these they are haile fellow well met But with sincere Christians and Practicers of piety he can never agree the religious shall be sure of opposition because their light is contrary to his darknesse grace in the one is a secret disgrace to the other Yea let wicked men be at never so much odds one with another yet they will concurre and joyne against the godly As for example Edom and Ishmael Moab and the Hâ—garens Gebal and Ammon Ammaleck and the Philistims the men of Tyre and Assur had each severall gods yet all conspired against the true God Psal 83.5 to 9. Manasses against Ephraim and Ephraim against Manasses but both against Juda. Herod and Pilate two enemies will agree so it be against Christ they will fall in one with another to fall out with God The Saduces Pharisees and Heredians were Sectaries of divers and adverse factions all differing one from another and yet all these joyne together against our Saviour Matth. 22. The Libertines Cyrenians Alexandrions Cilicians and Asians differ they never so much will joyne in dispute against Steeven Acts 6.9 Herod neither loved the Jews nor the Jewes Herod yet both are agreed to vex the Church I cannot thinke of a fitter embleme of a naturall man then Lime which agreeth well with all things that are dry and of it's owne nature but meeting with water a thing directly opposite it breaks burnes swels smokes crackles skips and scatters so nature will give a man leave to be any thing save a sound Christian and agree with all others be their conditions never so contrary provided they agree in the maine are all seed of the same Serpent But let the naturall man meet with one that is spirituall they agree like heate and cold if one stayes the other flies or if both stay they agree like two poysons in one stomacke the one being ever sicke of the other be they never so neer alyed As how many a wife is so much the more hated because a zelous wife How many a child lesse beloved because a religious child How many a servant lesse respected because a godly servant And no marvell for though they dwell in the same house yet they belong to two severall kingdomes and albeit they both remaine on earth yet they are governed by two severall lawes the ones burguship being in Heaven Phil. 3.20 And the other being a denizon belonging to Hell as Irish-men are dwellers in Ireland but denizons of England and governed by the Statutes of this kingdome Neither is this of theirs an ordinary hatred but the most bitter exorbitant unlimited unplacable of all others No such concord no such discord saith one of the learned as that which proceeds from Religion My name saith Luther is more odious unto them then any thief or murtherer as Christ was more detestable to the Iewes then Barrabas Behold saith David mine enemies for they are many and they hate me with a cruell batred Psal 25.19 yea so cruell that it makes their teeth gnash and their hearts burst againe Act. 7.54 which made the Truths adversaties give Saint Paul stripes above measure 2 Cor 11.2 3. And the Heathen Emperours to devise such cruell tortures for all those which but profest themselves Christians Yea agreement in some points when there are differences in the maine does but advance hatred the more Witnesse the Reigne of Queene Mary and the Butchery over all France of above two hundred thousand Protestants besides the many thousands of late yeares Yea aske from East to West from one Pole to the other search all Records under Heaven if ever there was the like of the intended Powder-Plot You cannot anger a wicked man worse than to doe well Ye hee hates you more bâ—tterly for this and the credâ—t you gaine thereby than if you had cheated him of his Patrimony with your owne discredit But that there is no hatred so virulent and bitter as that which is occasioned by vertuous living and professing of CHRISTS Name our Saviour Himselfe proves copiously Matthew 10. Luke 21. Quest Wherein consists their unlikenesse and contrariety Answ Chiefly in foure particulars thou hindeed there bee more differences betweene the Children of God and the children of the Devill than there are betweene men and beasts First they exceedingly differ in their judgments touching Wifedom 1 Cor. 1.18.20 23. and â— 14. and 4.10 Luke 6.27 to 36. Acts 26.24 Wisd 5.4 Gen. 41.8 Iob 5.13 Proverbs 28.11 Ierem. 4.22 1 Cor. 3.19 Exodus 1.10 Ioshua 9.4 Titus 3.9 Proverbs 10. verse 18. Rom. 16. ver 19. Happinesse Luke 6.26 and 8.13 Iames 4.4 Marke 16 16. Iohn 3.16 18. and 8.34 36. Romans 6.16 18.22 Psal 2.3 4. and 10.3 and 12.4 2 Tim. 2.26 Mal. 3.15 Revel 3.17 1 Thes 5.3 Fortitude Prov. 28.1 2. Rev. 13.6 7. and 12 13 17. Mar. 13.9 Acts 7.52 Matth. 