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A76754	Jesus Christ, the same to day, as yesterday, in life and power, in afflictions and sufferings: and the seed of the serpent the same now, as ever, in darkness and emnity; in rage and persecution. Being for removal of the stumbling block out of the way of the simple, concerning the testimony now given against the priests, and their worships, (viz.) Cannot you let them alone, why do ye disturb them, and their assemblies? go unto their houses, or to some private place, and speak to them there; cannot you give the same liberty to others, which you would have yourselves? Wherein is manifested, that what estimation, and enterrainment [sic] the witness of Jesus receiveth at this day from the men of the world, is the same, as it hath alwayes been from the beginning. / Given forth for the sake of the honest-hearted, and in witness of the truth, as it is in Jesus, every where spoken against, scorned, and persecuted, under the reproachful name of quaking. George Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1655 (1655)	Wing B2995; Thomason E861_7; ESTC R206652	22,155	33

whom they made very sharp steps and joyned with the men of Jericho the Common-enemy to effect it how laid they the Foundation thereof in the Synod their first-born and set up their Gates in the youngest Directory and little Catechisme By what strange Overturnings wonderful Revolutions fearfull Desolations and streames of the Blood of these Nations hath the Lord as of old fulfilled the Testimony of his poor contemned and suffering Witnesses before the Eyes and in the midst of this Generation beyond the Example of former times in which to be further particular would be needless and troublesome since with the Points of Steel and in Letters of Blood and Miseries of Warre they are freshly engraven every where throughout these Dominions And yet though there is to these things such a Cloud of Witnesses from the beginning throughout all times on Record in Scripture as aforesaid though since the Apostles dayes Histories have filled up of these things whole Volumnes to the times of this Generation Though in the sight this Generation and by their hands whole Multitudes have been destroyed and carryed out dead who have opposed and persecuted the Witnesses of Jesus beyond the President of former times And though the Feet of the Righteous Judgments of the Dreadful God which carryed them out are standing at the door yet do not the men of this Generation Tremble and Fear before the Powerful God and the words of his Holyness uttered forth by the Spirit of Jesus who is risen in this his Mighty Day carrying forth his Witnesses to testifie thereunto against all false Worships and Deceit and Vanities and Customs of the World and Deeds of Darkness and Powers of Wickednesses whom he brings forth as Signes and Wonders amongst them and makes living Testimonies for himself against them all Who knowing the Terrour of the Lord and his Dreadfull Day Approaching wherein he will yet e Heb. 1. 2. 26 27. once more shake not onely Earth but the Heaven also and in f Jude 14. 15. Ten Thousands of his Saints cometh to execute Judgments upon all and to convince all that are Ungodly amongst them of all their ungodly Deeds which they have ungod●ily committed of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him and with his mighty and strong One to render Vengeance with g Isa 66. 15 16. Esa 28. 21. ane 29. 6. Whirl-winds Storms and Tempests and Thunder and Earth-quakes and great Noise and Flames of devouring Fire upon the head of the wicked Therefore do their h Jer. 23. 9. Bones shake and their Lips quiver i Hab. 3. 16. and their Bellies tremble and their k Isa 16. 11. Bowels sound like a Harp and their Eyes are like t Rivers of water and their m Jer. 4. 19. and 9. 1. hearts are l Psal 119. 126. pained as it was with the Lords servants of Old not ceasing to warn men as in the sight of God to know the hour of their Visitation that so they may be hid in the day of the Lords fierce Anger which verily is coming on the Inhabitants of the Earth In requital of which and their love therein they are mocked and scorned and reviled and reproached and beat and tumulted and imprisoned and cruelly scourged and some of their Blood drawn and some of their lives taken away and thought not fit to live upon the Earth as was Jesus Christ and his Witnesses since the Foundation of the world Do ye thus requite the Lord O ye foolish People and unwise What will ye do in the day of Visitation where then will ye flee and where will you leave your