dyed and the Aethiopian took old clouts rotten raggs let them down by Cords into the Dungeon and bid him tye them under his Armholes and so he drew him out of the Dungeon and put him in the Court of the Prison where he remained till Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzer who put Ieremiah out of Prison and gave him Liberty and so he sound more Mercy at the hands of the Aethiopian and Nebuchadnezzer's Officers than he did among the professing Iews the Informers and you may see what a Destruction came upon the City Zedekiah and his Sons and his men of War and his People for disobeying the Word of the Lord and Ieremiah told the Aethiopian that helpt him out of the Dungeon That he should not fall by Nebuchadnezzer 's Sword because he put his trust in the Lord Jer. 39. So here was the End of these Informers carried into Babylon and many destroyed And you may see how the Devil the Murderer and his Informers his Persecutors that put Ieremiah in the Dungeon thought to have taken away his Life were put into Prison themselves and many of their Lives lost and Ieremiah who was faithful and trusted the Lord saved Jer. 49 40. And Dan. 3. you may see how the Destroyer raised up Informers against the three Children and went to the King and accused the Iews and said Thou O King hast made a Decree that every man should fall down and worship the Golden Image and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth he shall be cast in a Fiery Furnace there are certain Jews said they which were set over the Affairs of the Province of Babylon Shadrach Meshech and Abednego those men O King have not regarded thee they serve not thy Gods nor worship the Golden Image which thou hast set up This said the Informers Then Nebuchadnezzer in his Rage and Fury commanded to bring Shadrach Meshech and Abednego before him and he said unto them Is it true do you not serve my Gods nor worship the Golden Image which I have set up c but if you worship not ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of the Fiery Furnace Who is that God that