This is a certain Rule, The more there is of Religious end that any evil work hath, the more lasting, holding, and continuing is that evil work. Now in Joh. 16. 2. Our Saviour saith, They shall put you out of the Synagogue; yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God Service. The Syriac reads it so, That whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth bring a Sacrifice unto God. In Exod. 8. 20. saith the Lord by Moses, unto Pharaoh, Let my people go that they may serve me. Now this is the errand that Moses hath: Pharaoh answers it thus, ver. 25. And Pharaoh called for Moses, and for Aaron, and said, go ye, Sacrifice to your God in the Land. Moses saith in the Name of the Lord, Let my people go that they may serve me: Pharaoh understands it concerning Sacrifice, and therefore saith he, go and offer Sacrifice unto your God. And indeed the thing Sacrifice hath the same word. The word that is used here in this 16th of John, Whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth [Greek or Hebrew]. Now in Ephes. 5. the Sacrifice that Christ offered, hath the same word, Walk in love, as Christ hath also loved us, and hath given himself [Greek or Hebrew], An Offering and a Sacrifice. So that as good Authors do observe, What Christ saith here, They shall think that they do God good Service: 'tis as much as if he should say, They shall think when they kill you, they shall offer a great Sacrifice unto God. But this is the thing I bring it for, The more Religious end any evil action hath, the more holding and continuing is that evil action. Now wicked men for their malice, they shall have a Religious end; they shall think they do God good service: their malice therefore, and their wrath against the people of God, is never dying, and an everlasting wrath. Thus you see what kind of wrath it is.
This is a certain Rule, The more there is of Religious end that any evil work hath, the more lasting, holding, and continuing is that evil work. Now in Joh. 16. 2. Our Saviour saith, They shall put you out of the Synagogue; yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God Service. The Syriack reads it so, That whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth bring a Sacrifice unto God. In Exod. 8. 20. saith the Lord by Moses, unto Pharaoh, Let my people go that they may serve me. Now this is the errand that Moses hath: Pharaoh answers it thus, ver. 25. And Pharaoh called for Moses, and for Aaron, and said, go ye, Sacrifice to your God in the Land. Moses saith in the Name of the Lord, Let my people go that they may serve me: Pharaoh understands it concerning Sacrifice, and therefore saith he, go and offer Sacrifice unto your God. And indeed the thing Sacrifice hath the same word. The word that is used here in this 16th of John, Whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Now in Ephes. 5. the Sacrifice that Christ offered, hath the same word, Walk in love, as Christ hath also loved us, and hath given himself 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, An Offering and a Sacrifice. So that as good Authors do observe, What Christ saith here, They shall think that they do God good Service: 'tis as much as if he should say, They shall think when they kill you, they shall offer a great Sacrifice unto God. But this is the thing I bring it for, The more Religious end any evil action hath, the more holding and continuing is that evil action. Now wicked men for their malice, they shall have a Religious end; they shall think they do God good service: their malice therefore, and their wrath against the people of God, is never dying, and an everlasting wrath. Thus you see what kind of wrath it is.