10.28 Galathians 4.29 Iohn 16.2 Sinne Luke 16.15 Prov. 13.19 Marke 7.5 11 12.13 Luke 7.33 34. Matth. 7.14 1 Peter 4.18 Psalm 35.13.16 Holines Acts 26.9 Exo. 8 26. 1 Cor. 4.10 and 2.14 Pro. 13.19 Psal 14.1 Ier. 44.16 to 1â— Yea they are of a reprobate judgment touching actions and persons say 5.20 and so speake thinks and doe all by contraries like Heliogaâ—â—â— who wore shooes of Gold and Rings of Leather or the Blackmoores who judge of beautie by contraries Wherefore reade their words as Schollers do Hebrew backward and you have the meaning for instance doe they call thee Puritan as nothing more frequent in their mouthes understand by it Saint for a Christian indeed as thou art is a Puritan in the devils language and a Christian in name only as such an one is is an Atheist in Gods language Secondly They no lesse differ in their Passionâ— and affections of Love Psal 119.57 72. and 17 14. Feare Prov. 28.1 2. 1 Tim. 4.1 Rom. 2.14 15. Anger Acts 7.52 to 60. and 5.30 to 34. Prov. 12.10 Rev. 18.19 20. Ioy 1 Pet. 2.7 8. Ioh 3.15 Matth. 11.19 And the like which for brevities sake I forbeare Thirdly they differ no lesse in Practice and this breeds many quarrels as what more common than for all sorts and kinds of men to hate scorne persecute reproach revile accuse slander and condemne the Religious because their owne workes are evill and wicked and the others good holy and righteous Wherefore slew Caine his brother saith Saint Iohn but because his owne Workes were evâ—ll and his brotheâ—s good 1 Iohn 3.12 Why was Joseph accused of hâ—s Mistreffe for an Adulterer and thereupon committed to prison but because hee would not be an Adulterer like her Genesis 39. Yea it was his particoloured Coate composed of all kindes of graces and blessings that formerly procured his Brethrens hate And what is it that Jobs Wife expostulates with him about but his integrity As if she tooke it ill that he tooke it no worse his patience made her impatient Wherefore was holy David as himselfe complaines almost in every Psalme Had in derision hated slandered
thou shalt bruise his heele Quest What is meant here by Enmity Answ A bitter immoderate inveterate irreconciliable and endlesse hatred and division opposite to that amity and familiarity which formerly had been betweene the Woman and the Serpent Quest Betweene whom was this Enmity proclaimed Answ Betweene the Serpent and his seed on the one side and the Woman and her seed on the other Quest What is meant by the Serpent and his Seed Answ First by the Serpent we are to understand Satan who opened the Serpents mouth and caused it to speake with mans voice as the Lord by an Angell opened the mouth of Balaams Asse Numbers 22. Secondly By the Serpents seed is meant the whole generation of wicked men as all Interpreters conclude and other Scriptures make cleare calling them Serpents Generation of Vipers and Children of the Devill Matth. 23.33 John 8.44 1 John 3.10 Quest What is meant by the Woman and her Seed Answ By the woman is meant Eve by her seed we are to understand first and chiefly Christ the singular Seed who was so the Seed of the Woman as that he was not of the Man Gal. 4.4 being borne of a Virgin Isaiah 7.14 Secondly It imployeth all his members the Elect when once regenerate who are not onely Eves seed as she was the Mother of all living by nature but by faith also as else where they are called the seed or children of Abraham Gal. 3.29 Quest What occasioned the Lord to proclaime this enmity Answ Adams sinne in eating the forbidden fruit and Satans malice in moving and seducing him thereunto was the meritorious cause the originall of this discord is from Originall sin Quest What Instruction affords this Answ First That to be without reproaches and persecutions wee may rather wish then hope For what peace can we looke for betweene the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent seeing God himselfe from the beginning hath set them at enmity Yea once to expect it were an effect of frenzy not of hope Secondly If the Lord hath put this enmity between us and the wicked here is comfort in suffering warrant in opposing Thirdly If the Seed of the Woman fight on Christs side and they have Gods Word for their warrant they are sure to have him assist them and prevent their enemies And is not that God we fight for able enough to vindicate all our wrongs Quest Doth that hatred and enmity continue to this day Answ Yes the words are set downe indefinitely without limitation and so signifie that it shall be perpetuall from the beginning of time to the