of course judgements like this do not only apply to bloody rome or of folks who literally spill the saints blood by their persecution but it applies in various ways. As I said earlier in the week, I had cause to run across an ole adversary of mine, and he once again picked up where he left off, even though I never sought him out, and he came from nowhere. People who are persistent in such actions, against God’s people, (and this individual it spreads far wider than against just myself, but also other of God’s people) will one day reap what they have sown, unless they turn from their wicked ways, and repent.
Thomas Blavar, one of the privvy counsellors of the King of Scots, was a sore persecutor of the people of God in that land; when he lay on his dying bed he fell into despair, and cried out that he was damned: and when the monks came about him to comfort him, he cried out upon them saying, ‘that their masses and other trash would do him no good; but all that he did was for the love of money, and not of religion, not respecting or beleiving that there was either a God or a devil, a hell or a heaven; and therefore he was damned, there was no remedy but he must go to hell, and in this case, without a sign of repentance he died. [Thomas Brooks]
