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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 18. 2. And for examples, the captivity first, and afterward the casting off of the Jews, may serve in stead of many, 2 Chron. 36. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words and misused his Prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. And of their casting off, see Mat. 23. 37, 38. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how oft would I have gathered thy children together as a Hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not: behold your house is left unto you desolate—And vers. 34, 35, 36. Behold I send unto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute them from City to City; that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar: Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come on this generation. To give you the particular examples of Gods judgements against Persecutors, and their posterity after them, would be a Voluminous work: You may find them in the Holy Scriptures, and the Churches Martyrologies.
§. 18. 2. And for examples, the captivity first, and afterward the casting off of the Jews, may serve in stead of many, 2 Chron. 36. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words and misused his Prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. And of their casting off, see Mat. 23. 37, 38. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how oft would I have gathered thy children together as a Hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not: behold your house is left unto you desolate—And vers. 34, 35, 36. Behold I send unto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes; and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie, and some of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute them from City to City; that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar: Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come on this generation. To give you the particular examples of Gods judgements against Persecutors, and their posterity after them, would be a Voluminous work: You may find them in the Holy Scriptures, and the Churches Martyrologies.