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A sermon wherein is showed that the church of God is sometimes a subject…A sermon wherein is shewed that the church of God is sometimes a subject…
A sermon wherein is showed that the church of God is sometimes a subject of great persecution; preached on a public fast at Boston in New-England: occasioned by the tidings of a great persecution raised against the Protestants in France. / By Increase Mather, teacher to a church of Christ. ; [Eight lines of quotations]A sermon wherein is shewed that the church of God is sometimes a subject of great persecution; preached on a publick fast at Boston in New-England: occasioned by the tidings of a great persecution raised against the Protestants in France. / By Increase Mather, teacher to a church of Christ. ; [Eight lines of quotations]
printed for Samuel Sewall, 1682
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.
Reas. 2. The power, & malice of Satan, is another Ground of the persecution suffered by the Saints. Satan hath an Hand in all those persecutions which are raised against the Church of God. In Rev. 3. 10. it is said, The Devil shall cast some of you into prison. If the people of God are cast In o Prisons, for the Truths sake; It is the Devil that does it; whoever are ⟨p. 12⟩the Instruments. And therefore in Rev. 12. end, we read of a Flood cast out of the mouth of the Dragon. When floods of persecution arise, they come out of the Dragons Mouth. And there are especially two ways, whereby Satan brings about his Design of persecuting the Churches of God.
Reas. 2. The power, & malice of Satan, is another Ground of the persecution suffered by the Saints. Satan hath an Hand in all those persecutions which are raised against the Church of God. In Rev. 3. 10. it is said, The Divel shall cast some of you into prison. If the people of God are cast In o Prisons, for the Truths sake; It is the Divel that does it; whoever are ⟨p. 12⟩the Instruments. And therefore in Rev. 12. end, we read of a Flood cast out of the mouth of the Dragon. When floods of persecution arise, they come out of the Dragons Mouth. And there are especially two wayes, whereby Satan brings about his Design of persecuting the Churches of God.
1. By Slandering of them. He is called [Greek or Hebrew] (i. e. a Slanderer) in the Scriptures. He raises evil Reports; causeth this and that Evil to be believed, concerning the Lords servants: as if they were Seditious, and Rebellious, & what not? So 'twas said of Jerusalem,