good service the reason of which he gives in the next verse in these words These things will they do because they have not known the Father nor me From this Root also doubtless it came to pass that the Christians in that Age were called a Sect Act. 28. and were so much spoken against every where as Pauls Countrymen said v. 2. We desire said they to him to hear of thee what thou thinkest for as concerning this Sect we know that every where 't is spoken against right or wrong they speak against them and their way because they understood them not nor it Peter in general assigns this as the cause of Mens speaking evil of many things 2 Pet. 2.12 Those saith he speaking there of wicked Men as natural brute Beasts c. spake evil of the things which they understood not nay 't is marvellous that the malice of the Jews against Christ did so blind them that when Judas came to them and acknowledged to them that he had betrayed innocent Blood Mat. 27.3 4. They say What is that to us look thou to that when they had been the chief Instruments in the betraying of him and putting him to death Thus doth the Scripture Records note this Cause among others of which Mens envy against Christ himself and his Followers in those days against the Saints of old before his time and why they persecuted them 5thly A fifth cause or ground yet which the same Scripture doth assign or declare of these their Spirits and Doings was from a causeless and carnal Fear which they had conceived that if the Saints of old Jesus Christ and his Followers in those days were suffered amongst them or if their Doctrin should have prevailed then these would grow to big for them and would withdraw their subjection from their Rulers Rebel usurp Authority and would be had in greatest Esteem and Repute by the People and so derogate from the Honor Esteem Authority and Rule of those who did thus envy and persecute them they were ready to think that all Men would believe on Christ and that all the World would go after him if they should have let Him and his Followers alone and should not have stopped their course as they did declare John 11.48 If we let him thus alone said they there all men will believe on him and the Romans shall come and take away both our Place and Nation And again John 12.19 they said Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing behold the world is gone after him thus did their causeless Jealousie work to Envy and Hatred and Persecution This made the Chief Priests and Scribes so highly displeased Mat. 21. when they had seen Christ to have such Esteem among the People and the same so evidenced by the multitudes spreading of their Garments decking the Ways where he did ride with Branches and crying out Hosanna to the Son of David blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the Highest v. 8 9 15. and upon this they v. 23. demanded of Christ by what authority he did those things as if he were about to usurp Authority or at least that he did it against or without Authority Particular instances of this cause or ground too not a few the Scripture takes notice of as in Exod. 1. The King there was without cause jealous that the Jews there would grow too great and numerous and Rebel therefore consulted to prevent their increase by dealing hardly with them his Jealousie is expressed v. 9 10. in these words The Children of Israel are more and mightier than we Come let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply and it come to pass that when there falleth out any War they join also to our Enemies and fight against us This causeless Fear put him upon dealing cruelly with them in order to prevent their growth as in the following verses upon which account also Josephs Brethren went Gen 37. they suspecting by his Dreams and his Fathers shew of love to him that Joseph would be greater than they v. 4. and the 8 11. they thereupon are said there to hate him and envy him and v. 19 20. of the same Chap. they consulted to slay him They could not bear with the thoughts of this that he should be greater than they in his Fathers Heart nor superior unto them in after-times which they had guessed his Dreams did intimate that he should be therefore they hate him and resolve to prevent the coming thereof to pass by taking away of his Life tho God purposed to advance Joseph to save them alive as Joseph afterwards told them Gen. 45.5 This Spirit is taken notice of also in Joshua from the same ground in Moses time Numb 11.26 When Eldad and Medad had prophesied in the Camp the young man presently thinking Moses was clouded somewhat by this told Moses on 't v. 27. and v. 28. said My Lord Moses forbid them which Spirit of Envy in Joshua and the cause on 't too Moses perceived and blamed him for it in these words in the next verses Enviest thou for my sake would God that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them all doubtless Joshua here thought that none should have the honor of a Spirit of Prophesie but Moses or if they had they should not shew it as being eclipsing to Moses Glory and this stirred up this Envy in him For this cause also did Saul eye and envy David in that day and sought his Life David had gotten far into the opinion of his Fellow Subjects through his prudent Behavior in the