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A41823 The prisoners vindication with a sober expostulation and reprehension of persecutors / by John Gratton. Gratton, John, 1641-1712. 1683 (1683) Wing G1585B; ESTC R28044 20,540 36

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as could flatter dissemble and lye and turn to any thing the people fancied to make themselves rich see chap. 5. 26. c. These were they that lay in wait that set Snares and Traps and catched men whose Houses were full of deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich they are waxen fat they shine they overpass the deeds of the Wicked they judge not the Cause of the Fatherless yet they prosper and the Right of the Needy do they not judge but the Prophets prophesie falsly and the Priests bear rule by their Means and my People love to have it so and what will you do in the end Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this A wonderful and a horrible thing is committed in the Land c. the false Prophets and the great rich fat Priests bear rule c. yea from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to Covetousness and from the Prophet even to the Priest every one dealeth falsly They have healed also the hurt of the Daughter of my people slightly saying Peace Peace when there is no peace Ier. 13. 14. 8. 10 11. And because Ieremiah prophesied truly to them what the Lord commanded he was put in Prison chap. 32. 2. and 37. 5. and 38. 6. yea into a Dungeon where his feet stuck fast in the Mire but the Lord preserved him and wrought his deliverance And shall I forget to mention Shadrach Meshach and Abednego who would not obey the Kings Law concerning Worship whom God preserved in the hot firey Furnace but those that cast them in were slain with the flame Likewise Daniel who ceased not to pray and give thanks before his God three times a day when the King had given out a Law to the contrary and the Lord delivered him out of the Lyons Den and those that accused him and informed against him were cast into the Lyons Den with their Wives and Children and the Lyons had Mastery over them and brake all their Bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the Den. So its clear thorow all the old Testament that the words of the Apostle are true He that is born after the flesh always persecuted him that was born after the Spirit and so it is still for Iohn Baptist and our Saviour had no better entertainment than the Prophets had had before them for as Christ tells us by way of Parable in Matth 21. When the Lord had sent his Servants to those Husband-men unto whom he let out his Vineyard and they beat some killed some and stoned some last of all he sent his Son and him they took and slew also and to this day are the high-Priests and Rulers slaying crucifying and murdering the holy One and the Just in his Apostles and Servants in whom he appears telling the World This Light within which shines in the Hearts and Consciences of men is a Deceiver a Delusion of Satan a dark Lathorne and what not though it is only this that discovers the thoughts and intents of the heart and makes all things manifest of what sort it is so that the Apostle saith This is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World but men love Darkness rather than Light because their deeds are evil for every one that doth evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his deeds should be reproved but he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God This is very clear Light and Darkness cannot agree so that it hath ever been the works of Darkness that the Light hath condemned and judged and made manifest to be Evil and therefore the old Serpent brings his false Accusations of the Light calls it Deceit c. and is the Deceiver himself and yet will not abide to hear Truth spoken of himself no more will his Children who are acted by him in whose hearts he reigns and fills them full of Pride Covetousness Envy Hatred and Malice Cruelty and Filthiness so out of their Hearts proceed these things and they cry to the Rulers for help against those that preach the Gospel boldly and freely as they did by Stephen so they are doing still or would do had they power when they gnashed on him with their Teeth cast him out of the City and stoned him having charged him falsly That he spake Blasphemous words c. These have their blind Saul's to run them Errands to whom they give power to take them bound that are walkers i● the Light whether they be men or women These command the ignorant and unlearned men as Peter and Iohn were that preach boldly in the Name of Jesus That they preach no more in that Name But we must obey God rather than Man and cannot but speak the things that we have seen heard Now when the Apostles could not but preach the things they had heard and seen and continued in the Power of God working mightily to the healing of the sick and such as were vexed with unclean Spirits then the high Priest and those that were with him were filled with Indignation and laid their hands on the Apostles and put them into the common Prison but the Lord brought them out and sent them into the Temple early on the next morning where they taught as the Lord commanded them and there went an Informer to the high Priest the Captain of the Temple and the chief Priests and told them That the men they had put in Prison were standing in the Temple and teaching the People then went the Captain with the Officers and brought Peter and Iohn before the Council and the high Priest said Did not we straitly command you that you should not teach in this Name c Then Peter the other Apostle answered We ought to obey God rather than man Acts 5. read it How like those Priests and Officers are these in our days And how plainly walk these in the steps of those and practise the like things against those that walk in the Spirit and Practice of the Apostles And how clear is it that in all Ages it was those that were born after the flesh that persecuted those that were born after the spirit to whom it s given not only to believe but to suffer for his sake not to persecute any for his sake no nor for reflecting him neither but its evident the Persecutors are such as seek to please men not God this is clear from Herod who after he had killed Iohn the Baptist grew more vile and stretched out his hands to vex certain of the Church after Christ was mightily manifested in his Apostles and he killed Iames the Brother of Iohn with the Sword and because he saw it pleased the Iews he proceeded further to take Peter and apprehended him and put him in Prison but the Lord