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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

eye-sore of our enemies and let envy looke herselfe blinde And so much of the first Cause SECT 59. Quest. WHat is the second Cause why ungodly men hate and persecute the religious Answ. Their ignorance of God of Christ and the Scriptures Quest. How is that proved Answ. By Testimonies Examples Reason and our own Experience 1. First by Testimonies They shall hate and persecute you yea they shall excommunicate and kill you for my Names sake saith our Saviour to his Disciples because they have not knowne the Father nor me John 16.2 3. and 15.21 And again they are an offence unto us because they understand not the things which are of God but the things which are of men Matth. 16.23 And are deceived because they know not the Scriptures neither the power of God Matth. 22.29 Luke 19.42 2. Secondly by Examples and Reason This the Apostle confesseth to have been the cause of his persecuting the Church 1 Tim. 1.13 Who so soon as he was inlightned with the saving knowledge of the truth changed his note with his name and preached that faith which before be persecuted It s worth the noting how he was no sooner informed but he was reformed Now if we looke upon him as Saul wee shall see what we are by generation if wee looke upon him as Paul we shall see what we are or should be by regeneration Neither is it strange that the world through ignorance should hate and persecute the members of Christ for upon the same ground they even crucified Christ himselfe Father forgive them saith he of his murtherers for they know not what they doe And why have the Kings of the earth in all ages banded themselves together against the Lord and against his Christ Psal. 22. But because they knew him not John 15.21 For if the Princes of this world had knowne they would not have crucified the Lord of glory as the holy Ghost speakes 1 Cor. 2.8 Alas poore ignorant soules they did but imitate Oedipus who killed his Father Laius King of Thebes and thought he had killed his enemy And what do the Cavaliers now in killing the Saints But as if one with his Hatchet should cut off the bough of a tree upon which hee standeth For they are beholding to the Religious for their very breath Neither is their great plot any other peece of policy then as if the Sodomites should make hast to turne out Lot and his Family that fire and brimstone may make hast to destroy them For as when Noah and his Family were once entred the Arke the Flood came and destroyed the first World Gen. 7.11 13. So the number of Christs Church being accomplished fire shal come down to destroy the second World at which time the Devill and all Reprobates shall be laid up in hell Oh the wickednesse and witlesnesse of our Malignants Methinkes the Parliament may justly twit their unnaturall Country as Themistocles once did his Athenians with these words Are yee weary of receiving so many benifits by one Assembly And certaynly if ever it shal be dissolved without their consent which God forbid it would faire with the causers of it mens eyes being opened as it did with the Authors of Socrates his death which I finde thus reported After that Socrates was put to death at Athens Arastophones rehearsed a Tragedy of his concerning Palamides at the hearing whereof the people were so moved that they presently fel upon the Authors of Socrates his death and drew them forth to punishment But to return to what we intend If we consider it rightly we shall find that ignorance is the cause of all sin Sin indeed at the first was the cause of ignorance but now ignorance is the cause of sin Swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring abound saith the Prophet because there is no knowledge of God in the land Hos. 4.1.2 It is a people that doe erre in their hearts saith God why because they have not knowne my wayes Psal. 95.10 SECT 60. 3 THirdly Experience proves that none are so farre transported with a mad and supertitious zeale against the religious as the rude rabble who can yeeld no other reason or confession of their faith if they be asked then this that they are no Puritans or that they hate a Puritan from their soules when as the devill himself who hates the Puritan they mean most of any can make as good a confession of his faith as this For who are the greatest censurers and the violentest opposers of goodnesse are not the ignorant fry who have more rage than reason and the more fottish still the more insolent As reprove one of them for swearing or drunkennesse or unjust dealing or for prophaning the Lords day for Atheisme and the like you are sure to be branded with the odious title of Puritane yea you are factious and schismaticall if ye will not be drunke and every whit as lewd as they are It is worth a large smile to observe what a clamour the blundering rabble will make against the people of God if one in their company but mention the word Puritane or tell them how scrupulous and precise such an one is O what a number of sharp and deadly arrows will each of them shoot both at the good and goodnesse maugre