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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40524	A special warrant given forth from the spirit of God (who is Lord over all lords and King over all kings) against the spirit of envy and persecution ... also some descriptions set down how this insufferable enemy (the spirit of persecution) may be known ... / written by Joseph Fuce.	Fuce, Joseph.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2258; ESTC R31719	17,110	26

Religion and Worship and if I were led to speak of what I see of this soul-betraying spirit of envy and persecution and of his fruit surely it would sill a larg volume but the Spirit of the Lord who hath made men wise in this Generation leads me briefly to hint of some of the fruits of the old spirit of persecution in this special Warrant to all sorts of people in Christendom so called who upon consideration with the Light of Christ in their Consciences may see those things to be true that so much the more plainly because the Lord in the largness of his love hath spoken so plainly and called unto man so often in this age by his Spirit through many of his chosen vessels who have suffered deeply by all the Powers that have born rule ever since we departed from evil and by the voyce of the spirit through the Lords chosen vessels have many minds been turned from darkness to light in their own Consciences which hath made this Generation wiser than many Generations heretofore in the Apostacy besides the great and marvelous works that God hath brought to pass in the sight of this Generation of men in overturning and changing and converting thousands from darkness to light and from evil to good and from envy to true love besides the overturning of Governours and Governments and Armies and that at the last without fighting or shedding of blood which is enough to awaken this Generation into a consideration of things past present and to come And thus did the old Serpent work before the days of Christ's coming in the flesh to end the Jews worship in out-side things and their Law and to set up the everlasting worship of God in the Spirit And now take notice how the old Dragon got in among the Jews who had Moses and the Prophets writings who had been great sufferers and who had known by writings how their fore-fathers were scattered and led into Babilon after God by a mighty hand had brought them through the Red Sea and Wilderness and these professing Jews said if they had been in the days of their fathers they would not have persecuted the Prophets but while they were in their Zeal worshipping in outward things the envious spirit of persecution got into them and blinded their minds and hardned their hearts and in those days this spirit of envy and murther and persecution began to work in Herod against Christ for he sent forth and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof thinking to destroy Christ Acts 13. And after John was beheaded And see what the spirit brought Herod to at the last he was eaten with Worms And because the Envious Jews did not look for the Messiah or Christ to come in so low a degree as to be born in Bethlehem and laid in a Manger they knew him not And although their forefathers had suffered persecution and great affliction and they had said they would not have persecuted the Prophets whose words they had which prophesied of Christ who wrought wonders and miracles among them yet they Crucified the Prince of life and these were they that worshipped in Temples and Synagogues together with their Priests and Rulers that were stirred up by this persecuting spirit mostly through the Chief Priests against Christ and his Disciples who went up and down preaching the truth and doing good and wronging no man yet they cryed vehemently Let him be Crucified And as they Crucified Christ so they persecuted his Disciples and put many of them to death and provoked the Lord against them until he gave them up to be scattered and to be a hissing to all the Nations as the natural seed of those Jews are at this day so were they blinded and hardned and then betrayed to utter ruine as the persecutors had been before by the old Serpent the spirit of envy and persecution and then when he had done his worst against Christ and Christians in and through the Heathen Jews Rulers Priests and people of all sorts then he got in amongst them that were called Christians that did not watch in the Light and low meekness of spirit which were such as had the Sheeps cloathing but inwardly were ravening Wolves the ravening wolvish doggish envious spirit of persecution made them so and such in that nature had a form of godliness but denyed the power thereof and from such the true Christians were to turn away who were in the meek Spirit and harmlesse innocent nature of Christ that kept them always ready to do good and to receive wrong rather than to do any wrong to Jew or Gentile or the false Brethren that were false like the Jews and then this envious persecuting spirit led the deceivers that came to the Saints in Sheeps cloathing but inwardly were ravening Wolvs out into the world and they that were of the world went after them into a profession of Christ and yet of the worlds nature and they got a form of godliness but denyed the power thereof and from such the Saints were to turn away and so there was a difference in the nature of them that professed Christ for some were of the Lambs nature and others of the worlds nature yet all professed God and Christ and from that they had all the names of Christians but all were not of the divine nature of Christ and this was in the latter days or last times of the Apostles age as John said Little Children it is the last time as ye have heard that Anti-christ shall come even now there are many Anti-christs whereby they knew that they were the last times and the Anti-christs went out from the Apostles into the world and the world went after them and so the Apostacy came in and then they dayly encreased in the errour degeneration from the leader pitiful meek suffering and saving spirit so darkness ignorance hardness of heart and envy encreased among them that had the name of Christians but had lost the nature of Christ and the spirit of envy and persecution began to appear to be chief among them then the Beast rose up out of them that were like the Sea who received this imposing power from the old Dragon that stirred up the Jews to Crucisie the Lord of life and so the Beast set up an Image and caused the people to worship his Image and the Saints of the most High that would not worship the Image of the Beast nor receive his Mark in their foreheads or in their right hands were to be stain such was their imposition for their imagined way of worship and they made war with the Saints of the most High and overcame them and killed both small and great that would not worship the Beast and his Image and the man child Christ Jesus was caught up to God and the woman sled into the wilderness where she hath been nourished in the time of Apostacy and blindness of peoples minds and