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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45695	A Scriptural chronicle of Satans incendiaries viz., hard-hearted persecutors and malicious informers with their work, wages, and ends, who were instruments of cruelty against true worshippers / collected by Charles Harriss.	Harriss, Charles.	1670 (1670)	Wing H919; ESTC R336	13,462	20

of these Persecutors Some of them were slain with the Sword others taken Captives and their Eyes put out and they bound with Chains and their Houses burnt with Fire This was the Portion of hard-hearted Persecutors Again Nebuchadnezer the King was a setter up of false worship and he granted forth Order to compel all Nations to be of his Religion and to bow at his Musick and Worship or else they must be cast into a Burning Fiery FURNACE so it s said All the Princes the Governours and Captains and Judges and Treasurers and Councellors and Sherriffs and all the Rulers conformed to the Kings worship But there were three true Worshippers that would not conform it s very like they were called as some are now stubborn Fellows and Rebels against the Kings Laws and Breakers of the Peace and will not be subject to the higher Powers and it s like some Hypocrites would be ready to say You may conform the thing being imposed upon you you shall be clear and the sin shall be charged upon the Imposers or you may kneel down to please the times and to save your selves in a way of Christian prudence and yet have your hearts true to your own Religion c. But these true Worshippers were of a more valiant Spirit and told the King to his face they were not carful to answer him in this matter though in other things as Tribute Custom c. they could but they gave him to understand he should not be King of their souls and consciences in matters of Worship and they knew their God was able to deliver out of his hand however they would not turn to be of his religion and worship let him rage and heat his Furnace as hot as he pleased So ye may see that false worship and persecution still goes together for he caused his Souldiers to cast them into the burning fiery Furnace but what was the Wages of this Persecutor who set up that false worship It is said he was driven from men and did eat Grass as an Oz till his Hair was grown like Eagls Feathers and his Nails like Birds Claws to the end he might know the Most High ruleth in the Kingdoms of men unto whom every soul is to be subject for he is the higher Power and souls Bishop who hath said My Son give me thy Heart and again I will teach my People my self and they shall not depart from me But it might have been well for Nebuchadnezer then and others now to receive Daniels counsel who said O King break off thy Sins by Righteousness and thy Iniquity by shewing Mercy to the Poor if it may be a lengthening to thy Tranquility Again we read of Herod the King how ready he was to be a Persecutor for no sooner the Star appeared and tidings came that our Saviour was born but he was troubled and fearing that Truth should come up to reign he sent forth and slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem and in all the Coasts thereof from two years old and under so that People may see how busie the Devil hath been in all Ages to make use of wicked Instruments to crush the very appearance of that which is good but as for Herods Wages the Lord soon cut him off and there is little question but he had his Portion among Persecutors and Murderers Again Herod the Tetrach being reproved by John Baptist for all the evil he had done and for taking another mans Wife he turned Persecutor and put the Prophet in prison and after caused his head to be cut off being requested by his own unclean Companions and its like he could say to John as some such do at this day when they are reproved by the Lords Messengers Thou sawcy Fellow meddle with thy own business thou Deceiver and Heretick we will take a course with you shortly what you would have us live without sin and be perfect And so People may see how the Servants of the Lord in all ages have Suffered by proud corrupt men such as were Enemies of Righteousness Again Did not the chief Priests and Elders and Captains prove the greatest Persecutors our Saviour Christ met with it was the Priests then that hunted after him to have him murdered And how many times did they bely him and smite him on the face and stoned him and his Followers and called him Deceiver and Belzebub and said he had a Devil and was it not the Priests then that fawned upon the Heathen Magistrates desiring them to help them to crucifie Jesus and sought out for false Witnesses to prove as if he had spoken Treason a Caesar and was it not the Priests that gave Judas money to be gainst their Informer And it was the Hirelings that gave the Souldiers money and taught them to lye saying Christ was not risen but was stolen away Also people may see that those Rulers viz. Pilate and Herod that joyned with the Priests to put Christ to death they were also false Worshippers so still its evident that Blind Zeal and False Worship and Pride and Whoredom and Covetousness and Prophaneness all joyns together in this work of Persecution but what was the Wages that many received Christ told them their House was lest desolate and the Day of their visitation was over and called them a Generation of Vipers saying How can you escape the Damnation of Hell for ye are of your Father the Devil though you call Abraham your Father for you are found doing the Devils work like your elder Brother Cain and many woes he pronounced against them which was fulfilled upon them and upon their Families and their Generations as is manifest to this very day Stephen also was persecuted by the Priests and false Worshippers and he bore a true Testimony against them saying Ye Stiff-necked and Vncircumcised in Heart and Ears ye do alwayes resist the holy Spirit as your Fathers did which of the Prophets have not your Fathers stoned or persecuted and they have slain them that shewed before-hand of the coming of the Just One of whom ye have now been the Betrayers and Murderers and those wicked men also stoned holy Stephen to death and cast him out of the City terming him a Deceiver or Blasphemer So people may see such Priests and Professors that resist the holy Spirit and follow an unholy Spirit they were and are persecutors of the Righteous Also it was the Priests and the Captain of their Temple and Sadduces that persecuted the Apostles Peter and John for preaching in the Temple and also put them in Prison and threatened them commanding them to speak no more in the Name Jesus Mark the Priests hated him then by the Name Jesus as bad as they now hate him by the Name Light in this day of his spiritual Appearance Again Herod the King made it his business to vex certain of the Church he killed James the brother of John with the Sword and when he saw it pleased the Priests and