glory Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the Lord hath spoken Give glory to the Lord God of Israel before he cause darkness and before your feet stumble on the dark Mountains and whilest ye look for light he n Jer. 23 16 turn it into the shadow of Death and make it grosse Darkness for verily it hastens on this Generation But if you will not hear Our soules shall weep for you in secret places for your Pride and Our Eyes shall weep sore and run down with Tears because you will not know in this your day the things that belong unto your Peace And thus have I discharged my Conscience unto you as in the sight of God whether you will hear or whether you will forbear which you shall one day remember whether you will or no in the day when the Book of Conscience shall be opened and wherein God shall judge all men by the Man Jesus Christ whom in our measure we witness and you persecute Behold a Whirle-wind of the Lord is gone forth in fury even a grievous Whirle-wind it shall fall grievously on the head of the Wicked the Anger of the Lord shall not return untill he hath executed untill he hath performed the thoughts of his heart in the latter dayes ye shall consider it perfectly THE END ERRATA LIne 16. read entertainment for enterraynment Pag. 4. line 33. read been for have P. 7. l. 27. r. water for ter P. 8. l. 17. r. and Title Page Book for or P. 9. l. 9. add o Synagogues and p 17. 1. 2. 10. for 17. 12. 10. Margent l. 16. r. And did he not bid them go for and they bad him to go P. 34. r. the for their p. 10. l. 13. Add Heb. 11. 4. Margent p. 11. l. 21. r. Amon for Hamon add i over Amon. p. 12. l. 15. add x over Ier. 6. 10. Margent p. 16. l. 4. add Heb. 11. 16. Margent p. 17. l. 33. add the after of p. 18. l. 28. blot out were p. 20. l. 19. r. it for that p. 23 .l. 3. r. Habitation for Haitation l. 14. r. where for when p. 26. l. 14. blot out by p. 27. l. 34. add of before this p. 29. l. 22. r. measures for measure Friends By reason of the Authors absence and the extraordinary haste of giving forth the subject in hand some Errors have escaped in Printing which you are desired thus to observe viz. LIne 16. read entertainment for enterraynment Title Page Book Pag. 4. line 33. read been for have P. 7. l. 27. r. water for ter P. 8 l. 17. r. and for or P. 9. l. 9. add o Synagog es and p 17. 1. 2. 10. for 17. 12. 10. Margent l. 16. r. And did he not bid them go for and they bad him to go P. 34. r. the for their p. 10. l. 13. Add Heb. 11. 4. Margent p. 11. l. 21. r. Amon for Hamon add i over Amon. p. 12. l. 15. add x over Ier. 6. 10. Margent p. 16. l. 4. add Heb 11. 16. Margent p. 17. l. 33. add the after of p. 18. l. 28. blot out were p. 20. l. 19. r. it for that p. 23 .l. 3. r. Habitation for Haitation l. 14. r. where for when p. 26. l. 14. blot out by p. 27. l. 34. add of before this p. 29. l. 22. r. measures for measure

for him who is the Rock of Ages against the world and wayes and worships and Customes thereof And as the Prophets spake the Word of the Lord against the Altars and their Priests and Prophets in the presence of the Kings and Princes and People in the time of their Sacrifices And as the unchangable Priest in the Apostles and Disciples witnessed against the Changeable Priesthood the whole body of the Jewish Services and Worships in the Temple and the Synagogues in the times thereof And as during the Apostacy the like Witness hath been born by some or other to this day So now the true Ministry and Teacher being come to be witnessed and the worship which is in Spirit and Life and the Witness of God raised from the Dead in Thousands after these many Hundred years of Apostacy It carryes forth in the Power and at the Command of the Lord many of his Sonnes and Daughters in whom it is born up to bear Witness against the false Ministry Priests and Worships even in the times thereof and to the faces of the Priests and in the presence of the Rulers And woe be unto them if upon any consultings with flesh and blood they therein disobey the Commandement of the Lord. For the a Amos 3. 8. Lyon hath roared who will not fear The Lord God hath spoken who can but prophesie God hath given the b Psal 68. 11. word and great are the Company of them that publish it He that can receive it let him receive it Should not c Exod. 5. 4. Moses have gone in to Pharoah when the Lord commanded him and say Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Let my People go that they may hold a Feast to me in the Wilderness Should not the d 1 King 13. 