all admonition For each being stung with the Gad-slie of mis-governed zeale as Paul was before hee knew Christ they presume to affirm with incredible impudence accompanied with invincible ignorance that there are not worse men in the world then the religious Wherein it is hard to say whether ignorance or malice doe more abound whether it be more out of the strength of will or weaknesse of judgement It is the nature of ignorant and carnall men that walke after the flesh in the lusts of uncleannesse whom Saint Peter calls bruit beasts led with sensuality to speake evill of the things they understand not 2 Pet. 2.12 Especially in judging acts of zeale and piety their opinion still lights upon the worst sense like them in the sâ—cond of the Acts who mocked the Apostles when they were filled with the holy Ghost and hearing them speak languages which they understood not cried out These men are drunke with new wine Untill we be borne againe we are like Nicodemus who knew not what it was to be born again Iohn 3.4 Untill we become zealous our selves wee are like Festus who thought zeal madnesse Acts 26.24 Untill we be humble our selves we are like Michal who mocked David for his humility and thought him a foole for dancing before the Arke 2 Sam. 6.16 Yea to such as shall perish or are for the present in a perishing condition all religion seemes foolishnesse 1 Cor 1.18 And thus you see in grosse that Ignorance is a main cause of hatred and persecution Wee shall more clearly discerne how it comes to be so if we note The Root Ignorance The Stem Suspition or

flood before the law 41 After the law before Christ. ib. In the time of Christ and his Apostles 42 After the Apostles in the time of the ten persecutions 43 From the primitive times hitherto 44 In the times wherein we live 46 It will continue to the worlds end 50 Application of the point 52 Twenty two signes or properties of this enmity 53 Foure mentall ib. Eleven verball 62 Seven actuall 98 Eleven causes of this enmity 130 First cause is contrariety ibid. This enmity makes them forget all naturall affection 49 Severall uses of their enmity 124 125 To informe us whether we be children of the devill or members of Christ. 125 Application of the point 52.168 They envy the godly because better then themselves 139 Application of the point 142 And because they fare better 166 Application first to unhallowed Ministers 168. Secondly to the rabble 171 The good mans honour is the envious mans torment 168 Envy the devils cognizance as love is Christs 54 Example of the multitude 239 Some of their excuses 151 Genesis the 3.15 opened and explained 14 F. Triall of a Christian by the fruits of his faith Ad. Aa Bb Naturall men feare visible powers not the invisible God 210 Morall men count zeale madnesse and Religion foolishnesse Ad. Cc. To bee a Christian requires fortitude 160 G. Wicked men manifest their enmity against the religious by their gesture 98 As the tongue speaks to the ear so the gesture speaks to the eye 99 Gods goodnesse aggravates our wickednesse 234 No living for the godly if their enemies hands were allowed to be as bloody as their hearts 93 Nothing more contemned then goodnesse 143 H. All naturall men hate the religious 2.60 The best men most hated and spoken against 1 All the Saints have been hated and persecuted 11 They so hate holinesse that they will hate men for it Ad. Cc All hated for Religion or haters of Religion Ad. Dd Originall of this hatred 14 They will hate a man to the death for being holy 6. Look persecution None but the desperately wicked will malice his brother for goodnesse 165 They will hate us because they have hurt us 104 Causes of the worlds hatred eleven 127 Many wives children and servants hated for being religious 135 Hatred for Religion the most bitter implacable c. 136 Their hatred extends to the whole generation of the godly 60 But they have not so much authority as malice 61 Though their punishment shall be never the lesse ibid. They will neither heare themselves nor suffer others 104 They come not to be caught by a Minister but to catch him 109 But are taken in the snare they spread for others 110 As they belong to hell so they speak the language 89 A holy life cannot escape persecution 47 We may appeale to themselves who are the honester men 145 An humble man will never bee an heretique 102 see pride They will hurt and maime the godly 115 I. Ignorance a main cause of hatred and persecution 172 Proved by testimonies 173 By examples ib. By experience 176 Ignorance the cause of all sin 175 The more Ignorant the more malicious 177 Ignorance ever makes the worst construction of things 178 Ignorance causeth suspition suspition hatred c. ib. Look wisdome knowledge Objection that great Schollers and wise men doe the same answered 179 They have inlightned heads but darke hearts 179 Their deeds prove them ignorant 180 That Indifferent to one that is not so to another 58 To be scrupulous no ill signe 159 In cases of a doubtfull nature best to take the surest side ib. It is well for the innocent that the wicked cannot keep their own counsell 94 They judge others by