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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67752	Good report from bad men, no mean disparagement together with A cordial for Christians, when they receive evil, for well doing, being an arrow drawn forth of that sententious quiver, intituled, A Christian library, or, A pleasant and plentifull paradise of practical divinity.	Younge, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y156; ESTC R17037	11,106	9

that are weary Esay 50.4 Sect. 2. Minister If you would shake off this slavish yoke of bondage and fear in which Satan for the present holds you and be rid of this bashful devil Search the Scriptures and they will both inform your judgement and confirm comfort and strengthen you against the worlds hatred and calumny though there needs no more then Ephes. 6.11 12. James 3.6 2. Tim. 3.12 Matth. 5.10 11 12 and 10.22 and 24.9 Luke 2.34 35. and 4.29 John 15.20 Gen. 3.15 1 John 3.13 1 Pet. 4.12 13 14. Luke 14.27 and 6.26 Philip 1.28 29. Revel. 2.13 Do but seriously ponder those few places and consider by whom they were spoken and then certainly you will confess that if there be any nectar in this life t is in sorrows we endure for righteousness And methinks when I hear goodness calumniated I bear it the easier because the servants of vice and none else do it But the better to help and further you in this great work take these ensuing Notions Aphorisms and conclusions which perhaps alone may both imbolden you and stop many of their mouths that scoff you First men scoff and scorn you and why is it But because you delight no less in goodness then they do in lewdness Because you in great love to their souls will be at the cost to give them Books thereby to convince them of their swearing and cursing and use the likeliest means to stop them in their way to destruction because you would draw them to heaven as they do many to hell A grievous fault if a wise man may have the judging of it As I pray consider of it you that have brains It s no fault in them to be perjured but for you to keep your vow and promise which you made in your baptism is both a crime and shame It hath ever been the worlds great quarrel we refuse to pledge them in their wicked customes and will rather obey God then men As wherefore was Cain wroth with his brother Abel and afterwards flew him but because his own works were evil and his brothers good 1 John 3.12 Wherefore was holy David had in derision hated slandered contemned and made a by-word of the people a song of the drunkards But because he followed the things that were good and pleasing to God and in him put his trust Psal. 11.2 and 22.6 7 8. and 37.14 and 69.10 11 12. Why were all the just in Solomons time had in abomination and mockt of the wicked but because they were upright in their way and holy in their conversation Prov. 29.27 Or those numberless number of Martyrs Rev. 6.9 even killed but for the word of God and for the testimony which they maintained That great Dragon the Devill and his subjects make war and are wroth with none but the woman and her seed which keep the Commandements of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ Revel. 12.17 Lot vexed himselfe because he saw men bad these because they are good not because Gods Law is broken but because others keep it better then themselves It is the cursed zeale of these men to maligne the good zeale of all men But Sect. 3. Secondly men hate scoffe and scorne you but who are they not such as these a crew of Drunkards Psal. 69.12 or a sort of vitious persons following their owne lusts 2 Pet 3.3 Or a company of abject persons Psal. 35.15 like those enemies Acts 17. lewd fellows of the baser sort ver. 5. A rout of prophane godlesse irreligious Atheists and ignorant fools that do no more know the power then Turks and Heathens know the truth of godlinesse Psal. 14.1 to 6. And it is a shrewd suspition that he who is a mocker is an Atheist It well becomes him to mocke at Religion that denies a God And its evident enough that he denies a God that mocks at godliness However take this for a rule As Cham was worse then Noah whom he der●ded and Ishmael worse then Isaac whom he mocked and Saul worse then David whom he persecuted And Jezebel worse then Naboth whom she defamed and murthered So they that are wont to jeere and persecute others have greater faults themselves and cause to be jeered and despised by others the which they know not how to cover but by disgracing of others And let them but spye as they are as Eagle-eyed to our faults as they are pur-blinde to their owne the smallest spot in a good mans face it shall excuse all the sores and ulcers in their bodies Again Sect. 4. Thirdly why do these and the Devill hate you but because God hath chosen you Why are you a thorne in their eyes as Job was in the Devils but because you fare better then they As why did Cain envy and hate Abel but because the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering but unto Cain and his offering he had no respect Gen. 4.4.5 Wherefore did Saul so hate and persecute David but because he was so praised and preferred of the people before himselfe And the Lord was with David and prospered him in every thing he tooke in hand 1 Sam. 18.7 8.12 13.28 29. Davids successe was Sauls vexation Yea he found not so much pleasure in his kingdome as vexation in the prosperity of David And so of his brother Eliabs envy and ill will to him 1 Sam. 17.28 And of the Elder brothers envy in the parable to his younger brother when his father so kindly entertained him Luk. 15.25 26 27 28. which is meant of the Jewes envying the Gentiles conversion Envy is sicke if her neighbour be well and the good mans honour is the envious mans torment As it fared between Haman and Mordecai and as hereafter the glory of Christ shall add to such Reprobates confusion when they are driven to confesse This is he whom we once had in derision But Sect. 5. Fourthly are you scoft scorn'd for goodness a great matter our Saviour Christ was far wose dealt withall Yea his whole life even from his Cradle to his Grave was nothing else but a continued act of suffering He was called of his enemies Conjurer Samaritane wine-bibber Sabath-breaker c. was scoft at scorned scourged crucified and what not Yea he suffered in every place in every part In every place hunger in the Desart resistance in the Temple sorrow in the Garden contumelies in the Judgement Hall crucifying without the City c. In every part his eyes ran downe with teares his temples with blood his eares tingled with buffettings glowed with reproaches They afflicted his taste with gall spit in his face pierc't his head with thornes his hands and feete with nailes his side with a spear his heart was full of sorrow his soule with anguish his whole body was sacrificed as an offering for sinne And yet he suffered all for us to the end he might leave us an example that we should follow his steps Neither was it so much what he