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A64281	The character of cruelty in the workers of iniquity ; and, Cure of contention among the people of God held forth in two sermons preached in the day of publick humiliation upon occasion of the late sad persecution in Piedmont / by Faithful Teate.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.; Teate, Faithful, b. 1621. Cure of contention among the people of God.	1656 (1656)	Wing T611; ESTC R26284	34,790	176

of sinne for I speak cheifly to that case excuse him not least thou seem like unto him excuse him not least thou accuse thy self and give occasion to others to accuse the whole brother-hood as like unto him Nor would I have you in all cases to condemn your own Innocence by your silence for certain it is that hee that ought to vindicate his Brother may vindicate himself from evident injuries and false Aspersions especially when the Gospel is reproached in his Reproaches and the Name of God is blasphemed in the sufferings of his Name But it is so hard for us to bee competent Judges when wee are Parties and when wee strive to strive lawfully that ordinarily it is best for us not to strive at all and then wee are surest not to strive amisse Fourthly ANd now finally to direct you supposing your Judgements deeply convicted of the sinfullnesse of the sin of eating up one another your hearts humbled and your souls imbitred in the sense of it That you that are the Children of God should be so far complexioned like those whose Father is the Murtherer the Destroyer the accuser of the Brethren That you that are the Ransomed of Christ Jesus should yet bee yoaked in Satans Plough with the workers of Iniquity That you that are the sealed of the Spirit should bee thus far carnall and your very wisdome which you pretend comes from above bee as James calls it earthly Cha. 3.15 sensuall yea and devilish That you that professe the Gospel should bee scandall to the Gospel and be a shame to that which you count a glory to you That you that are of the little little flock should bee Dogs to the flock and you that are of Gods houshold fire-brands to his house That you that should be Healers are Biters and you that should bee repairers of Breaches are Devourers That you that should bee the Light of the World walk your selves in Darknesse 1 Joh. 2 ii as John saith every man doth that hateth his Brother That you should prepare stripes for your own backs by laying stripes on your fellow-servants That you who travail in one way and to one Rest should bite and eat up one another by the way because you go not every one in one Path. That you should take up or lay down groundlesse and sinfull Reproaches against each other That you should secretly grudge at each others good or seek each others harm or lay stumbling blocks before each other that each that falleth might bee a step to other to rise by In a word That you should hatch the Viperous brood of the Old Serpent and distance your selves at his word of command and make much of his Ministers for setting you together by the ears and help the Divider to make such deep furrows on each others backs which hee could never do except hee ploughed with each others Heifer Perferring your private Phant'sie Lust or Lucre before the publique Peace and weal of the Church of Christ And especially that in doing all or any of this any of you should think that hee hath done God good service Oh! What cause of sorrow shame blushing yea bleeding before the Lord is here Oh! how might Rivers of tears runne down our faces to wash away the blood that runnes down the faces of our brethren where we have set the print of our Teeth and Nailes Let us this day call in our Troopes of Passions that wee have sent abroad to burn and kill our Brethren O wee want them to curbe the Mutineers in our own bowells were they themselves but well disciplin'd Let mee tell thee there is none in the world that thou hast cause to look so discontentedly on or to deal so unkindly with as thine own heart There is none that hath done none that can do thee so much injurie there is none that so much deserves thine Ire This heart is that old enemy of thine that froward piece of flesh call'd the Old Man which hath so often not only bred variance between thee and thy Brother but distances or strangenesses betwixt thee and thy God and not only provoked thy Christian friend to wrath but even thy Christ unto sore displeasure This heart is that grand enemy of thine that hath ever grudged at thy greatest good and hath done more to the hindring of thee from and in the enjoying God thy chief good than all the world beside Injuries from Enemies unkindnesses from Friends yea even temptations and assaults and bufferings from Satan himself have oft driven thee the sooner and the nearer to God but thine evill evill heart of unbelief is that which hath made thee to depart from the living God Heb. 3.12 This heart is that secret and close enemie of thine that can follow thee where thy quarrelling friend comes not at thee into thy Closet and secret Chamber and there disturb and interrupt thee which being an enemy unto thee and yet within thee O! how great is the mischief that it is able to do thee This heart is that continuall adversary of thine that dogs thee from duty to duty from day to day breeding thy disquiet in all places and at all times when thou mightest retire from an injurious world and froward friend how hard a thing is it to reced e from an injurious and froward heart And were wee but once angry as wee should bee with our own hearts for sinne wee should better know how to bee Angry with our Brother and yet not sinne Ephe. 4.26 and having first pull'd the beam out of our own eyes should see the more clearly to pluck the Mote out of our Brothers eye Mat. 7.5 If therefore thy wrath hath been thy weapon wherewith thou hast wounded thy Brother the right salving of thy weapon may in this case be some cure to his wound this is the allowable weapon-salving If thy Passions were healed others would not be so soon harmed by them or if harmed sooner healed Art thou then Irascible bee well advised before thou spare any of thine anger to thy Brother be sure thou serve well thine own turn first Bee angry with thy self and bee wroth with thy Sin Yea particularly bee angry with thine anger for gadding abroad like Dinah when had it been a good Houswife it would have found work enough at home Hast thou been a Troubler of other Saints be thou troubled this day or a sadner of others bee thou sad Hath self in thee taken revenge on thy Brother take thou then revenge on thy self this day Or hast had Indignation against other the People of God have Indignation therefore against thy self Mortifie the lusts that have murthered thy Brother Thine eye that hath looked enviously or scornfully on him though thy right eye pluck out Mark 9.43 45 47. The hand that hath smitten him though thy right hand cut off And the foot that hath been swift to shed his blood though thy right foot cut off also and cast it from thee