wickedness and he remembred his People that had no Helper in the Earth and this Informer was hanged and his ten Sons perished and his Estate was given to the Iews and those that had thought to have spoiled their honest Neighbours in the Country they themselves became a Spoil and there perished of them above seventy five thousand Let all such as have a mind of Hamans work take notice whose RULE they walk by and what was the Wages of envious Murderers Also proud painted fac'd Iezebel she was an Informer against the true Worshippers and would have had all the Lords Prophets to have been slain and she informed the King how he might get Estates from his Subjects by setting up false Witnesses so he did follow her counsel but it soon brought a heavy Curse both upon him and his and so will it do upon all those who after him walk in his steps And as for Iezebel the Informer for her Wages she was thrown out into the Street and her blood troden out with Horses and the Dogs eat her flesh and only the Skull and Feet and Palms of her Hands were left Think of this all you Daughters of Iezabel who are decking your selves in Pride and take delight to mock and scorn and speak evil against the Servants of the Lord. Again Amaziah the Priest turned Informer and told the King That Amos had conspired against him and then charged Amos to be gone further from the Kings Chapel and Court and if he would Prophesie be gone to another Land c. see what an Engion of Satan this Priests was but what Wages had he for his news it was said unto him Thy Wife shall be an Harlot and thy Sons and Daughters shall fall by the Sword and thy Land shall be divided by line and thou shalt die in a poluted Land Again There were several wicked men turned Informers against Daniel that man so loved of God and one that was a true Worship●●● now those Informers could not find any thing against him as being Disloyal or Unfaithful in the Kings business therefore they got a Law to disturb him in his Worship but this Noble man would not creep into a Hole or shut his Windows but even as at other times kneeled down and prayed and gave thanks and worshipped the God of his Salvation and as he was so doing the Informers came and took witness and then went and informed the King it may be they told him that they took Daniel in the Notoriousness of the Fact and only thus for worshipping his God he was cast into the Lions Den but the Lord preserved and delivered him in a wonderful manner and then King Darius commanded that the Informers with their Wives and Children should be cast into the Lyons Den so the Lyons had power over them and broke all their bones to pieces and devoured them and this was the Wages of these Informers There was also several proud wicked men that informed against the three Children because they would not bow to false Worship in a day when it was attended with several sorts of Musick but you may read in the Prophets how the Lord sorely punished that wicked stock of Caldeans who were false Worshippers and persecuted the true Worshippers and it was of those also that helped to kill Jobs Servants and fetch away his Cattel about Religion and it is also to be observed that those men that cast the Lord People into the Fire by the heat thereof they themselves were consumed Again it was an old unclean Woman and her proud danceing Daughter that informed against John Baptist and desired his Head but see Herod was unfit to be a Magistrate that could swear to give them whatever could be asked and so cut off that great Prophets head to please one of Jezabels Jmps. Oh how hath the Righteous in all Ages suffered by and under such proud lustfull beastlike spirits and yet the Devil still taught his Instruments in all Ages to brand the Lords people with names of Deceivers and Mad-men and Blasphemers and all sorts of bad names thereby to render them odious but the Truth shines over the Darkness and the memorial of the Righteous is alive in renown but the day is come and coming wherein the memorial of the Wicked shall rot and the name of a Persecutor shall stink and be as a Curse and a Derision Also cursed Judas turned Informer and the Priests gave him thirty pieces of Silver to betray and help them to take Jesus So they got their Clubs and Staves and Weapons of Cruelty and came and took him that they might Crucifie him and how can the Disciples of Christ expect but such as Judas in these days who have betrayed all good Conscience will likewise inform against them but what good did the Money do Judas when the horror and torment of Hell seized upon him then he threw down the Silver and cried I have betrayed Innocent Blood and being without hope of Mercy went forth to hang himself and falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst and all his Bowels gushed out Think of this all ye that turn Informers for filthy lucre sake and mark whose Rule you walk by and whose work you are doing for it s written when Iudas turned Informer then Satan entred him so Christ might well say then to Iudas and his Companions this is your hour and power of Darkness I might even fill a large Volvme shewing through all Ages how it was such as were led by a wrong spirit that persecuted the Righteous Iohn that beloved Disciple was banished by wicked men And those were wicked Instruments that mocked the Lords Prophet saying Go up thou Bald-head so the Lord sent wild Bears and devoured them And it was wicked men that persecuted David and cursed him and it was the Drunkards that made Songs of him and beat and stoned the Prophets And it was such wicked men that called the Apostles Deceivers and Ring-leaders and Pestilent Fellows and movers of Sedition and Bablers and when they were filled with the Spirit of Christ some accused them as being Drunkards and Mad-men and it was the Wicked that often times attempted to stone our Saviour and his Messengers calling him Blasphemer and many reproachfull names as we read at large in the Scriptures of Truth and yet many that profess the Scriptures to be their Rule and to bear the name of Christianity are found directly walking in the steps of those wicked men which the testimony of Scripture goes fully against and it was wicked men that spoiled the Saints Goods formerly about Religion and banished them and smote them on the Cheek and drew them about the Streets and pulled off their Hair so I hope here is testimonies sufficient concerning Persecution to cause all sober understanding men and women to conclude with me that the Root of it is the Father of Envy and Murder and Lyes and that Body and Branches through which it puts forth it self what