XXXXXXXXXXXXXX The children of Israel, were oppressed under Pharaoh; mind the end of that oppressor. Elijah was persecuted by Jezebel; mind that persecutors end. The prophet was threatened by Jeroboam; Zachary was stoned to death for his religion. Was not Micah for his religion thrown down, and his neck broken? Was not Amos smitten with a club on the temples of his head, and so brained for his religion sake? Was not Isaiah sawed asunder in two parts for his religion? Was not Jeremiah persecuted for his religion often, imprisoned, and put in a deep dungeon, and after stoned to death in Egypt? Was not Ezekiel slain in Babylon, by the duke of the people, for his religion? Was not Daniel thrown into the den of hungry lions, where he was preserved? Was not the three children thrown into the fiery furnace for their religion? Was not Baruch willing to flee, to save his life from king Joashs hand, for his religion, and testimony? Was not the prophet Urias slain with the sword by king Joiachim? Was not John Baptist beheaded by Herod the Tetrach? was not Stephen stoned to death by the great professing Jews, for his religion? Was not James beheaded by Herod Agrippa? Was not Peter crucified at Rome, under Nero, his head downward? Was not Andrew crucified by Aegas, king of Edissa, at Pataras, a city in Achaia? Was not James Alpheus, of Jerusalem, thrown down from high, and brained with a fullers club? Was not Thomas slain at Calamina, a city in India, where the Panims ran him through with a dart? Was not Philip crucified at Hierapolis, in Asia, for his religion? Was not Bartholomew flayed alive in Judea, and his skin plucked over his ears, and after beheaded? Was not Martha run through with a naked sword in Ethiopia? Was not Simon crucified? Was not Jude slain, and John scourged, and often times persecuted, and put in scalding hot oil? Was not Matthias knocked on the head with an axe, and beheaded? Was not Mark, the evangelist, with a rope put about his neck, drawn through the city of Alexandria, until his flesh was rent in pieces, and the stones colored with his blood, and at last was burnt to ashes? Did not Barnabas have a rope tied about his neck, and there plucked to the stake and burned? Did not all these suffer for religion, and that which persecuted them, was it not the birth that is born after the flesh; and is not this birth now to be seen in Christendom, which does persecute him that is born of the spirit, wrestling with flesh and blood; and so what is become of all these persecutors; does not the memorial of the wicked rot, and the memorial of the just live? XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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