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enemy_n	field_n	good_a	tare_n	1,044	5	12.5068	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21059	Tvvo treatises the one of Good conscicnce [sic]; shewing the nature, meanes, markes, benefits, and necessitie thereof. The other The mischiefe and misery of scandalls, both taken and given. Both published. by Ier: Dyke, minister of Gods Word at Epping in Essex.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Mischiefe and miserie of scandals both taken, and given. aut; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Good conscience. aut	1635 (1635)	STC 7428; ESTC S100168	221,877	565

angrie with them Cant. 1. 6. that is their naturall corruptions Sic Iunius which they brought from their mothers wombe with them when they watch not and looke not to themselues doe rebell and ouer-power them and so oftentimes carrie them into offensiue courses Dauid was a man after Gods owne heart and yet Dauid fell into a fowle scandal It is not alwayes safe to iudge a man to bee an Hypocrite because hee giues scandal Gods dearest seruants are not alwaies freed and secured from falling into scandalous sins Well but what made Dauid fall All the while Dauid was in his exile and affliction all that while Dauid was free enough Afflictions kept him awake But afterwards when Dauid came to be King and liued in a full estate at his ease then began hee to be more remisse and therfore after his afternoones nap when hee was walking vpon the roofe the Deuill sets a snare and his owne remisse heart soone catches at the baite and he is presently ensnared We find Math. 13. 27 28. tares in the field amongst the wheate Sir didst thou not sow good wheate in thy field Whence then hath it tares He said vnto them An enemie hath done this These tares are Scandals Verse 40 41. They shall gather out of his kingdome all scandals Wee see whence these scandals come Verse 28. An enemie hath done this Satan hath a great hand in sowing these tares But obserue when this enemie sowes these tares Verse 25. But whilst men slept the enemy came and sowed tares The time of mens securitie is the Deuils seedes time their sleeping time is his sowing time So that because men sleepe euen good men oftentimes fall asleepe and are not so watchfull as would become them hence comes it to passe that tares must needs be sowne and that offences must needs come Thus we see the grounds of the necessitie of scandalous euents in Gods Church CHAP. III. An Apologie for Religion and the professours thereof against the scandal of scandals GIue mee leaue now for vse of all that hath bin said to do that which all the children of wisdome are bound to doe Wisedome that is Religion is and ought to be iustified of her children Luke 7. 35. Giue me leaue to iustifie her by whom I hope to bee saued Open thy mouth for the dumbe open thy mouth and plead their cause Pro. 31. 8. 9. much more then open thy mouth and plead the cause of condemned Religion Neuer doe scandalous euents come to passe but wisdome and her children doe suffer and Religion and religious ones are instantly condemned and cried downe But let this that hath beene spoken serue to teach vs not to be offended at offences not to bee scandalized at scandals It is true indeed that God should neuer bee offended but it should deeply offend vs. It should be a trouble to vs when our brother is offended 2. Cor. 11. 29. Who is offended and I burne not How much more then when God is offended and that by grosse scandals But my meaning is this that wee should not so take offence at the scandals of such as professe Religion and godlinesse whether they doe it sincerely or hypocritically as to bee offended either at the Religion or the persons of all others professing the Truth and power of godlines Two things here may stay vs in this case 1. First because our Sauiour hath d Vnde te admoneo ne granius peturberis his scandalis quae ideo ventura praedicta sunt vt quando venirent reminisceremur esse praedicta non eis valde commoueremur Nam haec ipse Dominus ita praedixit vae mundo à scandalis c. August Epist 209 foretold vs that they should come wee are told of it before hand and therfore nothing in such euents falling out but what was before told why should any start or stumble at them when they come to passe Why should not this preuent scandal in this case as well as in the case of the Crosse Thus Christ preuents the scandal of the Crosse and afflictions that should befall his Disciples Iohn 16. 1. 2. These things haue I spoken vnto you that ye should not be offended They shal put you out of their Synagogues c. And thus also the Apostle 1. Thess 3. 3. 4. That no man should bee moued by these afflictions for verily when wee were with you wee told you before that we should suffer tribulation So here our Sauiour hauing e Non te ista conturbent fili dilectissime haereses enim scandala futura praedicta sunt vt interinimicos erudiamur ac sic fides dilectio nostra possit esse probatior Aug. Epist 50. told vs before that scandals should come why should wee bee offended thereat as if some strange thing that had neuer beene thought of had falne out No man Atqui plures ait Tryho qui se Iesum profiteri dicunt Christiani nominantur audio simulachris mactata manducare*** Cui respondens eo quoque inquā quod eiusmodi extent viri qui se profitentur Christianos Iesum crucifixum Dominum Christum laudant sed non illius doctrinas docent nos qui purae verae Iesu Christi disciplinae sectatores sumus in spe ab ipso annunciatâ fide constantiores reddimur Nam quae praedixit futura 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dixit enim c. Iust Mart. Dial. cum Tryphone Iudaeo should be moued with scandals so as to stumble at the euent of them because Christ when hee was with vs told vs before that they should come and therefore told vs before because we should not be stumbled and offended Yea these things being foretold that they should fall out amongst those of the Church and of the true Religion we should therupon bee so farre from being stumbled that we should rather be so much the more stablished and confirmed in the truth of our Religion and Profession because wee see those things so truely fulfilled which the High Priest of our profession hath foretold 2. Secondly because we see that there is a Necessitie of them Since there must bee offences and since there must bee scandals therefore should wee not for scandals bee so stumbled as to conclude that Religion to be false and that profession to bee naught where some Professors thereof giue scandal For to speak properly and truly there can bee no scandal giuen but by those that are Professors of true Religion and godlinesse A Turke a Mahometan a Iew a Papist cannot in proper and strict phrase of speech giue a scandal for there is scandal giuen where occasion of stumbling at the Truth and Power of godlinesse is giuen So that scandal is onely properly giuen by the Professors of Truth whose sinnes are such as make the truth of God and the sauing profession thereof to be stumbled at And therefore there onely are scandals to bee found where Religion and Godlinesse are profest And therefore