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Panoplia, or, Armour of proof for a weak Christian, against the worlds envy, scoffs and reproaches together with the doves innocency and the serpents subtility, upon Gen. 3. 15. / by R.J. [sic]
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Younge, Richard.
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Labourers in the vineyard against the Master of the house and their fellowes Matth. 20.11 15. Sixtly To censure their actions and misconster their intentions as Eliab did Davids zeal for Gods glory in fighting with Goliah 1 Sam. 17.28 and those wicked ones his fasting and mourning Psal 35.13 to 17. Thus Jobs friends censured him for an hypocrite Job 4.6 to 11. and the Jews Christianity to be heresie and Paul the Preacher of it a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition and maintainer of scisme yea all the Disciples to be deceivers 2 Cor. 6.8 Seventhly By carrying tales of them unto others as Cham did to his brethren of Noahs nakednesse Gen. 9.22 Doeg to Saul of David and Abimeleck 1 Sam. 22.9 10. and the Ziphims 1 Sam. 23.19 20. and 26.1 And those Libertines with other suborned men against Steven to the Counsell of Priests Acts 6.8 to 15. Eightly To perswade and give divelish counsell to others like themselves to persecute them as Balam to Balaack against the Children of Israel when he could not be suffered to curse them Rev. 2.14 The Princes and Rulers to Zedekiah the King against Jeremiah Jer. 38.4 and the Jews of Thessalonica to the people of Bereah against Paul Acts 17.13 Ninethly To scoff at them as Ishmael scoft at Isaac Gen. 21.9 Rabsheke at Hezekiah and his people 2 King 18.27 and the Philosophers at Paul Acts 17.18 to 21. Tenthly To nick-name them as Ahab nick-named Eliah 1 King 18.17 the wicked Job and David Psal 35.13 14. Job 4.6 to 11. the Courtiers Jeremiah Jer. 37 15 c. and the Jews Paul Acts 24.14 and all the Disciples 1 Cor. 4.9.10 Eleventhly To revile and rayle on them as Goliah reviled and railed on the Host of Israel and their God 1 Sam. 17.45 Shemai upon David 2 Sam. 16.7 and likewise the Mighty men Psal 31.13 and the Jews upon Paul and Barnabas Acts 13.45 Twelfthly To raise slanders of them as those wicked men slandered Naboth confirming the same with an oath 1 King 21. the wicked David Psal 57.4 and the multitude John Baptist Matth. 11.18 Thirteenthly To curse them as Goliah cursed David 1 Sam. 17.43 and also Shemei 2 Sam. 16.7 to 15. the Heathen Israel Zach. 8.13 and all wicked men the godly Matth. 5.44 Fourteenthly To threaten them as all the men of Sodom did Lot Gen. 19.9 Jehoram Elisha 2 King 6.31 and as Paul before his conversion did the Disciples Acts 9.2 Fifteenthly By subtilty to vndermine them in talk that they might betray them as Saul caused his servants to undermine David by flattery to work his confusion 1 Sam. 18.14 and again ver 21 25. the false Prophets and other enemies of the truth Jeremiah seeking every way to destroy him Jer. 18.18 c. and certain of the Synagogue Steven Acts 6.9 10. CHAP. IX SIxteenthly By using scornfull and disdainfull gestures to despight them as Goliah against David 1 Sam. 17.42 and also those wicked ones Psal 22.7 13. and 35.16 and 109.25 Others against Iob Job 16.10 The scoffing Idolaters against the godly in Isaiahs time Isa 57.3 4. and the Labourers in the Parable against the Master of the Vineyard and their fellows Matth. 20 15. Seventeenthly To withstand and contrary the doctrine which they are commanded by God to deliver As Zedekiah the false prophet did Michaiahs doctrine 1 King 22.24 the Priests Prophets and all the people Jeremiahs Jer. 26.8 9. and Elymas the Sorcerer Paul and Barnabas in their preaching Acts 13.8 Eighteenthly To combine themselves together and lay divellish plots to destroy them as the new King of Egypt with his people did against the children of Israel Exod. 1.9 10. the hundreth and twenty Governours to work Daniels overthrow Dan. 6. And Demetrius with the rest of the Craftsmen conspired the death of Pauls companions Acts 19. and likewise more then forty of the Jews which bound themselves by a curse not to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul in which conspiracy the chief Priests were likewise assistants Acts 23.12 13 14. Nineteenthly To imprison them as Ahab did Michaiah 1 King 22.27 the malicious Priests Ieremiah Jer. 36.5 and all wicked men the godly when it is in their power Luk. 21.12 as they served John Baptist Peter Paul and many other of the Apostles Acts 5.18 