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A16740 Diuine considerations of the soule concerning the excellencie of God, and the vilenesse of man. Verie necessarie and profitable for euerie true Christian seriously looke into. By N.B. G. Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 1608 (1608) STC 3647; ESTC S116485 38,586 191

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and so the foole of al fooles Now to speake of follyes in particular nor of a number of Idle fooles such as when they are gay thinke they are rich or when they can prate they are wise or when they are proude they are noble or when they are prodigall they are liberall or when they are miserable they are thriftie or when they can swagger they are valiant and when they are rich they are honest These and a world of such idle fooles least I should be thought too much a foole for standing too much vpon the foole I leaue further to talke of hoping that the wise will confesse that all the wisdome of the worlde is foolishnesse before God and therefore man finding in himself so little touch of true wisdome as may make him then confesse all the wit hee hath to be but meere foolishnesse without the grace of God in the direction thereof I will leaue what I haue written vniustly to the correction of the wise and for the vnwise to the amendement of their indiscretion and thus much touching the consideration of the folly of man The fourth Consideration touching mallice or hate in man NOw hauing spoken myne oppinion touching the foolishnes of man I finde that follye or ignorance of better iudgement to haue begotten in him a kinde of malice or hate as it were opposite or contrary to the loue of God or at the least contrary to that loue which God commaundeth to bee in man where hee saith Iohn chap. 13. verse 34. Loue one another as I haue loued you for in some wicked people it is too apparant which I may rather terme Deuills then men those Atheisticall villains that if they haue not their wills will not onely murmure against God but with Iobs wife seeme to curse God and with the Deuill blaspheme God may not these iustly be called the reprobate that but looking towards heauen dare stirre vp athought against the glory thereof and being themselues but earth dare mooue against the Great or of heauen and earth Oh how hath the Deuill had power with man so to poyson his soule with the venome of temptation as by the power of the corruption to bring him to etrrnall confusion but as the Deuill through his malice at the greatnes of God was cast downe from Heauen so hath hee euer since and during his time will by the same poison in as much as he can keepe man from Heauen but leauing to speake of the vngratious vngratefull and malicious nature in some man towards God most grieuous to be spoken of let me come to y e malice or hate of man to mā when there were but two brethren in the world Cain and Abel one so maliced another that he sought his death not for the hurt he did him but for that God was pleased in his brother and not in him Oh pestiferous poison to wound the soule vnto eternall death Gen. chap. 4. ver 8. what need I to alleage examples either in the booke of God or wordes of bookes in the worlde touching that vile hellish nature or humor of malice in the corrupted nature of man when it is dayly seene euē almost in al kingdōes Countries Cyties and Townes to be an occasion of ciuill discorde yea and sometime of greate and long warres to the vtter spoile of many a common wealth doe not wee see euen sometime before our eyes how many are hated euen for the good that is in them and for the good that they intend to them that hate them when a wise man reprooueth a foole of his folly will not the foole hate him for being wiser then himselfe or for telling him of his folly yea will he not carry it in minde many a day and worke him a mischeefe if hee can for his good and as the Iewes did with Christ put him to death for teaching them the waie of life hate him for his loue and kill him for his comforte Oh malicious nature in the hearte of man if the lawe giue land to the right heyre will not the wrong possessor hate both the heyre for his right and the lawe for giuing it him though himselfe would be glad if the case were his own to haue it so if two freindes bee suiters for one fortune if the one carry it is it not often seene that the other will hate him for it yea of a friend become a foe for enioyning that he should euer haue had if the other had missed it is it not often seene that vpon a humor of ielouzie a man wil hate his wife and the wife her husband the sonne the father and the mother the daughter brother and sister neighbor and neighbor and al one another sometimes for a tryfle that with such a fire of malice as is almost vnquenchable Oh how too full are the Chronicles of the worlde of the horrible and miserable Tragedies that haue proceeded out of that hellish spirite of malice that hath spit her poyson through the hearts of a great part of the whole worlde to the destruction of a worlde of the inhabitans therin Let me a litle speake of this wicked spirite and how it wrought the fall of Lucifer from Heauen through his malice at the Maiestie of the Almightie againe being falne from Heauen how it wrought in him the fall of Adam enuying his blessed happines in Paradise and therefore by temptation sought in as much as hee could his destruction In Cain it wrought an vnnaturall hatred to the death of Abell in Esawe it wrought an vnbrotherly hatred to the great feare of Iacob in Pharaoh it wrought an vnkindly hatred to the poore Isralites because they throue by their labors vnder him increased in his kingdome it wrough a hate in the children of Iacob to their brother Ioseph because their father loued him in breife you shall finde in the whole Scripture the hate of the wicked vnto the godly because God blesseth them and as in the diuine writ euen in these our daies do we not see the good ha ted of the euill which being the spirite of so much wickednesse as worketh so much mischeefe what doth it differ from the Deuill Truly I thinke I may well say that as it is written God is charity and hee that dwelleth in charity dwelleth in God and God in him so contrarily the Deuill is malice and hee taht dwelleth in malice dwelleth in the Deuill the Diuill in hlm But where God entereth with his grace the Deuill hath no powre with his malice and though hee droue Adam out of Paradice yet hee could not keepe him out of Heauen and therefore of greater power is the mercy of God then the malice of the Deuill but seeing such is the vile nature of malice as doth figure nothing more truly then the Deuill let no man that can truly iudge of it but hate it as the Deuill which maketh a man in whom it is hatefull vnto God wicked vnto man throwen