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A67748	Englands unthankfulness striving with Gods goodness, for the victory as Abaslom [sic] strove with David, whether the father should be more kinde to the son; or the son more unkinde to the father. Or, enough (being wel weighed) to melt an heart of adamant. By R. Younge, florilegus. In reference to Leviticus 19.17 and Isaiah 58.1. In reading whereof, reflect upon your selves; hearken to conscience; and what concerns you, apply it to others, as David did Nathans parable, 2 Sam. 12.1, to 8. And Ahab the prophets, 1 King.20. 39, to 43. Want of application makes all means ineffectual; and therefore are we Christians in name only, because we think out selves Christians indeed, and already good enough.	Younge, Richard.	1643 (1643)	Wing Y152; ESTC R218135	77,968	74

they doe or leave undone but thou wilt strangely censure them as if they refuse to Oath it then they make great conscience of swearing but none of lying and cozening and therefore are not to be believed If they be carefull of their society thou wilt tax and stout them with stand farther off for I am holier then thou Againe If a mans conscience be tender and he makes scruple of small matters O then he stumbles at strawes and leaps over blockes straines at Gnats and swallowes Cammels 7. And as is thy censuring such is thy envy and hatred to the Godly and why but because they either doe better or fare betrer or are better esteemed then thy selfe Yea even a good Conscience and sticking close to the word is the onely thing that raiseth thy spleen and is the whetstone of thy malice as it faired with Annanias touching Paul Acts 23. This makes thee persecute honest and Orthodox Christians and say thou meanest base and dissembling Hypocrites Yea even while thou caleft them so and perhaps in some sence thinkest so thou dost thinke and know and thy conscience now knowes and thinkes to the contrary A horrible stupidity and blockishnesse that none are lyable too but such as the Devill hath blinded But because their is no other way to cure thee thereof but by thus shewing thee those secrets of thy heart which thou couldest not have thought God himselfe had been privy too I will proceed though small is my hope of thy amendment Thou canst love any that are not religious but thou hatest zeale and devotion so inveterately that thou canst in no wise bare with it in any Yea thy Religion is to oppose the power of Religion and thy knowledge of the truth to know how to argue against the truth As thou canst most wisely and subtilly being prompted by Satan argue against Gods people and goodnesse it selfe taking all occasions so to doe though under other notions and pretences though thou hast not a word to speake for them or it whence it is that the power of religion and the people of God are every where spoken against as the chief Jews told Paul Acts 28. 22. yea whatsoever Sect or Heresie thou pretendest doe but ask thy owne couscience whether thou dost not hate them even for the graces of Gods spirit which shine in them and whether thou dost not carry an aking tooth against every godly man thou knowest and judge their thoughts to bee evill when thou canst not tax their lives 8. Thou art an affected scoffer at Religion like Chan and Ishmael Yea thou dost nickname raile on and slander the people of God misconstrue their actions and intentions and narrowly watch for their halting Thou rejoycest at their secret infirmities or miseries and at the open scandals of Hypocrites Thou art grieved at their good especially a●… their gifts and graces Thou wilt beleeve any false report of them be it never so unlikely and that from the Devils servants Thou wilt not suffer wholsome Doctrine but carpe and fret against the good Word of God if it be an untoothsome truth though never so wholesome 9. Thou contemnest that preaching which awakens mens Consciences workes upon their affections and saves their soules And applaudest such Corinthian Preachers as tickle the eare onely and please the ●…ce For let some Boanerges thunder out the judgements of God against ●…n 〈◊〉 and threaten their destruction if they amend not their lives As Ionah when in three dayes he converted that great City Nineveh Or disc●… their most secret thoughts as Christ did to the 〈◊〉 of Sama●… Iohn 4. Or drive an application home to their Consciences touching some one sinne of theirs as Iohn Baptist dealt with Herod Or as Peter with the Iewes when he converted three thousand at one Sermon and five thousand 〈◊〉 another Acts 2. 41. and 4. 