end of all time When time saith one began this malice first began nor will it end but with the latest man it is an everlasting Act of Parliament like a Statute in Magna Charta Quest To proceed from Explication to Confirmation and so to Application How prove you That there hath beene in all ages past is now and ever shall bee betweene the wicked and the godly a perpetuall Warre enmity and strife according to the Lords Prediction or Proclamation Answ For proofe I could produce testimonies and examples innumerable there being scarce a page in the Bible which doth not expresse or imply somewhat touching this enmity Yea as if the Scriptures contained nothing else the Holy Ghost significantly calls them the Booke of the Battles of the Lord Numb 21.14 as Rupertus well observes But I will confine my selfe and onely mention three examples in every age 1. To begin with the first age Viz. the old World before the Flood We reade of this war enmity and strife betweene Caine and Abel 1 John 3.12 Between Lâ—mech and the holy Seed Gen. 4.23 24. and between those wicked Gyants which Moses speakes of and the sonnes of God Gen. 6.2 to 12. Yea those Gyants bade battle to Heaven as our Mythologists add to ver 4. 2. After the Flood before the Law betweene all the men of Sodome and righteous Let Gen. 19.4 9.11 2 Pet. 2.8 Betweene Hagar and Ishmael the Bondwoman and her sonne and Sarah and Isaac the Free-woman and her son Gen. 21.9 10. Gal. 4 29. And between Esau and Jacob first in the wombe the more plainely to shadow out this enmity Gen. 25.22 23. and after they were borne Gen. 27.41 3. After the Law before Christ betweene Doeg and the eighty five Priests which he slew with the edge of the sword 1 Sam. 22.18 19. Betweene Jezabell and all the Prophets of the Lord which she destroyed 1 Kings 18.13 14. And betweene the Heads in Israel in Micahs time and all that were good Micah 3.2 4. Since the Gospell in the time of Christ and his Apostles this enmity so manifested it selfe not onely in the Gentiles but in the Jewes Gods owne people who first moved those persecutions against Christ and his Members that having beheaded John Baptist his Harbinger and crucified himselfe the Lord of life we read that of all the Twelve none dyed a naturall death save onely Saint John and he also was banished by Domitian to Pathmos and at another time thrust into a Tun of seething oyle at Rome as Tertullian and Saint Hierom doe report See Acts 7.51 to 60. 12.1 to 5. Rom. 8.36 Iohn 21.18 19. Now all these besides many other of his Disciples suffered martyrdome meerely for professing the faith of Christ whereof some were stoned some crucified some beheaded some thrust thorow with Speares some burnt with fire with a multitude of other Beleevers for Ecclesiasticall History makes mention of two thousand which suffered the same day with Nicanor Acts and Monuments page 32. which makes Saint Pâ—ul cry out I thinke that God hath set forth us the last Apostles as men appointed to death 1 Corinâ—h 4.9 5. After the Apostles if we consider the residue of the ten Persecutions raysed by the Romans against the Christians which was for three hundred yeares till the comming of godly Constantine we find that there was such an innumerable company of innocent Christians put to death and tormented that Saint Hierome in his Epistle to Chromatius and Heâ—â—odorus saith There is no one day in the whole yeare unto which the number of five thousand Martyrs might not be ascribed except onely the first day of Ianuary who were put to the most exquisite deaths and torments that ever the wit or malice of men or Devils could invent to inflict we reade of no lesse then twenty nine severall deaths that they were put unto if no other be omitted 6. From the Primitive times and infancy of the Church hitherto the Turke and the Pope have acted their parts in shedding the blood of the Saints as well as the Jewes and Roman Emperours touching which for brevities sake I referre you to the Booke of Acts and Monuments Yet because a taste may please some I will insert what the Holy Ghost hath foretold in the Revelation touching the Pope who cals himselfe Christs Vicar and supreame Head of the Church the Angell
