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A97247	The cure of preivdice, or, The doves of innocency and the serpents subtilty wherein the originall, continuance, properties, causes, endes, issue and effects of the worlds envie and hatred to the godly is pithily laid open and applyed. By R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1641 (1641)	Wing Y149B; ESTC R230928	73,141	127

cast at us though they incurre by it the danger of the Law Whereas religion makes wild beasts civill Atheisme and Impiety makes of wise men beasts and fooles How many have been knowne like him in Aesop who willingly lost one eye that his fellow might loose both Yea whereas the drift of such an ones preaching in case he be a minister is to make them like him in whose name they preach contrarily the very word of God by accident makes them degenerate into stocks and stones for hearing but their sinnes layd open and the judgement due thereunto they become so stupid and insensible of reason that now maugre all admonition the quarrell must end in blood Yea away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not meet that he should live Acts 22.22 7. And lastly It is their manner out of Enmity to slay the godly as Doeg slew Ahimeleck and the rest of the Priests even fourscore and five persons and Nob the City of Priests whom he smote with the edge of the sword both man and woman child and suckling at Sauls command 1 Sam. 22.19 Thus Jezabell slew all the Prophets of the Lord she could find 1 Kings 18.4 And Herod all the male children that were in Bethlehem and all the coasts thereof from two yeares old and under that he might make sure worke with Christ Mat. 2.16 And thus the inhabitants of Jerusalem Gods owne people chosen out of all the World used to make such havock of their owne Prophets that our Saviour bemoaning her case cryeth out O Jerusalem Jerusalem which killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee c. Matthew 23.37 And thus it fares with the Saints and servants of God at this day in such places where wicked men may have their wils Whereas those Romish Doctors are appointed for the saving of many they are all for destruction like rash Empiricks they can cure no way but by letting of blood and hereupon they turne their Massing into massacring the Schoole into a Camp Arguments into Armes teaching all their Proselites dismall conclusions as it hath been no rare thing for some of their Priests in Queene Maries raigne when in arguments they have found the weaknesse of their pens to fall to their penknives In stead of arguments they take up armes and in stead of zeale and the spirituall word they use fire and the sword yea treasons are their best reasons the Spanish Inquisition is their Grammer fire and fagot their rhetoricke Fleete and fetters their Logicke the Canons roare their musick poysoning their physick Yea their very building of the Church is by blowing up of common-wealths and in stead of fighting for God they fight against God and his Leivetenant And if at this day they catch but a Protestant in their net it is a miracle if ever he scapes death without making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience For if we will not obey them rather then God they have a Law by which men ought to dye a law like Draco's written with blood and sealed with death Of which their savage proceeding there are many reasons to be rendred First they must doe the workes of their Father the Devill he is a murtherer and so his children are given to blood John 8.44 Secondly that their deeds of darknesse may not come to light Vriah must be put to death least Davids adultry bee discovered and himselfe disgraced A living Curre you know will doe more harme then a dead Lyon And it is a sure rule that of Egges fryed in the pan come no ill Chickens Thirdly the wicked through malice seeke by all meanes to cut off the godly because their sinfull and wicked lives are reproved by their godly conversation neither can they follow their sinnes so freely as they would nor so quietly without detection or check Now if Abels good works reprove Caines evill deeds let Caine but take away the cause kill Abell and the effect shall not follow Fourthly whereas the godly are too hard for them in disputing take Steven for an instance they will be even with him by casting of stones stop his mouth with brickbats fetch arguments from the Shambles and this they are sure will doe when all other hopes and helps fayle So they make their party good if not with arguments of reason yet