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A67743	The cause and cure of ignorance, error, enmity, atheisme, prophanesse, &c., or, A most hopefull and speedy way to grace and salvation, by plucking up impediments by the roote reduced to explication, confirmation, application, tending to illumination, sanctification, devotion / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y143; ESTC R16605	116,892	303

persecutions as from God afflictions And well may hee work good by evill Instruments when every Prince or Magistrate hath the feat to make profitable Instruments aswell of evill persons as of good And each Physitian can make poyson medicinable SECT 10. Q. This rub being removed and the passage made cleere proceed in the wayes of your Text and shew me the time of this Enmity Ans. First I will make a distinction and then give the Answer The circumstance of time is twofold the time when it was proclaimed And the time that it is to continue 1. If wee consider the time when it was first proclaimed It was immediatly after the fall when Adam had newly sinned not long after the Creation even when time it self was not a week old as is probably conjectured by the learned 2. If we consider the time that this Enmity is to continue it is either generall or particular The generall time is here set downe in the Text indefinitly I will put Enmity between ●hee and the Woman and between they seed and her seed which being without limitation is to be understood largely and so signifies that it is perpetuall without end from the beginning of time to the end of all time when time saith one began this malice first began nor will it end but with the latest Man It is an everlasting Act of Parliament like a Statute in Magna Charta 3 If we consider the time more strictly then it signifies in the Subject possest of it the whole time of a wicked mans life or if in time he becomes the Womans seed by a new birth then it signifies that part of his life which went before Regeneration But in the Object of it for the whole time of a godly mans spirituall life after he is become the Womans seed even from the morning of his new birth to the evening of his departure hence without intermission which makes the Psalmist cry out for thy sake are we killed all the day long Psal. 44.22 Quest. What way wee gleane from hence Answ. Some comfort in that this War shall once have an end The Israellites shall not alwayes live under the Tyranny of Pharaoh or travells of the Wildernesse Nor the seed of the Woman alwayes under this heavy yoak of affliction and persecution for Death shall free us from our sorrowes aswell as from our sinnes yea as this is their time to persecute ours to suffer so their time will come to suffer ours to triumph let me rather feele their mallice then be wrapt up in their vengeance SECT II. Quest. WHat is their manner of venting this Enmity Answ. Sathan the Prince of Darknes and his adherents the wicked world do war against Christ and his Members two wayes by Persecutions and by Perswasions under which two Generalls are comprised divers and sundry particulars which I shall severally speak of when I come to the Properties of this Enmity In the meane time we are to take notice that all Sathans businesse was and is at and ever since the fall of Adam to slay Soule● 1 Peter 5.8 Iob. 1.7 Neither doth he want Instruments in all places to further and promote this his designe Quest. Now a word of the place where Answ. The circumstance of place is threefold 1. If we consider the place strictly in respect of the Subject in whom it resides then it is principally the heart of Man unsanctified 2. If we consider the place where it was proclaimed then it is Paradise or the Garden of Eden as verse 23. shewes 3. But if wee consider the place where they exercise this Enmity then it is the place of this miserable world where the Church is Militant indeed Revel 12.7 It is said there was warre in Heaven Michael and his Angells fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angells But this cannot fitly be construed of Heaven in Heaven but of Heaven on Earth For in Heaven the Church is triumphant and the Devill in the beginning was cast out of that Heaven 2. Peter 2.4 And there is no Warfare but all wellfare no Jarr but love and peace yea such a peace as passeth all understanding So that by Heaven there is meant the Church of God on Earth called in holy Scripture Heaven and holy Ierusalem above for that her chiefe treasure is in Heaven Math. 6.20 her affections in Heaven Colos. 3.2 her Conversation in Heaven Phil. 3.20 and for that the Lord of Heaven dwells in her heart by faith Ephes. 3.17 SECT 12. Quest. WHat is promised shall be the issue or effect of it and who shall get the victory Answ. The issue or effect is declared in these words He shall bruise thine head and thou shalt bruise his heele The meaning whereof is this 1. By bruising of the head is meant Sathans overthrow and finall Ruine and distruction by Christ in respect of his Power Dominion and Workes Iohn 12.31 and 1. Iohn 3.8 to which purpose the words of the Apostle are very significant Hee also himselfe tooke part of our flesh and blood that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Divell Heb. 2.14 And he being overcome his seed are overcome and perish with him Revel 12.9 Iohn 14.13.30 and 12 31.32 And this is the first promise of grace and life made to Eve and all mankind now dead in sin and enemies to God Collos. 2.13 and 1.21 Neither is it only meant of Christ in his owne person but it implyes that all his Members by resisting the Devill stedfastly through faith in him shall have victory also 1 Corinth 15.57 given them by the God of peace who shall bruise Sathan under our feet shortly as the Apostle speaketh plainely Rom. 16.20 Faith in the Lamb shall put this roaring Lyon to flight They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb Reve. 12.11 Secondly by his heele bruising is meant 1. First Christs holy wayes which Sathan should by all means either of Temptations or Persecutions seek to suppresse 2. And secondly his humane Nature which Sathan should afflict all manner of wayes untill he brought upon him That Shamefull Death of the Crosse Ga● 3.13 That Painefull and Death of the Crosse Ga● 3.13 That Cursed Death of the Crosse Ga● 3.13 For then his heele was bruised when his Body was crucified And it was no more then the bruising of his heele his divine Nature being impassible and untouched where note that it was the politick malice of the Devill and the World that aymed by the death of the Generall to disband the Army So long as Christ lived on earth we read of no persecution against his Disciples Math. 9.15 But let him be once removed and then there is havock made of the Church Stephen is stoned Peter crucified Paul beheaded some strangled some burned some broyled some brained all but only St. Iohn murthered And Thirdly it is meant that all who beleeved in

