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A PARISH LOOKING-GLASSE FOR Persecutors of Ministers.
THe Persecutors of faithfull Ministers in these times, may behold as in a glasse, the vilenesse of their sinne, and the great displeasure of God against them for it: If they look into the Scripture, or later Histories, and dai∣ly experience. We read (2 Chron 36. 14, 15.) And the Lord God of their Fathers sent unto them by his Messengers, ri∣sing up betimes, and sending them: because he had compassion on his house, and on his dwelling place: But they mocked the Messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his Prophets, untill the wrath of God arose against his people, till there was no remedy: Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees, who slow their young men with the sword, in the house of their Sanctuary, &c. And Ahab and Jezabel per∣secuted the Prophets of God, but dogs licked up the bloud of Ahab, after he was slain, and dogs did eat persecuting Jezabel. The chil∣dren which did mock, and miscall Elisha the Prophet and Minister of God, were two and fourty of them torn in pieces by wilde Bears (2 Kings 2.) They were the children of Persecutors of Gods Mini∣sters, and spake their parents language. The Persecutors of the Pro∣phet Jeremiah, said, Come let us devise devices against Jeremiah, let us smite him with the tongue (Jer. 18. 18.) Therefore God delivered up their children to the famine, and their bloud was poured out by force of the sword. Those that persecuted our Saviour the great Shepherd, and did perswade people not to hear him preach, saying, He is mad, and hath a Devil, why hear ye him? (Joh. 10. 20.) and would stone him,