with argumēts of steel and Iron But this is a very hard way of consuting Fifthly their glory and credit with the World is eclipsed by suffering these which excell in vertue This made Adrian and Nero to kill all such as eclipsed their glory by any demerit and Mercine you know was murthered of her fellowes because shee did excell the rest in beauty Thus Herod thought he could not be King if Christ should raigne Yea as though he had beene of the race of the Ottomans he thought he could not raigne except the first thing he did he killed all the males in Bethlehem from two yeares old and under And the Pharisees that they should be despised if Christ were regarded And so much of the Actuall properties of this Enmity Qu. In how many of these kindes did our Saviour himselfe suffer whose example hitherto you have omitted in his owne person of the Jews his Countrey men and kinsfolke yea of the chiefe Priests Scribes and Pharisees who were teachers and expounders of the Law and which sate in Moses Chaire An. In every one of the 22. for as touching the Mentall Properties 1 They Envyed him Matth. 26.15 2 They Contemned him Matth. 12.24 13.55 3 They Rejoyced at him in his misery and destresse Mat. 27.29 4 They Hated him Iohn 7.7 2. Touching the Verball 1 They Murmured against him Luke 15.2 2 They Misconstrued his actions intentions Mat. 11. ●9 3 They Carryed tales of him Mat. 12.14 4 They Gave divellish counsell against him Mat. 27.20 5 They Scoft at him Matth. 27.42 6 They Nicknamed him Matth. 13.55 7 They Rayled on him Luke 23.39 8 They Slandered him Matth. 28.13 9 They Cursed him Gal. 3.13 10 They Threatned him Iohn 11.53 11 They Vndermined him in talke that they might accuse him Matth. 22.15 3. Touching the Actuall 1 They Vsed disdainful gestures before him Mat. 27.29.39 2 They VVithstood and contraryed his Doctrine Luke 5.21 Mat. 9.34 3 They Combined together and layd Plots to destroy him Mat. 12.14 4 They Tooke him prisoner Mat. 26.57 5 They Smote him Luke 22.64 6 They Hurt and wounded him Mat. 27.29 Iohn 19 34. 7 They Put him to death even that cursed death of the Crosse Matth. 27.35 That the Scriptures might be fulfilled which saith And thou shalt bruise his heele for all that he suffered was but in his Humanity and so no more then the bruising of his heele And why all this Not for any evill they found in him for their owne words are He hath done all things well Mark 7.37 He hath done such was his power all things such was his wisedome well such was his

onely shall be made crime enough you know when the Jewes saw that a great company were at Pauls Sermon they were filled with envy and fell to contradiction and blasphemy Acts 13.45 And the high Priests and Pharisees when our Saviour was so flockt after sayd among themselves perceive yee not behold the World goeth after him and if we let him thus alone all men will beleeve in him John 11.48 12.19 they were like the dog in the manger that will neither eate Hay himselfe nor suffer the Horse yet they had a reason for it as these have Rome thinkes that the Gospels rising must needs be her falling as when the day comes the night must end Indeed opinion makes them coyne that for a reason which others will not assent unto Yea what is truth to these men is error to others more wise And when once he is questioned every one like Jael to Sizera will drive a nayle to keep him from rising againe O the wicked mindes that many goe to Church withall and the great dangers that Ministers are lyable unto did not God mightily support them many of their hearers being like that Lawyer which stood up to tempt Christ for they come not to be taught by him but to catch him But what saith David Though they have conceived mischeife and doe travell with wickednesse yet they shall bring forth a lye Psal 7.14 For the Lord breaketh their counsels and bringeth their devices to naught Psal 33.10 Yea while the ungodly are whetting a knife to cut our throats God is whetting a sword to cut their throats Shall the powder thinke to blow up the house and scape it selfe from burning No it is a true rule that of evill premises doth not follow a good conclusion but from evill seeds come evill plants 4. They are very proane to imprison the godly cause or no cause As Ahab commanded Michaiah to be put into the prison house and fed with the bread of affliction and with the water of affliction 1 Kings 22.27 Thus the malicious Priests procured Jeremiah to be shut up in prison Jer. 36.5 And thus our Saviour shewing what entertainement the faithfull should find