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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40142	Concerning persecution in all ages to this day ... G. Fox.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing F1769; ESTC R15836	12,055	22

Imprisonments and afflictions and torments the saints went through in the 11th of Hebrews And saith Peter if when you do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God for even hereunto were ye called if a man for Conscience sake towards God suffer grief this is thank-worthy because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an Example that we should follow his steps who when he was reviled he reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to God who judges righteously for Christ hath once suffered for sin the Just for the Unjust that he might bring us to God forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the Flesh arm your selves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the Flesh hath ceased from sin but the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory saith the Apostle by Christ Jesus after that you have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen and settle you cast all your care upon God for he careth for you and Rejoice inasmuch as you are made pertakers of Christs Sufferings c. and think it not strange concerning the fiery tryalls which are to try you as though some strange thing had happened unto you for if ye be Reproacht and suffer for the name of Christ happly are ye for the Spirit of Glory and of God rests upon you on their part he is evill Spoken of but on your part he is Glorified if any man Suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him gloryfie God on this behalf wherefore let them that Suffer according to the Will of God commit the keeping of their Souls to him in well-doing as to a Faithful Creator and if ye suffer for Righteousness sake happy are ye and be not affraid of their Terrour neither be troubled having a good conscience that whereas they speak evill of you as evill doers they may be ashamed that falsly accuse your good Conversation for it is better if the will of God so be that ye suffer for Well doing than for Evil-doing for we both labour and suffer Reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of them that believe And the Apostle said He was appointed a Teacher of the Gentiles for the which Cause he also suffered c. but he was not ashamed for he knew in whom he believed and said Though he suffered as an Evil-doer even unto Bonds but the Word of God is not bound nay the eternal word of God that lives and abides and endures forever by which all things were made and created this word of God cannot be bound by that which was created by it and doth not live and endure forever therefore saith the Apostle I endure all things for the Elects sake that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Iesus with eternall Glory it is a faithful saying if we be dead with Christ we shall also live with him and if we suffer with Christ we shall also reign with him and if we deny him he also will deny us c. And you may see what Persecutions and Afflictions came upon the Apostle at Antioch and at Iconium and at Listra what Persecutions he endured but out of them all the Lord delivered him yea and all that will Live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer Persecution Mark shall if they live Godly but evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived therefore he exhorts Timothy to watch in all things and endure Afflictions c. for he was ready to be offered up for the time of his departure was at hand and he had fought the good fight and finisht his course and kept the faith and there was a Crown of Righteousness laid up for him which the Lord the Righteous Judge will give him at the Last Day and not to him only but unto all them also that Love his appearing for God hath not given to us a Spirit of Fear but of Power of Love and of a sound mind therefore the Apostle saith unto Timothy Be not thou therefore ashamed of our Lord nor of me his prisoner but be thou a pertaker of the affliction for the Gospell according to the Power of God who hath saved us and called us by a holy calling c. And Iohn saith I know thy works Tribulations and poverty but thou art rich fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the Devill shall cast some of you into prison that you may be tryed and ye shall have Tribulation Ten dayes but be thou faithfull to death and I will give thee a Crown of life this was spoken to the Church in Smyrna And you may see in the 11th Chap. how the witnesses of Christ suffered and when they had taken away their Lives and the dead Bodies lay in the Streets of the great City which is spiritually called Sodom and Aegypt so not naturally called so where Christ our Lord Saviour was crucified that was through the great Letter Professors the Jews before the Witness was slain but after three dayes and a half the Spirit of Life from God entred into the Witnesses and they stood upon their Feet which frightned their Enemies and the Witnesses were called up to heaven and the same hour there was a great Earthquake and the tenth part of the City fell and was shaken down so here was the reward upon the City and the Persecuting Citizens And again you may see how the Dragon persecuted the Woman the True Church which brought forth the Man Child after he was cast out of Heaven by Michael and his Angels but the Woman or True Church was nourished for a Time and Times and Half a Time in the Wilderness and the Earth helped the Woman and the Earth opened her Mouth and swallowed up the Flood which the Dragon cast out of his Mouth after her and the Dragon was wroth with the Woman and went to make war with the Remnant of her Seed which kept the Commands of God and have the Testimony of Jesus Now you may see what the Devil the Dragon and all his Followers persecute and what his Wrath is against the true Church the Woman that brought forth the Man Child and they that kept the Commands of God and have the Testimony of Jesus Christ and then the Dragon he gave his wicked persecuting Power to the Beast and he also was to continue Forty Two Months and he got up in such a Rage in the Devil's power that he opened his Mouth in Blasphemy against God to blaspheme his Name and his Tabernacle and mark them that dwell in Heaven not them that dwell upon the Earth for all that dwell in the Earth worship him but those whose Names are written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World to wit they do not worship him He that hath an Ear