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A97024 A comment on the times, or, A character of the enemies of the church. Written by Thomas Wall, Mr. in arts and minister of Jesus Christ. Wall, Thomas. 1657 (1657) Wing W477; ESTC R186183 24,470 92

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enemies of the Church according to their several ranks observe first from the general scope of the Text That the Church of God never wanted enemies never will There is no peace to the wicked saith God There shall be no peace to the godly say the wicked The wicked shall have no peace which God can give the godly shall have no peace which the wicked can take away God is the Lord of all the earth it is fit that all parts of the earth should yeild him some tribute of souls There may be seven thousand and one in one part of the earth but alas what is seven thousand and one in one part to scarce one of seven thousand in all the other parts Sure I am God's flock is but a little one all the rest are enemies Whoever are the enemies great is their enmity and proportionable thereunto their cruelty Whoever are the enemies for there are enemies without the pale of the Church and there are some within Some without There are that hate the Church the seed of the Serpent their father 's own brood Ye are of your father the divel saith our Saviour Christ There are that mock it an Ishmaelitish issue There are that deride Sanballets progeny There are that rail at it Rabshekah's race There are that curse it Balaams brood All seek to destroy it There is no agreement between good and evil Neither of which can subsist in any part of the other Meet they may but not unite There is nothing good which is not wholly so The least defect changeth the title Thus stands it also between truth and falshood Truth is but one it hath no subsistence but in it self admits of no agreement with what is not one with it Look then what difference there is in the nature of the things which are entertained such difference there is in the affections of those that do profess them Religion is the surest tye of love where this knits not the hearts there can be no perfect Union A seeming truce there may be but no true concord It is their Religion true or false which all Nations of the world believe themselves most engaged both to defend and propagate When this comes into competition that spurious concord which is knit by secular respects like some goodly Fabrick founded upon the sands is suddenly overthrown with every puff of passion or misprision Enmity grounded on difference of Religion may be lull'd asleep by some secular interests but cannot be extinguished If the cradle be not continually rocked it quickly wakes like a fire which hath some while lay smothering under the pile breaks forth ere long more violently into a sudden flame If disagreement in m●tters of faith causeth enmity the more contrary one faith is to another the greater is that enmity The world ha●● embraced three and but three several Religions the Jewish Christian and Mahumetan The Jews expect their Messiah yet to come who with great state and glory shall subdue all Nations to his Scepter and reigne gloriously with them upon the earth The Mahumetans have their Saviour already come and shall come again and receive them into a paradice above to all fleshly delights Wine and Women Musick Banquettings and all things that delight a sensual and brutish appetite Neither of these are so contrary the one to the other as the Christian is to both teaching against the one that the Saviour of the world is already come whose Palace was a Stable and his Couch a Manger whose Crown was Thorns and his Scepter a Cross whose Revenews was poverty and his State humility whose Sword was his Word and his conquest Dying In a word whose Kingdom was not of this world Teaching against the other nothing but spiritual joys and incomprehensible consolations in the glorious vision and fruition of God Go to now O thou Christian go to the Jews first and tell them You are a faithless Nation your Messiah is come and ye have rejected him and with cruel hands have crucified the Lord of life and therefore your expected felicity is turned to misery●your glorious reign over all Nations to a no less strange then sad dissipation over all the earth and your carnal security to spiritual confusion Wilt thou tell them this and not expect their enmity From the Jew go to the Turk and tell him abused Musselman your Prophet is an Impostor his law a lye the carnal delights which he has promised you will turn to unutterable dolours of soul his beautiful women into mishapen hags your harmonious musick into hideous howling and your delicious fare into surfe●s of wo and bitterness Wilt thou tell him this and not expect his enmity 2. But secondly There are enemies within the pale of the Church too It is not saith David an open enemy that hath done me this dishonour for then I could have born it But it is thou mine own familiar we walked in the house of God as friends c. A stab from a friend wounds the heart deeper then the body while the body weeps in blood at the stroke the soul bleeds in tears at the unkindness Brutus received a greater wound from Caesar then he gave and Caesar a greater wound from Brutus then his weapon when he cryed tu fili Brute That misfortune doth most amaze which we do least expect and those injuries do most trouble which we least deserve No sight so uncouth as to see children pierce those Breasts which gave them suck Good milk turns to bad blood in a wicked heart The juice of the same Flower which becomes honey in the Bee converts to poyson in the Spider Corrupt affections abuse the greatest blessings O dear and sacred Mother My soul shall weep in secret for thy ungrateful sons these Birds had not peck'd out thine eyes hadst not thou brought them out nor kick'd against thee hadst not thou fed them full of such excellent viands of knowledge which thus puffs them up Hast thou purchast such a pure Reformation for them from that adulterous Synagogue of Rome with so much blood of thy dearest children that they should turn their weapons into thine own bowels to seek for a new one there There are sure some crudities in their ill-disposed stomacks that have turned the wholsom food of the Church into these venomous practises My Meditations have suggested four 1. Scrupulosity 2. Envie 3. Ignorance 4. Ambition or Pride Upon which these four Beasts in the Text do act their enmity against the Church Scrupulosity sets forth unto us the Beast of the reeds Envie the Bulls Ignorance the Calves and Pride the men that delight in war Scruples are the reeds the Beast that lurks in them is a peevish spirit which thence takes all occasions to prey upon the peace of the Church Every blast of wind shakes the bending reed to and fro every idle scruple staggers the unsetled humorist in his obedience Were these doubts the zeal of a well meaning mind there might be place