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B01750	1. Crosses, 2. comforts, 3. counsels. Needfull to be considered, and carefully to be laid up in the hearts of the godly, in these boysterous broiles, and bloody times. / By M. Zacharie Boyd.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3905; ESTC R170737	26,502	85

parts of this text the Lord forwarneth his disciples both present and to come of very great troubles yee said he shall be betrayed both by parents and kinsefolkes and friends c. Observe heere first in generall The doctrine the great mercy of God towards his own children he sensibly giveth them warning before troubles come he telleth them most plainly that heer is not their rest but that they must look for many troubles even troubles of all sorts The Lord in forwarning his children of troubles hath one of these two ends before him either he doeth so that his servants may escape the danger Gen. 6.13 so Noah was warned by God to make an Arke and to save himself and his familie from the flood Gen. 19.15 so Lot was warned by the Angel to flee from Sodome before fire came down and destroyed it or else God giveth to his servants forewarning of troubles that they may prepare themselves to beare them the more patientlie and couragiously for this end especiallie hee made his Apostles acquainted before hand that very great troubles were to fall upon them The use The use let us all take this warning to our selves wee have had a long peace but let us not look for a perpetuall prosperitie Gods Church below is a militant Church ever in a warfare as long as the divell and wicked men are permitted to goe loose in the world the church shall not want her enemies Psal 30.6 It was a verie foolish word that David said I said in my prosperitie I shall never bee moved but what followed thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled Note God for the sins of this land doeth threaten to hide his face if he do so we all shall be troubled how ever it go we are much beholden to the Lord who these years bypast hath given us so many warnings whereas he might have suffered us with the wicked to returne and be ashamed suddenly Psal 6.11 * Note He hath not at the first said to us as he said to his own people Israel Exo. 33.5 I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee these five or six years bypast the Lord hath been still threatning with judgements after judgements to come up into the midst of us for to consume us he hath not spoken of moments but of years and for moments hath given us years to repent in and woe unto us if we make not good use of such a rare and wonderfull mercy Let us now from the generall come to the particulars the Lord in this text giveth his disciples warning of three particular evils first betraying secondly putting to death of some thirdly an universall hatred for his names sake first we have to speak of betraying The first evill he forewarnes them of is betraying the word in the originall signifieth to yeeld to commit to give over or betray these by whom they should bee betrayed are here foure in number 1. their parents 2. their brethren 3. their kinsemen 4. their friends Christ in Mathew maketh mention of the like unnaturall dealing the brother saith he Mat. 10.21 shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the childe and the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death * Note The sense of all these words is as if the Lord had said to his Apostles to all the faithfull your troubles shall be very great for they shall proceed not only from strangers but from your dearest and nearest in nature even from your parents children brethren kinsmen friends from whom in all worldly appearance yee might expect your greatest comforts as being these whose bowels should be full of favour and tender love for to procure your good Observe here that Gods dearest children The doctrine who are Psal 119.38 devoted to Gods fear are subject to great afflictions the trouble is very piercing when we are crossed by these who should be our speciall comfort * Note After that David had spoken of many that had troubled him he melting for heavinesse subjoyned this as more then all Psal 41.9 yet my familiar friend in whom I trusted which did eat of my bread hath lift up his heele against me this was said of Ahitophel in the first place and after of Judas his treachery against Christ of whom Christ said in the new Testament Iohn 13.18 He that eateth bread with me hath lift up his heele against me when a master is betrayed by his servant when a Father or a mother is crossed by their children the affliction is very painfull to bear Jobs friends were a great grief unto him their words wounded him more on the doung hill then the evill he had received by the Sabeans and Caldeans who had robbed