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A10134	The righteous mans euils, and the Lords deliuerances. By Gilbert Primerose, minister of the French Church in London	Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642.	1625 (1625)	STC 20391; ESTC S112004	181,800	248

crying c Psal 37 7. Raze it raze it even to the foundation thereof VI. Such hath ever beene the condition both of every righteous man whose aboad is d Ezec. 2 6 with briers thornes and scorpions and of the whole Church which is c Cane 2.2 as the lillie among the thorns f Pro. 17.17 A friend loveth at all times and he shall be borne as a brother in adversitie The righteous man findeth seldome such friends kinsmen and friends who should love and protect him are eyther the first to procure unto him all kind of mischiefe or behold his adversitie as if they were fremm bodies And which is worthy your observation they which have or challenge to themselues the title and right of the eldest and first borne have ever persecuted their youngers because they were their betters Was it not g 1. Ioh. 3.12 Cain the first borne who murthered his innocent brother Abel h Gal. 4.29 Ismael borne after the flesh persecuted he not Isaac who was borne after the spirit i Gen. 27.41 Esau hated he not his younger brother Iacob and was not this his vow I will slay my brother Iacob This hatred was it not propagated to all their progenie Had ever the Israelites descended of Iacob more fierce and mischievous enemies than the viperous brood of Esau As soone as David was anointed King over Israel k 1. Sam. 17.28 Eliab his elder brother envied him the l 1. Sam. 23.19 Ziphims men of his owne Tribe treacherously betrayed him m 1. Sam. 22.3 4. Neither could he finde any place of refuge for his father and mother in all Israel but was constrained to seeke a safegard for them in Moab Hee is no sooner peaceable in his kingdome n 2. Sam. 15.13 31. but his owne sonne seekes his life but Achitophel his gouernor his familiar who was privie to all his secrets secondeth the Parricide with his pernicious counsell but the whole people followed their deadly attempts o 2. Chro. 13.8 c. The ten Tribes after their revolt frō God and from the King challenged to themselves the glorious title of Israel and under that name which before was common to the twelve persecuted the other two which retaining the puritie of Gods service were constrained to discerne themselues from these Apostates by the new name of Iowes When Ierusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians p Lam. 1.2 She wept sore in the night and her teares were on her cheekes among all her lovers shee had none to comfort her all her friends dealt treacherously with her they were become her enemies Yee heare Christs spouse complaining in the song of Salomon q Cant. 1.6 My mothers children were angry with me They made me the keeper of the vineyard but mine own vineyard have I not kept r Cant. 5.7 the watch men that wēt about the city found me they smote me they wounded me the keepers of the wals took away my vitile from me VII Christ cometh no sooner into the world but ſ Mat. 2.16 Herod seeketh to make him away and for his sake slayeth all the children of Bethlehem yea hee laid violent hands on his owne son borne of a woman of the Tribe of Iuda and therefore Augustus Caesar said that It was safer to be Herods pork than his sonne t Mat. 14.10 Herod Antipas the beheader of Iohn the Baptist v Luk. 23.11 mocked him and sent him again to Pilate who condemned him The whole people of the Iewes who should have adored him cryed x Iohn 19.6 15. Away with him crucifie him crucisie bum If yee seek the first Actors of this Tragedie ye shall finde that the Pharisees were the first who y Mat. 12.14 took counsell against him how they might destroy him that a Mat. 21.15 the chief Priests Scribes envied him b Mat. 26.3 that they assembled together with the Elders of the people unto the Palace of the High-Priest who was called Caiphas and consulted to kill him c ver 65 66 that the High-Priest condemned him of blasphemie that all together they pronounced him to be guilty of death d Mat. 27.2 12 20. delivered him to Pontius Pilate the Governor accused him perswaded the people that they should ask Barrabas and destroy Iesus So was fulfilled that which is written in the Psalmes c Psal 118.22 The stone which the builders reiected the same is become the head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes f Iohn 7.5 His owne brethren not onely beleeved not in him but also g Mar. 3 21 they went out to lay hold on him for they said Hee is beside himself Likewise h Mat. 26.23 one of his owne Disciples who dipped his hand in the dish with him betrayed him And therefore Iohn saith that i Iohn 1.23 Hee came unto his owne and his owne received him not VIII Looke what intertainment the Master received of his owne the same received his disciples not of the lees of the people onely but also of those which sat at the rudder and held the stern of the common-wealth and of the Church Christ foretold it should bee so saying k Mat. 10.17 18. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councels and they will scourge you in their Synagogues And yee shall be brought before Governors and Kings for my sake The first and most violent enemies which they found were they l Rev. 3.9 which said they were Iewes and were not but the Synagogue of Satan Their Ring-leaders were the m Acts 4.1 Acts 5.17 24 40. High-Priest with all the rest of the Priests the Captain of the Temple the Sadducees and Pharisees Wheresoever the Apostles came that cursed Nation egged against them all kinde of folks n Act. 13.50 devout and honourable women the chief men of cities o Acts 14 19. the whole people As p 2 Thes 2.15 16. they both killed the Lord Iesus and their owne Prophets so saith the Apostle have they persecuted us They please not GOD and are contrary to all men forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved Had the Church at that time no other persecuters The Churches of the Gentiles q verse 14 suffred like things of their owne countrey-men At r 2 Cor. 11 32. Damascus the Governer under Aretas the King sought to apprehend Paul At ſ Acts 17.5 Thessalonica all the lewd fellows of the baser sort made an uprore against him At t Acts 16.19 Philippi the Masters of the Pythonissa seeing the hope of their gaine gone because Paul had cast the spirit of divination out of her egged the Magistrates against him and Silas At v Acts 19.24 Ephesus Demetrius the Silver-smith for a like cause raised no small stirre against him x Acts 24.1 Tertullus the Oratour accused him y 2

