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A83980	Englands new-yeares gift, or, A pearle for a prince: with such grapes from thornes, and fruits from foes, to the whole land, as none shall be worse for wrongs, nor hurt by any but themselves, though the times should prove worse and worse.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3004; Thomason E424_4; ESTC R204545	38,288	40

nay he hates thee inwardly for the same cause that Caine hated Abel 1 John 3.12 Jezabel Elias 1 King 19.2 and Ahab Micaiah because he prophesied no good unto him 1 King 22.8 because thy right steered life like Noahs once amongst the worldings and Lots among the Sodomites Luk. 17.27 28. shames the irregularities of their vaine discourses and vitious courses Lux oculis aegris odiosa thy light which shines before men Mat. 5.16 offends their blood-shotten eyes as the Sun doth the pur-blind Owle the Lion Wolfe Fox Badger Otter Fowmant Weazill Poulecat and all beasts of prey love the night better then the day darknesse more then light now thou art of the day if Christ the Day-star be risen in thy heart Luk. 1.78 and shine in that Orb by faith Eph. 3.17 thy enemies are of the night 1 Thes 5.4 5. therefore however they seem to collogue and to close with thee they are as discrepant from thee in their dispositions and at as farre a distance in their infected affections as the Northern and Southern Pole the Raven is thought by some to forsake her young ones for a time because in their first hatching they are white and downy then God is said to feed them but after a while when she returnes and finds them black like her selfe she takes to them as her owne fabula de te narratur Bercorius in his Morall Reductory and Geminianus in his Similies make the Application Now is this no fruit from a Foe that his hostility proclaimes thee to be Christs friend whose love will stand thee in a thousand times more stead then Ionathans did David or Damons to his Pithias A wise Courtier had rather have his King his friend with his Ego Rex meus though all the emulating Court be against him then to curry favour with the Court and be at a frowning distance with the King si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos if God be with thee who can be against thee Rom. 8.31 if I have the Sun shining in my face what need I the lesser twinkling Starres or the light of a candle which may go out with the least windy puffe and leave in my nose a stinking snuffe it's some content to be assured I am in the right way in my Pilgrimage to my heavenly home though all the Dogs and Doegs barke at me in every Town thorough which I passe Secondly as a Corollary to this consider seriously that if thou be patient sustinendo abstinendo in which Epictetus epitomized Morall Philosophie in sustaining and bearing the brunts and blasts of thy foes and in abstaining and forbearing from revenge then God is ingaged by promise which he ever performes 1 Thes 5.23 to be thy avenger on thy enemies if in thee they oppose him Rom. 12.19 as he avenged David of Michals mocks 2 Sam. 6.16.20.23 of Shimeies revilings 2 Sam. 16.10 1 King 2.44 of Nabals churlishnesse 1 Sam. 25.39 Ezaekiah of the railings of Rabshakeh and the blasphemies of Senacherib 2 King 19.28.37 Abraham of the intended wrongs of Abimelech Gen. 20.7.18 a zealous Prophet on Ieroboam whose hand he withered 1 King 13.4 Moses on Korah Dathan and Abiram whom the earth swallowed Numb 16. Lot on the Sodomites whom he first blinded Gen. 19.11 and then burned V. 24. as he did Valens the Arrian in a Shepheards Cottage the great enemy to S. Basil a Apud Marcell lib. 3. Hist so he avenged the Counsell of Calcedon on their grand enemy Anastasius whom he smit with a Thunderbolt Eutropius lib. 3. cap. 5. Azariah the high Priest on presumptuous Vzziah whom he smit with Leprosie 2 Chron. 