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The righteous mans euils, and the Lords deliuerances. By Gilbert Primerose, minister of the French Church in London
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Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642.
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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
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Esse aliquos manes subterranea regna Nec pueri credunt that whatsoever was spoken of old amongst the Gentiles is written in the Scriptures is beleeved in the Church of divels of hell of everlasting torments is but a bug-beare or scare-crow to feare superstitious folkes and hold them in awe But they strive unprofitably against the streame of their owne consciences which with a roaring voice doth summon them day and night to appeare before the judgement seat of the inexorable and Almighty Iudge Of all men those feare hell most who say there is no hell The sound of a shaking leafe maketh their hearts to shake for feare when there is none to pursue them And even then when they preach to men that hell is a fable they finde a most direfull hell within themselves burning up the most secret bowells of their wretched soules Why did Iudas hang himselfe when there was none upon earth to doe him any harme if there be no hell Death was more tolerable unto him than the feare of the unestimable torments which now hee suffereth there What were r Suet in Nerone c. 46 the monstrous dreames of Nero What Å¿ Xiphilinus Epitome Dionis the hideous and most ugly ghosts of those whom he had slaine which he saw a little before his death bounding out of the earth and leaping to his throat but a warning to appeare the next day in judgement to give an account of so much Christian and innocent blood which he had most wickedly shed If there bee no judgement after this life from whence came it that t Pro copius de bello Gothico lib. 1. Theodoricke king of the Gothes Protector of the wicked heresie of the Arrians after hee had put to death the 2. worthy Senators of Rome Symmachus Boetius because they maintained the true faith could not looke upon the head of a great fish that was set upon his table crying that it was the head of Symmachus which with most horrible yawning and fierie eyes sought to devoure him That was a citing indeed for suddenly he was taken to his bed and from thence to the grave v Thuanus lib. 57. Aubig 2. tom lib. 1. The Authors of the Massacres of France could not be at quiet many dayes after that bloody Tragedy for the horrible sight of great multitudes of ugly Ravens hovering about the Louure and voyces which cryed incessantly in their eares Murther murther murther suing them to come personally before him who sitteth on the throne and before the Lambe whom they had slaine in his members 'T is a truth not onely x Audreas Liba de cruentatione Cadaverum Levinus Lemnius de occultis natura miraculis lib. 2. cap. 7. ascertained by bookes but also averred by dayly experience in all nations That if a murtherer come in sight of the person whom hee hath slain the Coarse though almost rotten and stinking will bleed and disclose him What is that bleeding but a testimony that if men will not y Psal 58.11 There is a God that iudgeth in the earth and in his owne time will be avenged of all murtherers namely of them who lay violent hands upon his deare ones Therefore when the soules under the Altar cryed for vengeance against the persecuters who had stained their hands with their innocent blood a Rev. 6.11 it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow-servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled For as God spared the b Gen. 15.16 Amorites till their iniquity was full and as the Lord said to the Scribes and Pharisees c Mat. 23.32 Fillye up the measure of your fathers because then all the righteous blood which their fathers had shed was to come upon them So the Lord hath a time appointed for the full deliverance of his Church and everlasting destruction of his enemies even the last and great day of this decaying world d 2. Thes 1.7 8 9 10 When the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from heaven with the Angels of his power in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ who shall bee punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to bee admired in all that beleeve in that day XV. Day which is a day of wrath e Zephan 1.15 a day of trouble and distresse a day of vastnesse and desolation a day of darknes and gloominesse a day of clouds and thicke darkenesse A night rather than a day yea both a day and a night A day wherein Gods judgements against all ungodly men shall shine cleerer than the noone day A night because of the place of the extreamity of the universalitie of the eternity of the effects of the paine whereunto they shall bee condemned by this thundering voice and unrecallable sentence of their righteous ludge f Mat. 25.41 Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the divell and his Angels To hell must they goe even to the darke and ugly g 1. Pet. 3.19 prison which shall be the last habitation of all ungodly sinners How pleasant how faire soever a prison be we say that there were never faire prisons And therefore what will not a man suffer rather than to goe to prison he will flee he will give all that he hath hee will runne to his friends and cry for succour h Aug. de verbis Aposto li. serm 18 Contremiscis c onturbaris pallescis c. S. Augustine saith that in his time they would flee to the Church runne to the Bishop fall downe lye wallowing at his feete cry with a pale countenance with a trembling voice My Lord I am troubled my Lord I am to be cast in prison take pitty of me relieve me So hard so unsufferable a paine doth it seeme to all men to bee in prison though it there were no other paine to be suffered but to be closed up Yea our owne houses would be hatefull unto us if our liberty of going abroad were restrained O then how huge how intolerable shall bee the torments of those bloody butchers who have shed the blood of Gods Saints like water when they shall bee cast headlong into the hellish prison which may bee most properly called i Iob 10.21 22. the land of darknesse and of the shadow of death Where there is no order and where light it selfe is darknesse O how shall they tremble how shall they cry and teare their soules when they shall bee violently throwne downe into the k Luk. 18.31 deepe and bottomlesse pit which m Aug. in 50. Homilius hom 16 â—uÌ„ sine poenitentiae remedio infoelices peccatores exceperit c. when it hath received impenitent sinners