vanities Vanity of vanities all is vanity III. If such be the condition of Kings of Princes of Courtiers of Statesmen who have their portion in this life and seeme to be in a safe harbour against all kindes of stormes and in all weathers who is able to relate all the troubles which disquiet the mindes of other men and steepe the few drams of worldly comforts which they taste but seldome in their lives with a quintall of gall One bewaileth the death of his only sonne another curseth the day wherin he was made the father of a man childe this man complaineth of his wives disloyaltie that man conveyeth his wife to the sepulchre with sadnesse and teares He who lived in ease is ashamed to see himselfe stript of all that he had and he who spoyled him is amazed when he is also spoyled by another stronger than himselfe One amongst an hundred mourneth for the death of his friend who was to him more faithfull and steadable than a brother but manie fret and are much moved when they see their familiar friends in whom they trusted and in whose bosome they did lay all their secrets lift up their heeles against them To be short there is no tongue that can fully ex presse all the evils that are incident to man in his person and state neither is there any man who feeleth not with paine the portion of those evils which is shared unto him As they that sayle in shallow waters amongst rocks and shelves of sand are not voyde of danger and of feare so they that hoyse up sayles amongst the waves and surges of the tempestuous sea of this life are not freed from annoyes and discontentments all their pleasures are like the Locusts whereof mention is made in the Revelation which k Revel 9 8 10. had hayre as the hayre of women to entice with goodly shewes and tayles like unto Scorpions to sting with mortall discontent They shall leave off to be mortall men when evill shall leave off to pursue them and teares shal not be wipt from their eyes untill death hath closed their eye lids l Iob 5.7 For man is borne unto trouble as the sparkes rise up to flye and m Psal 90.10 the strength of his dayes is labour and sorrow IV. But amongst and above all men many are the evils of the righteous man as David said when hee was forced through feare 1. Sam. 21.13 to change his behaviour before Abimelech King of Gath and faining himselfe madde escaped his enemies indignation for he feareth not to call himselfe righteous and calling to memorie the great number of evills which hee had endured from the first day of his anointing till then he pronounceth that many are the evils of the righteous Which he speaketh so of himselfe that he extendeth it to all those who can claime the title of righteous men to themselves And because this saying is confirmed by the experience of all ages and therefore it may seeme very strange that a righteous man should be so storm-beaten with afflictions he mitigateth the bitternesse of this averred sentence with the sweetnesse of this no lesse experimented conclusion But the Lord delivereth him out of them all So the Text taketh you by the hand and pointeth out to you first a righteous man and his manifold afflictions secondly the LORD and his deliveries whereunto if ye adde a question which is implyed in the first part why the LORD permitteth the righteous man to be so roughly used ye shal have in these parts the matter of sundry Sermons the first of the righteous man and of the characters whereby he is known The second and third of the evils wherewith the righteous man is on all sides thunder-stricken The fourth and fift of the causes wherefore Almighty GOD and his loving father suffereth him to be pushed and tossed to and fro with so manie evils The rest shall be of the Lords deliverances Let us then begin at the first part and our beginning and helpe be in the Name of the Lord who hath made heaven and earth Amen V. If ye define and describe exactly the righteous man by the rules of the Law which ascribeth this glorious and most excellent title to those onely whose persons are from the womb without spot whose actions are without sinne and in whose lives Gods all-seeing eyes can perceive no blemish let Papists say what they will we will truly say with David in the Old Testament n Psal 14.10 There is none that doth good no not one and with S. Paul in the New Testament o Rom. 3.10 There is none righteous no not one For if Papists speake of such men as are by S. Iude called p Iude ver 19. sensuall not having the spirit and say That they may keepe the Law of God if they will the holy and true Apostle giveth them the lye saying in the New Testament that q 1. Cor. 2.14 The naturall man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishnesse unto him neyther can he know them because they are spiritually discerned Now if he cannot know them what ability can he have to doe them And therefore Eliphaz sayth of such a man in the Old Testament that r Iob 15.16 he is abominable and filthy drinking iniquity like water for he is flesh he is nothing but flesh nothing but corruption and sinne and Å¿ Rom. 8.7 the affection of the flesh is enmitie against God for it is not subiect to the Law of God neyther indeed can be If then we fit to these carnal men the words which Ieremy spake to his auditors asking of them t Ier. 13.23 r Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may you also do good that are accustomed to do evill wee shall convert them to their owne use because that v Tit. 1.15 being infidels their minde and conscience is defiled and w Rom. 8.5 being after the flesh they minde the things of the flesh If they speake of those of whom the Apostle saith that they are after the spirit and mind the things of the spirit and affirm of them that if they would they might keepe the law seeing they keepe it not and that the holiest man that ever was could not say truly x Pro. 20.9 I have made my heart cleane I am pure from my sinne then according to this saying good men are ill men honest men are knaves upright men are malicious men for y Iam. 4.17 to him that knoweth to doe good and doth it not to him it is sinne And never did any but a despitefull wicked man say I might do good if I would but I will not doe it whereas much otherwise the godly honest hearted man sayes a Rom. 7.18 19. The will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I find not For the good that I would I doe not