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A67743	The cause and cure of ignorance, error, enmity, atheisme, prophanesse, &c., or, A most hopefull and speedy way to grace and salvation, by plucking up impediments by the roote reduced to explication, confirmation, application, tending to illumination, sanctification, devotion / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y143; ESTC R16605	116,892	303

an effect of frenzy not of hope 2 Since we can expect no peace f●om the Serpents seede let as many as are of the womans seede and of Christs side ●nanimously hold together It is hard to say whither Bazil and Eusebius who perceiving the Arrians to improve a difference between them to the prejudice of the Orthodox soone reconciled themselves and united their forces together against the common enemy are more to bee commended Or the Pope to bee abhorred who was so busie and hot against Luther that hee neglected to looke to all Christendome against the Turke Which declared that hee could easier disgest Mahometisme then Lutheronisme The case of too many in our dayes that thinke they love Christ fervently though wee may justly suspect the contrary by their being so busie and hot against the Reformation established Against which they cannot bring any expresse scripture only they seek straws to put out their own eyes puzzell others withall As Bernard speaks of som● in his time and sure I am it would argue more love to Christ and obedience to his gospell if they would ioyne with the godly party against Atheists and Papists As let but two Mastifes bee jarring betweene themselves when the Bare comes they forget private strife to assayle their common Enemy And certainly they might bee as firme friends to truth although they were not such bitter enemies to peace For as the case standeth it is hard to determine whether they more intend to doe God service or really doe the Devill and his instruments service by their contradicting and aspersing all that are not of their owne judgement 3 If the Lord have put this Enmity betweene us and the wicked Here is warrant in opposing comfort in suffering 4 If the seede of the Woman fight on Christs side and they have Gods word for their warrant they are sure to have him assist them and prevent their Enemies and is not that God wee fight for able enough to vindicate all our wrongs SECT 8. Quest. What occasioned the Lord to proclaime this enmity Ans. Adams si●ne in eating the forbidden fruite a●d Sathans malice in moving and seducing him thereunto was the meritorious cause the originall of this discord is from originall sin Quest. What was the finall cause or end why God proclaimed it Ans. His end was threefold in regard of himselfe the wicked and the godly 1 In regard of himselfe his principal ●nd was his owne glory which should a●ise from the manifestation or admirable composition of his justice mercy holinesse wisdome power and providence herein 2 In regard of Sathan and wicked men● that hee might for the present punish one sinne with another and in the end take due vengeance on them in their greater condemnation and finall Ruine and destruction 3. In regard of the Godly for their greater good as namely that they might by this affliction and chastisement be stopt in their course of sin be brought to the ●ight of their evills pas● and made repent of them and prevented from si●ning for the time to come and lastly to keep them in continuall exercise that so they might walke on in the way of holiness which will bring them to eternall happiness and not to be condemned with the world SECT 9. Quest. But how can God be the Author of it without being the Author of Sin Ans. Very well Even as the temporal Magistrate may put a fello● to death without committing of Murther That he which is the fountaine of all good is not the Author of any evill herein may appeare 1. By considering how the case stood at this time with Adam and al his posterity being condemned persons every moment expecting and waiting for that direfull sentence to be executed and inflicted upon them which God before had threatned in case they should transgress his Royall command Gen. 2.17 namely the sent●nce of death Which was threefold viz. of Body which is the temporall Death Soule which is the spirituall Death Body and soule which is eternall Death Opposite to that three-fold life of Nature Grace Glory The which if it had been fully and universally accomplisht we could have had nothing to say but that God was just as now we have no reason to give why so many should be Redeemed but because he is mercifull yet because he would according to his nature in Justice remember Mercy he ordained a Saviour and Remedy even Christ implyed in the Pronoune Relative Hee for so many as he had before predestinated to be borne againe by his word and Spirit Iohn 3. to a lively faith whereby they might lay hold on this Remedy yet with all hee did appoint that this their way to Heaven should be thorny and troublesome To which end he mixed with the sweet promise of Salvation the bitter Ingredient of griefe and sorrow Implyed in the word Enmity but yet more to justifie this Judgement of God that is to make it appeare just 2 It will appeare if we distinguish the ends of God Sathan and wicked men To which purpose I will instance in our Saviours example Iudas delivered him to death for gaine the Iewes for Envy Pilate for feare the Devill provoked each of them through this Enmity Christ himselfe to obey his Fathers will God the Father in love to sinners and for their Redemption each did one and the same thing But to contrary ends so when this Enmity breaks forth in the wicked Sathan hath a hand in it as a malicious Author As when he entred into Iudas and made him betray Christ Luk 22.3 Man himselfe as a voluntary Instrument as when Pharoah hardened his owne heart against the Children of Israel Exod. 9.34 God as a most Righteous Judge and Avenger as when hee also hardened Pharoahs heart Exod. 9.12 but how even by permitting the seed of the Serpent from his owne malicious inclination to hate the seed of the Woman not by infusing this malice nor by withdrawing any grace but only by denying that grace which hee was not bound to give he doth not infuse corruption he doth not with hold the occasion Even as when the Rider gives his fiery horse the Reyns we saie he puts him on In mercy infusing this Enmity into the seed of the Woman against the seed of the Serpent Not against their persons as they are his Creatures but only against their condition disposition and wicked conversation we and the Devill should never have falne out we agree but too well but that God hath put an enmity between us Yea in the last place as God turned the treachery of Iudas not only to the praise of his Justice Mercy c. but to the good of all beleevers so he turnes this Enmity of Sathan and wicked men to his Childrens great advantage and his own glory And hereupon is that distinction of adversities as they come from Sathan they are usually called temptations as they come from men

