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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66577	Cultus evangelicus, or, A brief discourse concerning the spirituality and simplicity of New-Testament worship	Wilson, John, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing W2926D; Wing W2901; ESTC R9767	88,978	144

theirs by the term forsaking which I can hardly think he would have done had it not been sinfull 2. It was against their express promise whereby they all of them obliged themselves to own him and cleave to him though it cost them never so dear This promise saith a man of rare learning as it was made by all the Apostles so it was broken by them all 3. Thereby they much dishonoured Christ and his cause rejoyed such as were his enemies and hardened them against him What might better serve their malicious purposes as an argument against him th●n that his own very followers forlook and disowned him 4. Several writers of eminent note interpret it an act of very much cowardise and weakness Gerhard saith this flight of theirs was not a slight matter but a great offence And the Author whom I mentioned before reckons it amongst their errours in manners As for the words alledged for their dismission though they obliged the Souldiers to let them go yet did they not disoblige the Disciples from following him or justifie their cowardly forsaking him Summer birds when Winter comes hide themselves in hollow trees and so did these I have mentioned and so do all temporizing formalists that preferr a little worldly trash before the Glory of God and a good Conscience So long as the Sun shines on Jerusalem they own it and every man saith he was born there but when a cloud is over it then they disown it and are ready to cry with the children of Edom rase it rase it even to the foundation thereof Now this is a most unworthy sinfull course with greatest indignation to be abhorred and with greatest care to be avoided by all such as are true hearted to Religion and that desire that Christs Kingdom may come and be set up in the world What greater disgrace can men do to Religion than for every show● of rain that falls run away from it and forsake it what kind of thoughts will those that are without have of Religion when they see us make so light of it They 'l think its a poor kind of Religion when it is not worthy to be suffered for What will they take it to be but a meer fable when they consider it speaks of such great matters and yet see we will not endure the least hardship for it Apostacy is a sin highly dishonourable to God and prejudicial to the truth and therefore God complains of upbraids and declares his displeasure against a people when they shrink back upon the sight of approaching troubles and refuse to suffer for him He long ago laid it to the charge of the Jews that they were not valiant for the Truth Valiant they were as any people in the World but not for the Truth They were couragious for themselves but cowardly for God And this was an aggravation of their Cowardize for this shew'd it proceeded not from any natural imbecillity of the affections but from want of true Piety which if they had had they would have been as valiant for him as they were for themselves And what by one Prophet he lays to the charge of the Jews he doth by another lay to the charge of the Israelites Ephraim saith he is like a silly Dove without heart At other times Ephraim had spirit enough but when he was to ingage for God then he had no heart And thus it is with many amongst us they have heart enough for themselves but none for God If they see their Names Estates or carnal Interest any way touched they are all on a fire and ready to be burnt up with the flames or their own zeal but they can see the Name Truth and Interest of God assaulted and torn all to pieces and never stir In their own matters they are as if they were all heart but in the Cause of God they are as if with Ephraim they had no heart at all Oh it 's sad that men should have an heart for themselves and none for God that they should have courage in their own Cause and none in his This God takes unkindly and will severely punish Though God call us sometimes to suffer for him yet we need not think much at it for he promises us ample recompence he engages that whatever we suffer for him in our Names Enjoyments Relations Friends Liberty or any other thing he will abundantly make us amends Verily saith Christ I say unto you That ye which have followed me in the Regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the Throne of his glory ye shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel And everyone that hath forsaken Houses or Brethren or Sisters or Father or Mother or Wife or Children or Lands for my Names sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting Life Suffering then for Christ and Religion is rather a kind of gainful Merchandize than any real loss Who ever counted it loss to part with a summ of money upon good security to receive it again at such a time with due Interest why this is the Condition of the Servants of God He is so well pleased with their Sufferings that he ingages to make up whatever they lose upon his account He assures them that whatever they part with for him they shall have it repayed to them an hundred times over and surely that 's good interest But yet lest that should not be thought enough he tells them that in the end they shall inherit everlasting Life And upon these and such-like grounds the Servants of God have in all Ages stood up in the defence of Religion and his true Worship notwithstanding all the miseries they thereby rendred themselves liable to suffer Though the Enemies of God and his Truth inflicted on them the greatest tortures the Devil with all his malice and subtilty could help them to invent yet they entertain'd them cheerfully and endur'd them patiently and not only so but rejoyced in them as Ensigns of highest honour praising God that he would make use of them to suffer for his Name and bear witness to his oppressed Truth Nay sometimes they were acted by such a spirit of heroick Zeal that they desired Sufferings and put themselves upon them When the Prefect urged Basil to comply with the Emperour and threatned him with death if he denied he gave him this resolute and stout answer Thou threatnest me with death saith he and I would it would fall out so well on my side that I might lay down this carcase of mine in the Quarrel of Christ and in the defence of his Truth who is my Head and Captain And when the Prefect pressed him to remember himself and obey the Emperour he rejecting all told him What I am to day the same thou shalt find me to morrow And in like manner Luther professed to Spalatine That he rejoyced with all his heart that God called him to suffer for so good a