him of all his goods The 1. use The 1. use when such things befall us that our nearest friends trouble us let us remember that such hath beene the case of the dearest of Gods children * Note 1 Sam. 14.44 2 Sam. 15.12 Iohn 18.2 Jonathan had a persecuting father and David a persecuting sonne and Christ had a traitour servant and to all the apostles it is said here yee shall be betrayed both by parents and by brethren Psal 116.19 and kinsmen and friends The 2. use * The 2. use Note Let us learn here neither in the cause of God nor yet in things that concerne our selves to trust in any man Job said my friends scorn me Job 16.20 many may say the like behold here how parents and brethren and kinsemen and friends turne all traitours to betray the servants of the Lord * Note There is only one father that cannot betray his children even God our father only one Brother and only one friend only one kinseman Christ that changeth not in his love but as for men all men are lyers Psal 73.26 David said that God failed him never * Note If men in these last dayes had the eyes of Elishah to see within the breasts of men 2 King 8.11 as hee looked into Hazael they would see in many familiar friends things to be done for which they might justly in Hazaels words be called dogges rather then men * Note God hath hid many particulars from our eyes but he hath told us this in generall that many who seeme to be our greatest friends will not faile to betray us A man sitting at the Sermon like a childe sucking his mothers breasts will bee ready to betray the preacher when he finds his time hee will spit out the sincere milk of Gods Word 1 Pet. 2.2 and call it the bitter gall of treason * Note As Jrijah the Captaine of the Ward falsly accused the Prophet Jeremiah saying Thou art a Traitour Jer. 37.13 Thou fallest away to the Caldeans to such many Preachers may say Job 19.2 as

Job said to his naughtie friends How long will yee vexe my soule and breake me in pieces with words * Note In my judgement Satan in this land hath a nest of cockatrices egges where for a time he sitteth very still and quyet untill he hath hatched a number of traitours divelish Doegs who being his chickens will anone come out of his nest and flie abroad for the delating and betraying of many * Note There bee in this land many professours they are not papists but what then Give them peace and plentie and let them see the rivers Job 20.17 the floods the brooks of honey and butter and little shall they care for any Religion all is one to them to be for God or for Baal they have a stomach of an Ostrich that will be able to digest a service book before they losse a ridge of their land before such take up Christs Crosse to suffer they will rather take up the Tabernacle of Moloch Act. 7.43 and the star of the god Remphan Such with all their faire outward profession in dayes of peace are but like a potsheard Pro. 23.23 covered with silver drosse Others are Judas like who first served Christ for the bagge Math. 27.3 and afterwards served his enemies for thirtie pieces of silver * Note Thousands if they once imagine that there is more profite by serving the queene of Heaven then the KING of Heaven will keepe all their incense and drink offerings for her who would have thought that ever Gods people would have spoken these words Jer. 44.18 Since wee left off to burne incense to the queene of Heaven that is to the Sunne or Moone we have beene consumed by the sword and by the famine * Note Thousands in this land who have subscribed with their hand unto the LORD Isa 44.5 and surnamed themselves Covenanters are this day readie like Ahola and Aholibah Ezek. 23.5 to play the harlot with idoles before that for Religion they put on the sheep-skins and the goat-skins Heb. 11.37 for to go wander up and down or for to dwell in caves * Note or to quite their dainties for like poor bodies to go in rags Job 30.4 and cut up mallowes by the bushes and juniper roots for their meate Alas the love of Christ constraineth few in this land to have but a resolution to suffer Wee of this nation for the most part are like the church of Sardis Rev. 3.1 wee have a name that wee live but are dead yea Eze. 24.6 we are like a pot whose scumme is not gone out of it there be few that regard that glorious Covenant of life and peace Mal. 2.5 to many may be said Mal. 2.8 Yee have corrupted the Covenant of Levi. * Note Fy fy upon the treachery of many fy upon our divisions Have we not all one Father Mal. 2.10 Hath not one God created us Are we not all men of one countrey Have we not of late beene all compassed with the common enemie papists atheists and Armenians Have we not all sworne one Covenant Have wee not abjured all divisive motions And now why do we deale treacherously every man against his brother Mal. 2.10 by