Kings business and Saul feared that he would usurp the Kingdom too doubtless which he intimated in these words 1 Sam. 18. When the Women came after the overthrow of the Philistines singing in v. 6 7. that Saul had slain his thousands and David his ten thousands he v. 8. was very wroth and the saying displeased him and he said they have ascribed to David his ten thousand and to me thousand and can he have more but the Kingdom The Effect followeth in the next verses Saul from that day following eyed David and resolved and endeavored to kill him and Chap. 19.1 He gave order to his Son and Servants to kill him Yea he was also wroth with his Son Jonathan upon the same grounds for Jonathans sake 1 Sam. 19. when Jonathan had been excusing Davids absence v. 28 29. Sauls anger was kindled against Jonathan v. 30. and he said unto him Do not I know that thou hast chosen the Son of Jesse to thine own confusion c. and in the next verse he said As long as the Son of Jesse liveth upon the ground thou shalt not be established nor thy Kingdom wherefore send and fetch him to me for he shall surely die Here Sauls apprehension that David did eclipse his Glory and that the People had too much esteem for David and that he might prove disloyal and usurp
Jews he v. 15. said of them in these words Who 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 Here were they highly engaged in a persecuting Spirit and of opposition of the Gospel of Salvation But what saith the Holy Ghost in the next words concerning the Consequents thereof To fill up their sin alway saith he for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost And least any Man should flatter himself with vain hopes of Escaping tho he should have persisted in such a Spirit and Practice Christ himself hath possitively asserted that God will avenge it Luke 18.7 8. in these words Shall not God avenge his own elect who cry day and night unto him c. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily Here or hereafter vengeanc will overtake the Enemies and Persecutors of his Elect and that it is but just in God so to do the Apostle intimates 2 Thess 1.6 7. and so on in these words Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them who trouble you and to you who are troubled rest when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed c. to take vengeance on them who know not God c. v. 9. Their punishment is said to be then their everlasting destruction from the Presence of the Lord and the Glory of his Power And the righteousness of God is proclaimed in his executing this vengeance on them Rev. 16. v. 5 6. in these words Thou art righteous O Lord c. because thou hast judged thus for they have shed the blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy The Scripture hath taken notice that sometimes God did execute threatned Judgments upon such in this World so did he with all the Countrys before threatned for their hatred against and vengeance and cruelty they took and exercised upon his People Israel and Haman himself met with the same evil he had designed to have executed upon Mordicai And some times 't is reserved to be punished in the World to come and shall remain upon them for ever of which Judgments unavoidably to come upon them that envious Spirit they were found in was a full evidence as the Apostle said Philip. 1.28 to the persecuted Saints in that day by way of comfort to them in these words And in nothing terrified by your Adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition and to you of salvation and that of God And to which also Christ spake home unto the Jews Mat. 25. speaking there v. 31. and so on of his coming to judge the world he v. 41 42 and so on saith Then shall the King say unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels for I was an hungary and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink I was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and ye cloathed me not sick and in prison and ye visited me not and he explains his meaning to them in v. 45. In as much saith he as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me and this direful Word followeth in v. 46. These shall go away into everlasting punishment whence they might have easily inferred that if it should be so sad with those who gave not Meat Cloathed not gave not Drink visited not in Prisons in Sickness how much more sad would the Condition of such be who took away their Meat and Drink made them Poor and Naked cast them into Prison were instrumental to make them Sick yea and take away their Lives too If a Woe be pronounced against them who are at ease in Zion and not grieved for the Affliction of Joseph as in Amos 6.1 2 3. and so on what might those expect who were the Afflicters of Joseph It was no light thing when God should come to avenge for much the Apostle did give them to know in those days when he had affirmed Heb. 10.30 these words as that which God had said Vengeance belong to me saith the Lord and I will repay it c. He subjoins this in the next verse It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Therefore God himself by the Prophet David Psal 2. After he had been Prophesying of the Rage of Princes and People against the Lord and his Anointed and had set forth their