suffer little but the lash of evill tongues but were wicked mens powers answerable to their wils and malice they would deliver us up to be afflicted put us out of the Synagogues excommunicate and kill us as our Saviour shewes Iohn 16.2.33 and Mat. 24.9 Yea their enmity and hatred would be so virulent and bitter that the brother would betray the brother to death the Father the Son and the Children would rise up against their Parents and cause them to dye the kinsman against the kinsman and the friend against the friend only for professing Christs name being religious as himselfe affirmes Math. 10.34 35 36. Luke 21.16.17 Neither is it strange for this was one of the endes of Christs comming into the World as appeares Mat. 10.34.35 where himselfe saith Think not that I am come to send Peace but the sword meaning between the seed of the Serpent the Seed of the Woman for I am come to set a man at variance against his Father the daughter-in-Law against the Mother-in-Law and a mans enemies shall be they of his owne houshold Luke 12.51 52 53. Neither want we precedents of this For by whom was upright Abel persecuted and slain but by his owne brother Caine Who scoffed at righteous Noah but his owne son Cham By whom was that vertuous and religious Lady Barbara put to death for imbracing the Christian Faith but by her owne Father Dioscorus Who made Serena the Empresse a Martyr for her faith in Christ but her owne Husband Dioclesian Who helped to burne Bradford but Bourne whose life he had formerly saved And lastly by whom was our Saviour Christ betrayed bu● by his owne Disciple Iudas SECT 21. 8. FOr the time to come As this strife and enmity in the wicked against the Godly was early in its entrance taking its first being in the beginning of time and hath constantly continued hitherto so it will be long in continuance and endure to the end of time as the Scripture shewes Yea the last remnants of time are likely to have the most of it because as in them love shall wax cold Math. 24.12 so as love groweth cold contention groweth hot More expresly the Holy Ghost foretels That in the last dayes shall come such perilous times that all who will live godly shall suffer persecution and that toward the end of the World there shall be scoffers false accusers cursed speakers fierce despisers of them that be good such as shall turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and deny God the only Lord and our Lord Iesus Christ And being fleshly not having the Spirit they shall speak evill of the things which they know not And whatsoever things they know naturally as bruit beasts which are without reason in those things they shall corrupt themselves And that many shall follow their damnable wayes whereby the way of truth shall be evill spoken off And that as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so these also shall resist the truth being men of corrupt mindes reprobate concerning the Faith being before of old ordained to condemnation 2 Tim. 3.1 to 13. 2. Pet. 2.2 3.3 Iude 4.10 16 18 19. And so much of the continuance Now to wind up with a word of Application If it be so that all the Godly that have gone before us have been envyed hated traduced nick-named and persecuted by wicked men and all that come after us shall be let no particular member of the Church look to faire better then the whole body we see the Patriarchs went this way the Prophets this way the Apostles this way the Martyrs this way this way went all the Saints and servants of God and do we look for an easier way Yea if the dearest of Gods Children in former ages have suffered so much for Christ beene put to such cruell deaths and torments for keeping of a good conscience let us praise the Lord who hath dealt with us farre otherwise and pray for good Magistrates to whom next under God we owe the thanks Yea if our Fore-fathers so willingly underwent those fiery tryals let none for shame shrink-under the burthen of an aiery tryall only 2. If the brother persecute the brother the son the Father the Parent his Childe the Hnsband his Wife the Disciple his Lord thinke it not strange to be persecuted of any for lightly they which are not persecuted are persecutors themselves SECT 22. Quest. HAving proved the Continuance of this Enmity in all ages now tell us what be the Signes and Properties of it Ans. They are either Mentall Verball or Actuall The first whereof are inward and secret the two later outward and manifest Quest. What are the mentall properties which you call inward and secret Ans. They are foure in number It being their manor 1. To envy the good Estate of the Godly 2. To contemne the meane Estate of the Godly 3. To rejoyce at the evill Estate of the Godly 4. To hate them First it is 〈…〉 ner of wicked men out of Enmity to envy the vertuous and good estate of the godly For envy shall lead the Troope as Iudas lead the Souldiers and it may challenge the first place in the right-hand file as pride doth in the Popes Catalogue of the seaven deadly sinnes because it was the eldest and first borne sin that ever was in the Devill after he was cast out of Heaven and the first that ever he begate upon our nature after we were cast out of Paradice which makes St. Austin therefore call it as by a kind of excellency the Devills sin Thus Caine envied his brother Abel Gen. 4.5 Saul David 1 Sam. 18.28.29 and those unbeleeving Iewes Paul Acts 17.13 The wicked take as much delight to see the vertuous life of an holy man as sore eyes do to look upon the Sunne How contrary are good Angels and evill men The Angels rejoyce at that whereat these powte and stomack they are ready to cry and burst for Anger at that which makes musick in Heaven But why is it These Antipodes to vertue having lost all good themselves are vexed to see it in another a true note to know the Serpents Seed by for it is the Devils cognizance 1. Iohn 3.14 15. as Love is Christs Iohn 13.35 And as it is the very Lees of vice so it hath a punishment answerable for by a just judgement of God their owne malice turnes back into their owne bowels as it is Psalm 7.14 15 16. and slayeth them as the swords of Gideons enemies kild themselves Iudges 7.22 For that none might have cause to envy the envious man againe but all to pity him envy it selfe is a fire which consumes that fuell a Worme which gnaweth that gourd a viper which eats through those bowels a Moath which fretteth that garment wherein it is bred nourished and maintained it is the consuming of the flesh and rotting of the bones Prov. 14 30. And for hereafter if wicked men thus envy the