themselves 67 Look censure Meanes to cleare our judgements touching the worlds hatred 8 Men may doubt but the Devils beleeve a judgement to come 219 The worst of men can justifie and think well of themselves Ad. D. Five main reasons why they fight under Sathans banner and yet thinke themselves Gods servants Ad. N. 1 Their Ignorance of spirituall things ib. 2 Long custome of this sin hath taken away the sense of it Ad. O. 3 They reject all meanes of being bettered Ad. P. 4 Because they will not receive the truth they are given up to beleeve lies ib. 5 Sathan the Prince of darkenesse blindes them Ad. Q K. What knowledge is peculiar to the godly and what common to them with hypocrites 188 No attaining supernaturall knowledge by any naturall meanes 190 Saving knowledge such a jewell that God gives it to none but his children ib. Of which many instances 191 The same further amplified 192 See more of this in Wisdome and in Ignorance L. Were it not for the Law there were no living among wicked men 49 The first part of conversion is to love them that love God 180 Nothing hath proved more successefull to Sathan than lyes 79 Wicked men lye when they speak the truth 88 Look slander M. Carnall men think us mad but wee know them so 76 Malignants as witlesse as wicked 175 Wicked mens malice makes them like beasts or stocks 116 Their malice a good signe wee belong to God 13. Look hatred Mercy salvation not more promised to the repentant than damnation is threatned to the impenitent Ad. E Christ came not to be a patron for sin but to destroy sin in us and to sanctifie as well as to save us Ad. G. If we will not hear Christ now he will not hear us hereafter ib. A powerfull Ministery most opposed 101 Nor will they be appeased 103 Of Misprisson 239 Men mistake good for evill and evill for good Ad. R. Most men will doe as the most doe 163 They murmure against the godly 62 And against God himself ib. For being better than themselves 63 They would murther the Saints 117 Look cruelty Instead of arguments they take up armes ib. Are exceeding salvage and bloody 118 Of which five Reasons 119 N. Naturall men want both the light of the spirit and the eye of faith 189 All naturall men the devils chidren 131 Their manner is to nickname the godly 78 Number few compared with the multitude shall be saved Ad. X. The difficulty of entring the straite gate Ad. Y. Most men live as if they had no soules ib. O. We must obey God rather then great ones 153 But this they call great disorder ib. How far we fall short of primative Christians in our obedience 333 Occasion of writing upon this subject Ad. Gg. Where Christ comes there will be opposition 143 Order and distribution of the whole Book 37 Originall sin the originall cause of all discord 23 P. No peace to be expected between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman 21 Wicked men persecute the godly for being better than they 139 Of which many examples 140 And further amplified 142 Formall Christians the greatest persecuters of true Christians 145 Yet none think better of themselves 155 Tongue-taunts

conjectured that God would inable mee to discover and sound this depth of malice in Sathan his adherents which makes them so swel and rage against the godly And thereby so convince the one that they should not dare to pervert the straight wayes of the Lord by turning away the weake from the faith And so furnish the other with Armour of proof against their scornes that they might see there was no cause nor have the least thought or purpose of returning For the effecting whereof I have not beene sparing in either paines or prayer to God for divine aâ—sistance it being a subject that none as I conceive have hitherto handled which I found extended to me blessed bee his holy name beyond my expectation Indeed we may speake to the eare but God alone hath the key of the heart Acts 16.14 To whose blessing I leave the successe and its use to the world Humbly beseeching the Almighty that these lines may not rise up in judgement against those Hazaells that have read them and are never the better And so instead of curing their sinne prove a meanes to increase their torment R. Y. An Alphabeticall Table both for the Book and for the Advertisement A. ACtions our best actions abominable except they proceed from right ends and a heart sanctified Advertisement Aa Accuse wicked accuse the godly of many things but prove nothing Page 68 They will coyne matter to accuse us 70 They dazle mens eyes with false accusations 73 And have a great advantage therein of the godly 63 They have so hardened their hearts that we were as good admonish a stone Ad. Ee Adversities distinction of them 27 Agree impossible the good and bad should ever agree 132 Carnall men can agree with any so they be not religious 133 Though they differ in other things they will agree against the godly 133 Agreement in some points doth but advance hatred the more 136 Anthipathy a secret enmity and antipathy between the wicked and the godly 2 Look enmity All means ineffectuall for want of application Ad. A. B Want of application the cause of all impiety Ad. A. B.Z