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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

Scribes and Pharisees Yea though Ahab be told from the Lord that if he go to War he shall perish yet be goeth and speeds accordingly SECT 4. Quest. BVt how should weak Christians know the mystery of this iniquity shake off this slavish yoke of bondage and feare in which Satan for the present holds them Answ. Search the Scriptures and they will so cleare your judgement and cure your Prejudice that in some measure you shall be enabled to quench those fiery darts Ephes. 6.16 I meane the reproaches of those evill tongues which are set on fire from Hell Iames 3.6 for Virgil most excellently and profoundly couples the knowledge of cause and the conquest of all feares together First for the informing of your judgement our Saviour Christ and his Apostles hath abundantly foretold the same Of a multitude of predictions I 'le only instance three or foure All that will live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution 2. Tim. 3.12 Not some but all and what all but even all that will live godly Now methinkes if there were no other texts in the Bible but this one it were omnisufficient to take away Prejudice and wonder touching the Worlds hatred and calumny but the Scriptures are full of the like Ye shall be hated of all men and Nations saith our Saviour for my names sake Math. 10.22 24.9 Not of a few but of all Men and Nations that is all naturall men or the greatest part of men in all Countries and Nations yea and for no other cause but for professing of Christs Name Neither is Christ a signe to be spoken against of many in Babylon or Assyria but of many in Israel Luke 2.34 where Religion is profest publickly Yea when sincerity is wanting the nearer the line with any opposition the greater Eclips The Gadereans but besought Christ to depart his own Country men drave him out and cast him down headlong Luk 4.29 Yea who was his greatest enemy but his greatest friend even one of his houshold-Chaplains And who but Ieremies familiars watched for his haulting Againe saith our Saviour The servant is not above his Master Iohn 15.20 But Christ having suffered so much if we should rest the Servant were above his Master which were senslesse to thinke For could not his wisdome innocency and holinesse fence him from these scornes and can thine fence thee Besides that ancient prediction must bee fulfilled I will put emnity between the seed of the Serpent and the seede of the Woman Gen. 3.15 But if there bee no war betweene the men of the World and the children of God if they should not hate and persecute us this Prediction were not fulfilled Yea all the former predictions of Christ and many that I omit should bee false which were blasphemy once to thinke Wherefore marvell not my bretheren though the world hate you as Saint Iohn speakes 1 Iohn 3.13 Neither count it strange as Saint Peter hath it concerning the fiery tryall which is among you to prove you as though some strange thing were come unto you 1 Pet. 4.12 for Christ and his crosse are unseparable Luke 14.27 Whence that definition of Luther that a Christian is a crosse-bearer Againe search the whole Bible over and you shall not finde one holy man mentioned without mention of something hee suffered from ungodly men as it were easie to instance how Abel Lot Noah Righteous men Abraham the Father of the faithfull Isaac Iacob Ioseph Patriarches and Fathers of the Church meek Moses upright Sam●●l holy David wise Solomon all the Lords Priests Prophets Apostles yea the harmlesse Babes and our Saviour Christ himselfe did severally suffer from wicked and ungodly men yea never man came to Heaven but first hee passed through this Purgatory God had one Sonne without sinne but never any one without suffering which makes our Saviour say Woe be to you when all men speake well of you that is when evill men speake well of you for so did the Iews of the false Prophets Luke 6.26 Whereas hee pronounceth them blessed which heare ill for well doing Mat. 5.11 Which leads mee to the second point SECT 5. SEcondly For Scriptures to confirme comfort and strengthen weake Christians against the worlds hatred and calumny these would be applyed which follow Blessed are they saith our Saviour which suffer persecution for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.10 And againe B●essed are yee when men shall revile you and persecute you an● say all manner of evill against you falsly for my sake rejoyce and bee exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you ver 11.12 And Saint Peter Rejoyce inasmuch as yee are partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed yee may bee glad also with exceeding joy for if yee be reproached for the name of Christ happy are yee for the spirit of glory and of Go● resteth upon you Which on their part is evill spoken off but on your part is gloryfied 1 Pet. 4.12 13 14. Loe here is reward enough for all that men or divills can do against us And what will not men undergoe so their reward may be answerable This hath made thousands even ambitious to imbrace the flames Your cruelty is our glory said the Martyrs in Tertullians time to their persecutors for the harder wee are put to it the greater shall our reward bee in heaven It is to my losse said Gordius the Martyer if you bate mee any thing of my sufferings But yet further what saith Saint Paul In nothing feare your adversaries whose malice is to them a token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God Phil. 1 28. Yea in the same Chapter ver 29. He preferreth the gift of suffering before the gift of beleeving And in his Epistle to the Church of Thessalonica peremptorily concludeth that they are elect of God from this ground That they received the word in much affliction with joy in the holy Ghost They that dwell where Sathans seate is holding fast Christs name without denying his faith are Protestants indeed Revel 2.13 Examine these Scriptures againe and againe for every word of them is ponderous and consider of whom and by whom they were spoken then certainly thou wilt confess that if their be any Nectar in this life 't is in sorrows wee indure for Righteousnesse And methinks when I heare goodnesse calumniated I beare it the easier because the servants of vice do it SECT 6 Quest. WHat is the original ground of the worlds hatred Ans. That Proclamation which God himselfe made in Paradise Gen. 3.15 where hee saith unto the Serpent I will put enmity between thee and the woman and betweene thy seed● and her seed hee or it shall bruise thine head and thou shalt bruise his heele Quest. As to the building of an house it is needfull first to lay a good