know little as Children in the darke suppose they see what they see not They complaine like the Owle of the glory of the Sunne when the fault is in their owne eyes They are blinde yet the misery is they see not that they are blinde and therefore believing that they see they accuse others of schisme when indeed themselves are only guilty of prejudice as a blind man running against one that seeth calls him blinde that did not shunne him They are like Harpast a blinde woman in Seneca's family who would not be perswaded that shee was blinde but found fault with the house wherein she was as being over darke 5. If none are truely wise but such as have past the second birth it gives us to understand that the regenerate for the most part sleepe nigh halfe their time in ignorance that the wicked are never awake And if this Wisedome commeth downe from the Father of lights and that wee cannot have it except God vouchsafe to give it us It may teach us to bee bumble Iob 42.6 And not like the Ape that is proud of his Masters Iacket Heavenly notions grow not in us we spin them not out of our owne brests And thankfull for if they be given let us not forget the giver 6. If all naturall men are like blind Sampson without his guide not able without the Holy Ghosts direction to finde out the pillars of the house the principles of faith let us not wonder that they swarve so much from the godly in their judgements and practice Is it any strange thing to see a blinde man stumble and fall Yea let us condole all their disasters and drop some teares in pity and compassion for their great and grievous misery 7. And lastly If with God one sparke of spirituall experimentall and saving knowledge be of more worth than all secular Wisdome and Learning then strive we for that knowledge which will make the knower blessed Let us so be learned that we may be saved Let us not in our hearing and reading and communication doe as little children that looke only upon the Babyes in a booke without regard to the matter therein contained but like men in yeares have more respect to the pith and solidity of the matter than to the phrase and to the profit of our soules than the pleasing of our senses And so much of the second cause Quest What is the third cause why ungodly men hate and persecute the Religious Answ Their infidelity and unbeliefe Quest How doth that appeare Answ I will demonstrate it beyond denyall Why doe the Heathen rage saith David and the people murmure the Kings of the Earth band themselves and the Rulers take counsell together against the Lord and against his Annointed saying Let us breake their bands c. Psalm 2.1 to 4. but this they thinke all wayes there is no God God is not in all their thoughts Psalm 10.4 And againe They breake in peeces thy people O Lord and afflict thine heritage c. the reason followes they say the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Iacob regard it Psalm 94.5 6 7. And what saith our Saviour to the Iewes Yee seeke to kill me because my Word hath no place in you Iohn 8.37 that is they beleeved not what he spake nor the Scriptures which testified of him If yee will see it in Examples looke 2 King 18.35 Dan. 3 15. Exod. 5.2 Or if in the New Testament see Acts 17. where the Holy Ghost makes a decision betweene such as did and such as did not beleeve Paul when in the Synagogue he disputed with them by the Scriptures opening and alleaging that Christ must have suffered risen againe c. for faith the Text So many of the Iewes as beleeved and of the Grecians and chiefe women as feared God joyned themselves in company with Paul and Silas But those that beleeved not mooved with envie tooke unto them certaine Vagabonds and wicked fellowes with the multitude and made a tumult in the Citie and assaulted the house of Iason drawing out him and as many of the brethren as they could find and brought them before the people and the heads of the City crying These are they which have subverted the State of the world and they all doe against the decrees of Caesar c. And lastly look but 1 Tim. 1. you shall heare Saint Paul most ingenuously confessing I was a blasphemer a persecuter and an opposer of Christ and his members but I did it ignorantly through unbeliefe v. 13. Now they which thinke all whatsoever is written in Scripture of God of Christ and of His Kingdome of Grace here and glory hereafter to bee but a fable as that impious Pope did who was not ashamed blasphemously to boast what he had gained by Fabula de Christo And all Matchivillian Atheists who think Religion to bee but a Politicke device to keepe men in awe â—oe whose number is greater than is supposed These I say must needes thinke them madde and foolish who lose thereby either profit or pleasure and use them accordingly True this might seeme an absurd position if I should presume upon an Appeale to their owne blinded consciences for they thinke they beleeve in God and the Scriptures as well as the precisest and so did those Jewes Iohn 5. which persecuted Jesus and sought