in the World foretelleth that wicked men shall lay hands on them and deliver them up to the assemblies and into prisons bring them before Kings and Rulers for his names sake Luke 21.12 As John Baptist Peter Paul and many other of the Apostles were put into the common prison by Herod and the Synod of Priests when they preacht in Christs Name Acts 5.18 12.4 4.3 22.25 28.17 And 2 Cor. 11.23 And I le warrant you the common people were more glad of the Churches losse herein then they would have been of their owne gaine But why into prison Why not unto death No thankes to Satan nor his seede they would destroy all Yea Why are not our Sanctuaries turned into Shambles and our beds made to swimme with our bloods but that the God of Israel hath crossed the confederacy of Balaak and there wickednesse doth not prosper their studies are the pl●ts of our ruine and the best they intend is the destructions and overthrough of Religion or the religious or both Againe Why these and a thousand more in all ages shut up in prison What was their delinquency Even this They were too good too holy to be endured What was it but Josephs goodnesse that brought him to the stocks and Irons And so of Michaiah Jeremiah the Apostles and all the Saints in succeding ages And to speake truly this is a deepe point of pollicy in our adversaries for when all their arguments faile by this meanes they get the better and withall prevent further dispute In the midst of their anger they this discretion Stand not to argue lest thou be overcome and let the accused plead what hee can for his own innocencie the Wolfe would answer the Lamb Indeed thy cause is better then mine but my teeth are better then thine I will devoure thee So the Devill puts off the Fox and puts on the Lyon Againe we know the M●one hath so much the lesse light by how much it is neer●r the Sunne yea so long as the Sunne shines above the Horizon the Moone is scarcely seene And we use to say of Homer that the dazling beames of his Sunne makes all other Poets like little stars loose their light This made Dionysius when he could not equall Philoxenus in poetry nor match Plato in discourse condemne the one to the stone-quarries and sell the other as a slave into the I le of Agina And out of like consideration have the wicked alwayes dealt with the godly even as Julian the Apostate did by our Saviour who tooke downe his Image in contempt that he might set up his owne in the same place and have the people worship it which hee knew they would never doe so long as the other was reverenc'd 5. They often manifest their enmity against the religious by striking them as Zidkiah the false Prophet strooke Michayah on the cheeke 1 King 22.24 thus Pasher strooke Jeremiah Ier. 20.2 And the Princes also Chap. 37.15 And thus Ananias the high Priest caused Paul to be smitten on the mouth Acts 23.2 and the Iewes whipt him five times with forty stripes save one and others beat him with rods 2 Cor. 11.23.24.25 And thus our rough adversaries of Rome stopt our Martyrs mouthes and refuted them not with reasons nor by Law for the Law hath no power to strike the vertuous but with fists When Politisians Rhetorick failes Carters Logick must doe the fear Their arguments are all Steele and Iron they speake daggers points As Ioab discoursed with Amaza in the 5th Rib. So Zedikiah disputed with the Prophet a word and a blow yea a blow without a word for hee smote him first and spake to him afterwards Every false Prophet is like Iulius the second who threw Saint Peters keyes into the river Tiber protesting that thenceforth he would use and helpe himselfe with Saint Pauls sword And in case they cannot have their wills they resemble Achilles who is fained to eate his owne heart because he might not be suffered to fight 6. It is usuall with them to hurt and maime the godly as the whole Congregation of the Children of Israel would have served those true hearted Spyes for seeking to appease the tumult and speaking well of the land of Canaan had not the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregation Numb 14.10 Thus the Philistims put out Sampsons eyes when they had bound him Indg. 16.21 and thus the Iewes of Antiochia and Iconium hurt Paul when they stoned him and drew him out of the City supposing he had beene dead Act. 14.19 Neither have succeeding ages wanted Alexanders who have done much hurt to Gods people for not seldome when reason and rayling failed have they come to plow-mans Logick Gunpowder arguments open violence taking up swords to strike or stones to