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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67020	A call to humiliation for the grievous sin of persecution in two sermons, preached at the publick fasts in Lemster, in the county of Hereford, Wednesday May 21 and June 18, 1690 / by William Woodward ...	Woodward, William, Minister of the Gospel.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3522; ESTC R23484	25,666	38

to eat things Sacrificed unto Idols and I gave her space to Repent and she Repented not ver 22. Behold I will cast her into a Bed and them that commit adultery with her into Great Tribulation except they Repent of their deeds ver 23. and I will kill her children with Death and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts and I will give unto every one of you according to your works It was a great blemish in the church of Thyatira to retain so much honour for this Jezebel by whom it's likely some Naboth's suffered though we might find the Prophets of the Lord in the name of Naboth yet we shall content our selves to observe that every man as well as Naboth hath a vineyard which is the Inheritance of his Fathers The possession of a good Conscience and they must not part with it to humor King Ahab but must rather run all hazards and fall a sacrifice to this wicked Jezebel who when she can with her Painted Beauty steal away the hearts of Princes will get the stamp of the Royal Authority upon her bloody Contrivances and destroy every Naboth as a blasphemer of God and the King because he will not alienate the Inheritance of his Fathers nor suffer his Vineyard to be Converted into a Garden of bitter Herbs 1 Kings 21. 2. Magistrates are said to be Shields rather than Swords Psal 47. 9. their office is the Defence of Vertue and Holiness 't is an accursed piece of Sacriledge to take down the Golden Shields of the Temple and beat them into Swords and then consign them to the Philistines or to take the sacred Horns of the Altar of the Lord and adorn the Head of the Beast with them that with a better Grace he may Gore the Saints to the Joy of the whole earth or to entertain the Levites who are Joyned to the Lord by a Covenant of Salt with poisoned wine in the Golden Bowls of the Sanctuary 4. Oppression and Persecution of the Truth though gilded with those great Names of Law Justice Publick Safety are always acompanyed with terrible Judgments The Sin is very dareing and provoking other Sins affront the Deity but Persecution brings to mind that of Caesar Miles faciem feri it smites God upon the face it wounds him in the Apple of his eye Zech. 2 8. When Paul was mad against the Church like the ravening Wolf of the Evenings for he was of the Tribe of Benjamin Gen. 49. 27. Phil. 3. 5. our Saviour call'd to him out of Heaven and bid him hold for he set all his wounds a bleeding afresh Acts 9. 4. There was a curse which fell upon the earth by the Sin of Adam Gen. 3. 17. and man multiplyeth the curse upon himself by his Implacable Enmity against the seed of God whiles the Jews were the Segulla the peculiar Treasure of of the Lord all sorts of Plagues did light upon the Egyptians and the nations round about for oppressing them but when the Jews became Loammi and ceased to be the people of God all sorts of Plagues befel themselves because they persecuted their Little Sister the anointed of the Lord. Where Christ apears in any of his Poor Followers there is some Signature of his Kingly Spirit upon them which the envious Spirit of man not being able to endure seeks to extinguish that the Inheritance may be his The Antichristian State and Church of Rome which is set forth by Babylon for her Idolatry by Sodom for her filthiness and Immoralities by Egypt for her oppression and persecution is under this condemnation that the time shall come that there shall no more be heard in her the voice of the Bridegroom and the Bride Rev. 18. 23. 1. There shall be no more of that cruel and bloody race The Inquisition hath made Spain poor and the Dragoons have made France weak Oppression and Persecution have broken in pieces all the four Famous Empires of the World set forth in Daniel c. 2. v. 32 by the Head of fine Gold Arms and Breasts of Silver Belly and Thighs of Brass Legs of Iron and Feet part of Iron and part of Clay The Empires of the Assyrians Medes and Persiane Grecians and Romans 'T was no contemptible counsel which Tertullian gave Scapula a Bloody Persecutor Si nobis non parcis tibi parce si non tibi Carthagini if thou wilt not spare us yet spare thy self if not thy self yet spare thy City Carthage But it sutes best with our Text to look a little into that which befell the Jews after their Crucifixion of our Lord they had many Prodigies which did foreshew their desolation and the desolations did answer their Prodigies A Star is seen over the City like a Flaming Sword Armies of Soldiers seen in the Air a Cow at the Altar Calves a Lamb the Brazen gates of the Temple notwithstanding their Locks and and Bolts flew open in the night Voices heard from Heaven migremus hinc let us go hence one Jesus son of Ananias went about four years crying Woe Woe Woe to Jerusalem Now the Vengeance was every way correspondent to the Tokens of it one million of Jews slain by Sword Famine and Pestilence near one hundred thousand made Captives and Slaves the tender Mothers and delicate Women Eat their own Children of a Span long the Historian saith that there was one Woman that in the bitterness of her distress slew and boiled her Son and presently Eat a part of him we may suppose the Head or an Arm or a Leg and then laid up the Remainder not long after some of the seditious Bloody Villains of the City came to her threatning her with present Death unless she would bring forth what Provision she had who immediately brought forth that part of her Child which remained at the sad sight whereof even those merciless wretches were smitten with sudden horror and amazement insomuch that the Mother spake to them saying What! will you be more compassionate than a Mother Will not you Eat where I have Eaten But of this we need say no more because the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem is in many of your Hands Only observe that in the Prophet Amos ch 1. 9. Thus saith the Lord for three Transgressions of Tyrus and for four I will not turn away the Punishment thereof because they delivered up the whole Captivity to Edom and remembred not the Brotherly Covenant v. 10. but I will send a Fire on the Walls of Tyrus which shall devour the Pallaces thereof Here we may observe that though the Lord be Gracious and Mercifull and Long-suffering bearing with Three sins many sins yet when it comes to the Fourth sin which is Persecution he will not pardon Damascus fourth sin was Persecution v. 3. so Gaza v. 6. so Edom v. 11. so Ammon v. 13. so Tyrus v. 9 10. which delivered up the whole Captivity to Edom there had once been a Brotherly Covenant between Solomon