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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

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.

4. 4. 2 Tim. 2 26. Ephe. 2. 2. 3. Nor can the Devill put you upon any worke or service like this For herchy viz. in making Religion contemptible you detain many from entring into a religious course stagger many who have made some progresse in the way keep many from doing the good which they would or appearing the same which they are beat many off from their profession harden many and make them resolve against goodnesse intentionally slay many with death eternall and so advance his Kingdome exceedingly and as much as in you lyes both block up the way to Heaven 〈◊〉 open a flood-gate to all manner of prophanesse 5. I grant that you know it not 〈◊〉 as those four hundred of Ahabs Prophets in whom this ev●…ll spirit spake did not know that Satan spake by them 1 King 22. 22 Neither did Iudas know when he eat the sop that Satan ●…nt ed●…o him and put it in●…o his heart to b●…tray Christ Ioh. 13. 2. Neither do Magistrates when they cast the servan●…s of God into prison once imagine that the Devill makes them his Iaylors but he doth so whence that phrase of the Holy Ghost The Devill shall cast some of you into prison Revel. 2. 10. They are his instruments but he is the principall Au●…r Neither did Aranias and Saphira once thinke that Satan had filled their hearts or put that lie into their mouthes which they were strucken dead for Act 5. Yet the Holy Ghost tells us plainly that he did so vers. 3. Nor our Grand mother Eve in Paradise had not the least suspition that it was Satan which spake to her by the Serpent Nor Adam that it was the Devils min●…e in her mouth his heart in her lips when tempted to eat the forbidden fruit Nor did Dav●…d once dreame 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 temp●… his owne Lord and Master with those affectionate words Master pitty●… thy selfe For if Christ had pittied himselfe Peter and all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perished Yet he was so which occasioned Christ to answer him Get thee behind me Sata●… Mat. 16. 22. 23. Yea poore ignorant 〈◊〉 you are so far from knowing it or being acquainted with Satans ●…iles Ephe. 6. 1●… 〈◊〉 though you fight under Satans Banner against Go●…s people ye●… y●… 〈◊〉 your selves to be no●…Sata●…s but Gods servants Ye●… you think●… you do●… God good service in it as the Holy Ghost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iob. 16. 2. Gal 1. 13. 14. Phil. 3. 6. 6 Yea worse then that you shall never know it but goe on i●… thinking your selves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goo●… 〈◊〉 w●…ile you are indeed very A●…ists and Devils You 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and persecu●…e the conscion●…ble an●… 〈◊〉 the●…●…o the death eve●… for the grac●…s of Gods spirit which shines in them and yet cou●… your selves Relig●…ous untill you he●…rken more to wh●…Go●… speakes in his W●…d 〈◊〉 to the ●…ter Untill you are led by a be●…er guide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cust●… or example or carnall reason or good inuentions or the dictates of your deceitfull heares For all these will deceive you untill you have th●… 〈◊〉 a●… grace to apply to your selves what is delivered unto you out of the word For till then as a Childe when he beholds his owne face ●…n a Glass he think●… he sees another Chil●… face and not his owne so will it fa●…e with you touching what I have hitherto said Yea the whole B●…ble all the Sermons you here the check●… of your ow●…e consciences and the m●…ions of God spirit will be altogether ineffectuall as you know they have proved hitherto which is the reason that you trust your selfe so m●…h an●… know your selfe so little CHAP. XX 1. FOr notwithstanding you are guilty of all I have laid to your charge whereof one sinne is soule Ma●…her which will cost you deare one day either in tears or in torment No man under Heaven thinks better o●… himselfe For as M●…cha could d●…ingly say Now I know that the Lord will 〈◊〉 good unto me seeing I have a Levite to my Priest Or as those Hypocrites before spoken of Jer. 7. 4. could applaud themselves for their outward work●… and priviledges Esay 66. 3 4. So wilt thou most shamefully though tho●… dost even renounce both Christ and thy Baptizme in persecuting him an●… all that sincerly professe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as I have abundanly showne 2. True as the pretended M●…her that stole away the live Childe 1 King 3. 16. to 28. prosessed before King Solomon a●… great love to it and pleaded as hard for it as the naturall M●…ther could d●…e and yet so little did sh●… care for it that she wa●… content to have 〈◊〉 divi●…d which shewed plainely that love of strife and envy to the true Mother prevailed 〈◊〉 with her then true affection to the thing striven for so thou pretendest as gre●… love to Christ and the true Religion as their best and truest friends 〈◊〉 when it comes to the tryall they have no greater enemy For for matter of Reli●…ion thou art much like the ancient Romans whom a sensualist would have taken to be very religious and conscionable for they al●…ed of ●…he service of all Gods and to that end built a Temple to all Gods ●…alling it Pan●…beon yet it was evident they were not because they would ne●…er ad●…it of the true God to wit Jehovah So thou and in indeed all 〈◊〉 at large art very religious For thou wilt conforme to any Religion the State shall establish were it Popery it selfe as when super●… and 〈◊〉 were ●…dvanced in England by Queen Mary did not ninteen or rather ninty nine parts of the Land conforme to Popery And would they not doe the like now if the streame should turne yes it is more then probable they would And indeed men that scoffe at the power of godlinesse are for any Religion so they may injoy their i●…ities D●…n 3. 7. 3. Let none object their suffering since the Parliament and how constant they are to their principles For I grant t●…y are as stiffe as a stake as immov●…le a●… a R●…e in their resolution against Reformation That they will ●…ick as close to their wicked and s●…stitious Custo●…s as Clay to a Cart wheele Yea th●… a●…e m●…e 〈◊〉 t●…Sa●…n for the most part then Christs s●…vants are to him But if ever a meere ei●…ill man suffer for his faith in Christ and for 〈◊〉 sake 〈◊〉 have my head cut off No they will rather worship a ●…alse wi●…h the Israelite●… Exod. 32. 4. O●…a golden Image with the Cha●…deans D●…n 3. 7. I know divers will say not for want of ignorance in the Scripture if these honest moral men go not to Heaven Lord have mercy upon us And yet Chri●… s●…aith except the most ri●…hteous of them have another righteousnesse exceeding their owne they shall never come th●…re Mat. 5. 20. Yea he