12 c. Man of God that came from Judah to prophesie against the Altar of Bethel have cryed out against the Altar in the Word of the Lord and have said O Altar Altar thus saith the Lord Behold a Child shall be born unto the house of David Josiah by name and upon thee shall he offer the Priests of the High Places that burn Incense upon thee and mens bones shall he burn upon thee because King Jeroboam stood by it to offer Incense and because it was in the time of the Sacrifices which were offered by his Command and the Princes and People and Priests thereof were present Should he have gone privately to the Court with Cap and Knee and have spoken gently to the Priests and by a many of May it please your Majesty and other flattering Titles have whispered the King in the Ear or the Priests or applyed to some Courtiers so to do instead of coming so boldly to disturb their Worships to affront the King and his Princes to their faces and to weaken the hands of the people in telling them they should be brought under the Power of the King of Judah their Enemy by his Sword who should offer mens bones and the bones of the Priests upon the Altar as such a thing would be now accounted Should he have gone to Jeroboams house to have refreshed himself and to have a reward at the desire of the King after he had prayed and the Lord had restored to him his Arm which was withered when he had stretched it forth against the Prophet and said Lay hold on him was he not neither to eat bread nor drink ter in the place nor to return by the way he came Should not the Prophet e 1 King 18. 1 c. Elijah have gone at the Word of the Lord and have shewn himself to Ahab who had cut off the Prophets of the Lord so that he onely remained and by reason of the great dealth for want of Rain had sent to all Nations to seek him and where he was not found took an Oath of that Kingdome and Nation that they found him not And when Ahab said to him Art thou he that troubleth Israel Should he not have answered the King I have not troubled Israel but thou and thy Fathers house for that ye have forsaken the Commandements of the Lord and thou hast served Baalim Now therefore send and gather unto me all Israel unto Mount Carmel and the Prophets of Baal 450 and the Prophets of the Grove 400 which eat at Jezabels Table And being there gathered together should he not then have said to them all How long halt ye between two Opinions If the Lord be God follow him and if Baal then follow him put on the Bullock on the Altar and let the God which answereth by Fire be God Should not the Prophets of the Lord during the times of the Kings of Israel and Judah have spoken the Word of the Lord to them and to the false Prophets and Priests and People against their Idolatries and wickednesses though it was to the cutting of them off both Kings Princes Priests Prophets and People whether they would hear or whether they would forbear Him that dyeth * 1 King 21. 24. of Ahab in the City the Dogs shall eat or he that dyeth in the Field the Fowles of the Air shall eat c. Should not g Jer. 36. 28. Jeremiah have wrote another Roll like to the former which Jehudi in the presence of the Princes and King had cut with a Pen-knife and thrown in the fire Should he have been h Jer. 1. 17 18. afraid of their faces had he not then been confounded before them was he not made a defenced City an Iron Pillar and Brazen Walls against the Kings Princes Priests and People Should not i Amos 7. 10. to the end Amos the Gatherer of Sycamore Fruit have prophesied again at Bethel because Amaziah the Priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam King of Israel saying Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel the Land is not able to bear all his words for Amos saith Jeroboam shall die by the sword and Israel shall surely be led away Captive out of their own Land and said O thou Seer flee thee away into the Land of Judah and there eat bread and prophesie there but prophesie not at Bethel for it is the Kings Chappel it is the Kings Court. Should not k Mat. 3. 7. John have said to the Pharisees and Saducers Ye Generation of Vipers who hath forewarned you to flie from the wrath to come Should not l John 2. 14 15. Christ Jesus in the daies of his flesh have cleansed the Temple and have testified against the worship that was not m John 4. 23. 24. in spirit against the Doctors Lawyers Scribes and Pharisees who were the highest Professors and outwardly most religiously strict of any in their time Should not the Apostles and Disciples have gone into the n Act. 3. 1. to the end 5. 19. 20 21. Temple and into the Synagognes every Sabbath day as their p 10. 17. 14. 18. 4. 19. 26. 19. 8.