Vanity and the ineffectualness of their Attempts against him in the beginning of the Psalm he v. 10 11 12. adviseth them to submit because of the sad Consequents of their persisting in their Rage in these words Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little c. What dreadful Judgments hath befallen the Jews since they in their rage against Christ utttered these words Mat. 27.25 His blood be upon us and our Children Thus do these divine Records especially note the great and seated Enmity which was in the Hearts of wicked Men in those days of the World against good Men and Things and the breakings out thereof in the several Ways they then took to prevent the increase of them and it together with the Causes or several Grounds from when that Spirit in those days did arise and took life as also the dreadful Case of such the sad Consequents of being found in such a Spirit and Practices And are not these things written as are other things in the Scriptures of old for the admonition of those upon whom the ends of the world are come And doth it not concern all Men to instruct themselves therein in order to their own escape from the Errors of these and so save themselves from the direful Consequents and Effects depending upon them FINIS
Liberty of Conscience ASSERTED OR A Looking-Glass FOR PERSECUTORS Being a plain Deduction from Scripture-History OF THE Original Grounds Pretences FOR PERSECUTION The METHODS taken to put the same in Execution Together with the sad Consequences thereof Or The Reward that attends Persecuting-Spirits LONDON Printed and sold by R. Janaway in Queens-Head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row 1687. A PREFACE to the READER Christian Reader PErsecution for Religion is almost as old as the World The first Murther under the Sun being committed on that account when Cain assassinated his righteous Brother Abel meerly because he worship'd God better than himself and ever since the Enmity has continued And when it will please Almighty Wisdom to put a final Period to such Practices throughout the World we are not able to determin But since merciful Providence has vouchsafed so to dispose the Royal Heart of our Gracious Sovereign as to give a Stop and we hope total Abolition thereunto in the Land of our Nativity and to open a Door to the Oppressed that they may both peaceably worship their Creator according to the best of their Light and freely remonstrate the Evils of the Persecuting Spirit to those who lately were so intirely possest therewith that even to complain of those Severities we unjustly suffered was made a new Crime It must certainly be our Duty to improve this Opportunity as far as we can to the common Interest of Christianity Not in the least to reflect upon or upbraid any for past Miscarriages much less to stir up any Heart-burnings or motions towards Revenge or Animosities but only to convince such as have had any hand in rigid Persecutions against their Neighbors meerly on the Score of a Conscientious Dissent in Matters of Religion of the Evil of such Proceedings and to caution all others for the future against the like Violences To advance these good and wholsom Ends is the design and purport of the following Treatise which in a plain familiar Stile endeavors to give the World a true Prospect altogether deduced from Holy Writ of the Original Source and several grounds from whence Persecution has in all Ages arose and been propagated amongst Men. The Means Methods and Pretences whereby the same has been carried on and palliated As likewise the sad Consequences thereof in the heavy Judgments righteously inflicted by Almighty God even in this World on those that have been guilty of such Out-rages In short As the natural Man views his own Vissage and all the Lineaments of his Countenance in a common Glass so every Murthering Cain or Oppressive Pharaoh or Envious Haman or Blasphemous Rabshekah or Raging Samballat or Bloody Herod or Treacherous Judas and all and every their Successors may in this Portraiture drawn to the Life by the Holy Ghost in the Inspired Writings behold represented the true Character of themselves their Motives Designs Words Actings and without sincere Repentance of their final Doom and Destruction too That the divine Blessing may so far accompany this Mean but well intended Work as to render it instrumental to bring some that have been Concern'd in this Kind to an hearty Acknowledgment of their Crimes And to make Persecution for Conscience an Abhorrence to all that profess to call on the Name of the Blessed JESUS who is both the Prince of Peace the Fountain of Love the grand Examplar of Meekness and Author of all Consolation Shall be the Prayer of the Publisher H. C. Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our Learning c. Rom. XV. 3 4. These things hapned to them for Examples and they were written for our Admonition upon whom the ends of the World are come 1 Cor. X. 11. THE Holy Scriptures being written and continued for the Learning and Admonition of those who should live in future Ages especially of those upon whom the ends of the World are come It doth highly concern every one who believes the things therein written to be Truth and Verity to be instructing themselves in the Matters which these divine Records do contain to the end that they may learn and be admonished thereby to follow the good Examples of Christ himself and of the eminent Saints therein mentioned be of such a Spirit as they were of walk and do as they did that it may be well with them in the latter end And to the intent that they may take heed of being found in the Spirit and Practices of some others who lived in those days and were of a contrary Temper to the former and did otherwise than they did and so consequently escape the direful Effects which in those days fell upon some of these latter ones and that all such may be assured they shall feel at the last day One grand thing therefore written and here and there to be found scattered in those divine Records worthy observation and to be seriously considered by all Men tho I fear least observed or flightly thought on by most as that which is a Matter of no small moment and concern to them for the warning and awakening of some comfort and quiet of others Is this viz. The great Opposition between the Two Seeds of the Serpent and the Woman the World and Christ those who are born after the Flesh and those who are born after the Spirit those who are yet of the World and those who are called out of the World the wicked of the World and the Saints of the most High God No sooner were Men born from above and evidenced the same by their Works but wicked Men not yet born again were ready to devour them as the Prophet Isaiah saith Chap. 59.15 He who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey No sooner depart from Evil but the Teeth of the wicked were edged against them The Evidences of which the Scripture hath abundantly delivered down to after Ages It testifieth not only of the Enmity Envy Malice and bitterness which was rooted seated and predominated in the Breasts of Men whilst in the Flesh yet Children of the wicked One in those Ages against them who were born of the Spirit Subjects of the King of Kings followers of God and Christ yea against Holiness it self against the Laws of Christ and his Government their Hearts said as Pharaoh's did Exod. 5.2 Who is the Lord that I should obey him And as Christ in a Parable intimates the Hearts of the Jews to be saying Luke 19. in these words His Citizens hated him and said We will not have this Man to rule over us v. 14. Nor will we endure any of his Subjects But also of the very Methods and Ways wherein they expressed this Enmity and bitterness of Spirit that was so fixed in them both by Word and Deed Yea moreover the very Causes from whence all the former did spring as also the sad Effects which was like to follow or be the reward of such Spirits and Doings The critical observation of all which when well searched out might be that no small
himself is Christ a King and in v. 5. He stirred up the people teaching throughout all Jury and v. 10. The chief Priests and Scribes stood up and vehemently accused him Here this most holy and just One came under an Accusation of being guilty of Treason Sedition and of being notoriously Criminal and was vehemently accused too that they might vent their Envy and Malice against him with the greatest shew of Justice for they were tender of their own Reputation in that as appeared when Christ had said unto them John 10.32 Many good Works I have shewed you c. for which of these Works do you stone me They in the next verse answered him in these words For a good Work we stone thee not but for Blasphemy and because thou being a Man make thy self a God They would not be thought to shed Innocent Blood which made them to storm at the Apostles afterwards when they had preached Christ as the Just One whom the unbelieving Jews had Crucified Act. 5 Did not we say they v. 28. charge you that you should not teach in this Name and behold ye have filled Jerusalem with your Doctrin and intend to bring this Mans Blood on us tho they were really guilty on 't and doubtless conscious to themselves on 't too yet would not they have others conceive such a thought of them So dealt they with Stephen Act. 6. when they could not resist the Spirit and Wisdom by which he spake v. 10. they then in the next verse charge him with speaking of Blasphemy which also was notoriously false for there the Scripture saith That they suborned Men who said so of him the same way did the Southsayers take too Act. 16. when Paul there had cast out the evil Spirit v. 18. They v. 19. caught Paul and Sylas and brought them to the Magistrates and in the next verses they charged them in these words These Men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our City and teach Customs which are not lawful for us to receive neither observe being Romans all which the Magistrates and People presently believing to be true without any further enquiry fell upon Paul c. verses 22 23. So did the unbelieving Jews with Jason and certain Brethren Act. 17. when they had brought them to the Rulers v 6. they in the same verses and v. 7. charge them as guilty of Treason breach of Laws and disturbance of the Peace too in these words These have turned the world upside down c. these do all contrary to the Decrees of Caesar saying That there is another King Jesus Here did they make false construction of their Doctrin