and 12.4 and 4.3 and 22.25 and 28.17 2 Cor. 11.23 Twentieth To strike them as Zedekiah the false Prophet strook Michaiah 1 King 22.24 Pashur Ieremiah Jer. 20.2 and the Princes also chap. 37.15 and Ananias the High Priest Paul Acts 23.2 as also the Jews 2 Cor. 11.23 24 25. Twenty one To hurt and maim them as the whole Congregation of the children of Israel would have served those true hearted spies for speaking well of the Land of Canaan had not the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregation Numb 14.10 the Philistims Sampson Judg. 16.21 and the Jews of Antiochia and Iconium Paul Acts 14.19 Twenty two and lastly To slay them as Doeg slew Ahimeleck and the rest of the Priests 1 Sam. 22 29. Iezabell all the Prophets of the Lord she could finde 1 King 18.4 Ierusalem the Prophets Matth. 23.37 and Herod all the male-children that were in Bethlehem and all the coasts thereof that he might make sure work with Christ Matth. 2.16 CHAP. X. NOw to speak nothing in this place of the diversity of deaths and tortures that millions of Martyrs have suffered for professing of Christs Name and keeping of a good conscience though their sufferings were nothing either to what their sins had deserved or to what their Saviour had done and suffered for them for he endured many a little death all his life for our sakes and at length that painfull shamefull and cursed death â—f the crosse yea he suffered every one of these two and twenty wayes befoâ—ementioned and that from his own countrymen and kinsfolks yea of the Chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees who were teachers and expounders of the Law and which sate in Moses chair For he was envied Matth. 26.15 Contemned Matth. 12.24 and 13.55 Rejoyced at in his misery and distresse Matth. 27.29 Hated Joh. 7.7 Murmured against Luk. 15.2 Had his actions and intentions misconstrued Matth. 11.19 Had tales carryed of him Matth. 12.14 and divelish counsel given against him Matth. 27.20 was scoffed at Matth. 27.42 Nick-named Matth. 13.55 Railed on Luk. 23.39 Slandered Matth. 28.13 Cursed Gal. 3.13 Threatned Joh. 11.53 Undermined in talk that they might accuse him Matth. 22.15 They used disdainfull gestures before him Matth. 27.29 39. Withstood him in his preaching and contraried his doctrine Luk 5.21 Matth. 9.34 Combined together and laid divellish plots to destroy him Matth. 12.14 Took him prisoner Matth. 26.57 Smote him Luk. 22.64 Hurt and wounded him Matth. 27.29 Joh. 19.34 And lastly they put him to death Matth. 27.35 And why all this not for any evil they found in him for their own words are He hath done all things well Mark 7.37 He
brethren of Cain or Cain himself in another person and without answerable repentance your portion shall be with Cain and the rest of that cursed crew I have shewn you what God in his word speaks and proved that your condition is no whit better then the condition of Cain and Ishmael and Haman and Doeg and Shemy and Rahsheke and their fellows yea no glasse can more lively represent your faces then this Book doth your hearts Only this is the misery as when a childe beholds his own face in a glasse he thinks he sees another childes face and not his own so fares it with you What do you look that Christ Jesus himself from heaven should call to you severally by name as he did to Saul and say Ho Ishmael such an one or Ho Elimas such an one Why dost thou persecute me I am Jesus whom thon persecutest Acts 9.4 5. Which yet if he should it were no more in effect then he hath often done nor would you be any more warned or reclaimed by it as is evident by the example of Hazael 2 King 8.12 13 c. And by what Abraham told Dives Luk. 16.31 For God in his word tels every one of you plainly that Satan is the God of all unbeleevers 2 Cor. 4.4 And their King Joh. 14.30 and 12.31 And their father Gen. 3.15 John 8.44 And that they are all his servants kept by the devil in a snare and taken captive of him at his will 2 Tim. 2.26 And that he ruleth by and worketh his pleasure in all the children of disobedience Eph. 2.2 3. And makes it manifest to all whom the devil hath not blinded that you of all men in the world are those unbeleevers and children of disobedience in whom he rules And yet poor souls you know it not As those four hundred of Ahabs Prophets in whom this evil spirit spake did not know that Satan spake by them 1 King 22.22 Neither did Judas know when he eat the sop that Satan entred into him and put it into his heart to betray Christ Joh. 13.2 Neither do Magistrates when they cast the