to slay him think they beleeved Moses writings but it is plaine they did not by Christ's answer to them who knew their hearts better than themselves his words are Had yee beleeved Moses yee would have beleeved me for he wrote of mee but if yee beleeve not his wrightings how should yee beleeve my words verse 46 47. And againe Yee have not my Fathers word abiding in you for whom he hath sent him yee beleeve not Ver. 38.39 So bring these that persecute any of Gods Children for well doing to the tryall and their owne consciencâ—s shall testifie before God that they neither beleeve the Old Testament nor the New For did they beleeve that the godly are unto God as the Signet upon his right hand Jer. 22.24 Zach. 2.24 Yea as the Apple of his owne eye Zach. 2.8 and that whatsoever wrongs and contumelies are done to his Children he accounts as done to himselfe Psalme 44.22 and 69.7 and 74 4 10 18 22 23. and 83 2 5 6. and 89.50 51. and 139 20. Prov. 19.3 Rom. 1.30 and 9.20 Matth. 10.22 and 25.45 Luk. 21.17 1 Sam. 17.45 Esay 37.4.22 23 28. and 45.9 and 54 17. Acts 5.39 and 9.4 5 Iob 9 4. 1 Thess 4.8 Iohn 15.18 20 21 23 24 25. Numbers 16.11 1 Samuel 8.7 They durst not hate revile slander deride nicke-name and persecute them as they doe More particularly did they really and indeed beleeve God when he saith in his Word that whosoever shall offend one of those little ones that beleeve in him it were better for him rather that a Milstone were hung about his necke and that hee were cast into
like him in workes Wee are not like Christ except wee doe whatsoever God commands and suffer whatsoever hee inflicts Now we are naught at doing but when it comes to suffering we are gone it is the happinesse of these cold times that wee are not put to the hot fire for tryall of our faith and love if the Wheele should turne which the mercy of God forbid how many would turne from Christ rather than burne for him Alasse the greatest number are like Orbilius the Grammarian who not only forgot the Letters of his Booke but even his own name for they not only forget what is written in Christ's Gospell but they forget also that they are Christians and can be of any religion for a neede which shewes their hearts are truely of none True Gods seed is sowne but the Devils fruit comes up and like the Iewes we bring Christ Vinegar when hee thirsts for Wine But what a shame What a prodigie is this We are bound to praise GOD above any Nation whatsoever for what Nation under Heaven injoyes so much light or so many blessings as we above any Creature for all the creatures were ordained for our sakes and yet Heaven Earth and Sea all the Elements all the Creatures obey the Word of God only men for whom they were all made ingratefully rebell against it The which as it mightily aggravates our unthankfulnesse so when time comes it will gall our Consciences to death Yea when we shall consider that Christ hath removed so many evills from us and conferred so many good things upon us that they are beyond thought or imagination and that our recompence of his love hath been only to doe that which he hates and hate those whom he loves it will make us speechlesse like him in the Gospell who wanted his wedding Garment as neither expecting mercy or daring to aske it for know this that thy own conscience will once sting thee like an Adder to think what Christ hath given and what he would have forgiven thee if thou wouldst but have repented to thinke how often thou hast beene invited to Heaven how easily thou mightest have escaped hell how often Christ by his Embassadors offered thee remission of sins and the Kingdome of Heaven freely if thou wouldest but beleeve and repent and how easily thou mightest have obtained mercy in those dayes how neere thou wast many times to have repented and yet diddest suffer the Devill and the World to keepe thee still impenitent and how the day of mercy is then past and will never dawn againe For the same Devill that now shuts your eyes and labours to keepe you blinde during the presumption of your life will open them in the desperation that shall wait on you at death or in hell As it fared with the rich man who when he was in hell lift up his eyes to Heaven but never before Luke 16.23 Those scorching flames opened them to propose Sin shuts up mens eyes but punishment opens them But I hope I have said enough and that thou art convinc'd in thine own Conscience that hitherto thou hast beene a meere Atheist and that through Atheisme thou hast hated reviled and persecuted the godly If not truth is as much truth when it is not acknowledged as when it is Now if thou