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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60325	The practices of persecutors delivered in a sermon on the fourteenth verse of the foure score six Psalme / b Mr. Archibald Skeldie.	Skeldie, Archibald.	1645 (1645)	Wing S3932; ESTC R20904	44,206	68

Gods Saints and servants may well be called violent and cruell and that in three respects first in respect of their affection secondly in respect of their words thirdly in respect of their actions First I say in respect of their affection for the hatred they beare to the Saints of God as it is unjust in respect of the ground of it and deadly in respect of the project so it is irreconciliable in respect of the continuance of it First I say it is unjust in respect of the ground of it for they hate the Saints of God for the excellent graces which they see in them * 1 Ioh. 3.12 Cain slew his brother Abell because his own works were evil and his brothers good and therfore one said well (i) Si non esset claritudo sanctorum non surgeret invidia impiorum Lyra. cap. 4. Epist 1 Ioan. If the brightnesse of the Saints did not shine the invie of the wicked should not arise against them Next it is deadly in respect of the project of it for wicked men desire the utter ruine of the Saints of God and that not of a certaine number but of all the godly without exception for as the cruell Emperour Caligula wished that all the Romans had but one head that he might strik it aff at one blow So the desire of the wicked is that the Saints of God might perish from the earth The confederate Nations * Psal 83.4 will have Israel to be rooted out of memorie that they be not a nation Haman wil have all the Iews to perish in one day Dioclesian and Iulian the apostate had a purpose to roote out the name of Christians from under heaven Lastly their hatred is irreconciliable in respect of continuance Cain will not be reconciled to his brother albeit the Lord offer himselfe to take up the matter * Gen. 4.6 Esau layeth up in his heart the hatred of his brother untill the death of his father For this * Gen. 27.4 cause they are called not only enemies but likwise foes * Psal 27.2 because their enimitie is altogether implacable and their seed like that of Amalecke is irreconciliable Secondly They are violent and cruel in respect of their words whereby sometimes they expresse how they despise and contemne the Saints of God as Nabal spake of David Sometimes they threaten to execute the extremity of their rage and furie as did Senacherib against Ezohia and some-times they burden the Saints of God with calumnies and reproaches as Shimei railed against David In all which respects they are said * Psal 27.12 To speake cruelly and their words are compared * Psal 120.3 to a great scourge * Psal 58.3 and to sharpe arrowes to burning coales and to the venome of Aspes for as any of these things can griveously hurt mans body so the cruel words of violent men do greatly grieve and afflict the hearts of the Saints of God Thirdly They are called cruell and violent in respect of action and so their cruelty is best seen by some and felt by others for when they are permitted by the Lord to afflict his Saints they expresse all manner of cruelty that can be devised or executed without regard of sex or age or quality of persons Therefore it is that in holy Scripture they are called * 2 Thessa 1.6 Troublers Oppressors * Psal 10.18 Persecutors * Ioh. 15.20 Troublers because they suffer not the Saints of God to live in peace and quietnesse but frequently give them occasion of griefe and sorrow under the sense whereof they are forced to complaine to God They are called Oppressors by reason of the manifold injuries which they doe to the Saints of God without any cause or occasion they do to others what they would not be content should be done to themselves And they are called Persecutors partly because though they finde not opportunity at the first to execute their malice yet they diligently seek occasion and wait till they finde it and partly because they invade the Saints of God as savage beasts doe set upon their prey to which they are compared by the Prophet David in the 22. Psalme The Turks History telleth us that Bajacet the fourth king of the Turkes by his countrey-men was called Gilderin which signifieth lightning because in a great battell which his father Amorath fought against the Christians he brake in with a part of the Army so fiercely and terribly as if it had beene thunder and lightning But there is a word in the Text which is not to be lightly overpassed seeing it includeth more than at first it would seeme to doe For when the enemies of David are said To seeke afttr his soule there are two things included First When the enemies of David seeke after his soule there are two things included That the harme which Davids enemies would doe to him is not a light but a grievous hurt Secondly That they wish not only the death of Davids body but likewise the destruction of his soule First I say that the hurt and skaith which they wished him is not a light harme which easily may be comported with soon repared but a great and grievous hurt which can neither be indured nor repared This is not like other kindes of hurt that sometimes by men is done to men King * 1 Sam. 11.7 Saul threatneth that the oxen of the Hebrews shall be cut in pieces which follow him not to war against the Ammonits cruel * 1 Sam. 11.2 Nahash will put out the right eyes of the Citizens of Iabesh * Luke 23.16 Pontius Pilate will scourge Iesus and let him goe But the enemies of David seeke after his soule they wil not only spoil him of his wealth and honour but likewise of his life they are set against him as the Pharisees were set against Christ * Luke 23.21 That will have him put to death And as the Iewes were against Paul when they said * Acts 22.22 It is not fit that he should live And as History telleth That Charles Duke of Anjew was so cruelly set against Conradine king of Cicily that the proverbe vvent through the world Vita Caroli mors Conradini The life of Charles was the death of Conradine he should not live except he died And so the Scripture telleth us That the life of David was fought by his enemies both by secret plots open violence which not only maketh him to say * Psal 56.1 That his enemies would swallow him up but likewise he compareth them to savage beasts which when they set upon a man doe not simply byte him untill he bleed neither take they away one of his members but they leave him not untill he be dead and have eaten their pleasure of his carcase wherefore he saith * Psal 27.2 That his enemies come upon him to eat up his flesh Secondly It importeth that the enemies