servants of God into prison once imagine that the devil makes them his jaylors but he doth so whence that phrase of the holy Ghost The devil shall cast some of you into prison Revel 2.10 They are his instruments but he is the principall Authour Neither did Ananias and Saphira once think that Satan had filled their hearts or put that lye into their mouths which they were strook dead for Act. 5. yet the holy Ghost tels us plainly that he did so ver 3. No Eve in Paradise had not the least suspition that it was Satan that spake to her by the Serpent nor Adam that it was the devils minde in her mouth his heart in her lips when tempted to eat the forbidden fruit Nor did David once dream that it was Satan which moved him to number the people 1 Chron. 21.1 Much lesse did Peter who so dearly loved Christ imagine that he was set on by Satan to tempt his own Lord and Master with those affectionate words Master pity thy self for if Christ had pitied himself Peter and all the world had perished yet he was so which occasioned Christ to answer him Get thee behinde me Satan Mat. 16.22 23. But consider For hence we may argue that if Satan can make the best and wisest of Gods children and servants who have the very appearance of evil 1 Thes 5.22 Jude 23. Ephes 5.27 2 Pet. 3.14 Jam. 1.27 have the eye of faith and the spirits direction and know the minde of Christ above others 1 Cor. 2.12 13 15 16. Joh. 10.14 do him such service unwittingly and besides their intention how much more can he prevail with and make use of his own servants and children that delight only in wickednesse and have not the least knowledge of or ability to discern spirituall things 1 Cor. 2.14 2 Cor. 4.4 yea if Satan can perswade you as he hath done millions that you do God good service in persecuting his children as the Jews formerly did in putting his Prophets to death as Christ himself expresly tels us Joh. 16.2 What can he not perswade them to what work or service can he not put them upon without letting them know that he their God Father and Master speaks in and acts by them Whence that of Solomon There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the issues thereof are the waies of death Proverbs 14.12 Whence so many have been so strangely and so wofully deluded whereof a few instances very remarkable There was a Monk poysoned Henry the seventh Emperour of Germany with the sacramentall bread and thought he did God good service in so doing So did the Powder-Traitors when they intended to blow up the whole State Maximinian thought the bloud of Christians would be an acceptable sacrifice to his gods So Francis the second of France and Philip the second of Spain thought of the Lutherans bloud in their Dominions In the 6th Council of Toledo it was enacted that the King of Spain should suffer none to live in his dominions that professed not the Roman Catholike Religion Whereupon King Philip having hardly escaped shipwrack as he returned from the Low Countries said he was delivered by the singular providence of God to root out Lutheranism which he presently began to do professing that he had rather have no subjects then such In which opinion many depart but as men go to a Lottery with heads full of hopes but return with hearts full of blanks so will it one day fare with you CHAP. XXIV NOr are they few in number that with St Paul before his conversion do persecute the people of God even out of zeal to the traditions of their fathers Gal. 1.13 14. Phil. 3.6 Many walk saith St Paul that are enemies to the crosse of Christ Phil. 3.18 If many in St Pauls time many more now Yea St John saith that the number of those whom Satan shall thus deceive is as the sand of the sea Rev. 20.8 and 13.16 See Isa 10.22 1 Joh. 5.19 Rom. 9.27 Matth. 7.13 14. and 20.16 and 22.14 And experience it self tells us that it is the case almost of who not For this sin is so epidemicall that take forty men where you please City or Country as they dwell passe the streets or sit in the Church and nine and thirty of them are malignants to the power of Religion As for other sins one man is given to lust another to intemperance a third to swearing a fourth to cousening some to more then one some to all of them but who is not tainted with this sin who is not an open or sccret enemy to holinesse by reason of that generall contempt which is cast upon professors Yea who is there even of those that have resigned up their pride and their lust and their lying and their cousening and what other sins they have been prone to with whom this sin