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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

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 your selves WHEREIN Is manifested that what Estimation and Enterrainment 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 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now Gal. 4. 29. And shall say Cast ye up cast ye up prepare the way take up the stumbling Block out of the way of my People Isa 57. 14. For ye Brethren became followers of the Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own Countrey-men even as they have of the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thes 2. 14. 15 16. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1655. JESVS 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 Enmity in Rage and Persecution VVHereas it is said concerning the Testimony now born against the Priests Cannot you let them alone and their Worships 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 have your selves We say Our Own and the Will and Wisdome and time of Man which saith We will go here and there and do and forbear this and that we deny Did that Spirit rule it would say Be it far from thee Let these Priests and their Assemblies alone none of those Beatings Tumults Reproaches Imprisonments taking from Families and Relations and from wayes of maintainance whippings drawings of thy blood and hazards of thy life shall be unto thee And we deny the making of disturbance on our Part and the Principle from whence it proceedeth unless the speaking of the Word of the Lord be a disturbance as it was always accounted even the troubling of Israel For our Backs are turned to the Smiters and our Cheekes to the Nippers and the Pullers off the Hair and to him that striketh on one Cheek the other is turned neither do we resist Evill with Evill For the Principle of Light which we witness in measure leadeth us out of warres strife envy debates or doing Evill to any or rendring Evill for Evil but being cursed to bless being persecuted to pray that their sins may be forgiven and is desisirous that none should perish but that all might come to the knowledge of the Truth and Vengeance we leave to the Lord whose it is and who will repay it Nor do we deny the same liberty to others which we ought to have For whatsoever we would that men should do unto us the same we do unto them according to the Royal Law and for this purpose do we meet together and wait upon the Lord our Teacher to receive his Word and Testimony whether for Instruction or Reproof and in our measures we know his Voice from a Strangers and can try the spirits and even those who oppose themselves have and may come into our Assemblies freely and speak whom we judge in the spirit of Christ Jesus who is the Spiritual man that judgeth all things and yet he himself is judged of no man whose Weapons we make use of which are spiritual not in the flesh or the spirit of this World or with the weapons thereof such as are Beatings Strikings Tumults Imprisonments shedding of blood calling to and before Magistrates and such like Though out of our Meetings have some of our Friends have drawn and imprisoned and others have been disturbed and abused And this we further Declare That what is fallen upon this Generation and is set before their Eyes and testified against them is no new thing but what hath been witnessed throughout all Generations and of which the Scriptures bear Record For since Adam fell into the Transgression to this very day God hath not left himself without a Witness but in all times by Him who is the Rock of Ages hath he testified against the sinful and Adulterous Generation and the worships and ways thereof Against the Sacrifice of Cain by Abel Against the Old World by Enoch and Noah Against Sodom by Lot Against the People of that time by Abraham Isaac and Jacob Against Egypt by Moses Against all the Nations by the Nation of the Jewes who had the Law and the Testimony Against the Idolatrous Worships and wickedness of the Kings Princes Priests Prophets and People of the Jews by his servants the Prophets whom he caused to rise up early and sending them who testified even to their faces in the time of their Idolatrous Worships and Sacrifices When the Word was made flesh he cleansed the Temple scourged out thereof the sheep and the Oxen poured out the Changers money overthrew the Tables said unto those who sold Doves Take ye these things hence make not my Fathers house a place of Merchandize And in the Temple he disputed and reasoned with the Doctors and testified against the Traditions and Customs of the Scribes and Pharises the painted Sepulchers the Graves that appeared not Against them that held up the Figure when Christ the substance thereof was come by the Disciples and Apostles who having received Power from on high witnessed Jesus who was dead and rose again and ascended to be the Lord of Glory and that there was Salvation in no other and against the Temple and the services thereof did they testifie even in the Temple and the Synagogues in the time of their Worships and also against the Idol-Gods and Vanities of the Heathens And since the Apostles times to this day throughout all the Apostacy hath he witnessed by some or other to this or that Branch of Righteousness against the seduced World and Antichrists Now as the Spirit of God in all Ages carryed forth his servants to testifie