26.20 21. Athanasius on Constantius the Arrian Emperour whom hee cut off in great distraction of mind Idem Hist lib. 12. Amb. lib. 5. Epist 52. S. Ambrose on Valentinian his persecutor who was hanged by his owne servants Gregory the best Roman Bishop of those that succeeded him on Mauritius the covetous Emperour slain by Phocas a cruell coward d Blondus lib. 3. decad with many more which might be enumerated in all times and ages the Lord ever siding with his Sion his Militant Church against all her malignant opposers as he did with his Christ her Head and Husband against Herod the Scribes the Pharisees Annas and Caiphas chiefly on Pilate who hanged himselfe after his disgraces with Tiberius and Caius as their Tragedies are recorded not onely by Eusebius Hist lib. 2 c. 7. and Nicephorus lib. 2. c. 10. but even by the Paganish Writers of the Olimpicks of the Greeks Now is this no fruit from a foe that as his wrongfull undeserved unprovoked hatred and opposition shewes thee as I have proved to be Christs friend so reciprocally Christ to be thy friend as Pilades was to Orestes as well as Orestes to Pilades e Vt praestem Piladem aliquis mihi praestat Orestem Nisus to Eurialus Titus to Gisippus as well as Eurialus to Nisus Gisippus to Titus according to the rule ut ameris amabilis esto love begetting love as one candle lights another one burning coale kindles another yea as Naphtha is said to take fire at the neere approach of fire and is Christs friendship barren of golden of gracious fruits Can a true friend indeed an alter ego a second selfe a Philadelphus a sworne brother a friend and a brother in the bond of bloud in the neerest link of love as Christ is to his Church Heb. 2.12 17. stand by and see his friend need and bleed yea in the paw of a Wolfe or a Lion or in the fangs of a mad Dog or on the hornes of a Bull of Basan and he administer no helpe from a strong and an armed arme Can a father though as sterne as a Manlius or a Brutiu do this to a child if there be any storge or sparke of affection in him if he do not more stupidly then a Stoick or stock hominem exuere put off all that speaks him man like a brutized monster yea can a Husband doe this that loves his Wife in the neerest and dearest union which Tullie himselfe makes mariage in his book of friendship Now was there ever any Father loved a Child as Christ doth all his Children by adoption who cry Abba Father Rom. 8.14 15. Did Abraham ever so love his Isaac his sonne by nature and by promise as Christ doth every beleever the sonne of Abraham by faith Gal. 3.7 as Zacheus was called Luke 19.10 Was there ever in the best improvement of love such a neer and dear union and communion of morall love betwixt Solomon and Hiram Agamemnon and Nestor Theologicall love betwixt Basil and Nazianzene Augustine and Alipius Eusebius and his Pamphilus naturall love betwixt Jacob and Ioseph Helena and her Constantine Matrimoniall love betwixt Jsaac and Rebecka Elkanah and Anna Admetus and his Alcest Brutus and his Portia Collatinus and his Lucrece as betwixt Christ and his espoused and contracted Church and every living and

hedges of all commanded and limited obedience into forbidden pastures as David in his Adultery 2 Sam. 11.9 and Solomon in his uxorious Idolatry for which God set Absalom Semei Sheba and Ammon against the one 2 Sam. 16. 13. cap. 20. and Rezon and Iereboam 1 King 11.23 v. 26. against the other all the Organs of evill to Sion all the Factors and Agents for Antichrist for the Scarlet Whore for the Prince of darknesse chiefly in their unlawfull lustfull and unlimited warres against the Saints all and every one of them are under the power and command of the King of Sion the Father of the Saints he hath all the malignant powers plots and policies of earth and hell even Witches Conjurers and infernall spirits themselves all the sorcering Sorcering Masse-Priests and Friers of the Romish Hierarchie and all the Irish Nigromanticks at this day the Lord of Hosts hath them all as Wolves and Dogs in their chaines as Lions in their grates as roaring Bulls at their stakes and Bears at their rings he keeps them all in as Seas and rivers within their banks and bounds or lets them out as in the inundations in Ducalions time and in Noahs flood he hath all created powers as staves in his owne hands as arrowes in his owne quiver as David his stones in his sting to keep in or imploy at his pleasure he being the true Aeolus who hath all the winds in a bag all the waves in a bank all the wicked Hereticks and Tyrants within and without the Church hooked by their noses as he had Pharoah Senacherib Rabshekch 2. King 19.27 28. Holofernes Antiochus Epiphanes proud Cosroes Saul before his conversion Act. 9. cap. 22. 