What chiefly concernes us wee apply to others Ad. A. Z The most prophane can apply the promises which belong only to such as suffer for well-doing Ad. D Hard to say whether their applying the promises or not applying the precepts and threats doth most occasion their finall impenitency Ad. E Assitance divine assistance in time of triall 192 Atheisme fruits of it wherewith the lands abounds Look unbeleef 23 Atheists on earth none in hell 214 Fire and brimstone shall confute all Atheists 219 The most grounded Atheisme hath a mixture of beleefe 215.217 Atheists would give all they have to bee sure there were no bell 216 Their convicted consciences shall be witnesses against their unbeleefe 218 None so confirmed in Atheisme but will feare in time of danger 211 At least on their death beds they confesse a God 212 B. Beliefe unbeliefe a cause of persecuting us 202 Proved by testimonies ibid. By examples ib. By experience 204 Men think they believe but do not ib. Evidences of mens unbeliefe 205 A carnall heart flint to God wax to Satan 221 That most men believe not an hell proved undeniably 226 Did men believe the word or a judgement to come they durst not live as they doe 208.226 Carnall men believe the promises but neither the precepts nor threats 222 All men apt enough to presume upon Gods mercy 220. Ad. D All true believers the children of God 131 All unbelievers children of the divell ib. Sathan the God King and father of all unbelievers Ad. K Admonition to beware before it proves too late 230 All that hath or can be spoken will prove fruitlesse except Gods blessing doe accompany it Ad. Hh Bruising the head what is meant by it 32. And what by bruising the heele 33. Byble Gen. 3.15 an epitomy of it 35 C Causes of hatred and persecution eleven 127.239 Censure they censure our actions and misconsture our intentions 64 They passe over our good parts 69 Look murmuring To censure all for the faults of a few is only the part of a fool 148 But most are such fooles and beasts ib. If Christians we will imitate Christ if Gods servants we will doe what he commands Ad. H Christians if a tithe of them be Christians that are so called there are millions of Christians in hell 232 They combine together and lay divelish plots to destroy the godly 105 They will easily finde occasion 107 Our serving of God shall be ground sufficient 108 Or a Ministers saving of soules ibid. The manner of their consultations 106 Would we accompany them in evill their malice would cease 144 They condemne us that themselves may be justified 66. Look judging Means to confirm comfort and strengthen us against the worlds hatred 12 To consider before it prove too laâ—e 214 They will make an evill construction of whatsoever we doe or speake 6 Constancy such as feare God as immoveable as a rock 253. Looke profession They contemne the godly which is not for want of ignorance 56 Contempt of Religion makes many resolve against goodnesse 6 Contrariety a maine cause of hatred and persecution 130 They are contrary and differ 1. In their judgements touching Wisdome Happinesse Fortitude Sin Holinesse 138 2. In their passions and affections of Love Feare Anger Ioy c. 139 3. In their practice and this breeds many a quarrell 139 Sufficient hath been spoken to convince the most malicious Ad. B They give devilish counsell against us 72 Miserable condition of cowardly Christians 4 Christ and his crosse inseparable 10 They use to curse the godly 87 And those that least deserve the same 90 Curse us that they may discourage us ib. Though they curse yet God will blesse 91 How miserably cursers shall bee cursed 91 They that curse us would kill us if they durst 89 D. Of denying Christ a memorable example 5. Look profession Foule mouthed men and women are devills in Scripture phrase 83 Good men may differ in many things yet agree in the maine 157 A vast difference betweene another discipline and another doctrine 158 Discretion eats up devotion 156 Wicked men thinke they grace themselves by disgracing others 79 How fitly they are called dogs 81 E. An enmity or war proclaimed betweene the wicked and godly 15 The author proclayming ib. The Captaines and souldiers betweene whom 16 Severall uses of instruction 17 The certainty of this war 20 Foure lessons of instruction 21 The end why threefold 23 God the author without being the author of sin 24 Of which sundry reasons ibid. The same further cleared 26 Originall sin the originall of this discord 23 The time threefold 28 Vse of comfort 29 The manner of their venting it 30 The place threefold ibid. What will be the issue and who shall get victory 32 This war is perpetuall 28 It was before the flood 40 After the

