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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41028	A plain record, or declaration shewing the origin, root and race of persecutors together with the nature, practice and end of that generation ... so their reward will be according to their work / [by] H.F.	H. F. (Henry Fell)	1661 (1661)	Wing F605; ESTC R28625	14,938	20

regarded not the word of the Lord nor of Moses that bid him get him out of his sight And so there was the end of those Persecutors Sampson was betrayed by his Dallilah and Persecuted by the Philistines but the Lord brought an end to his Persecutors Therefore beware all ye that Trust not in the Living God least you lose your Strength and be betrayed by your Dallilah's Balaam was a Persecutor who loved the Wages of Unrighteousness a Deceive and a Dissembler in whose way many go But mark their ways and his that go against the righteous Seed the End was destruction who went against the righteous Seed and Life and there was the End of that Persecutor Saul Persecuted David when the evil Spirit came upon him and the Spirit of the Lord departed from him and pursued him up and down and hunted him like a Partridge and a Fly but the Lord overthrew that Persecutor Absalom Persecuted his Father David and sought after his Life to get the Kingdom to himself and Ahithophel was his Counsellor whose Counsel God confounded and brought to nought and the Lord overthrew both him and Absalom and so they fell into the Pit which they had digged and there was the End of those Persecutors 2 Sam. 17 18. Chapters Shimei one of Saul's Family was a Persecutor who cursed King David and flung stones at him and cried out Come out thou bloody man and thou man of Belial c. 2 Sam. 16.6 7. Now though David did pardon Shimei that he did not take away his Life yet mark what came after Solomon his Son caused him to be slain See 1 King 2.46 and there was an End of that Persecutor Ioash the King and his Counsellors were Persecutors as ye may read 2 Chron. 24. what became of them and what was their End that persecuted the Prophets of the Lord and slew Zechariah a Prophet of God whom the King commanded to be stoned to death in the Court of the House of the Lord who in love warned them for their souls eternal good but to reproach they turned it and made a mock of the Prophets and slighted the Messengers of God and accounted of the Spiritual men as Mad-men and called the Prophets Fools But the uprightest of them is as sharp as a Thorn-hedge and the best of them as a Bryar Among whom many of the Prophets trembled shook and quaked in Sackcloath and Ashes and shewed several Signs and if they came Piping or if they came with Repentance to them they did not regard Therefore the Lord left them over to their own hearts lusts to perish in their gain-sayings as Corah Dathan and Abiram did whom the Earth opened and swallowed up quick Numb 1. Therefore consider all ye Persecutors upon the Earth and remember your Examples that be gone before read the Scriptures of Truth and see in whose paths and steps ye walk for they who love Enemies as Christ commanded and keep brotherly love and fellowship and esteem well of all men they can hurt no creature upon the Earth The Righteous hath alwayes suffered in the whole world and hath been persecuted unto death upon the account that they have been the Tares the false Prophets and the Deceivers for which doing Christ gave them no Example nor any Command for all the Persecution that hath been since the dayes of the Apostles Though in the Law they were not to spare their nearest Relations Wife Brother or Sister that drew them from the Law of God and went to set up another god if he were a Blasphemer or a false Prophet they were not to be spared but to be put to death by the Law of God Which Law of God Christ being put to death ended and he saith Love Enemies For the Jews said who persecuted Christ they had a Law by which if any man said he was the Son of God was to dye and to be put to death Therefore the People might say as they say now They were but subject to the higher Powers But mark the end of those Blasphemers that persecuted the Son of God to death the Prince of Life And mark the end of those Persecutors that persecute Christ where he is manifested in his Members that visited not them in Prison and came not to them when they were sick and cloathed them not and fed them not Such he saith must go into everlasting punishment much more them that cast into Prison shall receive the Reward of Persecutors The Children of Israel were persecuted by the Heathen whom the Lord overthrew Haman persecuted Mordecai and the Jews and would have had them all put to death and Mordecai hanged because he feared God and could not bow to proud Haman So the same thing that should have been done unto Mordecai befel Haman and so there was an end of that Persecutor Ahab the King persecuted Micaiah the Prophet and commanded that he should be cast into Prison and fed with Bread and Water till he returned from the Battel at Ramoth-Gilead because he could not flatter him and speak well of him as the false Prophets the Prophets of Baal did So Ahab the King was slain in the Battel and did not return in Peace according to Micaiah's words And there was an End of that Persecutor Ieroboam the King his hand Withered which he put forth against the Man of God who cryed against the Altar in Bethel and their Idolatry there See 1 King 13. Rechab and Baanah the Sons of Rimmon did Persecute and Slay Ishbosheth the Son of Saul a righteous person in his own house upon his Bed and cut off his Head and brought it to King David and looked for a Reward for this their Murder saying to David they had killed his Enemy and avenged him upon Saul and his seed But David commanded his young-men and they slew them both Rechab and Baanah and cut off their heads and that was their Reward for their Persecuting and Killing a Righteous Person Iob's Friends persecuted him and reviled him and see the end of them that Job was constrained to offer sacrifice for them and make intercession to God for them See Job 42. And though People reade in the Scriptures daily yet they do not consider The Iews persecuted David who was of the Royal Seed of whom David said Let their Children become Vagabonds And so they were according to his Prophecy and are at this day and their Eyes blinded and they bow down their backs alwayes So be all the Vagabonds and Blood-shedders whose eyes are blinded backs bowed down that be out of the Life and Power which the Jews went out of and Cain And so do all the Christians so called and all People upon the Earth whose eyes are blinded and they gone from the Life of God in themselves These let in the Devil the Murderer and Lyar that went forth of the Truth and so goes from the Principle of Life and Dominion These are the Vagabonds and the

them alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with Brimstone and all that drink of the Whores Cup and worship the Beast shall be tormented and drink the Cup of the Indignation of the Lord God Almighty And here is the end of those wicked Persecutors Iudas the Persecutor who betrayed his Master and kissed him and sold him to the Priests for Thirty Pieces of Silver who thirsted after his Blood the Blood of the Innocent But mark his end with his Company with their Swords and Staves He hanged himself The Iews persecuted Paul up and down from place to place after he came to receive the Mercy which many now receive his Words but persecute his Life And after that he came to exercise his Conscience to keep it void of offence towards God and towards man then they did account Paul an Heretick and a mover of Sedition and a Pestilent Fellow and one who turned the World up-side down and was accounted not fit to live upon the Earth when many of the Jews and Proselytes that feared God followed Paul and Barnabas who exhorted them to continue in the Grace of God But when the rest of the Jews saw the People they were full of envy and spake against Paul and railed on them And they stirred up certain devout women and chief men of the City and raised Persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their Coasts But they shook off the Dust of their Feet as a Witness against these Persecutors Forty of the Jews bound themselves with an Oath and conspired together with the Priests and Council to kill Paul but were prevented by the Chief Captain Again when the Jews saw Paul in the Temple they moved all the People and laid hands on him crying Men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth all men every-where against the People and the Law and this Place Moreover he hath brought Grecians into the Temple and hath polluted this holy Place Then all the City was moved and the People ran together and they took Paul and drew him out of the Temple to kill him but were prevented by the chief Captain who rescued him out of their hands and they cryed against him Away with such a fellow from the Earth for it is not meet that he should live So Paul found more favour from the Romans who were Heathen than from his own Nation who were Jews and the greatest Professors then in the World And Ananias the High-Priest and the Elders and Tertullus the Orator accused Paul unto Felix the Governour and told him that they had found Paul a pestilent fellow and a mover of Sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a chief maintainer of the Sect of the Nazarites and would have polluted the Temple and afterwards the High-Priests and the chief of the Jews appeared before Festus against Paul and would have had him sent him to Jerusalem and they laid wait by the way to have killed him But ye may read what was the end of all these bloody Persecutors who drew nigh unto God with their lips and with their mouthes honoured him but removed their hearts far off from him So the lip-servers will-worshippers will persecute now as the Jews did of old But they that worship God in Spirit and in Truth which the Devil is out of cannot persecute for they can love Enemies and bless those that curse them and pray for them that persecute them and do good for evil So these are the true Christians and followers of Christ The Word of the Lord God to you all Let no one persecute about Church Worship Religion Maintenance and Ministry that profess themselves to be Christians For Christ gives no such Command nor Example but to love Enemies for He rebuked his Disciples who would have had Fire come down from Heaven on them who would not receive them and were contrary-minded to them as the Prophet had done Therefore Christ who fulfilled the Law and the Prophets rebuked their zeal and told them He came not to destroy mens lives but to save them Therefore ye that are Persecutors and Destroyers of Mens Lives ye are not in Christ's Mind Life nor Doctrine nor the Spiritual men that wrestle with Spiritual weapons but you are carnal of which as I said before the Devil was the author and the beginner of And the Lamb and the Saints and the Bride and his Wife shall have the Victory the First and the Last shall reign wherein Alpha and Omega shall be known over the Persecutors the Begining and the End the Lamb of God's Kingdom the First and the Last So now in these last days the Prophets of the Lord have warned the Turk warned the Pope and warned most of the Kings in Christendom of their Persecution whose Field lies like a Field of Blood who staines the Earth with it that the Inhabiters of it are Vagabonds like Cain that killed the Righteous so that the Earth doth not yeeld her full strength Therefore are there so many Beggars desolate people in Poverty among them Peter and Jude prophesied and saw a persecuting Cain that would kill about Religion was getting up among the Christians before their decease which would be Preachers or Teachers who were by the Apostles judged John in the Revelations saw Iezebel that would be a Prophet and a Teacher among the Churches which Iezebel was a Persecuter and a drinker of the Blood of the Saints and Prophets whom John rebuked and such as set her up and followed her Therefore O consider Have not Persecutors been set up by a Law since the Apostles dayes and the Doctrine of Christ trampled under foot which teacheth to love Enemies and overcome evil with good And have you not read in Heb. 11. how they persecuted the Saints and spoiled the Saints goods and how they wandered in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins of whom the World was not worthy who lived in Dens and Caves of the Earth And again he saith I saw the Beast and the Kings of the Earth and their Armies gathered together to make war against Him that sate upon the white horse who was cloathed with a Vesture dipt in blood the Lord Jesus Christ whose Name was called The Word of God and against his Army the Saints that were with Him And the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought Miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the Mark of the Beast and them that worshipped his Image These both were cast alive into the Lake of Fire burning with Brimstone And the Remnant were slain with the Sword of him that sat upon the white horse which proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls of the aire were filled with their flesh And this was the end of those Persecutors The Ministers of Unrighteousness and false Apostles and Messengers of Satan and his Ministers were the Persecutors of the Righteous like their Father the Devil and walked in his steps as