dost confidently and without peradventure beleeve what the Scripture speakes of God Heaven hell c. If thou beleevest the threatnings and precepts as well as the promises and if thou bearest any love to thine own soule Breake off thy sinnes by repentance and oppose the good no longer give no credit to the flesh or the Devill which prophesy prosperity to sinne but beleeve God and the Scripture which manifestly proves that every man shall bee judged according to his workes Revel 12.13 and 22 12. Make not Christ a boulster for sinne nor Gods mercy a warrant for thy continuing in an evill course Be not therefore evill because hee is good least like the foolish builder thou commest short of thy reconning for Christ came to destroy the works of the Devill John 3.3.8 9 10. And not to be a Patron of sinne and there is mercy with God that he might be feared not that he might be despised blasphemed c. Psal 130.4 Yea know this and write it in the Table booke of thy memory and on the table of thine heart that if God's bountifulnesse and long suffering towards thee does not leade thee to repentance it will double thy doome and increase the pile of thy torments for every day which does not abate of thy reckoning will increase it Qui numer at dotes numer at dren and thou by thy hardnesse and impenitencie shalt but treasure up unto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and the declaration of the just judgment of God Rom. 2.4 5 6. And so much of the third cause Qâ—est What other Causes are there why they thus hate and persecute us Answ Other maine Causes as they make them are these Eight 1. Speaking of Truth 1 Kings 12.8 17 23 24 26 27. Ier. 11.19 and 26.8 9 11. and 36 23 26. and 38.4 5 6. Amos 5.10 Mark 6.16 to 29. Acts 16 19. to 25. and 17.5 6 7 13. and 18 11 12 13 and 19 26. to 34. and 21 27 28 30 31. and 22 22 23. and 23 1 2 12 13 14. Gal 4.16 2. Misprision Acts 24.14 and 26 9 10 11 24. 1 Kings 18.17 18. Psal 14.1 Jer. 44.17 18 19. Wis 5.4 Mat. 7 14. and 13.55 56 57. and 28 15. Mar. 5.39 40. and 7.5 8 9. John 2.19 20 21. and 3 3 4. and 7.15 23 24. and 8.15 57 58 59. and 9.16 and 16 2. Acts 2.13 2 Thes 2.10.11 12. Rom. 8.5 6 7 8 1 Cor. 1.18 to 29. and 2.7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. and 3.18 19 20. 2 Tim. 2.26 1 Pet. 2.7 8. Rev. 3.17 3. Example of the multitude Gen. 19 4. to 12. Num. 14.2.3 10. and 16.1 to 4. Mat. 27.20 25 27 39 49. Acts 19.24 to 30. 4. Separation Gen. 39.12 to 21. Psal 26.4 5. and 101.7 and 119 63 115. Prov. 5.8 and 23 20. Ier. 15.19 Wisd 2.16 Iohn 15.19 1 Cor. 5.11 2 Cor. 6.17 Ephes 5.7 2 Thes 3.6 14. 1 Pet. 4.4 Rev. 18.4 5. The preaching of some Ministers Ier. 5.31 and 8.11 and 23 13.14 15 16 17 21 22 26 27 31 32. Eze. 22.25 26 28. Mat 9.34 Mark 13.22 Ioh. 5.43 Act. 13.8 and 20 29 30. Rom. 16 17 18. 2 Cor. 2.17 and 11.13 14 15. 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. 2 Tim. 3.8 2 Pet. 2. ch and 3.3 6. The scandalous lives of some professors Gen. 9.21 22. and 12 18 19. and 19.33 35 36. and 20.2 12 16. and 34 13 14 15 16 25 26. to 31. 1 Sam. 2.12 to 18. 2 Sam. 12 14. Mat. 7.15 and 18 7. and 23 3 14 23 24.25.27 and 26 14 15 16 70 72 74. and 27.5 7. Flocking after Sermons Ioh. 11.48 and 12 19 6 2. and Acts 13.45 Matth. 4.24 25. and 15 30. Mar. 3.10 and 8.1 and 10 1 2. Luke 5.15 and 6 17 18 19. 8. The finall cause is that they may have more company here in sin and hereafter in torment Psal 35.4 7 12 and 40.14 and 5.6 6. and 59 2 3. Matth. 23.13 15. Luke 11.52 Iohn 11.48 and 12 10.11 and 15.19 Act. 26.11 1 Pet. 4.4 Revel 12.17 and 13 15. But they are all so prolix and yet so unmeete to bee abbreviated that if I should handle them and make of all but one Volume they would so swell the heapè that not a few would be deprived of the whole He will buy a Manuall or Enchiridion that will not buy a Commentary and he will reade a Curranto that will not reade a Chronicle History Yea it may happen to meet with Patients so desperate that although they acknowledge it is of absolute necessity for them to be informed touching these things yet having Quesie stomacks if they see their Potion bigge aswell as bitter will resolve to suffer yea to dye rather than take it That will bee swallowed by morsells and easily digested which being taken all at once will not onely cloy but surfet Wherefore I will reserve the rest untill I see what returne this will make And the rather for that there are three Treatises already publisht of this very subject viz. Sinne stigmatized The Victory of Patience last Edition The mischiefe and misery of Scandalls The end of the first Part. Imprimatur Tho. Wykes