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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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CONCERNING PERSECUTION IN ALL AGES To this Day And he that was Born after the Flesh Persecuted him that was Born of the Spirit and even so it is now yea and all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer Persecution Mark all them that will live Godly not them that will live Ungodly out of Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 3.12 For unto you it is given in the Behalf of Christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake To the Elect of God and how that Christ hath sown his Seed upon all Grounds and now their Grounds will be tryed The Children of God their Heavenly Shield Buckler Arms Armour and Defence which they had from God and Christ G. FOX LONDON Printed by JOHN BRINGHVRST at the Sign of the BOOK in Grace-Church-street 1682. CONCERNING PERSECUTION THE Spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the Children of God if Children then Heirs of God and Joynt Heirs with Christ and if so be that we suffer with Christ that we may be also glorified together for I reckon that the present Sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us Who shall seperate us from the Love of Christ shall Tribulation or Distress or Persecution or Famine or Nakedness or Perill or Sword as it is written For Christs sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as Sheep for the Slaughter nay in all these things we are more than Conquerors through Christ that lov'd us for I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor Things present nor Things to come nor Height nor Depth nor any other Creature shall be able to seperate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Here is and ought to be the Noble Resolution of the true and faithful Christians in Christ Jesus and as the Apostle said to the Corinthians We are made a spectacle unto the world and Angels and men c. And we are counted fools for Christs sake and we are buffetted and have no certain dwelling place and being reviled we bless and being persecuted we suffer it being defamed we Intreat we are made as the filth of the world and as the off-scouring of all things but the Lord comforts us in all our Tribulations for as the Sufferings of Christ abounds in us so our Consolation also abounds with Christ And so it is no new thing for the Christians now to be troubled on every side yet not distressed perplexed but not in dispair for our light afflictions which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory c. and though our outward man perish yet our inward man is renewed day by day blessed be the Lord forever And as the Apostle saith I take pleasure in Infirmities in Reproaches in Necessities in Persecutions in Distresses for Christs sake And here the Apostle triumphed over all which should be every true Christians practice And you may read how Paul said how that beyond measure he persecuted the Church of God and wasted it but when he was converted and became a member of Christs Church then he preached that faith which he sought to destroy so you may see as it is written He that 's born after the flesh persecute him that is born after the spirit even so it is now therefore what ever Christendom doth profess and talk the Birth must be minded of what Birth you are if it be the birth of the flesh he will persecute him that is born after the spirit the true believers in Christ for unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake so this gift is not only to believe but also to suffer for his sake and so count all things but loss for the excellency of the Knowledge of the Lord Jesus for whom I suffer the Loss of all things and count them but dung that I may winn Christ and be found in him that I may know him and the power of his Resurrection and the Fellowship of his Sufferings being made conformable unto his d at h To this all should mind to be conformable and know the fellowship in his sufferings And the Apostle encourages the Thessalonians who saith that we our selves glory in you c. for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure which is a manifest token of the righteous Judgments of God that ye may be worthy of the Kingdom of God for which ye also suffer seeing it is righteous with God to recompence to them that trouble you and so you that are troubled rest with us saith the Apostle therefore brethren we are comforted over you in all your afflictions and distresses for your faith stand fast in the Lord that no man should be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto saith the Apostle for we told you before that we should suffer tribulations even as it is come to pass For Christ hath suffered and being tempted he is able to Succour them that are tempted in all their sufferings and though Christ he where a Son yet learned he Obedience by the things which he suffered and being made perfect he became the Author of eternal Salvation to all them which obey him and so if we suffer with him we shall reign with him and Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them and them which suffer Adversity as being your selves also in the body in bonds Here is a sensible feeling of one another that are born of the spirit and a Fellowship in sufferings who are persecuted by that spirit born of the Flesh And the Apostle saith to the Hebrews call to remembrance the former days in which after ye were Illuminated ye indured a great Fight of Afflictions partly while you were Gazing-stocks both by Reproaches Afflictions and partly while you became Companions of them that were so used for ye had Compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your Goods knowing in your selves that you have in Heaven a better and induring Substance cast not away your Confidence which hath great Recompence of Reward for ye have need of Patience that after you have done the will of God you may receive the Promise but if any draw back to wit in the time of Sufferings the Lords soul hath no pleasure in them Moses by Faith chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God then to injoy the Pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Aegypt for he had respect unto the recompence of reward and by faith forsook Aegypt not fearing the wrath of the King for he indured as seeing him who is invisible and ye may see what cruel tryals of mockings scourges bonds and