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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97253	Panoplia, or, Armour of proof for a weak Christian, against the worlds envy, scoffs and reproaches together with the doves innocency and the serpents subtility, upon Gen. 3. 15. / by R.J. [sic]	Younge, Richard.	1652 (1652)	Wing Y167C; ESTC R43836	38,326	37

brethren of Cain or Cain himself in another person and without answerable repentance your portion shall be with Cain and the rest of that cursed crew I have shewn you what God in his word speaks and proved that your condition is no whit better then the condition of Cain and Ishmael and Haman and Doeg and Shemy and Rahsheke and their fellows yea no glasse can more lively represent your faces then this Book doth your hearts Only this is the misery as when a childe beholds his own face in a glasse he thinks he sees another childes face and not his own so fares it with you What do you look that Christ Jesus himself from heaven should call to you severally by name as he did to Saul and say Ho Ishmael such an one or Ho Elimas such an one Why dost thou persecute me I am Jesus whom thon persecutest Acts 9.4 5. Which yet if he should it were no more in effect then he hath often done nor would you be any more warned or reclaimed by it as is evident by the example of Hazael 2 King 8.12 13 c. And by what Abraham told Dives Luk. 16.31 For God in his word tels every one of you plainly that Satan is the God of all unbeleevers 2 Cor. 4.4 And their King Joh. 14.30 and 12.31 And their father Gen. 3.15 John 8.44 And that they are all his servants kept by the devil in a snare and taken captive of him at his will 2 Tim. 2.26 And that he ruleth by and worketh his pleasure in all the children of disobedience Eph. 2.2 3. And makes it manifest to all whom the devil hath not blinded that you of all men in the world are those unbeleevers and children of disobedience in whom he rules And yet poor souls you know it not As those four hundred of Ahabs Prophets in whom this evil spirit spake did not know that Satan spake by them 1 King 22.22 Neither did Judas know when he eat the sop that Satan entred into him and put it into his heart to betray Christ Joh. 13.2 Neither do Magistrates when they cast the servants of God into prison once imagine that the devil makes them his jaylors but he doth so whence that phrase of the holy Ghost The devil shall cast some of you into prison Revel 2.10 They are his instruments but he is the principall Authour Neither did Ananias and Saphira once think that Satan had filled their hearts or put that lye into their mouths which they were strook dead for Act. 5. yet the holy Ghost tels us plainly that he did so ver 3. No Eve in Paradise had not the least suspition that it was Satan that spake to her by the Serpent nor Adam that it was the devils minde in her mouth his heart in her lips when tempted to eat the forbidden fruit Nor did David once dream that it was Satan which moved him to number the people 1 Chron. 21.1 Much lesse did Peter who so dearly loved Christ imagine that he was set on by Satan to tempt his own Lord and Master with those affectionate words Master pity thy self for if Christ had pitied himself Peter and all the world had perished yet he was so which occasioned Christ to answer him Get thee behinde me Satan Mat. 16.22 23. But consider For hence we may argue that if Satan can make the best and wisest of Gods children and servants who have the very appearance of evil 1 Thes 5.22 Jude 23. Ephes 5.27 2 Pet. 3.14 Jam. 1.27 have the eye of faith and the spirits direction and know the minde of Christ above others 1 Cor. 2.12 13 15 16. Joh. 10.14 do him such service unwittingly and besides their intention how much more can he prevail with and make use of his own servants and children that delight only in wickednesse and have not the least knowledge of or ability to discern spirituall things 1 Cor. 2.14 2 Cor. 4.4 yea if Satan can perswade you as he hath done millions that you do God good service in persecuting his children as the Jews formerly did in putting his Prophets to death as Christ himself expresly tels us Joh. 16.2 What can he not perswade them to what work or service can he not put them upon without letting them know that he their God Father and Master speaks in and acts by them Whence that of Solomon There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the issues thereof are the waies of death Proverbs 14.12 Whence so many have been so strangely and so wofully deluded whereof a few instances very remarkable There was a Monk poysoned Henry the seventh Emperour of Germany with the sacramentall bread and thought he did God good service in so doing So did the Powder-Traitors when they intended to blow up the whole State Maximinian thought the bloud of Christians would be an acceptable sacrifice to his gods So Francis the second of France and Philip the second of Spain thought of the Lutherans bloud in their Dominions In the 6th Council of Toledo it was enacted that the King of Spain should suffer none to live in his dominions that professed not the Roman Catholike Religion Whereupon King Philip having hardly escaped shipwrack as he returned from the Low Countries said he was delivered by the singular providence of God to root out Lutheranism which he presently began to do professing that he had rather have no subjects then such In which opinion many depart but as men go to a Lottery with heads full of hopes but return with hearts full of blanks so will it one day fare with you CHAP. XXIV NOr are they few in number that with St Paul before his conversion do persecute the people of God even out of zeal to the traditions of their fathers Gal. 1.13 14. Phil. 3.6 Many walk saith St Paul that are enemies to the crosse of Christ Phil. 3.18 If many in St Pauls time many more now Yea St John saith that the number of those whom Satan shall thus deceive is as the sand of the sea Rev. 20.8 and 13.16 See Isa 10.22 1 Joh. 5.19 Rom. 9.27 Matth. 7.13 14. and 20.16 and 22.14 And experience it self tells us that it is the case almost of who not For this sin is so epidemicall that take forty men where you please City or Country as they dwell passe the streets or sit in the Church and nine and thirty of them are malignants to the power of Religion As for other sins one man is given to lust another to intemperance a third to swearing a fourth to cousening some to more then one some to all of them but who is not tainted with this sin who is not an open or sccret enemy to holinesse by reason of that generall contempt which is cast upon professors Yea who is there even of those that have resigned up their pride and their lust and their lying and their cousening and what other sins they have been prone to with whom this sin