Acts. 5. 29 30 31. Act. 5. 19 20. 21. manner was and there have testified against the Outward observation of the Law of Moses through the Resurrection o Act. 9. 20. 13. 5. 14 15. 14. 1. 17. 12. of Jesus Christ from the dead whom they had with wicked hands slew and hung upon a Tree and whom the Lord bad highly exalted and made Lord and King and were not the Prison doores opened by the Angell and they bad him to go and speak in the Temple all the words of this life Should not Stephen even before the Councell have q Act. 6. 12. 13. 14. 7. 48 49. 50. said to the high Priest and Pharisees and People and testified The most High dwelleth not in Temples made with hands Ye stiffenecked and uncircumcised in hearts and eares ye do alwaies resist the Holy Ghost as your Fathers did so do ye which of the Prophets have not your Fathers persecuted they have slain them that shewed before of the coming of the Just One of whom ye have been the Betrayers Murtherers though they had a law that whosoever made himself the Son of God he should die Should not Paul have gon into the r Acts. 19. 16. 17. 16. to the end 17. 17. Schools and on Mars-Hill and in the Market place and have disputed against the Idol Gods Should not the Martyrs have testified against the Priests and Idolatrous Masse in the times thereof though they knew therefore they should be murthered with Torments Should not the Superstitious and Formall worships in this and their later generations have been witnessed against though guarded by lawes and fortified with the powers of these Nations Was not the Dread of the Lord upon his witnesses aforementioned and necessity laid upon them so to do Consulted they with any other Oracle Had not woe been to them should they have been disobedient Are these things new are these things strange Again were not the witnesses of God in their Generations accounted of as scornfully and basely as they are at this day and the Word of the Lord which they spake contemned and sleighted as it is now received they any other or better entertainment of the Generations to whom they spake and against whom they testified from the beginning Mind and consider He that lived in the dayes of s Gen. 4. 5 6 7 8. Abel might have seen Cain hating his Brother Abel because his Sacrifice was accepted And though God witnessed it to Cain and testified of Abels Gifts and reasoned with him If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted if thou doest evill sin lies at the doore Yet he lifted up his hand and slew him He that lived in the dayes of t Gen. 6. 7. chap. 2 Pet. 2. 5. 1 Pet. 3. 19. 20. Noah might have seen how that world slighted his preaching and how ridiculous was his prophesying of a Flood accounted and the making of an Ark to swim upon the dry Land Those who lived in the dayes of Lot might have heard the men of Sodom say This u Gen. 19. 5 6 7 8 9. Fellow came in to Sojourn and he will needs be a Judge when he said to them Nay my Brethren do not so wickedly upon their calling on him to bring out the strangers that they might know them how he seemed to his Sons in Law as one that w Gen. 19. 14. mocked when he told them The Lord would destroy that City x Exod. 5. 2. Pharaoh said unto Moses who is the Lord that I should obey his Voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord nor will I let Israel go Ye are Idle ye are Idle wherefore do ye Moses and Aaron let the People from their works get you unto your burthens Did not y 1 King 13. 4 5 6. Jeroboam stretch forth his hand and say Lay hold on him by the Man of God that prophesied against the Altar and though his Arme was restored and the sign came presently to passe which he gave to wit the Altar rent and the ashes poured out as the Man of God said and at his prayer did he or Israel believe the Word or the Lord spoken by him to turn from their evill wayes that the Judgments threatned might not befall them Did z 1 King 18. Ahab forsake Baal or the people his worship though he a 24. could not answer by fire and though they b 29. said it was well said That the God that answered by fire should be God And c 40. slew all the Prophets of Baal because the Lord whom Elijah prayed to answered by fire and though afterwards at his prayer they that day had d 45. abundance of Rain which for e Jam. 5. 17. 18. three yeares and six months before was shut up Was not Elijah the very next f 1 King 19. 2 3. day constrained to flie for his life g 1 King 21. 25. was there any like Ahab who sold himself to commit Iniquity though the Hand of the Lord appeared more in his daies then any of his Successors against Syria and in mighty wonders through his word by his Prophets Said not h 1 King 22. Ahab of Micajah This man prophesies no good of mee but evill Thus saith the King take Micajah and carry him back to Hamon the Governour of the Citie and to Joash the Kings Son and say thus i 26 27. saith the King put this Fellow into the Prison and feed him with Bread of Affliction and with water of Affliction untill I come in Peace And k 24. which way came the Spirit of the Lord from mee to speak to thee said Zedekiah the False Prophet the same time when he smote Micajah on the face What made this l 2 King 9. 