“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”
Mt. 5:10-12
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Order of Contents
Articles 8+
Book 1
Quotes 4
Latin 2
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Articles
1500’s
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
‘Persecution’ 517.b
What it is to persecute 517.b
How many sorts of persecutions there be 517.a [sic]
Whether the authority to persecute be meet or convenient for the Church 518.b
What kinds of persecution is the sorer 520.a
What kind of men be subject unto the persecutions of the Church 520.b
Calvin, John – ‘A Godly & Learned Sermon made by Mr. John Calvin, containing an Exhortation to Suffer Persecution, that we may therein follow Jesus Christ & his Gospel, taken out in this saying…’ on Heb. 13:13 in Two Godly & Learned Sermons, made by that famous and worthy instrument in God’s Church, Mr. John Calvin… (d. 1564; 1584)
de Brès, Guy – ‘That the Magistrates that Persecute the Faithful, under Color of Religion, shall be Tormented with Eternal Pains’ in The Staff of Christian Faith… for to Know the Antiquity of our Holy Faith… gathered out of the Works of the Ancient Doctors of the Church… (d, 1567; London, 1577), pp. 368-82
de Bres (1522-1567) was a Walloon pastor, Protestant reformer and theologian, a student of Calvin and Beza in Geneva.
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1600’s
Owen, John – Sermon 11, ‘The Use of Faith Under Reproaches & Persecutions’ on Hab. 2:4 in Sermons Published 1756 Works, vol. 9, pt. 3, pp. 490-516
Jackson, John – Sermon 26, ‘How Shall those Merchants Keep up the Life of Religion, who, while at Home, Enjoyed all Gospel-Ordinances, and when Abroad, are not only Destitute of them, but Exposed to Persecution?’ in Puritan Sermons, vol. 1, pp. 517-35
Watson, Thomas – ‘Persecution’ on Mt. 5:10 in Gleanings from Thomas Watson Buy
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1700’s
Whitefield, George – ‘Persecution Every Christian’s Lot’ on 2 Tim. 3:12
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1800’s
Spurgeon, Charles
‘Prosperity Under Persecution’ on Ex. 1:10-12 #997, MTP 17.349-360
Spurgeon, C.H. – ‘A Word for the Persecuted’ on 1 Sam. 10:20 #1188, MTP 20.457-68
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1900’s
Warfield, B.B. – For Christ’s Sake on Mt. 5:11 in Faith and Life: ‘Conferences’ in the Oratory of Princeton Seminary, pp. 32-42 (1916)
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Book
1600’s
Sermons Delivered in Times of Persecution in Scotland, by Sufferers for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ eds. John Howie & James Kerr (Edinburgh: Johnstone, Hunter, 1880) 675 pp. ToC
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Quotes
Augustine
On the Unity of the Church, XX, 53
“…not all persecution is blameworthy; otherwise it would not laudably be said ‘who secretly slanders a neighbor, I will persecute him’ (Ps. 101:5).
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Blaise Pascal
Pensees, section 14, Appendix: ‘Polemical Fragments’ in Pensees – The Provincial Letters in The Modern Library (NY: Modern Library, 1941), p. 304
“There is a pleasure in being in a ship beaten about by a storm, when we are sure that it will not founder. The persecutions which harass the Church are of this nature.”
“In addition to so many other signs of piety, they are also persecuted, which is the best sign of piety.”
“The Church is in an excellent state, when it is sustained by God only”
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Latin
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – Ecclesiastical Politics (Amsterdam: Waesberge, 1663)
vol. 3, pt. 2, bk. 1, Of the People of the Church, Tract 3
3. Of Persecution & Persecutors 112-21
vol. 4, pt. 3
bk. 2, Considerations on the Governing and Ordering of the Church Respecting its being Erected, Tract 3, Of the Government of the Churches Less Conspicuous
1. Of Hidden Churches 390
2. Of Churches Secretly Convening and Bearing up Under Toleration 401
bk. 3, Of the Government of the Church with Respect to a State of Turbulence, Tract 1, Of the Dispersion and Regathering of the Church
1. Of the Scattering or Dispersion of the Church 424
2. Of the Regathering and Reinstatement of Scattered Churches 426
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“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
Mt. 24:13
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