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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55473	A sovereign balson to cure the languishing diseases of this corrupt age By C. Pora a well-wisher to all persons.	Pora, Charles.	1678 (1678)	Wing P2966A; ESTC R233075	195,614	671

abomin●ble in their doings There lies th● cause of their Distemper and shew whence it comes that they are su●● fools and so besotted in their unde●standing They are men that drow● themselves in the multitude of the● iniquities that give themselves ●● to all manner of sin and vice an● of such men it is not to be wo●dred that they should be easily perfuaded to think and apt to say Ther●● is no God no Divine Providence that governs the World none th●● shall judge the wicked actions o● men at the latter Day no Judgement to come no account to be given of what we say or do in thi● world For all this is natural to them and they hear such lies as these with much ease and delight How many besides these are ●here that daily injure and disho●our God by making a God of their ●ellies through Glutteny and Drun●enness How many that with those wicked ones in Job ch 15. v. 25. Stretch out their hands against God ●nd think to strengthen themselves against the Almighty Such a one was ●hat Cassibes the Son of Cyrus who according to the relation of Herodo●us would never acknowledge any other God but himself a common Distemper of those mighty Asian and some other Monarchs being so notoriously wicked and impious in his proceedings as that where ever he came he caused all Temples or Places where God was invocated and worshiped to be burnt But as his impiety went not unpunished so let me say it once for all That nothing which these Blasphemers do either speak act or conspire contumeliously against God shall ever escape its due punishment Though you daily see and hear those that every moment and almost at every word profane his most holy and terrible Name by their Oaths and Swearing Though you hear so many Atheists taking the liberty to deny the Deity Providence Power Justice and Goodness of God Though you see so many Politicians and False Chirstians losing themselves in their dissolute lives and perjuring themselves in their Oaths whether by God by his Church by the Gospel of which they are in heart the greatest enemies or by any other kind of Oath though they seem to be very fortunate and prosperous for the present yet shall they not escape deserved punishment Divine Justice will find them out first or last in this world or in the next We see many sad examples how severely God Almighty hath from time to time punished such presumptuous and arrogant people so that we need not seek or take examples out of Holy Scripture to prove and verifie this evident Truth Let us ●ook but into this present age and we shall see that for the most part Those that blaspheme the name of God that rob and vilify his Church pollute and undervalue his holy Sacraments make unjust wars against his Holiness the true Vicar of Christ upon earth Those that take arms against their lawful Sovereings Kings Princes c. that persecute and put to death the true and lawful Ministers of Gods Church have for the most part died shamefully and perished miserably their bodies hanging dead in the aire as unworthy to have their Burial amongst good Christans and their poor souls carried into the deepest pit of Hell there to suffer torment for all Eternity which things ought to give great terror to those that meditate of the judgments of God and the punishment he inflicts upon the Blasphemers of his holy Name It is true God hath sometimes deferred to punish some of these sinnets expecting their happy repentance and conversion but some likewise he hath severely and suddenly punished inflicting pains presently upon their sin As for example he did to one Olimpius Bishop of Carthage who for Blaspheming the Holy and Divine Trinity was suddenly seized upon by a natural fire all over his Body which by little and little burnt and consumed him roaring amidst the excessive pains which he endured Anatolius a great Blasphemer of Christ in the year of our Lord 582 was exposed alive to wild Beasts and by them torn in pieces after which he was drawn to the Gallows and there hang'd all the rest of his Fellows being burnt in a little Ship by artificial fire and so perished both by water and fire Nicephorus lib. 17. cap. 4. says that Nestorius was such another to wit a Blasphemer of the holy Mother of God for which fault Divine Justice so ordaining it his Tongue was eaten with worms being yet alive by reason whereof he suffered extream horrible pain and at last died miserably The Spanish History written by Rodericus Sanctius and others makes mention of divers other like examples particularly of one Alphonsus a great Blasphemer who was suddenly punished by Divine Justice for saying That he could govern the world far better than God if he would undertake it Toletanus lib. 6. de Reb. Hisp saith that Datianus was for the like offence burnt and consumed by Fire from Heaven and that Gunderick was suddenly seized and strangled by the Devil as likewise were Alrorax Attilla and many others that for their blasphemies received present and horrible punishment from the hand of God Procopius lib. 1. de reb gest Belisar testifieth That Hunnerie● a most cruel King of the Vandals who was not only a great Blasphemer but also a great Persecutor of Christians was whilst actually Blaspheming suddenly taken with the Plague and died miserably in the place where he was struck Beside if you will take the pains to read Osorius lib. 20. chap. 3. in the Portugal Histories you will find that for the like Crimes the same or like death happened to the Lord of Ce●lis who died mad and raging in Blaspemies without end after he had plundered several Churches and burnt the Abbey of Saint Hubert Verily I could alledge here an infinite number of other like sad Examples but these may suffice to make us absolutely believe that never any obstinate and perverse Blasphemer had a happy end and that although some may seem to escape Vengeance in this world yet in the next wrath and indignation to the height will be their portion Sect. 2. Self-love looks alwayes at his own Interests in treating with Neighbours therefore prejudicial to them Having already shewn how God Almighty is vilified undervalued injur'd and blasphemed by the pernicious Disease of Self-love and the evil Effects proceeding from it if we will now consider things well we shall find that our Neighbours are no less injur'd wrong'd and prejudiced by the same because it makes men look at themselves and to seek only their own Self-ends and Interests upon all accounts and occasions as a learned Divine doth well observe saying That Self-love is alwayes in agitation alwayes acting against our Neighbour or against ones self Self-love never leaves our Neighbour long in peace but ever and anon is finding matter to trouble and vex him living almost in perpetual grudg with him and i● opposition to him either spiritual o● temporal what by