11. mad fellow with thee said the Captains of the Host to Jehu by the Prophet when he came and anointed him from the Lord to be King of Israel Fared it any better with the rest of the Prophets whom the Lord m 2 Chro. 36. 15. 16. Jer. 7. 25. 25. 24. 35. 15. 26. 5. 29. 19. 32. 33. 44. 4. rising Early sent unto them saying O do not the n Jer. 44. 4. Abominable thing that I hate was the Burthen of the Word of the Lord any otherwise esteemed said they not unto the o Amos. 2. 11 Prophets prophesy not and gave they not wine to the Nazarites to Drink Answered not all the p Jer. 43. 2. Proud men thou speakest falsely as for the Word of the q Jer. 44. 16 17 18 19. Lord that thou hast spoken in the Name of the Lord we will not hearken thereunto but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth Who hath believed our r Isa 53. 1. Report and to whom hath the Arm of the Lord been revealed s Isa 65. 2. Rom. 10. 21. But to Israel he saith all the day long have I

stretched forth my hands to a Gain-saying and a Rebellious People Then I said I have u Isa 49. 4. Laboured in Vain I have spent my strength for nought I heard the w Jer. 20. 10. defamings of many fear on every side Report say they and we will report it all my Familiars watched for my haltings saying peradventure he will be inticed and we shall prevail against him and we shall take our Revenge on him How were they x mocked by every one and despised and the Jer. 6. 10 20. 7. 8. Word of the Lord made a reproach unto them y Isa 8. 18. and a derision daily and for signs and wonders Then I said I will not z Jer. 20. 9. make mention of him nor speak any more in his name but his Word was in my heart as burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay How was a Isa 20. 2 3 4 5 6. Isaiah brought forth walking three years naked and barefoot And b Jer 13. 4 5 9 7. Jeremiah hiding a Girdle in the bank of Euprates till it ir was marred And carrying c Jer. 25. 51. to the 30. a Cup to all the Nations to drink that they might drink and be drunken and be moved and be mad and spue and fall and rise no more And d Ezek. 4. 1 2 3. Ezekiel pourtraying Jerusalem on a Tilestone laying siedge against it casting up Mounts and raising battring Rams and setting an Iron Pan between him and the City e Ezek. 12. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Digging through a wall in the middle of the day and bringing out thereof his stuffe in the sight of his People f Ezek. 5. 1 2 3 4. Cutting off his hair from his head and beard and weighing it in a Balance openly and casting one third thereof into the Ayre and another third burning with fire And cutting another third in pieces with his Knife g Ezek. 4 5. Lying 390. daies on his left side and h Ezek. 4. 6. 40. daies on his i 9. 10 11 12 15. Right side and during the times aforesaid eating his Bread mingled with Beasts dung by weight and drinking his water by measure How ridiculous were these things in the Eyes of those Generations and how were they accounted as the Actions of k Jer. 29. 24 25 26. Mad-men How did they cast them into Prisons and Dungeons and the Stocks as Mad-men and how were some of them put to death And l 2 Chron. 36. 15 16 17 18. the Lord God of their Fathers sent to them by his Messengers rising up betimes and sending them because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place but they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his Words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people and there was no remedy Was not John the m Mat. 11. 11 greatest of Prophets who came in the n Luke 1. 17. Matth. 11. 14. Spirit and Power of Elias turning the hearts of the Fathers unto the Children o Mat. 3. 2 3. crying in the Wilderness Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths strait The Messenger that went before his face preaching Repent for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand the p Mat. 3. 10. Ax is laid to the Root of the Tree Every Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire called r Luke 7. 33. a Devil though he came neither eating and drinking but in a Garment of Camels Hair tyed about with a Leathern Girdle was he not cast into prison and s Mat. 14. 3 10. beheaded When the Son of God of whom all the t Luke 1. 70. 24. 27. Act. 3. 18 21. Prophets spake came himself was he otherwise accounted of was he otherwise intreated by those who cryed out against their Fathers for persecuting and killing the Prophets whose Tombes they built and whose Sepulchres they garnished was he u John 1. 26. 9. 29. 1 Cor. 2. 6 8. Act. 13. 27. known by his flesh to that Generation w Phil. 2. 