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cause_n	evil_a	good_a	see_v	2,875	5	3.5208	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62465	The saints great duty in time of the dangerous afflictions, persecutions, and oppressions, they may meet with in the troublesome and tempestuous sea of this world, either by spiritual or temporal enemies. Preached in a farewel-sermon by Mr. George Thorne, of Weymouth in Dorset-shire. From Psal. 37. 34. Wait on the Lord, and keep his way. Published by a friend.	Thorne, George, of Weymouth.	1664 (1664)	Wing T1057B; ESTC R220883	31,965	67

Insurrection of the Workers of Iniquity who whet their tongues like a Sword and bend their Bowes to shoot their Arrows even bitter words that they may shoot secret in at the perfect suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not So we read in that Isa 29.20 21. of those that watch for iniquity that make a man an offendour for a word that lay a snare for him that reproveth in the Gate and that turn aside the Just for a thing of nought Thus it hath been ever since the beginning So wicked Cain watcheth righteous Abel to kill him Gen. 4.8 And Cain talked with Abel his Brother and it came to passe that when they were in the field that Cain rose up against his Brother Abel and slew him And thus have Cain's brood done all down along for he was of the wicked one 1 John 3.12 So hath Esau watched righteous Jacob Gen. 27.41 42. comforting himself that he should have shortly a time to do him the mischief that he intended him So Saul watcheth righteous David 1 Sam. 19.11 Saul sent Messengers to Davids house to watch him and slay him in the Morning And so did others his wicked adversaries watch him as you have him complaining Psal 38.12 They that seek after my life lay Snares for me and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceit all the day long And Psal 140.5 The proud have laid a Snare for me and Cords they have spread a Net by the way side they have set Grins for me So did Jeremiah's Familiars as he calls them Jer. 20.10 For I heard the defaming of many fear on every side Report say they and we will report it All my Familiars or as in the Margent every man of my peace watched for my halting saying peradventure he will be enticed we shall prevail against him and we shall take our revenge of him While they pretended friendship and peace they intended nothi●● but mischief even the taking of their revenge on him So the Presidents and the Princes watched righteous Daniel to mischief him Dan. 6.4 where first they seek to find occasion against him concerning the Kingdom they would gladly have sound any occasion against him to have accused him of Disloyalty Sedition Treason Rebellion or at least Falshood and Unfaithfulness but here they could find no fault his very enemies being Judges Vers 5. In the next place therefore they plot to find occasion against him from the Law of his God and therefore enticing the King to make a Law against the Law of Daniels God they quickly catch him So you may see the Scribes and Pharisees watched the Lord Jesus that Just One Luke 6.7 And the Scribes and Pharisees watched Him whether He would heal on the Sabbath Day that they might find an accusation against Him It seems they had a Law against doing good on the Sabbath Day So Luke 20.19 20. And the chief Priests and the Scribes sought to lay hands on Him and they feared the people for they perceived that he had spoken this Parable against them and they watched Him and sent forth spies which should feign themselves just men that they might take hold of his words that so they might deliver Him to the Power and Authority of the Governour They endeavour to trappan Him that they might give him over to the secular Power Time would fail to shew how they watched the Apostles the Saints all down along throughout all ages Neither need we search the records of former ages in this matter for evidence our own times affording pregnant proof more than enough in this thing and as it hath been and now is so it will be to the end of this wicked world the guise and manner of the wicked thus to watch the Righteous to do him a mischief 1. For that there is the same principle of hatred and enmity in the Wicked against the Righteous now as ever yea and ever will to the worlds end That enmity that we read of in Gen. 3.15 is a lasting enmity as long as there are any of the Seed of the Serpent in the world it will work It is an enmity in nature Prov. 29.27 He that is upright in the way is an abomination to the Wicked and the wicked must cease to be wicked ere this will cease to be As there are some Creatures that have an enmity in nature as the Wolf and the Sheep so that enmity is propagated to all of the kind that partake of that nature So is the Enmity that the Children of the Wicked one have against the Children of God As therefore the Wolf need not to be taught to watch to devour the Sheep it being natural to him So the Wicked need not be taught to do the Saints a mischief having a principle within them inclining and instructing them thereunto 2. There is the same necessary ground and occasion of their hatred of them Though there be no just ground of the wickeds hatred of the righteous hence David speaks of their hating him without a cause Psal 69.4 that is without just cause on his part yet there is a necessary ground of their hatred and that continueth now as heretofore and will continue as long as there are any truly Godly and what that is you may see in that Psal 38.20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries because I follow the thing that good is The true ground and reason of their being adversaries unto David was this Because he followed that which they hated Thus our Saviour shewing his Disciples how they should be hated of the World acquaints them with the true cause and ground of the Worlds hatred John 15.19 If you were of the World the world would love its own but because you are not of the World but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the World hateth you And that this is the proper ground of the Worlds hatred is most manifest for that the same person whom the world loved while he was of the world when called out of the world into the Kingdom of Christ then is he hated of those that before loved him as in Paul And if a person that professeth himself the Disciple of Christ and is hated of the world shall forsake the assembly of Saints and turn back from the way of righteousnesse and run into the same excesse of riot with the prophane world none more worlds darling than he So that it is Godliness Holiness and true Religion that is the true ground of the worlds hatred So 1. John 3.12 Not as Cain who was of the wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous This was the true cause of his hatred and while that the cause remaineth while godly Men continue to walk in the wayes of Godlinesse the wicked will continue to hate them 3. The Devil whose Children these wicked ones are 1 John 3.8 10.