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cause_n	evil_a	good_a	sin_n	7,176	5	5.3331	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80566	Cordiall councell, in a patheticall epistle: first written to an eminent professor of religion, for the seasonable preventing of a relaps. Which proving efficacious, is again revised, enlarged, and published for the good of others. As being applyable to many thousands, whose practise is neither answerable to the Gospel, their Christian profession, nor the millions of mercies they have received. By R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1645 (1645)	Wing C6283; Thomason E274_16; ESTC R209892	13,437	14

wherein does our times differ How many worldly wise men have you knowne sinceerly religious or to submit to the simplicity of the Gospel in conforming their lives thereunto How many that have forsaken Lands Liberty Livings creadit or other their worldly immunities to follow Christ Or that have been any whit zealous for Gods glory in promoting the best things and opposing the contrary very few I dare say in comparison of meaner judgements No they scorne to be singular or counted presize Or indeed so simple as Abraham who beleived God upon his bare word thought it were against reason and obeyed his voice in sacrifysing that sonne wherein lay all his hopes without disputing the matter Or Saint Paul who when God sent him on an unlikely and unwellcome errand did not communicate with flesh and bloud but yeelded obedience without further dispute Gal. 1. 16. No God must give them a reason of the case before they will yeeld to him their ascent And were it not so Why should the same Saint Paul say Not many wise men after the flesh are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise c. 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 29. Or why should our Saviour say I thanke thee O father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of understanding and hast revealed them unto babes Mat. 11. 25. Luke 10. 21. So that lay all together and it amounts to this More hope of a fooles being reformed then of theirs that are so exceeding wise Iohn 9. 39. Pro 26. 12. I confesse there is a possibilitie of their being as wise for heaven as they are for this world but then they must submit to Saint Pauls councell 1 Cor. 3. Let no man deceive himself if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a foole that he may be wise for the wisedome of this world is foolishnesse with God verse 18. 19. Let him denie his owne carnall reason submit his wisedome to Gods and esteeme nothing folly but disobedience nothing silly that is not sinfull nothing true wisedome but that which is done according to the rule of Gods word and tendeth to his glory our neighbors well faire and the furthering of our owne salvation and then he shall be wise indeed Deut. 4. 5 6. Even as that which is on our left hand will be on our right let us but turne our selves Nor is it more the cause of Lust then of all other sinnes as history and daily experience proves For drunkennesse as one fitly tearmes it is the roote of all evill the rott of all good Wherefore not only hate it as the most prodigious foule and filthy feind but shun the company of all such who in any measure are adicted to it Neither account them friends for who so will be the friends of such make themselves the enemies of God James 4. 4. And of all enemies they are the deadliest as being traytors to the soule who endeavour as much as in them lyes to slay the best part eternally As for their kindnesse those cunning Hypocrites never intend so ill as when they speake fairest Nor can you keepe too farre from their flattering and Syren-like-aluerments For by their kind words they will so worke upon your yeelding nature that you will not be able to deny untill they alimulat you to their owne customes And their company is so infectious that they will worke a consumption of your vertues and wast them from an ounce to a dram from a dram to a scruple to a graine to nothing before you be aware of it You know how it faired with Peter falling but once into the company of Christs enemies and if such a Cedar as he fell the very first time what probabilitie is there of your standing when you are daily conversant with such yea worse for this let me asure you Temptations on the right hand have commonly so much more strength in them above the other as the right hand hath above the left Satan wins not so much by battery as by treachery When all the Philistems could not with their strength bind Sampson Dalilab did it with her subtilty The Devill did not appeare to Christ with threats but with faire promises of honour pleasure profit whence the Italian thinketh himselfe upon the point of being bought and sold when he is better used then he was wont to be without manifest cause Satan and his instruments like a flattering Host may promise good cheer but the reckoning paies for all and he that compares the wellcome with the farwell shall find he had better have fasted for if we swallow the baite the hooke will choake us But to escape their aluerments requires courage to deny the requests of a seeming friend For what but a proude ignorant and timmorus bashfullnesse makes men thus miserably sinne against God and wrong their owne soules It is nothing but want of courage that makes many a drunkard One principall meanes to fill Hell is loathnesse to displease whence it is that the fearfull are placed in the fore-front of that damned crue who shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Revel 21. 8. I confesse bashfullnesse and modesty in some cases are very commendable but it is an ill modesty that hinders a man in the way to blisse And a great indiscression to feare more the blasts of mens breath then the fire of Gods wrath For what is this other then with the foole to leape into the water for feare of being drownd in the boate And he that hath either wit or grace will rather fall out with all the world then with his maker then with his conscience Yea a magnanimous Christian will loose his life rather then the peace of a good conscience And indeed it is pitie that ever the water of Baptisme was spilt upon his face that cares more to discontent the world then to wrong God But as touching their dislike who may you thanke for it but your selfe in begining such a custome for if you had denied them at first they would never have expected it afterwards Yea they would have honoured you the more for your refusing as my selfe and many others can witnesse out of grounded experience But since you have proceeded thus farre there is only one way to avoide it Resolve to drinke with none and then none can take acceptions But to resolve is nothing except you pray and that earnestly for divine assistance wresting wholly and only upon God for strength and successe Neither is that enough except you also use the meanes that is as Ioseph no sooner heard his mistresse say come let us lye together but he left her and fled away so if you but heare them say come let us drinke together be sure to leave them though without taking your leave of them Entertaine no parlie with such for there is no disputing with Satan or his deputies When