7. made he not himself of no Reputation was not his x Visage more marr'd then any mans of no z Isa 53. 2 3. Comeliness and Beauty whereby he should y Isa 52. 14. be desired Was he not a a Isa 53. 3. man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs esteemed as b Isa 53. 4. stricken and smitten of God and afflicted despised and rejected of men and were not their faces as it were hid from him Was he not c Isa 53. 7. afflicted and oppressed d John 8. 49. 10. 39. Luke 4. 28 29 30. tumulted and stoned blind-folded e Luke 22. 64. and buffetted smote on the Cheek and f Mat. 27. 30. spit upon g Mat. 27. 29. crowned with Thorns h Mark 15. 15 and scourged i Luke 23. 35. derided k Mark 15. 29 rayled on and l Mat. 27. 39. and reviled and m Luke 18. 32. spightfully entreated and mocked on the Cross n Mat. 27. 41. by the chief Priests and a Murderer o Luke 23. 11 desired before him p Luke 23. 18 19 24 25. and in his q Act. 8. 33. Humiliation was not his Judgment taken away r Esa 53. 12. numbred amongst Transgressors and put to death and his s Esa 53. 9. Grave made with the Wicked Was he not called a t Mat. 11. 19. man Gluttonous and a Wine-bibber a Friend of Publicans and Sinners u Joh. 5. 18. Luke 6. 4. to the 12. a Breaker of the Sabbath and of the Law of Moses and of the w Mat. 15. 2. 3 Traditions of the Elders w a Mad-man one y Mark 3. 21. besides himself a z Joh. 8. 48. Samaritan a a Mark 3. 23. Devil yea the b Mat. 9. 34. Prince of Devils yea and a c Mat. 26. 65 66. Blasphemer and put to Death as such a One though he d Joh. 7. 40. spake as never man spake with e Mat. 7. 29. Authority and not as the Scribes though none f John 8. 46. could convince him of sinne g Isa 53. 9. neither was any deceit found in his mouth And though mighty h Act. 2. 22. Signs and Wonders were done by him For a i John 10. 33. good work we stone thee not but for Blasphemy that thou being a man makest thy self the Son of God We have k Luke 23. 2. found this Fellow perverting the Nation and forbidding Tribute to be given to Caesar saying that himself is Christ a King We have a l Joh. 19. 7. Law that whosoever saith he is the Son of God shall die Ye have heard his m Matth. 26 64 65 66. Mark 15. 61 62 63 64. Blasphemy what think ye And they

of the world for signes and wonders in the sight of every generation of their enemies And thus is the seed of the Serpent the same now as ever in darkness and enmity in opposition persecution and every Generation of them more blinde and envious then their Fathers who now are come to persecute us for the same things practised which themselves professin the letter And thus is the eternall spirit from which the Prophets spake and the Apostles and by which Jesus Christ offered up himselfe a Mystery which from the beginning hath been hid in God whom those who believed not in the light never knew nor can know from that eye it hath been is and ever shall be shut up even from the wise and prudent who by wisdom know not God who hath created all things by Jesus Christ who is the light of the world who enlightens every one that commeth into the world He q 1 Pet. 3. 9. preached in the dayes of Noah to the spirits in prison but that old world neither repented nor believed He was with the r Acts 7. 38 39 Church of the Jews in the Wildernesse and with the Angel who spake to Moses in Mount Sinai and with the Fathers who received the lively Oracles but they would not obey but thrust him from them and in their hearts returned to Egypt He spake and testified in the Prophets but they would not hear they who handled the Law knew him not and s Jer. 2. 8. the great things of his Law which he sent to Ephraim were t Hos 8. 12. were accounted as a strange thing He came in flesh yet he was not v 1 Cor. 2. 8. known to the Princes of this world nor his voice nor w Acts 13. 27. the voyces of the Prophets which spake of him though they were read every Sabbath-day He came in spirit and power in the Apostles and Disciples and there he is x Acts 13. 45. contradicted and blasphemed and y Acts 3. 13. 14 denyed above the measure of former Generations as the z Acts 13. 45. measure of the spirit in them exceeded and they judged themselves unworthy of eternall life In his Prophets times who a Isa 10. 11 12. were all ignorant who were all dumb Doggs that could not bark who were blinde sleeping lying down loving to slumber who were greedy Doggs who can never have enough who were Shepheards that could not understand who all looked to their own way every one for his gain from his quarter who said come ye I will setch wine we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as to day and much more abundant but the Watchmen of Israel Who b Ezek. 22. 25 conspired against the Lord and were in the midst of Judah as a roaring Lyon ravening the prey devouring souls taking the Treasure and pretious things making many Widdows and speakers of lies in the name of the Lord to whom was the c Isay 29. 9. 