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death_n	body_n	jesus_n	life_n	6,792	5	4.5934	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76754	Jesus Christ, the same to day, as yesterday, in life and power, in afflictions and sufferings: and the seed of the serpent the same now, as ever, in darkness and emnity; in rage and persecution. Being for removal of the stumbling block out of the way of the simple, concerning the testimony now given against the priests, and their worships, (viz.) Cannot you let them alone, why do ye disturb them, and their assemblies? go unto their houses, or to some private place, and speak to them there; cannot you give the same liberty to others, which you would have yourselves? Wherein is manifested, that what estimation, and enterrainment [sic] the witness of Jesus receiveth at this day from the men of the world, is the same, as it hath alwayes been from the beginning. / Given forth for the sake of the honest-hearted, and in witness of the truth, as it is in Jesus, every where spoken against, scorned, and persecuted, under the reproachful name of quaking. George Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1655 (1655)	Wing B2995; Thomason E861_7; ESTC R206652	22,155	33

who spoke to them in the name of the Lord or opposed nor had † Jud. 16. mens persons in admiration for advantage nor were * James 2. 1. to 13. respecters of persons But r Tit. 1. 8. were lovers of Hospitality lovers of good men sober just holy temperate holding forth the faithfull word by sound Doctrine exhorting and convincing gain-sayers s 1 Tim. 2. 24. gentle to all men apt to teach patient in meekness instructing them that oppose t 2 Cor. 4. 2. commending what they said unto every mans Conscience in the sight of God even to those that opposed themselves u Gal. 1. 1. 12. receiving the Gospel not by man nor the will of man nor were they raught it but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in them In all w 2 Cor. 6. 4. to the 11th things approving of themselves as the Ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in watchings in fastings by pureness by knowledge by long-suffering by kindness by the Holy-Ghost by love unfeigned by the word of truth by the power of God by the Armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left by honour and dishonour by evill report and good report as deceivers and yet true as unknown and yet well known as dying and yet behold they lived as chastened and yet not killed as sorrowful yet alwayes rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things troubled on every side yet not distressed perplexed but not in despair alwayes bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the x 2 Cor. 4. 11. 8 9 10 11. life also of Jesus might be made manifest in their body alwayes delivered unto death for Jesus sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in their mortall flesh Are those whom you call your Ministers found such or do not those whom they set you on now to persecute appear such as these and they the Contrary Are they not plainly manifested by their fruits Search and see how long will ye be deceived and shut your Eyes against the noon day and seek to support such as plainly appear not to be the Church of Christ or the Minsters of his Glorious Gospell Whom the Lord the Jealous God is now come to pull up being plants whom he hath not planted and against whom his Sword is drawn and fourbished by which both they that help and they that are holpen shall fall together and shall not be put up till the thoughts of his heart be accomplished And how long will ye beat tumult imprison and cruelly intreat his witnesses whom from amongst your selves he hath raised up to testifie against them and to lead you out of the waies of destruction into the Paths of Peace and out of dear love to your soules presse through all hardships and sufferings and difficulties at your hands yea theit lives are not dear to them for the finishing of their Testimony and that your souls may be saved in this Powerfull day of the Lord Jesus will not these things be bitternesse in the end What will you answer the Lord whom ye thus requite for all his kindnesse Mind and consider did not the Word of the Lord from the beginning take hold on those to whom it was sent though y Zach. 1. 5 6. the Fathers dyed and the Prophets lived not for ever and though they did put the z Evill day x Amos 6. 3. far from them and caused the Seat of Violence to come neer and mocked at the Word of the Lord and misused his Messengers Was there ever a Witness of God born against any thing but the downfall thereof was at hand according to the Witness and assuredly came to passe as they did abide Sufferings who bore against it their Testimony and the hotter the Sufferings drew not the time the neerer For as Jesus Christ in his flesh on the a Eph 4. 8. Crosse lead Captivity Captive so tthrough Sufferings his Truth conquers b Heb. 2. 14 15. thorough death it overcomes him that hath the power of death and c 2 Colo. 15. triumpheth over all and when the world seemeth to have upon it its greatest Advantage then is it ascending on the Throne and raigning over all Turn a little over these later times and observe calmely When raged the Fire and Faggot more furious against the Martyrs in Queen Maries daies than when the hour was come wherein that body of Popery which became so cruel was to be extinguished in this Nation when were the Persecutions of the Bishops more fierce then when the Parliament drew near which pulled them up by Root and Branch What is become of that body of Popery in England to this Day Where are the Bishops Deans and Chapters the Common Prayer and those heaps of Ceremoniall and Superstitious dead services and all that Hierarchy with the Appurtenances which had fortified it self with such lawes and length of time and mixed it self so in and with the Civill Powers that as her Mother Babylon she said I have set my Nest amongst the stars I sit as a Queen and shall see no sorrow when losse of Children and Widdow-hood came upon her in One day fear the snare and the pit and a horrible desolation even by the power that supported her How contemptible and base how much lesse then things of naught were the Martyrs in those dayes accounted of and the factious Puritanicall Non conformists as they were then called and how unlikely in the eyes of men yea how impossible a thing it seemed for those witnesses to turne the hand upon those Generations who in the height of their pride scorn and confidence thought of nothing but to swallow them up quick and to root them out of the Land of the Living by the hand of Authority which they had wholly made their own and the Lawes and were stretching out their Armes so to do Even when the d Jer. 4 7. Lyon came out of his Thicket and the Fuller had laid his Axe to their Root and Branches And when many of those men of Israel who with others of their Brethren compassed about those Walls of Jericho with the sound of Rams Horns so despicable was the Witness to that Generation of men before whom they fell and in whose hearing by it was it said Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this City Jericho he shall lay the Foundation thereof in his First-born and in his youngest Son shall he set up the Gates of it strived so eagerly and with vehemence to build it up again as a City in Israel for them to dwell in by the Name and in the Rule of a coercive Presbytery hating and despising the rest of their Brethren before whom Jericho fell the witnesses against them as Heretiques and Schismaticks upon

