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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10921	A treatise of love. Written by Iohn Rogers, ministers of Gods word in Dedham in Essex	Rogers, John, 1572?-1636.	1629 (1629)	STC 21191; ESTC S105965	73,128	253

9. in that sworne friendship that was betweene Abimelech and the House of Shechem who yet came shortly to hate each other so as they neuer lin till they had wrought each others destruction And no maruell for euen the Heathen could say That true friendship was grounded onely vpon vertue Neither can vnregenerate men much lesse loue the children of God For there is a naturall enmity between the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent which all are till they be regenerate nor can any man loue grace in another till hee be sanctified and gracious himselfe They may bee conuinced in conscience that they bee the good seruants of God and better than themselues as Saul was of Dauid Herod of Iohn Baptist Pilate of our Sauiour Christ pronouncing him Iust. They may bee restrained from hurting them as Laban and Esau from hurting Iacob one in his hote pursuit of him the other in his meeting him with foure hundred men If a mans wayes please God hee will make his enemies at peace with him Prouerbs 16. As Daniel was preserued safe among the Lyons and the three Children tooke no hurt in the fire Nay they may doe them good as Cyrus did the Iewes restoring them to their land and liberty and furnishing them with all necessaries to the building the City and Temple of Ierusalem Ahashuerosh also and Artashashte to Ezra and Nehemiah and by them to the people of God But they doe it as Caiaphas that vttered that prophesie not of himselfe but as he was high Priest that yeare So these are vsed of God to such purposes As the Rauens that brought Elias bread and pottage in the morning and againe at euen But loue them they cannot at least not for their godlinesse sake They may doe a man outwardly some good t is not amiss to take it yet it s not good to bee too much beholding to them And what hold is there of their good will If they cry Hosanna now they may cry Crucifie him by and by If as Acts 14. 18 19. they so highly esteeme vs as to be ready to deifie vs yet by and by vpon a lying report they will be ready to stone vs. As Herod reuerenced Iohn Baptist and yet at the perswasion of Herodias cut off his head Dauid saith it was his familiar that ate bread with him and tooke counsell with him that yet lift vp his heele against him Psal. ● 1. 9. They are gone and hide their heads If the multitude go the other way or the times begin to turne any thing dangerous when they haue most neede of them they are gone Nay no bond of benefits bestowed no nor of nature it selfe is strong enough to binde such a man sure to the childe of God Our Sauiour Christ made Iudas his Disciple an Apostle of his owne Family Table and Messe made him his Purse-bearer and yet how villanously did he betray him into the hands of his vtterest enemies Iehoiada preserued the life of Ioash when all his brethren were slaine h●lp him to the Kingdome and was a guide to him as long as he liued with him yet how vngratefully and wrongfully did he cause his good sonne Zechariah a Prophet to be put to death And for the bonds of nature neuer so neare our Sauiour Christ foretold that which experience hath proued often true Matth. 10. 21. That the brother shall betray the brother father the sonne and children shall rise up against their parents to get them put to death There is no hold of any vnregenerate man but he may proue a persecutor therefore what 〈◊〉 to bee giuen to his loue Vse This shewes the miserable state of vnregenerate men that they can neither loue God themselues nor any body else while they are in this case what should such a man doe in the world One would thinke it should make him weary of himselfe If he would consider and beleeue it so it would Oh beg of God by his blessed Word and holy Spirit to worke a mighty worke of change in your hearts and to sanctifie you throughout that from hence you may be able to loue God your owne selues and others in a right manner till which time you cannot so much as loue your owne wife and children as you ought to doe 2. It teacheth also Gods people not to trust too much to such men and their loue liue peaceably with them vse them kindly accept kindnesse from them but open not our selues too farre to them leane not too much on them lest they proue like Egypt a broken reed that will run into our hand and they proue like a sliding foot and a broken tooth For if they bee pent they will burst They are like a Iade that will draw while its going but is not sure If the time alter there is no hold but hee may betray thee As Pilate who knew our Sauiour Christ to bee innocent and that all was wrongfully and of malice that was done against him and hee sought many wayes to ridde his hands of him and to saue his life yet when they vrged him that hee was not Caesars friend if he let him goe then he passed sentence of death against him Obiect But some will say I am not of your minde I will trust my honest neighbour before these runners to Sermons none will sooner deceiue one than they I know one that came from a Sermon and went and hired his neighbours house ouer his head Answ. I deny not but as euer there haue been so now be some that make a shew of godlinesse and deny the power of it and then the world is no wiser than to iudge and say so of all professors which is a most fowle wrong and a false thing For there are to be found that dare not deale vnfaithfully but say as Ioseph How should I doe this wickednesse and sin against God they haue the Spirit of God within them and the feare of God in their hearts to bridle them which the carnall person hath not nor any thing that one may warrant will tye and hold him And this euen the men of the world know for they will put the matters of greatest trust into their hands I haue knowne a very carnall Master that hauing diuers ruffianly seruants that he delighted in and a couple of sober Christian men and to these hee committed his keyes and matters wherein greatest faithfulnesse was required which yet he heartily affected not but they were fit to serue his turne So in matters of Arbitrement they will put their case to such as be of best report for godlinesse in the Country perswading themselues that they will deale vprightly and with a good conscience And the truth is he is not worthy the name of a Christian and its pity of his life that will not doe better than any carnall man in the world It followeth in the description of loue whereby whosoeuer is endued therewith for it s not to bee found in euery bush