10 11 12. Vision of all become as a Book sealed on whom did the Lord powre out the spirit of deep slumber closed their eyes and covered who were drunken but not with wine who did stagger but not with strong drink to whom was night and no vision and darkness that they could not divine upon whom went the Sun down and the day became dark who caused the people to erre and bite with their teeth and cryed peace and he that put not into their d Mic. 3. 5. 6. mouthes they prepare Warre against him who taught for hire and divined for mony and yet leaned upon the Lord and said Is not the Lord amongst us none evill can come upon us for whose sake Sion was plowed as a field and Jerusalem became heaps and the Mountains of the house as the high places of the Forrests who were confounded and had their loins covered for that there was no answer from God but the Priests the Prophets the Seers the Diviners Whose e Zach. 11. 17 right eye was to be utterly darkened and whose Arm clean dryed up but the Idoll Shepheard Whose soul abhorred God and his soul loathed them who in Companies in the way murthered by consent as the Troops of Robbers wait for a man f Hos 6. 9. who violated the Law and prophaned the holy things and hid their eyes from the Sabbaths and put no difference between the clean and the unclean whose blessings Mal. 2. 2. were cursed but the Priests In the dayes of his flesh who kept away the g Luk. 11. 52. key of knowledge and neither entered into the Kingdom nor suffered others but the chief Priests Pharisees Lawyers Scribes and Doctors who read him daily to the people who above all men were outwardly most holy whom he notwithstanding calls h Mat. 23. 16. 17. 19. 26. 15. 14. blinde Guides leading the b inde and both falling into the ditch though they said to the i Ioh. 7. 47. 48 49. Officers Are you also deceived have any of the Rulers or the Pharisees believed on him but these people who know not the Law are accursed how high were all their expectations of the Messiah the Prince of his people and of the powrings forth of his spirit in the Prophecies but when he came and the Prophesies in him fulfilled and the spirit powred forth how basely esteemed despised rejected unbelieved and persecuted and the same was also in the dayes of the Apostles Where the life hath been most manifested there that hath been most in mystery to those who believed not in the light behold he commeth in Clouds and the flesh in which it hath so appeared with the least comliness and beauty whereby it should be desired and most persecuted Who believed in Jesus by seeing him in the flesh to be the son of God And above all men as to this world the Apostles were accounted most miserable For. k 1 Cor. 1. 27 28 29. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things to confound the things that are mighty and the base things of the world and the things that are despised hath God chosen yea the things that are not to bring to naught the things that are that no flesh might glory in his presence and l 2 Thes 2. 10. that the truth might not be received but for the love of it When m Luk. 19. 41. 42 43 44. Jesus came near he beheld the City and wept over it Saying if thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes for the dayes shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a Trench about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side and shall lay thee even with the ground and thy Children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another

who spoke to them in the name of the Lord or opposed nor had † Jud. 16. mens persons in admiration for advantage nor were * James 2. 1. to 13. respecters of persons But r Tit. 1. 8. were lovers of Hospitality lovers of good men sober just holy temperate holding forth the faithfull word by sound Doctrine exhorting and convincing gain-sayers s 1 Tim. 2. 24. gentle to all men apt to teach patient in meekness instructing them that oppose t 2 Cor. 4. 2. commending what they said unto every mans Conscience in the sight of God even to those that opposed themselves u Gal. 1. 1. 12. receiving the Gospel not by man nor the will of man nor were they raught it but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in them In all w 2 Cor. 6. 4. to the 11th things approving of themselves as the Ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in watchings in fastings by pureness by knowledge by long-suffering by kindness by the Holy-Ghost by love unfeigned by the word of truth by the power of God by the Armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left by honour and dishonour by evill report and good report as deceivers and yet true as unknown and yet well known as dying and yet behold they lived as chastened and yet not killed as sorrowful yet alwayes rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things troubled on every side yet not distressed perplexed but not in despair alwayes bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the x 2 Cor. 4. 