The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians: who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660Braght, Thieleman J. van (Thieleman Janszoon)
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The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians: who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660
Braght, Thieleman J. van (Thieleman Janszoon)
Anabaptists -- Europe -- Biography; Christian martyrs -- Biography; Persecution
Since daily intercourse and mingling with ungodly apostates, in common
eating, drinking, buying, selling, and similar unnecessary temporal
or worldly transactions, is not only dangerous for the pious, who,
thereby, may become contaminated, or be counted as companions of the
apostate, but is also hurtful to the apostate himself, since he,
through such mingling, may probably harden in sin, and esteem his
offense of less consequence, therefore, we understand from the word of
God, that--in order to avoid, according to the unction of the Spirit,
the dangers of sin, and offenses, and to bring the apostate sinner to
shame and repentance--the true members of Christ must withdraw from the
daily intercourse and communion with impenitent apostates; must shun
them, and have nothing to do with them; and this without respect to
persons, as far as they are not bound to the apostate by any command
of God; for as one may do anything in the matter of shunning, which is
contrary to love, benevolence, Christian propriety and justice, which
supreme virtues a Christian is in duty bound to show unto all men,
even to his enemies, for which purpose God has given all laws, which
may, for no reason, be diminished, much less, broken or transgressed. 1
Cor. 5:5; 2 Tim. 2:21; 2 Thess. 3; Tit. 3; 2 Thess. 3:14; 2 Pet. 1:6;
Tit. 2:12; Rom. 13:8; Matt. 5:44; Rom. 13:9,10; 1 Tim. 1:5; Rev. 22:19;
Matt. 5:19; James 2:1.
OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND THE
LAST JUDGMENT.
Finally, we believe, that the Son of the living God, the Lord Jesus
Christ, our only Prophet, Priest and King, will visibly, as he
ascended, descend from heaven, in the clouds, and all the holy angels
of God with him, with power and great glory, with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, which shall be heard
everywhere. Then all men who have lived upon earth, and have died, good
and evil, just and unjust, shall rise from the dead, in incorruption,
with their own body, in which they have lived; but those who still
live on that day, and have not tasted death, shall be changed, in the
twinkling of an eye, to incorruption, at the last sound of the last
trumpet. Acts 1:11; Rev. 1:7; 2 Thess. 1:7; 1 Thess. 4:16; Matt. 24:50;
Zeph. 1:16; Matt. 25:7; 2 Cor. 5:10; Rom. 14:11; Jer. 5:29; Acts 24:15;
1 Cor. 15:42; Jer. 26:19; 1 Cor. 15:38,52.
Thus, the whole human family shall be placed before the judgment seat
of Christ; that every one may receive in his body, according to that
he hath done, whether it be good or bad. For the Lord Jesus Christ
shall then, as a shepherd, separate the sheep from the goats. Those
who have done good, he shall set on his right hand, but those that
have done evil, on the left; and he shall there pronounce the eternal,
irrevocable sentence. 2 Cor. 5:10; Matt. 25:32,33,46; Jude 14.
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