4. Thou wilt most bitt●…rly inveigh against 〈◊〉 for preaching nothing but Law and damnation saying that such Sermons are not to be heard for they onely drive men to dispaire But 〈◊〉 when Mr. Rogers spoken of in the Booke of Mar●…yrs preaching after th●… manner heard one of his Auditors crie out I am damned I am damned cryed out as fast I would their were more of you damned I would there were more of you damned So say I I would there were more such preaching I would there were more such dispairing And thrice h●…ppy were it for thee if thou didst so dispair if thou wert so damned also For thou hast no other way to be saved in all probability if ever thou bee●… saved No other way to go to Heaven but by the very Gates of Hell as I could make plaine to thee if time would permit And yet thou forsooth wilt persecute a Minister to the death for shewing thee the way to eternall life as the Iewe●… served our Saviour John 7. 7. and the Prophets before him and Apostles after him Prov. 15. 12. Amos 5. 10. Mat. 23. 37. Gal. 4. 16. 1 Thes. 2. 16. Act. 4. 17. 18. 7. 27. and 19 28. 1 King 22. 8. Iohn 3. 19. 20 21. Psal. 83. 2. to 10. Mat. 26. 4. Marke 3. 6. Revel. 12. 10. And which is more strange th●… all Thou wilt all these waies which I have laid downe persecute Christ in his Members and yet thinke thou dost God good service therein and deser Vest great praise for thy so d●…ing Here is blindnesse and blockishnesse with a witnesse to thinke that the Father will take it for a sa●… 〈◊〉 to see his onely Sonne most maliciously murthered in his owne sight 10. Againe whereas a good man is so farre from taking offence ●…n none is given that he will not be offended when offences come ●…t the scandalous lives of Professors or at the multitude of Heresies that 〈◊〉 daily broached though they grieve his very soule but when strange ●…gs happen he makes a wholsome construction thereof Thou art not ●…ly hardned thereby to thine owne destruction but even as an ill ●…ack turnes all it receives even the wholsomest meates into ill hu●…urs or as the Spyder converts every thing she eates into poyson so 〈◊〉 whatsoever thou hearest or seest in the godly even their very ver●… and graces so blinding thy selfe with thine owne prejudice that ●…ou wilt not beleeve what thine eyes see and thine eares heare CHAP. XIV 〈◊〉 ANd so by this time I hope thou seest sinne in thy selfe be it but as the man halfe restored to his sight saw men walking as Trees ●…d that thou art not so pure as thou tookest thy selfe to be For certain●… these are not the thoughts words and actions of one that hath kept all 〈◊〉 Commandements that hath so good a heart and meaning and so strong saith that loves God and the people of God as thou pretendest Yea I ●…pose let these things touching enmity be but wel weighed and laid to 〈◊〉 they will convince thee and ninty nine parts of the Kingdome with ●…ce who also

a Christian Those that are openly prophane doe more publikely professe their enmity and make a greater noise like Shimei but civill and mor all 〈◊〉 resemble Balam who would no●… curse but he would advise and his counsell is worse then a curse for his curse had ●…int none but himselfe whereas his counsell cost the blood of four and twenty thousand Israelites which may most fitly be applied to our late condition for who have been the ince●…diaries of this bloody and worse then savage civil warre in all the three Kingdoms not men of the Sword not uncivil ones but principally the learned Prelates Civilians and Moralists meerly out of a mortall hatred and enmity which they bare against zeelous Christians and Orthodox Ministers their sincerity the power of Religion and Reformation though they cunni●…gly pretended the good of the Church and of the Protestant R●…ligion Ulisses contrived all though Dio●…edes must goe through with it the one plaid the part of Achitophel the other of Doeg whereof the best was a Belial CHAP. XIX 1. ANd so much for Explication and Confirmation Now a word or two of Application ●…eserting the principall untill ther conc●…usion for it remaines that e●…ch formal Hypocrite and civill Iusticiary lookes himselfe in this Glas●… or tryes himselfe by this Touch-stone As no Glass can more lively represent your faces then this Booke does your 〈◊〉 Nor did the Prophet deale more plainly with Hazael in shewing him that wickednesse to be in him which he could not see nor believe to be in himselfe then I have dealt with you So that you can no longer be deceived except you desire to deceive your selves You cannot possible after all this thinke your selves to be Christians or religious in the least however you have formerly sancied or flattered your selves For consider I beseech you that there are but two sorts of men in the World Beleevers or Unbeleevers regenerate or unregenerate 〈◊〉 of God or childre●… of the Devill the seed of the Woman or the seed of the Serpent there is no meane betwixt them every soule saith Chyrs●…stome is either the Spouse of Ch●…ist or ●…e Adul●…resse of the Devil He is either a branch 〈◊〉 from Adams stock hi●… drawes sap from that cursed root of death or else he is transplanted into the Vine Christ and drawes his Sap from him 2. Nor is it hard to know whether we are the children of God or the children of the Devill since there are more differences between them then there are betweene Men and Beasts and the rule which the Apostle hath given Rom. 6. 