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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33935	Liberty of conscience asserted, or, A looking-glass for persecutors being a plain deduction from scripture-history of the original grounds & pretences for persecution : the methods taken to put the same in execution : together with the sad consequences thereof, or, the reward that attends persecuting-spirits.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1687 (1687)	Wing C528; ESTC R31288	50,834	33

all the Jews must be destroyed together which he pursued in the following verses After the same manner did they pursue Christ himself to the death John 18. and because the Jews themselves could not proceed so far as to put him to death by their Law as themselves confessed v. 31. they therefore brought him before Pilate to be judged that they might by pretence of that Authority put him to death which afterwards they did tho so just a One as he was and by Pilate declared so to be as is in the next Chap. recorded yea when Pilate would have released him because of his Innocency Luke 23.14 15. the Jews cryed out v. 21. Crucifie him Crucifie him right or wrong they must have his life this was in their hearts to have as appears further v. 22 23. The Scribes and Pharisees having beforehand Mat. 12.14 taken counsel how they might destroy him Christ did forewarn his Disciples and Followers and intimated unto them that they should be so dealt with too Mat. 10. The Brother saith he there in v. 21. shall deliver up the Brother to death and the Father the Child and the Children shall rise up against their Parents and put them to death according to which they frequently did in those days as the Scripture doth evidence When Christ had raised up Lazarus John 11.43 44. The chief Priests in Chap. 12. v. 10 11. consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death because that by reason of him many of the Jews believed on Jesus So Acts 5. because the Apostles had preached Christ before the Council there they presently consulted to slay them v. 33. The same Spirit was Saul of Act. 8.1 he there consented to the death of Stephen and Act. 9.1 it s said of him That he yet breathed out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord which he himself acknowledged he had done Act. 22. v. 4. in these words I persecuted this way to the death so dealt he and others with Stephen upon his preaching of Christ Act. 7. They ran upon him with one accord and cast him out of the City and stoned him v. 57 58. Herod the King Act. 12. stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the Church v. 1. and v. 2. he killeth James with the sword yea there were more than fourty of the Jews who bound themselves in a curse not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul v. 12 13. of which they acquainted the chief Priests and Elders and directed them into a way to effect it too in the next verses And again Act. 25. The chief Priests and chief of the Jews designed to kill him and in order to it they desired the favor of Festus to send for Paul to Jerusalem v. 2. and v. 3. 't is said That there were lyers in wait in the way to kill him thus did they pursue their very Lives by all their former Methods For which doings the Apostle complained in his First Epist to the Thessalonians of the Jews Chap. 2. v. 14 15. thus The Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophet and have persecuted us c. Thus hath the Scripture also taken notice that their Enmity was such that by way of revenge nothing less would serve them than the very Lives of the Saints and Servants of God yea of Christ himself in those days they could not rest till they had taken them off the Earth Then Thirdly As the Holy Ghost hath by Scripture Records shewn the bitter Enmity that was seated in the Hearts of the wicked in those days against the Saints and Holiness it self and the several Methods those Men then took to express or evidence their Enmity against them and it for their suppression and to hinder the growth of Holiness so also hath the same Spirit deluded down to after Age many of the Grounds and Causes of such their Enmity against and hatred of them and which put them upon Persecuting the one and Opposing the other The First and Original Cause why they did persecute at that rate in those days was from that irreconcilable Enmity which they brought into the World with them against God against Christ who came forth from him against his Laws and Government as is said Rom. 8.7 The carnal mind is enmity against God cannot be subject to him they cannot endure any thing of the Spirit whilst they are in the Flesh in the same State in which they came into the World they cannot bear with the Light which shineth in the Law of God because their Works are Works of Darkness and hence came their Hearts to be at enmity and hatred against the Saints and Servants of God such who owned God and his Laws and subjected themselves to him and it or did preach up Subjection to the same and so consequently to persecute their Persons and oppose and obstruct the spreading of the Truth by all the ways they could as the Psalmist impli'd they did when he spake in Psal 2. thus Why do the heathen rage and the people imagin vain things The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take councel together against the Lord and against his Anointed saying Let us break their Bands and cast their Cords from us c. they could not bear them they would not be bound by them v. 1 2. Here their Enmity against God and Christ and his Laws put them upon imagining taking councel how to ease themselves of the good Men of God and Christ and as a consequent how to ease themselves of all those who did submit to those Laws of God and walk with him as the Psalmist again did cleerly assert Psal 83. in these words v. 2. Thine enemies make a Tumult and they who hate thee lift up the head v. 2. what follows why v. 3. they have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones and v. 4. they said Come and le ts cut them off from being a Nation here first they hate God himself and then consult to destroy his People To this cause doth the Psalmist reduce it in those days Psal 44.22 For thy sake saith he there are we killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter it was for Gods sake they hated him and must needs kill his whom they could reach Jeremiah spake after the like manner Chap. 15. v. 15. he prays thus Revenge me of my Persecutors c. and useth this as the Argument Know saith he that for thy sake have I suffered rebuke it was for his faithfulness to God So Christ told his Disciples Mat. 10. That they should be brought before Governors and Kings but for his name sake v. 8 they hated Christ so punished his Followers and again v. 22. Ye shall be hated of all men for my name sake their hatred of Christ is assigned here as the cause of their hatred against his Followers as Christ further hinted to the Jews in the