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A40305 To you that are crying, what is become of our forefathers, if the light be the way which you be in, and what is become of the martyrs that suffered? Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1657 (1657) Wing F1964; ESTC R36429 1,918 4

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To you that are crying What is become of our fore-Fathers if the Light be the way which you be in and what is become of the Martyrs that suffered ANswer Many of the Jewes suffered death by the Heathen because they could not transgresse the Commands and Law of God and suffered because they could not eate Swines flesh And the Prophets of God again Many of them suffered by the Jews who witnessed Christ was to come there was one slaine between the Temple and the Altar by the Jews which had the words but not the life Now many of the Jewes which had the words caused others to suffer which had the life but the Prophets they suffered for the life and the Apostles they suffered for the denying of the Jewish Commandments and their Ordinances and said whatsoever they sould in the shambles that they might eat and the Jewes formerly they had suffered for holding up these things before the substance was come by them that was out of the Law of God for the Prophets suffered for many of these outward things by them who had not the life who saw and declared the substance and these was for signes and for wonders unto both the houses of Israel And while the Jewes many of them suffered there was something stirring in them that carried them in to the obedience to the commands of God and when the Jewes went onely into the words from the life they persecuted the Prophets and killed the just one and persecuted the Apostles who witnessed the just one Now these Jews may say What is become of our fore-Fathers that suffered death for obeying the commands of God These that persecuted the Prophets and put the Son to death and persecuted the Apostles these might complain and say What is become of all our fore-Fathers For that which was in their fore-Fathers the life of the Law which brought them to know the Law and keep the Commandment those lived and that suffering was accepted But those that was from the life though they held the outward Commandment Statutes and Ordinances they persecuted the life Christ Jesus the Prophets and Apostles and here is no talk of their fore-Fathers or of them that suffered for here is a distinction between them For Abraham David and Moses saw the end of the pattern which they that had got their words which might plead what was become of their Fathers or them that had suffered of the Heathen and those that were transgressours was another state from them which saw through and saw the end so they stood not against the substance nor the life but they did that bad the words and wanted the life these was with the life of the Prophets judged and the Apostles as People having eyes and see not and ears and hears not Now say you that calls your selves Christians but be out of the life of Christ and the Apostles What is become of our fore Fathers and what is become of the Martyrs that suffered Alasse for y●u you are not to be compared to them that have gotten the Martyrs words and Christs and his Apostles words As the Jewes was not that suffered death to be compared to them that Persecuted to death So you differ from the Martyrs that suffered death as those that caused death n●ither are you to be numbred with them that suffered for the righteous Law of God with those Jewes which Persecuted Christ to death and the Apostles and the Prophets So here now you be in a wrong measure which is too short in comparing your selvs and making your selves of that number that suffered but the true Measure makes you of that number that Persecuted and then see what become of all them how should they escape Hells damnation for the least degree that is pure that brings to suffer is accepted but that which getteth the words and causeth to suffer is for judgement so you having gotten the Apostles and Christs words and commands Now the Apostles suffered and some of them that lived in the life the Believers after them as the Reco●d of the Scripture doth make manifest but that being come which the Apostle spoke of the substance you that have the outward command and letter and not the life but are standing up prating of the words you are Persecuting them and rising up against them that witnesse the substance the end of the Apostles words so you are not to be measured with them that suffered the Apostles and Martyrs that are now Persecuting them that are believers so it is now as it was then in this age as it was in that age for formerly there had some suffered for bearing Testimony to Gods Commandment ordinances and statutes and the shadows And when the substance was come among the Jewes that had the shadows and outward commands and the type them that had this Persecuted the substance would not have the substance to rule Measurable with you that be called Christians which now stands against the substance it selfe who hath the outward form and command but will not have Christ in the Spirit to reign as they would not have him in the flesh to reigne neither would they have him in the flesh to reign as they would not But the substance is come whereby the End of all things is seen and Heaven shaken and Earth shaken and a new Heaven a new Earth is witnessed wherein dwelleth righteousnesse G. F. London Printed for Thomas Simmons