16. is both plaine and easie which makes him say Know yee not that to whom ye yield your selves as servants to obey his servants ye are to whom yee obey whether of sinne unto death or of obedience unto righteousnesse It is likewise St. Peters infallible doctrine 2 Pet. 2. Of whom a man is overcome unto him he is in bondage vers. 19 And St. Ioh 〈◊〉 1 Ioh. 3. In this are the children of God knowne and the children of the Devill whosoever doth not righ●…eousnesse is not of God but of the Devill ver. 8. 10. And after this manner does our Saviour reason with the Iewes Ioh. 8. Yee are of your Father the Devill and the lusts of your Father yee will ●…e If yee were Abrahams if yee were Gods children yee would doe the works of Abraham the will of God vers. 33. to 48. See then whose Commandments ye doe Gods or Satans If Satans as I have sufficiently showne and plentifully proved then saith St. Iohn Let no man deceive you through vaine words for he onely that doth righteousnesse is righteous and he that doth unrighteousnesse is of the Devill 1 Joh. 3. 7 8. 3. Now I have showne you in more then a hundreth particulars how barren and unfruitfull you are in the workes of righteousnesse and how active and instrumentall you are to serve Satan And there is scarce one of those signes but might serve as a sufficient evidence that you are not as yet become the childe of God by regeneration that the image of God by faith in Christ is not yet repaired in you But to repeat and apply each of them particularly as it would be endlesse so it were also needlesse ●…ee the Holy Ghost hath given us one signe that never failes That is by our L●…ve or hatred ●…o the Brethren 1 Ioh. 4. Love is of God and every one that loves is horn of God vers. 〈◊〉 Yea not onely our selves may know by it 1 Ioh. 3. We know saith St Iohn that we are translated from death to life because we love the the brethren ver 14. But others may likewise know Ioh. 13. By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples saith our Saviour if ye love one another ver. 35. that is if ye love the Godly because they are godly even for Christs sake and because they are like Christ in holinesse But so doe not you for you will hate a man meerely for his being holy as I have proved by many instances and your owne consciences know for you could love such a preciseans person wel enough if he were not conscionable Yea thou bearest no good affection to the Ministry that are the Embassadors of Christ but hast a spleen against one for being so especially if he be a godly Minister much more if he be thine owne Minister and speakes home to thy conscience as Michaia dealt by Ahab and Iohn Baptist with Herod Or in case he will not admit thee to the Lords Table without tryall or examination thou wilt ever after be his enemy impeach his credit and de●…aine from him his dues which is enough to prove thee a wicked man For as when Homer had spent many lines in dispraising the body of Ther●…ies he briefly described his soule thus That he was an enemy to Ulisses So we need say no more of a bad man then he is an enemy to his Pastor if a godly and conscientious one that is enough to brand him and the like ●…ouching private Christians for the very first part of conversion is to love ●…hem that love God 1 John 3. 10. as in reason if the image of God by faith were repaired in thee thou couldest not but be delighted with those that ●…e like thy selfe 4. But this is a small matter with thee for thou art a traytor to God and ●…st up Armes against all that worship him in spirit and in tru●…h Nor dost th●… onely serve Satan but he worketh his pleasure in thee Ephe. 2. 2. 3. He selleth thy heart Joh. 13 2. stretcheth forth thine hands Revel. 2. 10. and ●…pens thy m●…uth Mat. 16. 23. for he speakes in and by thee as he did by the Serpen●… Gen. 〈◊〉 1. 4. and it is but his mind in thy mouth his heart in thy lips when thou scoffest or scornest any of Christs little ones Mat. 16. 23 Joh. 8. 34. 44. and 12. 31. and 14. 30. 2 Cor.