they preached Jesus to be the Christ a King therefore would they force it to intend against Caesar And again Act. 18. did they so with Paul the Jews there v. 12. made an Insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the Judgment-seat and there they charge him in these words v. 13. This Fellow persuaded Men to worship God contrary to Law and again In the Temple they laid hold on him Act. 21.27 28. They cryed out Men of Israel help this is the Man who teacheth all Men every where against the People and the Law and this Place and brought Greeks into the Temple and polluted this holy place at which the People were presently moved easily believed all the Charge and they took Paul v. 30. and would have killed him as in the following verses altho no part of the Accusation was true And again Act. 24. The High Priest and Elders took Tertullus an Orator with them v. 2. that they might charge Paul more effectually and with more facility get the Governors Ear and when they were there before the Governor they by their Orator loaded Paul with the guilt of great Crimes v. 5 6. in these words We have found this Man a pestilent Fellow and a mover of Sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a Ring-leader of the Sect of Nazarens who also hath gone about to profane the Temple a great Charge without any colour of Truth as Paul afterwards in his Defence declared and said also Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me v. 12 13. But this said he I confess after the way they call Heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets and this indeed was his only Crime for which they so persecuted him They yet further pursued him before Festus Act. 25. The Jews there stood round about Paul and laid many and grievous Complaints against him which they could not prove v. 7. And Paul answered v. 8. neither said he against the Law of the Jews neither against the Temple nor yet against Caesar have I offended in any thing at all yet his Innocency could not excuse him from their violent Persecuting of him because of the Heart-Enmity they had against him Thus hath the Scripture noted That the Enemies of good Men and Goodness it self in the Ages of the World did follow the Steps one of another in manifesting their Heart-Enmity against them and it by charging them with many and notorious Crimes every where to the end that the Enemies own Proceedings might seem to be just and only a Legal Persecution of Malefactors not a malicious pursuit of Innocents and that they might bring Christ and good Men into the ill Opinion both of the People and of the Magistrates the easier to prevail with them to assist in the Persecution 3dly A third way that these envious Ones were found in and which these divine Records have also observed was That they watched and sought for Advantages to take hold of something whereof to accuse Christ and the Saints yea they did frequently tempt them to speak by asking ensnaring Questions and ordering of others so to do in order to the framing of an Accusation against them and did oft times wrest their Words too As the Prophet Isaiah complaining saying 29.20 All who watch for iniquity are cut off who make a Man an offender for a word and layeth a snare for him who reproveth in the gate and turn aside the just for a thing of naught Therefore the Prophet Amos adviseth That the prudent should keep silent in such an evil time Chap. 5.12 13. And the Psalmist resolved so to do in his time Psal 39.1 saith he there I will keep my mouth with a Bridle while the wicked is before me so well acquainted was he with the usual way of the wicked in this matter Thus did they do with Daniel because the King had advanced him above the Presidents and Princes Dan. 6.1 2 3 4. They sought occasion against him in the matters of the Kingdom but they found none fain would they have accused him could they have found any Matter which they sought for The Psalmist in his days too found these Attempts made upon him Psal 38.12 saith he They also who seek my life lay
before the Rulers and there immediately they interrest Caesar and his Laws in the business v. 7. and say These do all contrary to the Decrees of Caesar saying that there is another King Jesus So again Act. 18. The Jews there made an insurrection against Paul and brought him before the Judgment Seat v. 12 13. they charge him with breach of their Ecclesiastical Laws saying there This Fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the Law or established mode by which no doubt they engaged many readily to assist them in their persecuting of him tho Galio drave them from the Judgment Seat and would not meddle in those Laws verses 15 16. Thus doth the Scripture note that the Enemies of the Saints and of the Truth it self in those Ages did walk in this Path also in order to the effecting of their envious and revengeful Purposes 8thly But when this Method neither did do the Work so effectually as they designed then they proceeded against them in an eighth Way that was They did in most places stir up base Fellows and all sorts of People and together with them did they tumultuously take hold of them hale them to Prison and before Magistrates and oftentimes contrary to all Laws and Justice Order and Peace beat them