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A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

O Assyrian the rod of mine anger Psal 17. 14 From men which are thine hand O Lord. By which and with which our heavenly Father doth correct us they not having the least power of themselves to beat and bustet to afflict and scourge for had they they would swallow us up quicke when their wrath was kindled against us Psal 124 3. 129. 2. 2. That when they doe their worst executing their commission with the keenest edge of exasperated violence and bloudy cruelty whetted on and sharpned by hellish fury and humane malice yet can they onely kill our bodies Luk. 12. 4. which must of necessity die Heb. 9. 27. It being appointed unto all men once to die 3. That although they aime at nothing lesse yet their scourging of us tends to our greater good Rom. 8. 28. we knowing that all things work together for good to them that love God 4. That these bedlam beasts and barking Belials shall severely smart for grieving us for as a tender-hearted father when he hath sufficiently corrected his child rends and teares the rod in peeces throwes and casts it from him with indignation or into the fire to be consumed even so dealeth our compassionate Father with these his rods witnesse Pharaoh Ahab Iezabel Saul Achitophel Haman yea all the savage and bloudy persecutors of Gods people from their great grandfather Cain with whom the Lord is sore displeased for he was but a little displeased with his children and they helped forward the affliction Zach. 1. 15. The Lord was wrath with his people he gave them into their hands they shewed them no mercy therefore c. Isa 47. 6. Take a view of Gods visible revenge in this life upon the barbarous and savage persecutors of his people in all ages The bloudy Egyptians which drowned the new-born babes of the Israel of God were by him drowned in the red sea Exod. 14. 28. Iezabel thirsting after and greedily drinking the bloud of the Lords Prophets becomes meat and drinke to the dogs of Iezreel 2 King 9 36. I●ash who commanded his servants to slay Zachariah the sonne of Iehejada was slaine himselfe by his servants 2 Chron. 24. 21 25. Antiochus that barbarous beast who had tormented other mens bowels with many and strange torments was plagued with a paine of the bowels which was remedilesse and sore torments of the inward parts c. 2. Maccab. 9. 5 6. Yea all the members of his body were much pained ver 7. the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man and whiles he lived in sorrow and paine his flesh fell away and the filthinesse of his smell was noysome to all his army so that no man could indure to carie him for his intolerable stinke 9. 10. And then this murtherer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously as he intreated other men so died he a miserable death in a strange countrey in the mountaines 28. The Herodian family by whose cruell commandements the harmlesse infants Iohn the Baptist and the Apostle S. Iames were martyred plagued with dolefull dreadfull destruction Herod the great besides the many miseries and tragicall calamities which befell his family he was smitten with a disease so hidcous and horrible that manifested the Lords wrathful revenge for his bloudy and crimson crying cruelties From that time sicknes did quickly take his whole body and made it subject Eus●b Hist li● 1 c. 9. p. 10. ex Ioseph to sundry griefs for he had a burning feaver an intolerable itch over the whole skinne continuall paines of the fundament about his feet as it were dropsie swellings an inflammation of the bladder rottennesse of the privie members full of wormes besides often and difficult breathing coivulsions of all the members so that they that were inspired from above said that these sicknesses were a revengement And this monster of men knowing how hee was hated for his cruelty commanded that the principall men of the Iewes should be imprisoned and slaine at his death that so the Iewes might be forced to lament at the same 2. Herod Antipas that notable hypocrite who beheaded Euseb lib. 1. c. 11. pag. 12. Iohn and derided Christ an enemy to the Church and truth was vanquished and banished with Herodias to Vienna 3. Herod Agrippa a violent persecutor of the Church Ibid. Acts 12. was smitten by the Angell of the Lord and eaten with wormes Pilate that wicked judge who condemned our blessed Saviour Micrel de Eccl. mos pag. 221. being called home againe to Rome laid violent hands upon himselfe his dead body was tormented by spirits after a dreadfull manner c. N●ro that infernall fury breathing out rigorous and raging persecutions against Gods people after divers dreadfull distresses hearing that he was judged by the Senate an enemy Sueton. Nero 6. pag. 249. and was sought for to bee punished after the ancient custome namely his necke to be put into a gallowes and his body being naked to be beaten to death with rods he slew himselfe Domitian as Eusebius reports a great persecutor of the Sueton. Dom. 12. pag. 315. Church of God was slaine in his chamber by his owne servants his wife Domitia being privy thereunto and his dead body was contemptuously caried out by the bearers of dead bodies like a cut-throate Trajan Hadrian and Antoninus not onely tasted of but also drunke deepe of the Lords cup of plagues and punishments for the bloud of his Saints which they with such beastly and greedy crueltie and immanity had shed as water upon the earth Soc. Eccl. Hist lib. 1. c. 1 p. 204 Severus betrayed and slaine by his owne souldiers Decius before he had reigned two yeares was slaine with Iuseb l. 7. c. 1. pag. 81. his children Valerianus his fearefull end is thus set downe by Constantine in his Oration to the Saints Also thou Valerianus shewing Pag. 113. the same cruelty on Gods servants hast determined as it were before all mens eyes the just and holy judgements of God when thou being taken captive and bound wast led clothed in purple and other like kingly apparell and after by Sapores the King of the Persians wast commanded to have thy skin plucked off and thou to be powdered with salt thou hast set up before all mens eyes an everlasting signe of thy calamitie Dioclesians under whom was the greatest and most grievous Ibid. persecution direfull and deserved destruction for his cruelty against the members of the Lord Iesus is described in the Chapter following in the same Oration Galerius was killed with an ulcer in his privie members 〈…〉 rel p. 12● full of wormes and most loathsome with a deadly stinke Maximinus vanquished by Licinius was plagued of God as followeth Therefore a torment sent by the speciall appointment of God did suddenly take him taking its beginning from his flesh and making its progresse even to his soule for a suddaine mattering happened to him in the in most secrets of