profaining the Covenant of our Fathers And now why are we become treacherous to Christ our husband as women that breake wedlock Eze. 16.38 Our danger Gen. 4.7 like Cains sin lieth at the door our iniquities have highly provoked God to wrath He in a rage may justly say to this nation as in Hoseas time hee said to Israel Yee have transgressed my Covenant Hol. 8.1 and trespassed against my Law If we repent not in time he in his furie shall joine the bloody sword with this threatned famine Ezek. 14.17 saying Sword goe through the land At such a time as this it was heard in Israel Thus saith the Lord Ezek. 21.9 Say a sword a sword is sharpened and also fourbished 10. It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter it is fourbished that it may glitter should we then make mirth Is this a time for laughter We are called to lamentations Zeph. 2.2 for the Decree is so far advanced against us that except with all haste wee returne to God wee shall be made a spectacle of amazement though these three men Noah Daniel Eze. 14.20 and Job were all three this day living in Scotland they should not be able to deliver us Who doth not see most fearfull breaking out of monstruous sins in all the quarters of the land Hos 4.2 We all may well say with Jeremiah Jer. 14.7 Our iniquities testifie against us and our backslidings are many * Note yea we have pressed God under us Amos 2.13 as a Cart is pressed that is full of sheaves and therefore we most justly deserve to bee abhoreed of all so that in our greatest trouble none should go aside for once to aske how wee doe Jer. 15.5 Seeing this land is so crammed with numbers of men who dayly by their divisive motions breake Gods Covenant let not a man either trust in his father or in his son or in his kinsmen or in his friends the world is full of treason Christ and his Servants are betrayed by many of too many in Scotland this day may God say to his Servants as he said to Ezekiel concerning Israel Son of man Eze. 22.18 the house of Israel is to me become drosse * Note Many are like Jeremiahs rotten linnen girdle Jer. 13.10 which was good for nothing II. PART Putting to Death After betraying the Lord heer speaketh to his disciples of putting some of them to death Some of you said he shall they cause to be put to death Observe heere how wicked men The doctrine Hos 4.8 who as the Prophet speaketh set their heart on iniquitie can not be tyed by any bonds of love they ever grow worse and worse behold heer how after they have betrayed Gods servants they can not rest untill they cause some of them to be put to death under colour of freindship they confer with them familiarly or come to heare them for to steal some wordes which they may so wrest as to make them treasonable and the speakers traitoures If any man should defend us and save our life it is a father a friend a brother or kinseman or friends a freind saith Solomon is borne for affliction Pro. 18.24 and there is a freind that sticketh closer then a brother * Note Worldly friends and kinsemen are often very sensible in wrongs done to their friends in earthly maters as carnall quarrels O then they will hive together like Bees and cluster like burres but if the cause of Christ be in question Satan draweth away unsanctified mens hearts and of freinds turneth them foes for to delate them and cause some of them to be put to death

The use The use * Note Let us learne that carnall bands can not tie men in spirituall matters neere in bloud but not in GOD can not have solide love Dan. 2.43 they are like the yron and myrie clay of the feet of Nebuchadnezzars image which could not cleave one to another By this let us know what it is of all sortes of friendship that is not grounded upon God Observe here againe The doctrine that Christ saith heere they shall cause some of you to be put to death some but not all where wee may learne that God calleth not all his servants to be Martyres * Note When Peter had heard of Christ that in his old dayes he should bee a martyre hee incontinent enquired what should become of John Lord said he Ioh. 21.21 and what shall this man doe as if he had said shall hee bee bound and led away also the Lords answere was what is that to thee * The Lord in his wisdome permitteth some of his servants to be all their dayes like Peter when hee was young having libertie to gird themselves and goe whether they would to bee free of fetters and prison Iohn 21.18 Sometimes hee will hide his servants from troubles Isa 26.20 Come my people said he enter into thy chambers and shut thy doores about thee hide thy self for a little moment untill the indignation be past Some of his servants he will laden with temporall blessings in aboundance Eze. 34.15 I said the Lord will feede my flock and I will cause them to lie downe all they that worship as