after his own Image in righteousnesse and holinesse and in perfect knowledg of the truth with a power to stand and for ever to continue in a most blessed and happy condition and this deserves all possible thankfulnesse but this was nothing in comparison for when we were in a sad condition when we had forfeited all this our selves when by sin we had turned that image of God into the image of Satan and wilfully plunged our souls and bodies into eternal torments when we were become his enemies mortally hating him and to our utmost fighting against him and taking part with his only enemies Sin and Satan not having the least thought or desire of reconcilement but a perverse and obstinate will to resist all means tending thereunto He did redeem us not onely without asking but even against our wills so making of us his cursed enemies servants of servants sons of sons heirs and coheirs with Christ Gal. 4. 7. Here was a fathomless depth a wonder beyond all wonders 2. But that we may the better consider what an alms or boon God gave us when he gave us his Son Observe that when neither heaven earth nor hell could have yielded any satisfactory thing besides Christ that could have satisfied Gods justice and merited heaven for us then O then God in his infinite wisdom and goodness did not onely finde out a way to satisfie his Justice and the Law but gave us his Son his only begotten Son his only beloved Son out of his bosome And his Son gave himself to die even the most shameful painful and cursed death of the Cross to redeem us That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Iohn 3. 16. The very thought of which death before he came to it together with the weight and burthen of our sins put him into such an Agony in the Garden that it made him to sweat even drops of blood A mercy bestowed and a way found out that may astonish all the sons of men on earth and Angels in Heaven Wherefore ô wonder at this you that wonder at nothing That the Lord should come with such a price to redeem our worse then lost souls and to bring salvation to us even against our wils The Lord Iesus Christ being rich for our sakes became poor that we through his poverty might be made rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. Even the eternal God would die that we might not die eternally ô the deepness of Gods love ô the unmeasurable measure of his bounty ô Son of God who can sufficiently express thy love Or commend thy pity Or extol thy praise It was a wonder that thou madest us for thy self more that thou madest thy self man for us but most of all that thou shouldest unmake thy self that thou shouldest die to save u●… 3. And which is further considerable It cost God more to redeem the world then to make it In the Creation he gave thee thy self but in the Redemption he gave thee himself The Creation of all things cost him but six dayes to finish it the Redemption of man cost him three and thirty years In the Creation of the World he did but only speak the word in the Redemption of man he both spake and wept and sweat and bled and died and did many wonderful things to do it Yea the saving of one soul single is more and greater then the making of the whole World In every new creature are a number of miracles a blinde man is restored to fight a deaf man to bearing a man possest with many Devils dis-possest yea a dead man raised from the dead and in every one a stone turned into flesh in all which God meets with nothing but opposition which in the Creation he met not with 4. But the better to illustrate this love consider that salvation stands in two things First in freedome and deliverance of us from Hell Secondly in the possession of Heaven and eternal life Christ by his death merits the first for us and by his obedience fulfilling the Law merits the second The parts of our Iustification are likewise two the remission of our sins and the imputation of Christs righteousnesse And to this would be added first Conversion which comprehends both Faith and Repentance Secondy Sanctification the Parts whereof are Mortification that is dying unto sin and Vivisication which is living unto righteousnesse Thirdly Glorification begun and perfected which is freedome from all evil here and the perfection of all good and happiness in heaven 5. What shall I say God of his goodnesse hath bestowed so many and so great mercies upon us that it is not possible