if not many of the brood of Cham and Ishmael so that if any one refrain from impiety refuse to doe as the rest in all excesse of ryot he is made both their prey and laughing-stock Yea if he be so bold as to preach righteousnesse to them by voyce or by example there is instantly some Tobiah or Sanballat steps up to flout him They so hate righteousnesse that they will hate a man for it and say of good living as Festus did of great learning it makes a man mad But they cannot know who are sober that are mad themselves Achish and his Courtiers thought David mad yet he was the wisest man amongst them Yea as old men answer young men You thinke us fooles but we know you are not wise so answer we these You think us mad that are so hot against sinnes but wee know you mad that are so cold for your soules Dogges will bark at the Moone and what all men commend you have some Thersites take delight to blast Lot vexed himselfe because hee saw men bad these because men are good not because Gods Law is broken but because others keep it better then themselves But these are brinish ill made candles which so sparkle and spit at others it is a cursed zeale in these men to maligne the good zeale of all men But let them alone they need no help to be miserable for as they scoffe at us so God laughs at them He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision Psal. 2.4 Yea Judgements are prepared for these scorners and stripes for the backs of these fooles Prov. 19.29 God shall raine down fire and brimstone upon such scorners of his word and blasphemers of his people as thou art said Mr. Philpot the Martyr to mocking Morgan and the rest of his persecuters If they smart not here as Cham did whose scoffing only brought his Fathers Curse and Gods upon that And the two and forty children who were devoured of wilde Beares for scoffing at Elishas bald head 2 King 2.24 and Foelix who for one malicious scoffe did nothing day and night but vomit blood till his unhappy soule was fetcht from his wretched carkasse And Pherecydes who was consumed by worms alive for giving Religion but a nick-name a small matter if thou mayst be made Judge And Lucian who for barking against Religion like a Dog was by a just judgement of God devoured of Dogs For this let me tell them what ever the Dâ—vil blinding them they think there cannot be a greater Argument of a foule soule then the deriding of religious services Yea to be a scoffer is the depth of sin such an one is upon the very threshold of Hell as being set down in a resolute contempt of all goodnesse SECT 31. 6. IT is their manner and property to nick-name the godly as Ahab nick-named Eliah the troubler of Israel 1 Kings 18.17 The wicked Iob and David hypocrites Psalm 35.13.14 Iob 4.6 to 11. The Courtiers Ieremiah an enemy to the Common-wealth of Israel The Iewes Paul a factions and seditious fellow Acts 24.14 Yea they tearmed all the Disciples Sectaries Schismatickes subverters of the State c. 1 Cor. 4.9.10 And the same Devill who spake in Ahab and those wicked ones of old now speaks in our loose Libertines who nick-name the conscionable Puritanes and seditious persons For doe but examine who they be which cast these aspersions upon the godly and you shall find that the hand of Ioab I mean the Devill is in this businesse Alas poore soules they are but set on by that subtile Serpent as Zebede was by her sonnes Matth. 20.20 Mark 10.35 It is but his heart in their lips And Satan hath ever found it infinitely successfull to give every vice a title and every vertue a disgrace for still hee hath found that the rude and unstable multitude onely look upon the vizard and out-side of things which he pleaseth to put upon them and so judge according to appearance not righteous judgement Neither doth the Devill onely gain by fastning reproachfull nick-names upon the religious but his servants gain too much like the Thiefe who meeting with a full purse not onely takes it away but returnes a stab For in making vertue contemptible and in depraving the godly they are at least upon even ground with them if they have not the better For were all the world ugly deformity would be no monster Among the Myconians baldnesse is no unseemly thing because all there are born bald and hereupon infamous persons love to mitigate their owne shame with others discredit As AEsops Fox when she had lost her taile would have redeemed her shame by perswading all her fellow-Foxes to cut of theirs yea by despressing the good they may possibly get the start of them Even Heliogabulus that beastly monster thought to make himsâ—â—â—e the sole God and be only worshâ—â—pped by banishing all other Religions oâ—t of the World â—â—t let these depravers take heed lest imâ—â—â—ting the fact of Censor Fulvius whâ—â— untiled Iunos Temple to cover his owâ—â— house they partake of the like judgement run mad and dye despairing SECT 32. 7 IT is their manner to revile and rayle on them as Goliah reviled and rayled on the Host of Israel and their God 1 Sam 17.45 Shimei upon David calling him murtherer and wicked mâ—n 2 Sam 16.7 And likewise the migâ—â—y men Psal. 31.13 And the Iewes upâ—n Paul and Barnabas Acts 13.45 Calumny is every good mans Lackey which followes him wheresoever hee goes for the Devill hath his servants in every corner and rotten Lungs can never send forth sweet breath If the Law bind their hands yet they will be smiting with their tongues and if the Law keepe them in awe for smitting on the mouth yet they will doe what they dare they will smite with the mouth It is with these men as it was with Zoilus that common slanderer who being demanded why hee spake evill of such and such answered because I cannot doe them evill or else like another Parisian Vigils wee should feele their swords before we heard their alarums When the Devills hands are bound he vomits a flood of reproaches with his tongue Revel 12.15 What say they Since we cannot attaine to their vertues let us revenge our selves with rayling against them It is not for nothing that wicked men are so often is Scripture called Dogs as Psalm 59.6 deliver my soule or my darling from the power of the Dog and they make a noyse like a Dog and goe round about the City Beware of Dogs saith S. Paul Philip. 