because thou knewest not the houre of thy visitation Friends It concerns your pretious souls eternally to know this houre of your visitation least you continuing to fall upon the Corner-stone the Rock of Ages and thus to persecute it and evilly to requite the dear love of God to you in raising up his witness against you warning you of all deceipt and directing you where Redemption is to be found and eternall life it fall upon you and grinde you to powder For verily the Kingdom of God is come amongst you the Son is come to the Vineyard to look for fruit and upon such dayes of the Son of man are you fallen that you are not aware of whom if you shall still consult against cast out and murther and call the spirit of judgement and of burning of the Devill whereby the filth of the Daughter of Sion is purged away and which makes the earth to shake and the Pillars of the house to tremble and the strong man to bow and the mighty man to cry bitterly he will n Luk. 20. 13. 14 15 16. Mat. 21. 41. miserably destroy you and let out the Vineyard unto others and sad will be your portion for all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme but he that o Mark 3. 28. 29 30. shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of eternall damnation This said Christ because they said He had an unclean spirit Sink down therefore to that of God in every one of your Consciences the light of Iesus Christ wherewith he lightens every one that commeth into the world the faithfull and true witness to which we speak And let us reason a little together what is that about which you so much contend and for which you have drawn and are drawing and ready to draw the blood of those who longing for the Redemption of the seed in every one of you which lies and is sought to be held in Captivity by the Priests and their worships and knowing whom you resist and the terrors of the Lord are made to testifie against the wayes you walk in as leading to hell and as tending to the Chambers of death and to shew you would you hear the way that leads to eternall life whose Bowels even when under sufferings by you for so witnessing and against the spirit that rules in you earn after you and the salvation of your souls which are pretious God is their witness Are they Churches of Christ search and see in the Scriptures which you say is your Rule there all might p 1 Cor. 13. 31 prophesie one by one and when any thing was q 30. revealed to another that sate by the first held his peace and the r 29. Prophets two or three might speak and the rest judge there was the s 1 Cor. 2. 15. spirituall man who judgeth all things and yet he himselfe is judged of no man Therein t 2 Tim. 2. 25. meekness were instructed those that opposed themselves There u 1 Cor. 15. 24. 25. the unbeliever and unlearned by found Doctrine was convinced of all and judged of all and secrets of his heart made manifest so that falling down on his face he worshipped God and reported God is in you of a truth There were no strikings nor quarrellings nor Tumults nor drawings of blood nor calling to or haling before Magistrates or carrying to prisons whippings stockings throwing into Dungeons and keeping close prisoners from friends and maintenance for speaking or opposing nor sending such to their homes from Tithing to Tithing who came to visit them never were they found persecuting but were alwayes after this manner intreated and persecuted who ever persecuted was out of the Doctrine of Christ The w 1 Thes 1. 1. Church is in God the x 1 Tim. 1. 15. Pillar and Ground of Truth y 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. liveing stones built a spirituall house upon the living Stone Are yours such are these things found amongst you Be coole and consider for these things are plain he that runs may read them be not alwayes deceived by their fruits you may know them to be the a Rev 2. 9. 3. 9. Synagogues of Satan the b Rev. 18. 2. Cages of every unclean and hateful Bird the Haitation of Devills and the hold of every foul spirit plain dealling you will finde at length to be best Are the Members of Harlots Drunkards Enviers Swearers Lyars Hypocrites Cheaters Strikers c. the Members of Christ are such the Piller and Ground of Truth are those who are dead in Trespasses and sins living stones built upon the living foundation Is striking tumulting and such like in meekness instructing those who oppose or convincing the unbeliever and unlearned and manifesting the secrets of his heart what Churches are they when such things as these are found where neither the Testimony of the Lord will be endured nor an unbeliever and unlearned so accounted either convinced or permitted to stay there so to be Are your Priests Ministers of Jesus Christ search and see they were c Tit. 1. 7. blameless as the Stewards of God not self-willed nor soon angry nor given to wine nor to filthy lucre no strikers nor † 1 Tim. 3. 3. strivers nor brawlers nor envious nor raylers nor covetous d Isa 56. 11. nor seeking their gain from their Quarters e Mic. 3. 5. 6 7. 1 Tim. 12. 24. nor Biters with their teeth nor preparers of warre where it is not put into their mouths nor receivers of Tithes Oblations Obventions c. or suers for treble dammages or casters into prison of those who refuse for whom they neither plant nor plow nor sowe nor makers of f 2 Pet. 2. 3. Merchandize of the people through covetousness with feigned words or having g 2 Pet. 2. 14. hearts exercised with covetous practices they were not called of men h Mat. 23 10. Masters nor i Luke 11. 43 Mat. 23. 6. 7 8 stood praying in the Synagogues or for a pretence made long Prayers nor loved the uppermost seats in the Assemblies and at Feasts nor greeting in the Market place k Mich. 3. 11 nor preached for hire nor divined for mony nor had or sought for approbation of men or a State-maintenance or a state consistory nor spake l Jer 14 4 9. 14 a lying Divination and imagination of their own heart for the word of the Lord nor came with m 1 Cor. 2. 4. the entising words of mans wisdom nor by n Gal. 1. 1. 11. or in the will and time of man nor o Jer. 13. 21. ran when they were not sent nor made the p 2 Cor. 11. 9. 12. 13 14. Gospel burdensome nor had they any q 1 Cor. 4. 11. certain dwelling place nor did they persecute nor called they to Magistrates nor haled to prison those