to expresse his bounty therein for if we look inward we finde our Creators mercies if we look upward his mercy reacheth unto the heavens if downwards the earth is full of his goodnesse and so is the broad Sea if we look about us what is it that he hath not given us Air to breath in Fire to warm us Water to cool and cleanse us Clothes to cover us Food to nourish us Fruits to refresh us yea Delicates to please us Beasts to serve us Angels to attend us Heaven to receive us And which is above all Himself and his own Son to be injoyed of us So that whithersoever we turn our eyes we cannot look besides his bounty yea we can scarce think of any thing more to pray for but that he would continue those blessings which he hath bestowed on us already Yet we covet still as though we had nothing and live as if we knew nothing of all this his beneficence We are bound to praise him above any Nation whatsoever for what Nation under Heaven enjoyes so much light or so many blessings as we above any creature c. God might have said before we were formed Let them be Toads Monsters Infidels Beggars Cripples Bond-slaves Idiots or Mad men so long as they live and after that Castaways for ever and ever But he hath made us to the best likenesse and nursed us in the best Religion and placed us in the best Land and appointed us to the best and only inheritance even to remain in blisse with him for ever yea thousands would think themselves happy if they had but a piece of our happinesse for whereas some bleed we sleep in safety others beg we abound others starve we are full fed others grope in the dark our Sun still shines we have eyes ears tongue feet hands health liberty reason others are blinde deaf dumb are sick maimed imprisoned distracted and the like yea God hath removed so many evils from us and conferred so many good things upon us that they are beyond thought or imagination For if the whole Heaven were turned into a Book and all the Angels deputed Writers therein they could not set down all the good which Gods love in Christ hath done us For all those millions of mercies that we have received from before and since we were born either

infidelity selfe-love and such like carnall respects were no better then shining sinnes or beautifull abominations What saith Sr. Austin most excellently There is no true vertue where there is no true Religion And that conscience which is not directed by the Word even when it does best does ill because it does it not in faith obedience and love Nor will God accept of any action unlesse it flowes from a pious and good heart sanctified by the Holy Ghost 2. Whereas thou art so farre from being really religious and godly that thou hast not yet made one step towards it For the first step to Religion or Christianity is to love religion and holinesse in another but thou as thine owne conscience will beare me witnesse wilt hate scoffe at and persecute another for being holy and religious Nor canst thou indure the power of Religion in any though thou lovest a forme dearely as taking the shadow for the substance which notably discovers the deceitfulnesse of thy heart and Satans subtilty if thou hadst but eyes to see it Nor couldest thou otherwise think so well of thy selfe for thou thinkest thy selfe as good a Christian as the best Yea thou passest for and art reputed an excellent Christian by men of the World As divers will say of Morrall honest men if they goe not to Heaven Lord have mercy upon us Yea by some of o●… late reverend Prelates and their Creatures for they counted men religious as they were conformable to their Cannons and all the congregation is alike holy and holy enough to naturall men As Corah and his prophane consorts told Moses and Aaron when they rose up against them Numb. 16. 1. 2. 3. 3. But it is manifest enough by the word of God that thou art an ignorant formall titular stature out-side Christian And that thou hast no more of religion or godlinesse then a bare forme out-side or shadow 2 Tim. 3. 5. Tit. 1. 16. That thou art a meere Bladder empty of all true grace and onely blowne up with pride That there is not a poorer wretch upon the face of the earth then thou that with Laosicea braggest thy selfe to be rich and to want nothing when thou art wretched and miserable and poor naked Rev. 2. 17 only thou art pus●…t up and knowest nothing 1 Tim. 6. 4. 4. But because there is no heating thee off from thy conceited righteousnesse and selfe purity except it be by shewing thee thy unrighteousnesse and actuall impurity and because thou must of necessity know thy selfe sick before thou wilt seeke and sue to Christ the Physitian of soules I will further discover unto thee not onely thy abominable wickednesse originall and actuall of commission and omission but even the very inmost secrets of thy heart and soule which thou shalt confesse none could doe except God were with him Wherefore marke well what I say CHAP. XII 1. FIrst admit thou hadst never offended in the least in all thy life either in thought word or deed Yea admit thou couldest now keepe all the Commandements actually and spiritually yet this were nothing thou wert miserable notwithstanding Because thou broughtest a world of sinne ●…to the world with thee and deservedst to dye so soone as thou beganest to live Even when thou wast a little childe thou wert a great sinner Wee are the cursed seed of rebellious parents And are as guilty of Adams and Eves sinne being in their loynes as any Heire is lyable to his Fathers debt Rom. 5. 12. 14 15 17 18 19. They were the roote or stocke of all mankinde and their act was ours as the act of a Knight or Burges is the act of the whole County If they had stood and continued in that estate of innocencie and happinesse as it was put to their choise we had stood also and been for ever blessed And so on the contrary Gen. 2. 17. Insomuch that we were conceived in sin and borne the children of wrath Even condemned so soone as conceived and adjudged to eternall death before we were borne a temporall life Psal. 51. 5. God indeed made us after his owne image but by sinne we have turned that image of his into the image of Satan So that by nature be we never so milde and gentle we are the seed of the Serpent Gen. 3. 15. and children of the Devill Iohn 8. 44. Yea the very best naturall man is but a tame Devill as Athanasius well notes 2. Nor wouldest thou need any more to humble thee and make thee loath and abhor thy selfe then the cleare sight of thy guiltinesse wickednesse and wretchednesse by nature For no tongue is able to expresse what impotent pittifull and poluted wretches we are when we are in our blood Ezek. 16. 6. As Christ at the first finds us and before he hath washed us white in his blood sanctified us by his Spirit and covered us with the long white Robe of his righteousnesse As O what swarmes what litters what legions of noysome lusts lye lurking in every naturall mans heart by reason of originall sin For out of the heart naturally proceeds nothing but evil thoughts murders adulteries fornications theifts false-witnesse blasphemies c. as our Saviour shewes Mat. 15. 18. 19. Yea every imagination of the thoughts of mans heart are onely and continually evill and deceitfull above all things Jet 17. 9. and that from his youth Gen. 6. 5. and 8. 21. And we are all cut out of the same cloath So that every man hath the seeds of every sinne in his heart And we are beholding to God and not to our selves that we runne not out into all manner of enormeties even the sin against the Holy Ghost not except That we are not worse then Manasses himselfe Lord saith St. Austin thou hast forgiven me those sinnes which I have done and those sinnes which onely by thy grace I have not done They were done in our inclination to them and even that inclination needs God mercy Nor are we onely apt to all evill but we are also reprobate and indisposed to all grace and goodnesse yea to all the meanes thereof we are not onely weake but altogether so dead in sinne that we cannot stirre the least joynt no not so much as feele our deadnesse nor desire life we can no more turne our selves then we could at first make our selves And as God did at first make us so he must new make us or we shall everlastingly perish Yea except God bestow upon us daily privative grace to desend us from evill and daily positive grace inabling us to doe good we are utterly undone We have ability we have will enough to undoe our selves scope enough Hell-ward but neither motion nor will to doe good Our understandings are darkned and dulled our judgements blinded our wills perverted our memories disordered our affections corrupted our reason depraved our thoughts surprised our desires intraped and all the faculties and functions of our soules yea our very natures are no better then