value that God sets upon his People Dare you eat them up as bread whom he makes up as Jewels Mal. 3.17 which thing if you know not read Isa 43.3 4. For I am the Lord thy God saith the Lord to his People the Holy one of Israel thy Sauiour I gave Egypt for thy Ransom Ethiopia and Sebah for thee since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give men for thee and People for thy life 2 Have you no knowledge of the neer Relation that God stands in to his People They are his Flock Luk. 12.32 his Houshold Ephes 2.19 his Children Isa 63.8 yea his Spouse Cant. 5.1 For their Maker is their Husband the Lord of Hosts is his name Isa 54.5 And will you offer force to his Queen before his face Know you not moreover that his Interest in his People makes him a sufferer with his People so that in all their afflictions hee is afflicted when you persecute them you persecute him when you drive them through a Red Sea he goes with them and when into a fiery furnace thither hee comes to them and will blesse those that blesse them and curse those that curse them then read Isa 63.9 Act. 9.4 Exod. 14. Isa 43.2 Dan. 3.25 Gen. 12.3 Who puts it therefore into the hearts of his Children at a distance from his sufferers yet to suffer with them and to remember their bonds as bound with them and their afflictions as being themselves also in the same body Heb. 13.2 And therefore hee that is the head of the body and the father of these dispositions in his people will much more Sympathize with his people 3 Have you no knowledge of the Care that the Lord hath of them though he care little for you yet hee cares for them though he care not for Egypt hee cares for Canaan and the eyes of the Lord are alwayes upon it from the beginning to the end of the year Deut. 11.12 Think you that their pittifull faithfull father will not mind them who bids them to bee carefull for nothing but in all things to make known their Requests unto him with supplications Phil. 4.6 yea that bids them cast all their care upon him assuring them that hee cares for them 1 Pet. 5.7 Hee that ever cared for them and bare them all the dayes of old Isai 63.9 cares not hee for them still Hee that numbreth their Hairs Matth. 10.30 cares not hee for their heads Hee that cares for their food cares not he for their body and that cares for their Raiment cares not hee for their Life Mat. 6 2●.26 Psa 56.8 Heb. 2.16 Hee that bottles their tears cares not hee for their blood He that took their nature that hee might suffer in their nature cares not hee for their sufferings hee that was bound for them cares not hee for their Bonds and that laid down his l fe to save theirs cares not he for their Death Joh. 15.13 with Psa 116.15 Surely they have no knowledge that are ignorant of all this That think while God winketh and keepeth silence that hee taketh no care but is altogether such a one as themselves who care not 't is true what becomes of the Saints Yet will hee reprove them when they say Let God deliver if hee will have them they shall soon find that the Lord taketh part with his People and shall never have cause any more to say Psa 118.7 their Lord careth not that they perish Lastly Have all of you no knowledge what the end of these things shall bee Know you not that God will break the teeth of the ungodly that they shall bee no more able to eat up this bread and smite his enemies on their Cheek bone Psal 3.7 and persecute these Persecutors from under heaven Lam. 3.16 Know you not moreover that the slain Witnesses must arise and stand upon their feet Rev. 1● 11 and judge their Judges and torment their Tormentors Then shall the high praises of God bee in their mouths and a two edged sword in their hands to execute upon their executioners the judgement written this honour have all Gods Saints Psa 149.6 9. But and if the workers of iniquity bee willingly ignorant of this day and of these things of which even Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied saying 2 Pet. 3.5 Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints to execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Jude 14.15 Yet let mee tell these tydings to the People of God concerning the Giants the Sonnes of Anak in whose sight wee appear as Grashopers and they make nothing to eat us like bread Rebel not O Saints against the Lord neither fear yee this People for THEY ARE BREAD FOR US Numb 14.19 Thus when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his People they shall bee as men that dream Psa 126.1 As Satan and his Instruments have done shall it bee done unto Them The broken heads of Leviathan shall bee meat Psal 74.14 and his members shall bee bread for the People of God Then shall God say to his Saints concerning Babylon Reward her even as she rewarded you and double to her double according to her works Rev. 18.6 Therefore let your Faith in these promises adde wings to your Prayers and second your Complaints with solicitous Supplications How long O Lord holy and true wilt thou not bee avenged Rev. 6.10 Return O Lord for thy servants sake the Tribes of thine inheritance Isa 63.17 IS it then the Lot of the People of God to bee thus eaten up like bread of the workers of Iniquity 1 Then let not the Papists say to the REFORMED where is now your God Satans Usurpation cannot stand in Gods right The workers of Iniquity should they cut off Gods People from being a People Yet can they not from being his People They may cut off their lives from the Land of the Living but never separate their souls from the Living God nor from his love Rom. 8.35 38 39. still God is theirs and they are his People and so hee accounts them and so hee calls them when eaten up like Bread 2 Nor let Prophane Protestants say that the reformed suffer for their factions or that these poor Waldenses were sinners more than others I tell you nay but except you Repent yee shall much more perish Luk. 13.3 These were a pure and a pious People that never that I read of bowed the knee to the Romish Baal no not in the times when our Fathers and other Nations were wondring after the Beast These were of that humble and poor and painfull People who going into a Wildernesse to worship are recorded to have taught the Rocks and Wilderness to yeeld food for them and their Children when wee