banish them and hastily stone them and go about to kill them as the Psalmist said of them in his days Psal 53.4 in these words Who eateth up my people as they eat Bread of which doings Jesus foretold and acquainted his Disciples that they were to bear a share in Mat. 10. They will saith he there deliver you up to the Council and they will scourge you in their Synagogues and ye shall be brought before Governors and Kings for my sake c. v. 17 18. Nay Christ himself escaped not such rude and illegal Dealings as 't is taken notice of Luke 4.28 29. in these words They were filled with wrath and rose up and thrust him out of the City and laid him to the brow of the hill whereon the City was built that they might cast him down headlong and Luke 22. The multitude with the chief Priests and Captains of the Temple and Elders came to take him v. 47. with swords and staves as against a Thief as Christ said v. 52. and these in this tumultuous manner led him to the High Priests house v. 54. v. 63 64. They mock him and smote him having blindfolded him they stroke him on the face saying Prophesie who it is who smote thee and in v. 1. of the next Chap. it is again said That the whole multitude arose and led him to Pilate Here the common Rabble as well as the great Ones hurry'd him about mock and beat him in a tumultuous and an illegal manner So did the Enemies of the Jews before in Nehemiahs days conspire to do Nehem. 4. when they had observed that all their other Attempts for hindring their Building would not do the Jews having the Kings Authority with them Sanballat and others here being very wroth v. 7. did conspire all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem to hinder it such was their Enmity against the Jews here for building by the Kings Authority that how Loyal soever they otherways pretended to be yet here did they agree most rebelliously and wickedly to hinder the Building by fighting against them They readily obeyed the King in Ezra's time when his command was to cause the Work to cease but now when they were by the Kings command to build they would disobey and in an hostile and rebellious manner hinder it The like did the persecuting Jews themselves in the Apostles days too in Act. 4. As the Apostles spake unto the people the Priests and the Captain of the Temple and the Sadduces came upon them v. 1. and being that they taught c. they laid hands on them and put them into hold v. 2 and 3. so again Act. 5. when they had understood that the Apostles had done Miracles c. v. 15 16. The High Priest rose up and all those who were with him which is the Sect of the Sadduces and were filled with indignation v. 17. and in the following verses They laid their hands on the Apostles and put them into common Prison Stephen was so illegally and riotously handled Act. 6. when the Libertines and others had disputed with him and not able to resist the spirit and wisdom by which he spake v. 9 10. They in v. 12. to confute him stirred up the People and the Elders and the Scribes and came upon him caught and brought him to the Councel and again in the next Chap. 't is said v. 54. that when they had heard what Stephen said they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on him with their teeth and in v. 57. and so onward That they ran upon him with one accord and cast him out of the City and stoned him It is recorded also of Saul Acts 8. v. 3. That he made havock of the Church entring into every house and haleing men and women committing them to Prison which he after his Conversion did confess Act. 22. in these words v. 5 6. I persecuted this way to the death binding and delivering into Prison both men and women I went unto Damascus to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem to be punished and in v. 19. said he to the Lord I imprisoned and beat in every Synagogue them who believed on thee Thus did others deal with Paul himself when he became a preacher of Christ and with Sylas Act. 16. Paul having cast out the Spirit of Divination out of the Damsel v. 18. her masters v. 19 20. caught Paul and Sylas drew them into the Market-place to the Rulers and brought them to the Magistrates and there accused them for Troublers of the City upon which The multitude rose up together against them and the Magistrates commanded to beat them and when they had laid many stripes upon them they cast them into Prison v. 22 23. All which Proceedings were illegal violent and tumultuous and ought not to have been done to them as Paul himself told them v. 35 36. when the Magistrates had sent to discharge them in these words They have beaten us openly uncondemned being Romans and have cast us into Prison and now do they thrust us out privily nay verily let them come themselves and fetch us out and in the next verse The Magistrates feared when they heard that they were Romans and they came and be sought them to go out Even so did the unbelieving Jews Act. 13. upon their observation that multitudes did hear the Word were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul c. v. 45. and upon their second speaking v. 46. and so on The Jews v. 50. stirred up the devout and honourable Women and the chief Men of the City and raised Persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled