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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40524	A special warrant given forth from the spirit of God (who is Lord over all lords and King over all kings) against the spirit of envy and persecution ... also some descriptions set down how this insufferable enemy (the spirit of persecution) may be known ... / written by Joseph Fuce.	Fuce, Joseph.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2258; ESTC R31719	17,110	26

Religion and Worship and if I were led to speak of what I see of this soul-betraying spirit of envy and persecution and of his fruit surely it would sill a larg volume but the Spirit of the Lord who hath made men wise in this Generation leads me briefly to hint of some of the fruits of the old spirit of persecution in this special Warrant to all sorts of people in Christendom so called who upon consideration with the Light of Christ in their Consciences may see those things to be true that so much the more plainly because the Lord in the largness of his love hath spoken so plainly and called unto man so often in this age by his Spirit through many of his chosen vessels who have suffered deeply by all the Powers that have born rule ever since we departed from evil and by the voyce of the spirit through the Lords chosen vessels have many minds been turned from darkness to light in their own Consciences which hath made this Generation wiser than many Generations heretofore in the Apostacy besides the great and marvelous works that God hath brought to pass in the sight of this Generation of men in overturning and changing and converting thousands from darkness to light and from evil to good and from envy to true love besides the overturning of Governours and Governments and Armies and that at the last without fighting or shedding of blood which is enough to awaken this Generation into a consideration of things past present and to come And thus did the old Serpent work before the days of Christ's coming in the flesh to end the Jews worship in out-side things and their Law and to set up the everlasting worship of God in the Spirit And now take notice how the old Dragon got in among the Jews who had Moses and the Prophets writings who had been great sufferers and who had known by writings how their fore-fathers were scattered and led into Babilon after God by a mighty hand had brought them through the Red Sea and Wilderness and these professing Jews said if they had been in the days of their fathers they would not have persecuted the Prophets but while they were in their Zeal worshipping in outward things the envious spirit of persecution got into them and blinded their minds and hardned their hearts and in those days this spirit of envy and murther and persecution began to work in Herod against Christ for he sent forth and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof thinking to destroy Christ Acts 13. And after John was beheaded And see what the spirit brought Herod to at the last he was eaten with Worms And because the Envious Jews did not look for the Messiah or Christ to come in so low a degree as to be born in Bethlehem and laid in a Manger they knew him not And although their forefathers had suffered persecution and great affliction and they had said they would not have persecuted the Prophets whose words they had which prophesied of Christ who wrought wonders and miracles among them yet they Crucified the Prince of life and these were they that worshipped in Temples and Synagogues together with their Priests and Rulers that were stirred up by this persecuting spirit mostly through the Chief Priests against Christ and his Disciples who went up and down preaching the truth and doing good and wronging no man yet they cryed vehemently Let him be Crucified And as they Crucified Christ so they persecuted his Disciples and put many of them to death and provoked the Lord against them until he gave them up to be scattered and to be a hissing to all the Nations as the natural seed of those Jews are at this day so were they blinded and hardned and then betrayed to utter ruine as the persecutors had been before by the old Serpent the spirit of envy and persecution and then when he had done his worst against Christ and Christians in and through the Heathen Jews Rulers Priests and people of all sorts then he got in amongst them that were called Christians that did not watch in the Light and low meekness of spirit which were such as had the Sheeps cloathing but inwardly were ravening Wolves the ravening wolvish doggish envious spirit of persecution made them so and such in that nature had a form of godliness but denyed the power thereof and from such the true Christians were to turn away who were in the meek Spirit and harmlesse innocent nature of Christ that kept them always ready to do good and to receive wrong rather than to do any wrong to Jew or Gentile or the false Brethren that were false like the Jews and then this envious persecuting spirit led the deceivers that came to the Saints in Sheeps cloathing but inwardly were ravening Wolvs out into the world and they that were of the world went after them into a profession of Christ and yet of the worlds nature and they got a form of godliness but denyed the power thereof and from such the Saints were to turn away and so there was a difference in the nature of them that professed Christ for some were of the Lambs nature and others of the worlds nature yet all professed God and Christ and from that they had all the names of Christians but all were not of the divine nature of Christ and this was in the latter days or last times of the Apostles age as John said Little Children it is the last time as ye have heard that Anti-christ shall come even now there are many Anti-christs whereby they knew that they were the last times and the Anti-christs went out from the Apostles into the world and the world went after them and so the Apostacy came in and then they dayly encreased in the errour degeneration from the leader pitiful meek suffering and saving spirit so darkness ignorance hardness of heart and envy encreased among them that had the name of Christians but had lost the nature of Christ and the spirit of envy and persecution began to appear to be chief among them then the Beast rose up out of them that were like the Sea who received this imposing power from the old Dragon that stirred up the Jews to Crucisie the Lord of life and so the Beast set up an Image and caused the people to worship his Image and the Saints of the most High that would not worship the Image of the Beast nor receive his Mark in their foreheads or in their right hands were to be stain such was their imposition for their imagined way of worship and they made war with the Saints of the most High and overcame them and killed both small and great that would not worship the Beast and his Image and the man child Christ Jesus was caught up to God and the woman sled into the wilderness where she hath been nourished in the time of Apostacy and blindness of peoples minds and

the Lambs war with the Dragon in your particulars that you may enjoy the presence and peace of God to your own souls and then will you be for peace among men and verily this thousands of your own selves cannot be ignorant of how that there hath been many thousands that have gone forth against the old Serpent in several Sects since the Apostles dayes in the Apostacy and for want of the inward spiritual Armour and weapons and love and wisdome to order them and to beat the enemy out of their own hearts first they have armed themselves with outward Armour and carnal weapons and so in the ignorance have rose up one against another and smote and killed one another about Religion and Worship and what grievous havock hath been made about service of God in killing one another and so the Devil hath escaped and creatures hath suffered and this hath been in the night c. Even as a great mans servants although their Lord and master was very patient and exceeding loving and kind to them all and though they all did amiss and contrary to his will yet he continued his goodness to them all to see if they would learne to doe as he would have them and be quiet one with another and if they would not but continue in naughtinesse and rebellion against him and one against another then at the last he would reward them according to their doings but those servants after they had done evil against their Lord and master they would not agree together but find fault one of anothers service and then fight and beat one another impatiently about their masters service and so provoke one another the more till the enmity become so great that they began to kill one another and then blood that toucheth blood and so some destroyed others and when he that was Lord over all saw that he called them to an account that had killed their fellow servants and required their blood at their hands so they that had killed without mercy they must dye without mercy and that hath been and will be the end that the persecuting spirit hath and will bring persecuters to that will not return at the Lords reproof But they that have been armed with the Armour of Light and love they through the faith and power and patience thereof overcome the envious persecuting spirit in themselvs first and they are the called and chosen and faithful ones that are with the Lamb who have been exercised in the warfare within against the Devil and all the fleshly lusts that have warred against the soul first before they came forth into the field to joyn with Christ their Captain against his enemies or else the enemy within would make them turn to the enemy without and so they in the faith and patience follow the Lamb that taketh away the sin in the regeneration within before they come to joyn with him in open proclaimed wars against the Dragon and old Serpent and Gog and Magog and all others that rise up against the holy Seed Christ the Lamb who is the leader of all the whole Camp of God and the Captain of their salvation And now all you great and smal high and low people even from the Kings and Princes to the middle sort and from them to the meanest or least degree of all to whom this Information doth happen you have a description of your greatest adversary the spirit of envy and persecution which you are all required and that by Special Warrant from your God that made you to agree together and stand up with one consent and with all your strength of love joyn your selves to the noble Principle of God in every particular in order to the finding out stopping apprehending and taking of this insufferable enemy to mans peace on earth and good will towards one another that Christ the Prince of peace may be chief among you all to bring your souls into everlasting peace with the father in his everlasting Kingdom For of a truth the Lord of Hosts and his Son is arising in power and great glory from on High to destroy the grosse darknesse and great City Babylon and Confusion which hath reigned over the Kings of the earth and set them one against another to destroy one another And this Author of confusion and strife which is the spirit of pride and persecution hath no place in Heaven but is cast out and thrown down to the earth and hath been and still is in a great rage because he hath but a short time to reign there and woe hath been and still is to the inhabitants of the earth as it is said in the Revelation And the Devil upon earth and in the hearts of the children of disobedience hath stirred many Kings one against another and Nations and all hath through ignorance rose up against the Light and Lamb of God but all they have and may do and Gog and Magog together may rise up and joyn in battel against the Lamb and his chosen ones the Saints of the Most High yet as it is said The Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings Rev. 17. 14. And they that are with him that over comes are called and chosen and faithful and when Gog and Magog and their Armies hath made themselves in number as the sand of the Sea and hath spread themselves on the bredth of the earth and compassed the Camp of the Saints about and the Beloved City then shall fire come down from God out of Heaven and devour them and the Devil that deceived them shall be cast into the Lake where the Fire never goeth out as it is in Revelations the 20. He that hath an ear to hear let him hear and the meek shall eat and he satisfied they shall praise the Lord that seek him your hearts shall live for ever that draw neer unto him Oh let all the ends of the world remember and turn unto the Lord and all the kindreds and Nations shall worship before thee that obey thy voyce and their peace shall be as a flood and their righteousnesse as the waves of the Sea and they that through faith and patience and by the power of the word of God do overcome they shall inherit all things in the Kingdome of God and his Christ and they shall sit down at the right hand of the Son of everlasting life and glory even as he overcame and is sate downe at the right hand of God where is joy and pleasure for evermore Amen THE END