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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61651	A rebuke to the informers with a plea for the ministers of the Gospel, called nonconformists, and their meetings and advice to those to whom these informers address themselves for assistance in their undertakings.	Stockton, Owen, 1630-1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing S5699; ESTC R34618	98,356	92

at more than the place where the worship is performed Joh. 4.21 23. It seems irrational and not candid to say no worse to shut these men out of the Churches and then to reproach them and persecute them because they preach not in Churches but in private houses and barns and where they best can 3. A stable is a more contemptible place than a dwelling-house or barn yet because there was no room in the Inn our Lord Jesus was born in a stable and laid in a manger after he was put into his swadling-cloths Luk. 2.7 She brought forth her first-born Son and wrapped him in swadling-cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the Inn. And shall we think any place too mean for us to assemble together in seeing our Lord Jesus humbled himself so far as to be born in a stable Plea 7. We cannot believe it is such a great sin as you have said to molest and persecute these men for if it were we should be greatly troubled in our Conscience and should have no quiet in our minds night nor day but we are under no trouble of Conscience for what we do and therefore we think we do not sin in molesting them Ans 1. A man may be a great sinner and yet have no trouble in his Conscience for his sins yea it may be a hard matter to convince him of his sins Whoredom is a great sin Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judg Yet Solomon speaks of some that live in this sin and say they have done no iniquity Prov. 30.20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman she eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith I have done no wickedness Oppression and Murther are grievous sins yet some men have such seared Consciences that they are no more troubled at these sins than if they were innocent persons Zech. 11.4 5 Feed the flock of the Slaughter whose possessors slay them and hold themselves not guilty and they that sell them say Blessed be the Lord I am rich Jer. 2.34 35 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents I have not found it upon secret search but upon all these yet thou sayst because I am innocent surely hss anger shall turn from me To kill the Disciples of Christ is an exceeding great sin yet some are under such a spirit of delusion that instead of acknowledging their sin they think they do God good Service Joh. 16.2 They shall put you out of the Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doth God Service 2. It hath been already proved by many Arguments out of the Word of God that this practise of yours is exceeding sinful and abominable in the sight of God and therefore if you have no terrours of Conscience for what you have done it is because your hearts are so hardened that you are grown past feeling Plea 8. But if our persecuting these men were so great a sin surely God would send some great Judgment upon us either fire would fall from Heaven and consume us or the earth would open its mouth and swallow us up or some other strange punishment would befall us but God lets us alone and we thrive and prosper in the world and therefore we can't think this is such a great sin Ans 1. God oft-times lets great sinners alone and doth not punish them for their sins in this world because he reserveth them to be punished at the day of Judgment 2 Pet. 2.9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust to the day of Judgment to be punished Job observed in his time that there were persons that did remove the land-marks and violently took away the flocks and fed thereon oppressed the Widow and the Fatherless and grind the face of the poor and committed other abominable sins and yet God did not punish them for their sins Job 24.2 to the 12. Some remove the Land-mark and violently take away flocks and feed thereon They drive away the ass of the fatherless and take the widows exe for a pledge and yet God layeth not folly to them And David observed of many in his time that were great oppressers and afflicters of Gods people and yet they prospered and did not meet with troubles either in life or death as other men did but had even what heart could wish though they were ungodly sinners Ps 73. from v. 3. to the 12th 2. Glory not in this that God lets you alone in your sinful ways and suffers you to prosper For it 's a token that he intends to destroy you for ever Ps 97.2 When the wicked do spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever 3. It may be the hand of the Lord is lifted up and hath gone out against you several ways since you took up this practise of Informing though you take no notice of it Isa 26.11 Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people yea the fire of thine enemies shall devour them 4. Though you do not meet with judgments in your Bodies Estate or Families yet it may be God hath smitten you with spiritual judgments When Pharaoh oppressed Israel and would not let Israel go to worship God besides the Plagues that reach the outward man God sent Plagues upon Pharaoh's heart Exod. 9.14 I will at this time send all my Plagues upon thy heart And how did God send all his Plagues upon Pharaoh's heart It was by giving him up to Judicial hardness Exod. 10.1 And the Lord said unto Moses Go unto Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart It 's a grievous curse to be given up of God to obstinacy of heart Lam. 3.65 Give them sorrow of heart or as it is in the Margin obstinacy of heart thy curse unto them So Vatablus give them obstinatum cor an obstinate heart When God gives a man an obstinate heart he gives him a dreadful curse what sadder token of God's displeasure than when God lets him alone in his sins as he did Ephraim Hos 4.17 Ephraim is joyned to Idols let him alone Hos 12.14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly Whence I infer God is provoked to anger most bitterly with those sinners whom he lets alone and suffers to go on in their sins without rebuke For whom he loves he rebukes and chastens Rev. 3.19 5. Though God out of his patience bear with you and give you time and space to repent yet if you repent not sudden and unavoidable destruction will come upon you Prov. 29.1 He that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Job speaking of oppressors and I conceive Informers to be guilty of oppression tells us how oft-times God takes them away in a very sudden and