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Concerning persecution in all ages to this day ... G. Fox.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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to hear let him hear But what became of the great City and the whore or the false Church and the Beast and the Dragon with all his false Prophets are not they at the end burned and cast into the Lake of Fire and the lamb and the saints have the victory And David declareth how he was Persecuted and said Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my Soul let them be as Chaff before the Wind c. Let their Way be Darkness and Slippery c. False Witnesses rise up and lay to my Charge things that I Knew not they rewarded him Evill for good to the spoiling of his Soul and his Adversaries gathered themselves together against him with hypocriticall Mockery in feasts they gnash upon me with their Teeth yea they open their mouthes wide against me and Say Aha Aha c. but God will save his afflicted people and bring down the high looks of of them that afflict them And David mourned by reason of Affliction and said I am afflicted and ready to dye from my youth upward c. and said Lord remember David in all his Afflictions and he said The wicked in his pride persecuted the poor My times are in thy hand O Lord deliver me from the hand of my Enemies and them that persecute me And also David cryed to the Lord and said How many are the days of thy Servant wilt thou execute Judgment on them that persecute me They persecute me wrongfully help thou me the proud have digged a pit for me which are not after thy Law and they that do so now are not after thy Gospel And David said O Lord my God in thee I put my trust save me and deliver me from all them that persecute me for the Lord heareth the poor and despiseth not the prisoners let the Heaven and Earth praise him the Sea and every thing that moveth therein And David saith they that sate in the Gate spake against me and I was the Song of the Drunkards and do not the Drunkards make Songs of God's people now And you may see the sufferings and afflictions of Job by the Caldeans and Sabeans and the Tryals and Temptations of his Wife and his pretended Friends and also he saith in his afflictions they that are younger than I have me in derision whose Fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flocks the Children of Fools Children of base men now am I their Song yea I am their by word they abhor me c. and spare not to spit in my face upon my right hand rises the youth they put away my feet they rise up against me c. they marr my path set forward my Calamity c. But you may see how the Lord delivered Job out of all his afflictions and miseries for it was alwayes the wicked that abused the righteous in their sufferings and afflictions And Jeremiah said O Lord my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of affliction The Lord is the fortress and refuge and strength of all his people in the day of their afflictions and persecutions and did not the Lord confound all Jeremiah's persecutors did not Jeremiah tell his persecutors the Lord is with me as a terrible one therefore my persecutors shall stumble and they shall not prevail they shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper and their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten And did not this come upon the persecutors that put Jeremiah in Prison and Dungeon was not Jeremiah delivered and his persecutors went into Captivity and he set at Liberty from his Prison Jer. 52. you may see what became of his persecutors whether they did not go into Captivity and into Prison And Isaiah speaking by Prophecy of Christ how he was oppressed and afflicted yet he opened not his Mouth and was not he brought as a Lamb to Pilate's and to the Jews Slaughter and as a Sheep before the Shearers and he was taken from Prison and from Judgment who shall declare the Generation of the suffering-Lamb slain from the foundation of the World for the Transgression of his people was he stricken the Smiters and the Afflictors and the Opposers and Imprisoners Despisers and Rejectors cannot declare the Generation of Christ the Lamb of God And Isaiah saith If thou loose the Bonds of wickedness to undo the heavy burthen and let the oppressed go free c. if thou draw out thy Soul to the hungry and satisfie the afflicted Soul then shall thy Light rise in obscurity But what will become of such that do oppress and lay their burthens and afflict the Just Their Light will be darkness And the Lord saith speaking of the Children of Israel In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them in his Love and in his pitty he redeemed them and he bore them and carryed them all the days of old and God said I sent my Angel before thee to keep thee in the way c. And when the Children of Israel cryed unto the Lord he heard their voice and delivered them from their persecutors and afflictions And the Lord said I have surely seen the afflictions of my people which are in Aegypt and have heard their Cry by reason of their Task-masters for I know their sorrows So here you may see the Lord doth hear their Cryes and is sensible of the afflictions and Sorrows of his People therefore commandeth his people Not to afflict the widow nor the Fatherless nor the stranger for if they did they would cry unto the Lord and he would make their Wives Widows and their Children Fatherless And Amos Cryed Wo unto such that Chant to the sound of the Violl and Invent to themselves Instruments of Musick like unto David that Drink Wine in Bowles and anoint themselves with Chief Oyntments but they are not grieved for the Afflictions of Joseph for I know your manifold Transgressions and your mighty Sins they afflict the Just and that is it that afflicts the Just in our Age and are not sensible of the afflictions of Joseph nor of the Afflictions of the righteous in our age And Christ saith And shall not God avenge his own Elect with Cryes day and night unto him And did not Christ tell the Jews how they had slain and persecuted the Prophets And he said how that they should Persecute his Apostles and Prophets And what are become of those persecuting Jews And Christ said to his Disciples They shall lay hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to the Councils Scourge you in the Synagogues and cast you into Prison being brought before Kings Rulers for my name sake and it shall turn to you for a Testimony settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what ye shall answer for I will give you a mouth and Wisdom saith Christ which all your Adversaries shall not be able to gain-say nor resist