that feares God he or she shall be praised Therefore herein Rebecca was wiser than Isaac who loued Iacob for his grace more than Esau for his skill in hunting Secondly God loues them best therefore so should we As whom the King fauours all doe honour These be his secret ones precious in his account as the apple of his eye he hath rebuked Kings for their sakes When he drowned all the world hee preserued his little number As Lot in Sodoms destruction Yea if there had but ten righteous persons been found in fiue Cities they had all beene saued from the burning These bee marked in Ierusalem from the common destruction Ezek. 9. These he sealed Reuel 7. to be preserued from the plagues bodily and spirituall that should come vpon the world He makes more account of one righteous one than of a thousand other Isa. 43. 3 4. As he did when to make way for his people the Iewes into Canaan he gaue seuen mighty Nations to the sword Thirdly they be more excellent than any other Prou. 12. 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour meaning that is not righteous but wicked More excellent in this life at his death and in the day of iudgement These are written in the Booke of Life be washt white in the bloud of the Lambe clothed with his Righteousnesse aricher robe than euer Salomon wore on his backe adorned with the precious Iewels of Gods sanctifying graces attended by the Angels borne from aboue the children of God members of Christ temples of the Holy Ghost heires of all things here shall at death and after the day of Iudgement be inheritors of the Kingdome of Heauen prepared for them before the beginning of the world And for the wicked we may say as Psal. 1. 4. It is not so with them And therefore good reason these should be best beloued 4 Lastly they be most vsefull and can do vs most good by their counsell example prayers when we be present with them yea absent from them Hee that walkes with the wise shall bee the wiser much good may we learne and comfort may we get by conuersing with them that bee truely godly For their sake the world continues if the number of the Elect were fulfilled the wicked should no longer rout here but come to iudgement and be sent to their owne place For their sake and at their prayers many plagues are kept from the Land as at Moses prayers they were from the Israelites Many iudgements entred haue been remoued as Plague and Pestilence and vnseasonable times yea finall desolation preuented and had it not beene for a few we might haue looked to haue been as Sodome and as Gomorrha All fare the better for the Righteous sake as all that were in the ship with Paul had their liues giuen them and were preserued from drowning for his sake Acts 27. Vse 1. This then serues to reproue the folly of carnall people that so dote vpon wealth and honour and things of this world as if they that had them were the happy men Oh they bee made they cannot do amisse And these in their language are vsually called the best men in the Towne and these they crouch to and ad mire when grace and the feare of God in any is little regarded esteeming the seruants of God without wealth how gracious soeuer but poore snakes But Oh folly and madnesse to worship the Golden Calfe so highly to esteem men for red and white earth gifts of Gods left hand giuen euen to his enemies things transitory soone fading away and that cannot keep their owners from the damnation of hell and not to esteeme of the precious graces of Gods Spirit giuen from aboue onely to his Elect and which doe abide vnto euerlasting life Elisha that worthy Prophet of the Lord was of another minde who but for the goodnesse that was in King Iehoshaphat would not haue once looked towards Iehoram that wicked King of Israel 2 Kin. 3. 14. which folly of preferring wealth aboue grace the Apostle St. Iames rebuketh Cap. 2. 1 2. c. Secondly this rebuketh such as make account of all alike especially if they be any thing ciuill one as welcome to them as another as much commended in life and at death like as well of the ciuill as of them that be truely religious shew as much countenance yeeld as much helpe to one as to the other If they haue any thing to giue they put no difference betweene the poore good or bad These are iustly to be suspected and to be thought to be neyther Fish nor Flesh for where true grace is their eyes be annointed that they can see a difference between men and grace will draw to grace and as discerne it so embrace it for though we challenge no such gift as some that say If they talke but halfe an houre with a man they will know whether he be the childe of God or not yet I say God giues grace to discerne grace where it is from bare ciuillity at least by conuersing with them and to preferre one infinitely before the other Many will commend a meere ciuill man in whom its easie to discerne that there is not one dramme of piety or true grace to be as honest a man as need to be and thinke and speake as well of him as of a true good Christian but this is a very dangerous signe that there is no more but ciuill honesty in themselues Thirdly this reproueth a more fearfull sinne yet and yet the common practice of some that in stead of louing the godly best of all persons they can worst away with them They could loue such a kinsman tenant seruant c. but that hee is as they call them a Puritan and they cannot abide these precise fellowes Nay they haue loued such and such a one till it pleased God to conuert him and euer since they could neuer abide him As the chiefe Priests dealt by Saul after he was conuerted and became a Paul Why hee was the same man that he was onely he was better now So it s with the other that I spake of which is a plaine argument that they hate them for their goodnesse as Dauid complaines Psalme 38. 20. Though they pretend they hate them for this or that fault yet that is not so for they loue those that liue in greater faults and themselues liue in farre greater than they can possibly charge them withall The truth is it s because they are better than themselues and dare not be companions with them in euill 1 Pet. 4. 4. therefore the openly prophane hate them They hate them because they flye a higher pitch than they are willing to put themselues to the paines to attaine to and so they count they discredit them who but for these precise ones should be counted the best and as good as one would desire Besides these tell them that their fruitlesse profession of Religion will not serue to