malitious enemies to his Crosse Phil. 3.18 No God hath promised to shew mercy unto thousands of them that love him keep his cōmandments Exod. 20.5 6. And to forgive the most unrighteous if they will forsake their evill wayes and returne unto him Isay 55.7 And Christ hath made a generall Proclamation that whosoever have they formerly been never so wicked and vicious shall repent and beleeve and obey the Gospell shall be saved Marke 16.16 Heb. 5.9 But withall Christ hath no lesse told us and I pray marke it that except we repent and beleeve we shall for ever perish and bee damned Marke 16.16 Luke 13.3 5. and threatned that hee will come the second time in flaming fire to render vengeance unto them that know him not and that obey not his Gospell 2 Thess. 1.7.8 Psalm 11.6 Adding that no unrighteous persons shall inherit the Kingdome of God but shall have their part and portion in that Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.21 Revel 21.8 And that without holinesse no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 and God no lesse tels us that hee will recompence every man according to his workes be they good or evill Revel 20.13 and 22.12 Rom. 2.6 Jer. 25.14 and 32.19 and 50.29 and 51.56 Ezek. 7.4.8 9. and 9.10 and 11.21 and 16.43 Yea hee tels us expresly that he will not be mercifull unto such as flatter themselves in an evill way but that his wrath and jealousie shall smoake against them and every curse that is written in his booke shall light upon them c. Deut. 29.19 20. And that if we will not regard nor hearken unto him when he calls upon us for repentance he will not hear nor regard us when in our distresse and anguish we shall call upon him for mercy but even laugh at our destruction and mocke when our fear commeth Prov. 1.24 to 33. Neither is salvation more promised to the godly in any part of the Bible Old Testament or New than eternall death and destruction is threatned to the wicked For though to all repentant sinners he is a most mercifull God yet to wilfull and impenitent sinners he is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 Deut. 4.24 Doe you indeed beleeve that hee who is truth it selfe speakes as hee meanes in his word Or will you hearken to God and Christ rather than to Satan and your deceitfull Heart that would gull you of your soule and plunge you into everlasting horror If so take notice that Christ came not to be a Patron for sin but that he might destroy the body of sin and the workes of the Devill in us 1 Iohn 3.8 and to sanctifie as well as to save us Rom. 6.5 6. Titus 2.11 12 14. Luke 1.74 75. And that the very end of Gods electing and of Christs redeeming us was that we might be holy Ephe. 1.4 Matth. 19.17 And therefore hee binds it with an oath That whomsoever he redeemeth out of the hands of their spirituall enemies they shall worship him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of their lives Luke 1.73 74 75. 1 Pet. 2.24 Nor ought any indeed to call upon Christ or once to name him with their mouthes except they depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2 1● And this do all that are spirituall 1 Cor. 2.14 15. Such as resolve to doe Gods will Psalm 111.10 to whom alone Christ reveales himselfe savingly Iohn 15.14 15. 1 Iohn 2.20 know that if you were Christians indeede as you say you are you would immitate Christ and indeavour to square your lives according to his Gospell 1 Iohn 2.4 5 6. Iohn 15.14 15. Or if you were Gods servants you would doe what hee commands 1 Iohn 1.6 7. Mall 1.6 Ier. 7.23 and 26.13 But certainly as Linacre said long since so may I now Either the New Testament is none of Christ's Gospell or you are not Christians Iohn 8.31 Gal. 5.24 1 Iohn 5.3 And so of the Old either it is none of God's word or you are none of his servants As marke what the Holy Ghost saith Rom. 6. Know ye not that to whom ye yeeld your selves as servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey v. 16. to 23. 2 Pet. 2.19 And 2 Cor. 5. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature v. 17.2 Tim. 2.19 and our saviour himself who affirmes that wee are the Children of the Devill if wee doe the workes of the Devill Iohn 8.34 44. Luke 14.26 And what worke or service can the Devil put you upon like this which both blockes up the way to heaven so and opens such a flood-gate to all prophanesse that few or scarse any doe sufficiently discerne and deplore But that Satan is your Father your King and your God and how you advance his Kingdom by your daily scoffs reproaches c. 1 in detaining many from entering into a Religious course 2 in staggering many Who have made some progresse in the way 3 in keeping many From doing the good which they would or appearing the same which they are 4 in beating many Cleane off from their profession 5 in hardening many And making them resolve against goodnesse 6 in intentionally slaying many With death eternall the insuing pages sufficiently shew Onely I would if it were possible make your selves acknowledge that you are the men there spoken of For though all experiensed Christians know and God in his word tels you plainely that Satan is the God of all unbeleevers 2 Cor. 4.4 And their King Iohn 14.30 and 12.31 And their Father Gen. 3.15 Iohn 8.44 And that they are all his Servants kept by the Devill in a snare and taken captive of him at his will 2 Tim. 2.26 And that hee ruleth by and worketh his pleasure in all the children of disobedience Ephe. 2.2 3. Yet poore soules you know it not as those foure hundred of Ahabs Prophets in whom this evill spirit spake did not know that Satan spake by them 1 Kings 22.22 Neither did Iudas know when he eate the sop that Sathan entred into him and put it into his heart to betray Christ Iohn 13.2 For hee had more plausible ends in it as thinking that Christ could at pleasure deliver himselfe out of their hands and the like Neither do Magistrates when they cast the servants of God into prison once imagine that the Devill makes them his Jaylors but hee doth so whence that phrase of the Holy Ghost The Devill shall cast some of you into prison Rev. 2.10 They are his instruments but hee is the principall Author Neither did Ananias and Saphira once thinke that Satan had filled their hearts or put that lye into their mouthes which they were strooke dead for Acts 5. yet the Holy ghost tels us plainly that hee did so ver 3. No Eve in Paradise had not the least suspision that it was Sathan that spake to her by the Serpent nor Adam that