upon fat leasures * Note All the true worshippers of God are not alwayes poore and leane no not the psalmest saith that they that be fat upon the earth shall eat and worship Psal 22.29 that is the rich and wealthy as well as the poore shall be servants to the Lord. Abraham was rich and Jacob was rich and Job was rich and the three wise men that came to worship Christ in the cratch were wealthy they opened their treasures and presented unto Christ gifts gold Mat. 2.11 frankincense and myrrhe All these and many moe were by God made fat upon the earth and they did eate and did truely worship the Lord in all sinceritie * Note Others againe by his divine dispensation he will appoint in a poore estate to wander about in sheepeskins and goatskins Heb. 11.37 being like Joshuah clothed with filthy garments Zech. 3.3 or like Gibionites going with old and clouted shooes Iosh 9.5 Others hee will put to a strict forme of life in a sober diet Ier. 35.9 like the Rechabites who had no houses to dwell in and did drink only water others as here he will suffer to be put to death of all these I will say this is the generation of them that seeke him Psal 24.6 The use * The use Note If the Lord permit our lot to be so that we like those of my text be put to death let us count it an honour to die for Christ is truely to die in the bed of honour How many Souldiours for a triffle by day will goe boldly and adventure their life upon the mouth of a Canon upon a breach or in the open field But O for a kingdome and for a kingdome in Heaven what should a man refuse either to do or suffer III. PART Hatred for his Names sake WE have heard how the Lord hath given his disciples warning of three particulars evils that were to come upon them the first was a betraying of them by their parents brethren kinsmen and friends the second was a causing of some of them to be put to death of those we have spoken Now the third followeth which is an universall hatred for Christs Names sake Ye said he shall be hated of all men for my Names sake In these words I shall consider these three things first there is a hatred against Gods servants foretold Yee shall be hated said Christ secondly hee declareth that this hatred shall be very great even universall Yee shall bee hated of all men thirdly he sheweth for what cause For my Names sake 1. Hatred against Gods Servants FIrst the Lord warneth his disciples heere of a great evill Yee said he shall be hated Hatred is the very dregges of wrath Ira odium generat for great wrath at last turneth into hatred He saith not unto his Disciples Men shall bee angrie at you but he saith Yee shall be hated this is an effect of hatred these that hate any desire neither to heare nor to see them Ammon after hee beganne to hate Tamar could not suffer her to tary any longer in his sight but caused thrust her out at doores 2 Sam. 13.17 1 King 22.8 King Ahab could not hear the preachings of Micajah his reason was I hate him Observe here that Gods servants have this among many other troubles The doctrine they are hated this is verie grievous to Gods children Jsaack compleined that Abimelechs servants had hated him and sent him away Gē 26.27 from this puddle of hatred issue out the streames of brawlings and debates Pro. 10.12 Hatred saith Salomon stirreth up strifes * Note The wicked can not suffer Gods children to live in peace because they hate them and they can not but hate them because light and darknesse can have no communion 2 Cor. 6.14 15. Christ can not have concord with Belial The use * The use Note Let Gods children heere learn what they have to look for in this world let them live like Angels they shall not faile to bee hated this must not seeme strange unto us when wee are abhorred by the men of the world Gods dearest ones have beene this dealt with Jacob was hated of Esau Gen. 27.41 and Ahab hated good Micajah yea 1 Kin. 22.8 and the world hated Christ himselfe If saith Christ the world hate you Ioh. 15.18 yee know that it hated me before it hated you wee must looke for no better and therefore resting upon the love of God we must contemne the hatred of the world * Note It is but a little matter to bee so hated of the world that a man bee called after the name of Isaacks second Well sitnah that is hatred Gen. 26.21 if so be that with Solomon he be Gods jedidiah beloved of the Lord. 2 Sam. 12.25 2. The universalitie of the hatred YEE have heard how Christ hath said to his servants Yee shall be hated Secondly it followeth that wee consider the Universalitie of this hatred Yee said he shall bee hated of all men Heere it may be objected how could that be If they were to be hated of all men they should bee hated of the godly also * Note To this I answere briefly By all men wee must understand all sort of men whether rich or poore noble or