11. 8 9 10 11. life also of Jesus might be made manifest in their body alwayes delivered unto death for Jesus sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in their mortall flesh Are those whom you call your Ministers found such or do not those whom they set you on now to persecute appear such as these and they the Contrary Are they not plainly manifested by their fruits Search and see how long will ye be deceived and shut your Eyes against the noon day and seek to support such as plainly appear not to be the Church of Christ or the Minsters of his Glorious Gospell Whom the Lord the Jealous God is now come to pull up being plants whom he hath not planted and against whom his Sword is drawn and fourbished by which both they that help and they that are holpen shall fall together and shall not be put up till the thoughts of his heart be accomplished And how long will ye beat tumult imprison and cruelly intreat his witnesses whom from amongst your selves he hath raised up to testifie against them and to lead you out of the waies of destruction into the Paths of Peace and out of dear love to your soules presse through all hardships and sufferings and difficulties at your hands yea theit lives are not dear to them for the finishing of their Testimony and that your souls may be saved in this Powerfull day of the Lord Jesus will not these things be bitternesse in the end What will you answer the Lord whom ye thus requite for all his kindnesse Mind and consider did not the Word of the Lord from the beginning take hold on those to whom it was sent though y Zach. 1. 5 6. the Fathers dyed and the Prophets lived not for ever and though they did put the z Evill day x Amos 6. 3. far from them and caused the Seat of Violence to come neer and mocked at the Word of the Lord and misused his Messengers Was there ever a Witness of God born against any thing but the downfall thereof was at hand according to the Witness and assuredly came to passe as they did abide Sufferings who bore against it their Testimony and the hotter the Sufferings drew not the time the neerer For as Jesus Christ in his flesh on the a Eph 4. 8. Crosse lead Captivity Captive so tthrough Sufferings his Truth conquers b Heb. 2. 14 15. thorough death it overcomes him that hath the power of death and c 2 Colo. 15. triumpheth over all and when the world seemeth to have upon it its greatest Advantage then is it ascending on the Throne and raigning over all Turn a little over these later times and observe calmely When raged the Fire and Faggot more furious against the Martyrs in Queen Maries daies than when the hour was come wherein that body of Popery which became so cruel was to be extinguished in this Nation when were the Persecutions of the Bishops more fierce then when the Parliament drew near which pulled them up by Root and Branch What is become of that body of Popery in England to this Day Where are the Bishops Deans and Chapters the Common Prayer and those heaps of Ceremoniall and Superstitious dead services and all that Hierarchy with the Appurtenances which had fortified it self with such lawes and length of time and mixed it self so in and with the Civill Powers that as her Mother Babylon she said I have set my Nest amongst the stars I sit as a Queen and shall see no sorrow when losse of Children and Widdow-hood came upon her in One day fear the snare and the pit and a horrible desolation even by the power that supported her How contemptible and base how much lesse then things of naught were the Martyrs in those dayes accounted of and the factious Puritanicall Non conformists as they were then called and how unlikely in the eyes of men yea how impossible a thing it seemed for those witnesses to turne the hand upon those Generations who in the height of their pride scorn and confidence thought of nothing but to swallow them up quick and to root them out of the Land of the Living by the hand of Authority which they had wholly made their own and the Lawes and were stretching out their Armes so to do Even when the d Jer. 4 7. Lyon came out of his Thicket and the Fuller had laid his Axe to their Root and Branches And when many of those men of Israel who with others of their Brethren compassed about those Walls of Jericho with the sound of Rams Horns so despicable was the Witness to that Generation of men before whom they fell and in whose hearing by it was it said Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this City Jericho he shall lay the Foundation thereof in his First-born and in his youngest Son shall he set up the Gates of it strived so eagerly and with vehemence to build it up again as a City in Israel for them to dwell in by the Name and in the Rule of a coercive Presbytery hating and despising the rest of their Brethren before whom Jericho fell the witnesses against them as Heretiques and Schismaticks upon