26. and all sanginnolent persecutors in all times letting them play their reaks and pranks so long till he got himselfe a name upon them either in the conversion of some few of them or the confusion of the most of them when their sinnes like the sinnes of the Amorites Gen. 11.16 and Sodomites were at the full ripenesse and fit for the sickle of deserved vengeance this then is the first cordiall I give to the corosives of the Saints the first ground of comfort to our present mourners in Sion Ezek. 9. the wicked which plow deep furrowes on our backs God himselfe yoakes them they are but rods in the hands of our Father but the Jailors and the Executioners of the will and decree of our Father Judge as a moderne Divine sweetly alludes to God they are but Gods Serjeants to arrest us for our undischarged debts our unrepented sins they cannot hurt us more then a sword in the scabberd till it be drawne and laid on by a valiant Martialist being of it selfe a dead instrument without a living hand to weild it as indeed the creature of it selfe whether animate or manimate can doe us neither good nor hurt without the restraining or mannaging of the Creator as Doctor Preston hath lively demonstrated as an experimentall Divine in his golden work of Gods All-sufficiency and I have fully explained in the Book called the Arraignement of the Creature And indeed this is a wonderfull ground of comfort to all that by the spirit can cry Abba Father Rom. 8.15 that their crosses come from a Father not from a severe Judge that they are but love-tokens from the Bridegroom to his Spouse Rev 3.19 healing pills from a Physitian castigating rods and ferulaes in in the hand of a Father Heb. 12.5 6 7. as Queen Elizabeth said once in some reall or imaginary Delinquencies of her heroick Essex ad correctionem non ad ruinam to correction not to destruction as Gods scourges were so Idolatrizing and Adulterizing Solomon whom though he afflicted in the revolt of ten Tribes and in excited enemies 1 King 11. yet he rejected not he tooke not his mercy from him as from Saul the Reprobate 2 Sam. 7.14 1 Sam. 16.1.14 Oh this is indeed Oleum vulneris latificans Galeni mell in ore melos in aure as the phrases be melodie to the eare musick to the mind and hony to the heart yea as Rosa Solis and Aqua vitae to our dead sownes and fainting spirits that though we be whipped for extraordinary sinnes and rebellions with sharp rods even as it were of wire and knotted cords not with ordinary willowes and birches as in former times that yet notwithstanding a whipping Father is a Father and purposes to bestow his inheritance upon his crying Child if as penitent as peccant he takes not a sword to run him through nor a Dagge to pistoll him when he is prostrate on his knees imploring mercy like the Gospells relenting prodigall with a mouth of confession and teares of contrition extracted by the heat and fire of love from the Limbeck a Few fathers prove Tyrants to their owne children like the Romane Manlius and Brutus or as once Manasses was before his conversion and the Jewish Saul to his Jonathan whom he would have executed of a heart full of compunction Luk. 15.17 18 19. Oh paululum supplicii satis est patri a little punishment is enough for a father as we may see in the passages betwixt David and Absalom 2 Sam. 14.21 cap. 18.33 the best Father and the worst child all the water of the Sea will not wash away the love of a Father it is as strong as death even when he frownes outwardly he favours inwardly as Joseph did his Brethren when he spoke roughly to them Gen. 42.6 aequa tamen semper mens est amica voluntas Oh suck this refreshing hony as a second Jonathan in thy faintings in the wildernesse of thy woes that though the evill of sin this malum culpae be from Satan and thy selfe yet this malum paenae the evill of punishment is from God Amos 3.6 cap. 2.4 per totum punishment doe I call it I thinke I must recant the phrase for though we read of the plagues of Aegypt of Sodome of Moab of Edom of Damascus of Ashur of Gaza of Teman of Ammon and of Tire Amos 1. per totum yet Divines dislike the phrase of punishment ever to be inflicted on the Church of God or any living members of the Church the punishment of the sins of all believers being already and at all times laid upon Christ the true Atlas who hath borne the burthen of his Fathers wrath paid the ransome of his brethren discharged all their debts cancelled all their bonds and given them their quietut est and Acquittance out of the Chancery or Exchequer of mercy though they were cleane cast by Moses and his infringed Law at the Kings Bench of Justice Esay 53.4 5 6. Rom. 3. v. 19 20 24 25. cap. 5.1 Ephe. 2. per totum and in this respect it being unjust with the Judge of heaven and earth Gen. 18.25 to do ought but right in craving a debt twice to be paid by the principall when it is paid by the suerty 1 Joh 1.9