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A loving advertisement unto all those who joyn together to persecute the innocent.
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Vokins, Joan, d. 1690.
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1671
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Wing V686; ESTC R186072
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A Loving ADVERTISMENT Unto all those who Joyn Together TO PERSECUTE the INNOCENT PIlate and Herod consulted together in this abominable Work and were made Friends although before they were at enmity as you may see in Luke 23. and in the same chapter you may read how Pilate called together the high Priests the Rulers and the People who had joyned together and falsly and vehemently accused the Innocent and when those Persecutors were come marke how Pilate's words run Ye have brought this man unto me as one that perverteth the people Behold saith he I have examined him before you and I find no fault in him Notwithstanding their many Accusations as you may read of in that Chapter no nor yet Herod neither for Pilate Sent him to Herod to be examined and they found no cause for what they did as Pilate himself confesseth no less then three times before them all as you may see in vers 22. and yet for all this those wicked Persecutors enmity was so great against the Truth and their love to Christ Jesus so small that they joyned together with Judas their Informer and crucified the Holy One Oh consider this you wicked Persecutors who have set your hands to the Devil's work did he not enter into Judas before he Informed against Christ O consider whose work you are a doing and see whether the Scriptures do not testifie unto the same ever since Cain and Abel Oh be advised and do not slay Gods Witness in your hearts as Pilate and Herod and the rest of that wicked Crew did for you may see there was something in Pilate and Herod which let them see there was no fault in Jesus they had a Witness for him in their hearts which if they had loved and obeyed they would not have slain the Lord of Life But they did then as you do now rebelled against it and counted it of no value and chose rather to please wicked men who did then as you are now doing they brought their Law to cover their wickedness and said By their Law he ought to dye and so they violated the rightous Law of God which is Light which manifested in their hearts there was no fault in him Oh! consider this you envious Persecutors and turn to the Light of Christ Jesus which shineth in your dark hearts and read your states their and cease your evill doing before it be to late lest the godd of this World blind your eyes and harden your hearts and bring you to destruction as he did Judas who was Resister of the Light I shall appeal to the Witness for God in your hearts and come let us be tryed by it Have you not done as bad as those before mentioned yea rather worse for you have reproachfully slandered and faslly accused us behind our back and caused many of us to Suffer the loss of our goods without Examination or Accusation to our Faces in this you out-strip the cruelty of those before-named and the Heathen also for they permitted Paul to be examined and also to speak for himself as you may see in the Scripture which you call your Rule and yet do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God for if you did you would not wrong and persecute your innocent Neighbours who do you no harm but desire the everlasting good of all even of our greatest Enemies Oh do you do by us as you would have us do by you would you have us persecute and tear away your Goods because you go to your worship or because you will not come to ours or would you not think it very hard to be so dealt by Oh come and be tryed by your own rule And read from the beginning to the end and see whether the Persecutors were not the false Worshippers in all Generations and the true Ones the Sufferers and were not they as high in their wisdom and Learning as you are who Crucified Christ and set your Original over his head of Greek Hebrew and Latine and they counted him of too low a degree for them to receive and they mocked and scoffed and derided him and thereby manifested their enmity against him and his Followers then as you do yours now against us Come down you High-minded Persecuotrs and bow before the Lord and turn to his witness in your hearts which reproveth you in secret and testifieth for us and it hath made many of you to confess to our innocency and harmlesness notwithstanding the many false aspersions that the wicked hath cast upon us and although we have a witness in your hearts for us yet your mercies are still cruelties towards us Oh do not think to hide your selves from the all-seeing Eye of the Lord for assuredly his righteous Judgments will find you out then all false coverings will be too narrow do you think your law will plead for you then or them who set it forth excuse you Oh no! then the righteous Law of God which you have violated and broken and disobeyed now will then rise up in judgment and bear witness against you therefore leave off all your false coverings for your persecution for they are but deceit and will deceive you and stand you in no stead when you come to account for your deeds done in the body And now you of my Neighbours and Country who resist the Spirit of the Lord and follow the Imaginations of your own dark hearts and boast your selves in Wickedness As your Fore-fathers did so do you they boasted and said They had the Law and the Prophets and were Abraham ' s Seed and had one Father even God and yet Christ told them plainly They were of their father the Devil and his works they were doing and so are you now who are a striving against those who worship in the Spirit and in the Truth Oh do not strive to limit the Holy Spirit of the Lord which is but one in the Male and in the Female Were not the Scripture's Testimonies to be fulfill'd Oh! when will you witness that Saying fulfill'd which saith on this wise I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all Flesh and my Sons and my Daughters shall Prophesie Mark It s the Sons and Daughters of the Lord that are led by his Spirit and not the Persecutors Whilst I walk'd with you in the Broad-way which leadeth to Destruction you did not persecute me but when it pleas'd the Lord to turn me from Darkness unto Light and from Satans power unto his own then your Enmity began But when I went along with you to your Worship I had what this World could afford of the Fatness and Fulness thereof but I must needs tell you I had Leanness in my Soul Oh search and try whether it be not so with you who have gone this many years For I went with as much Zeal as any of you therefore let not your blind Zeal deceive you I turn'd not from you through Enmity against you but because that dead