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

because thou knewest not the houre of thy visitation Friends It concerns your pretious souls eternally to know this houre of your visitation least you continuing to fall upon the Corner-stone the Rock of Ages and thus to persecute it and evilly to requite the dear love of God to you in raising up his witness against you warning you of all deceipt and directing you where Redemption is to be found and eternall life it fall upon you and grinde you to powder For verily the Kingdom of God is come amongst you the Son is come to the Vineyard to look for fruit and upon such dayes of the Son of man are you fallen that you are not aware of whom if you shall still consult against cast out and murther and call the spirit of judgement and of burning of the Devill whereby the filth of the Daughter of Sion is purged away and which makes the earth to shake and the Pillars of the house to tremble and the strong man to bow and the mighty man to cry bitterly he will n Luk. 20. 13. 14 15 16. Mat. 21. 41. miserably destroy you and let out the Vineyard unto others and sad will be your portion for all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme but he that o Mark 3. 28. 29 30. shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of eternall damnation This said Christ because they said He had an unclean spirit Sink down therefore to that of God in every one of your Consciences the light of Iesus Christ wherewith he lightens every one that commeth into the world the faithfull and true witness to which we speak And let us reason a little together what is that about which you so much contend and for which you have drawn and are drawing and ready to draw the blood of those who longing for the Redemption of the seed in every one of you which lies and is sought to be held in Captivity by the Priests and their worships and knowing whom you resist and the terrors of the Lord are made to testifie against the wayes you walk in as leading to hell and as tending to the Chambers of death and to shew you would you hear the way that leads to eternall life whose Bowels even when under sufferings by you for so witnessing and against the spirit that rules in you earn after you and the salvation of your souls which are pretious God is their witness Are they Churches of Christ search and see in the Scriptures which you say is your Rule there all might p 1 Cor. 13. 31 prophesie one by one and when any thing was q 30. revealed to another that sate by the first held his peace and the r 29. Prophets two or three might speak and the rest judge there was the s 1 Cor. 2. 15. spirituall man who judgeth all things and yet he himselfe is judged of no man Therein t 2 Tim. 2. 25. meekness were instructed those that opposed themselves There u 1 Cor. 15. 24. 25. the unbeliever and unlearned by found Doctrine was convinced of all and judged of all and secrets of his heart made manifest so that falling down on his face he worshipped God and reported God is in you of a truth There were no strikings nor quarrellings nor Tumults nor drawings of blood nor calling to or haling before Magistrates or carrying to prisons whippings stockings throwing into Dungeons and keeping close prisoners from friends and maintenance for speaking or opposing nor sending such to their homes from Tithing to Tithing who came to visit them never were they found persecuting but were alwayes after this manner intreated and persecuted who ever persecuted was out of the Doctrine of Christ The w 1 Thes 1. 1. Church is in God the x 1 Tim. 1. 15. Pillar and Ground of Truth y 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. liveing stones built a spirituall house upon the living Stone Are yours such are these things found amongst you Be coole and consider for these things are plain he that runs may read them be not alwayes deceived by their fruits you may know them to be the a Rev 2. 9. 3. 9. Synagogues of Satan the b Rev. 18. 2. Cages of every unclean and hateful Bird the Haitation of Devills and the hold of every foul spirit plain dealling you will finde at length to be best Are the Members of Harlots Drunkards Enviers Swearers Lyars Hypocrites Cheaters Strikers c. the Members of Christ are such the Piller and Ground of Truth are those who are dead in Trespasses and sins living stones built upon the living foundation Is striking tumulting and such like in meekness instructing those who oppose or convincing the unbeliever and unlearned and manifesting the secrets of his heart what Churches are they when such things as these are found where neither the Testimony of the Lord will be endured nor an unbeliever and unlearned so accounted either convinced or permitted to stay there so to be Are your Priests Ministers of Jesus Christ search and see they were c Tit. 1. 7. blameless as the Stewards of God not self-willed nor soon angry nor given to wine nor to filthy lucre no strikers nor † 1 Tim. 3. 3. strivers nor brawlers nor envious nor raylers nor covetous d Isa 56. 11. nor seeking their gain from their Quarters e Mic. 3. 5. 6 7. 1 Tim. 12. 24. nor Biters with their teeth nor preparers of warre where it is not put into their mouths nor receivers of Tithes Oblations Obventions c. or suers for treble dammages or casters into prison of those who refuse for whom they neither plant nor plow nor sowe nor makers of f 2 Pet. 2. 3. Merchandize of the people through covetousness with feigned words or having g 2 Pet. 2. 14. hearts exercised with covetous practices they were not called of men h Mat. 23 10. Masters nor i Luke 11. 43 Mat. 23. 6. 7 8 stood praying in the Synagogues or for a pretence made long Prayers nor loved the uppermost seats in the Assemblies and at Feasts nor greeting in the Market place k Mich. 3. 11 nor preached for hire nor divined for mony nor had or sought for approbation of men or a State-maintenance or a state consistory nor spake l Jer 14 4 9. 14 a lying Divination and imagination of their own heart for the word of the Lord nor came with m 1 Cor. 2. 4. the entising words of mans wisdom nor by n Gal. 1. 1. 11. or in the will and time of man nor o Jer. 13. 21. ran when they were not sent nor made the p 2 Cor. 11. 9. 12. 13 14. Gospel burdensome nor had they any q 1 Cor. 4. 11. certain dwelling place nor did they persecute nor called they to Magistrates nor haled to prison those

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. 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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.