7 Br. If the righteous are more 1excellent than others, then how ⟨p. 71⟩severe will God be against those that wrong them; the wicked are thorns in the sides of the godly; Saint Paul was scourged by cruel hands, 1 Cor. 11. 35. Thrice was I beaten with rods; a• if you should see a Scullion whip the Kings Son; but shall not God avenge his Elect? 2Surely he will; Isa. 34. 6, 8. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, for it is the day of the Lords vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. As if the Prophet had said, The time appointed is now come for Gods avenging Zion's wrongs. Jer. 50. 10, 11. Chaldea shall be a spoil. saith the Lord, because •e were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage. Jer. 30. 16. All that prey upon thee, will I give for a prey. The Saints are persons of Honour, they are God's first-born; Oh how enraged will the ⟨p. 72⟩Lord be against such as offer injury to them; they trample God's pearls in the dust, they strike at the apple of his eye. The righteous are Gods royal diadem, Isa. 62. 3. Will a King endure to have his Robes spit upon, and his Crown thrown in the dirt? What is done to the righteous, is done to God himself. When the Kings favourite is struck at, the King himself is struck at, 2 King, 19. 22. I know thy rage against me: The rage of Sennacherib was against the person of Hezekiah, but (there being a league between God and his people) the Lord took it as done to himself, I know thy rage against me: Certainly it shall not go unpunished, Psal. 105. 14. He reproved Kings for their sakes. What became of Julian, Nero, Diocletian? One of them had his death's wound from Heaven, others of ⟨p. 73⟩them had their bowels come out, and died raving. Charles the ninth of France, who had glutted himself with the blood of so many Christians in the Massacre at Paris, was in such inward horror, that he never durst be waked without Music, and at length blood issued out at so many parts of his body, that he died bleeding*. These were set up as public Monuments of God's vengeance.
7 Br. If the righteous are more 1excellent than others, then how ⟨p. 71⟩severe will God be against those that wrong them; the wicked are thorns in the sides of the godly; Saint Paul was scourged by cruel hands, 1 Cor. 11. 35. Thrice was I beaten with rods; a• if you should see a Skullion whip the Kings Son; but shall not God avenge his Elect? 2Surely he will; Isa. 34. 6, 8. The sword of the Lord is silled with blood, for it is the day of the Lords vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversie of Sion. As if the Prophet had said, The time appointed is now come sor Gods avenging Sion's wrongs. Jer. 50. 10, 11. Chaldea shall be a spoil. saith the Lord, because •e were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage. Jer. 30. 16. All that prey upon thee, will I give for a prey. The Saints are persons of Honour, they are God's first-born; Oh how enraged will the ⟨p. 72⟩Lord be against such as offer injury to them; they trample God's pearls in the dust, they strike at the apple of his eye. The righteous are Gods royal diadem, Isa. 62. 3. Will a King endure to have his Robes spit upon, and his Crown thrown in the dirt? What is done to the righteous, is done to God himself. When the Kings favourite is struck at, the King himself is struck at, 2 King, 19. 22. I know thy rage against me: The rage of Sennacherib was against the person of Hezekiah, but (there being a league between God and his people) the Lord took it as done to himself, I know thy rage against me: Certainly it shall not go unpunished, Psal. 105. 14. He reproved Kings for their sakes. What became of Julian, Nero, Dioclesian? One of them had his deathswound from Heaven, others of ⟨p. 73⟩them had theit bowels come out, and died raving. Charles the ninth of France, who had glutted himself with the blood of so many Christians in the Massacre at Paris, was in such inward horror, that he never durst be waked without Musick, and at length blood issued out at so many parts of his body, that he died bleeding
- 17 Branch.
- 2Luk. 18. 7.
- *Acts and Mon.
