Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all…

2. If it be God's work and design to cause Light and Comfort to arise to the Righteous: why then, how contrary do they act to God, whose work it is to cause Darkness and Sorrow to the Righteous? God's design and theirs cross each other. There is a Woe belongs to them that make the Hearts of the Righteous sad, In Ezek. 13. 22. God is creating Light for his People, and the Enemies of the Church, they are laying snares for them; God he is pouring Wine and Oil into his Peoples Wounds, and the Enemies of Zion, they are pouring Vinegar into the Wounds; how contrary do these act to God? the Children of Romish Babylon, they are at this day plotting the Ruin of God's People: they would turn the Church of God into an Aceldama, a Field of Blood. The Lord, he makes Light to arise to the Godly, and the Wicked, they labour to make Darkness and Sorrow arise to them. But, such as lay snares for the Righteous, God will rain snares ⟨p. 22⟩upon them: Psal. 11. 6. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, Fire and Brimstone. The Wicked Enemies of the Church, they strike at Christ through his Members Sides; and let them know that 'tis kicking against a Rock. Christ will be too hard for all his Enemies; he will be victorious at last: the Enemies, they may bid defiance to Heaven, they may set up their Standards against Heaven: but God always comes off Conqueror, and sets up his Trophies. If there be either Justice in Heaven, or Fire in Hell, the Enemy shall not go unpunished. Psal. 11. 13. He hath ordained his Arrows against the Persecutors. God has his Arrow upon the String to shoot at Persecutors, and be assured God never misseth his mark. Diocletian razed down the Christians Temples, and burnt their Bibles: but God was avenged on him; he was afterwards stricken with Frenzy, and poisoned himself. Persecutors never thrive upon that bloody Trade.