3.2 which either grin with malice or barke with reproaches or bite with mischiefe But blessed be God although some of these Dogs have teeth like swords and jaws like knives as Solomon speakes Prov. 30.14 And smite cruelly as Ieremy complaines Chap. 18.18 which deserve like Shepheards Curres to have

yea much more feare him that hath power to cast both body and soul into hell as they doe the temporall Magistrate that hath onely power to kill the body They would think it a very hard bargaine to win the whole world and lose their owne soules Luk. 9.25 But alasse if visible powers were not more feared than the inviâ—ble GOD and the Halter more than Hell naturall men being like beasts that are more sensible of the flash of powder than of the Bullet the World would be over-runne with outrage Whereas now even the worst of the Serpents seed by reason of Authority are kept in a meane between Devils Christians so living like beasts because they think they shall die like beasts without any answer for ought they have either acted or left undone SECT 68. TRue they doe not alwayes nor at any time altogether think there is no GOD or judgement to come Not alwayes for though at present they thinke their villany is unsâ—ene because it is unpunished according to that in the Psalmes The wicked thinketh there is no Goâ— and the reason followes his wayes alway prosper Psalm 10 4 5 yet none as Plato speakes are so confirmed in Atheisme but some great danger will make them fly to the aide of a Divine power Extremity of distresse will send the prophanest to God as the drowning man stretcheth out his hand to that bough which he contemned whiles he stood safe on shore Even Sardanapalus who for all his bould denying of God at every hearing of thunder was wont to hide his head in a hole Yea in their greatest jollity even the most secure heart in the world hath some flashes of feare that seaze on them like an Arrest of Treason for conscience cannot but sometimes looke out of it selfe and see what it would not At least on their death beds they would give all the world to bee sure what the Scripture speakes of Hell were not true though all their life they supposed it but a fable How oft doe those ruffians that deny God at the Tap-house preach him at the Gallowes and confesse that in sobriety of spirit which they oppugned in wantonnesse And not seldome are the most lethargized consciences so awakened ere they goe to Hell that Spira-like they depart desolate and desperate in and into hellish horrors Prosperity doth so tympanize mens soules and entranse them from themselves that they forget they had a Maker Who is God saith Pharoah There is no God saith Nebuchadnezar What God can deliver out of my hand saith Rabshakeh I am God saies Alexander But Nebuchadnezer found there was a God Pharaoh found what that God was Rabshakeh found to his cost that there was an Almighty God able to deliver in the Valleys as well as on the hills Alexander found hee was not as hee supposed and confest that hee knew himselfe mortall by two things viz. Sleepe and Lust. And so it shall fare with these in the end They that would stultizare in culpa shall be forced sapere in poena Vengeance shall make them wise whom sinne hath made and left foolish At least in hell they shall know there is a righteous Judge that will reward every man according to his deeds confesse that what they once vainly imagined was but imagined There may bee Atheists on earth there are none in hell A Pope of Rome being on his death bed said Now comes three things to tryall which all my life I have made doubt of Whether there be a God a Devill and whether the soule be immortall It was not long ere hee was fully resolved with a vengeance And so shall you O yee fools when that houre comes though yee flatter your selves for the present like that desperate Pirate who when ransacking and rifling a bottom he was told by the Master that though no Law coâ—ld touch him for the present he should answer it at the day of judgement replyed Nay If I may stay so long ere I come to it I will take thee and thy Vessell too Nothing more certain than death Amongst Lawes some are antiquated as that of divorce some changed as that of Circumcision some dispensed withall as that of the Sabbath in cases of necessity Matth. 12.1 to 14. but this statutum est that all shall dye and come to judgement it is neither antiquated nor changed nor dispensed withall And as nothing is more certain than death so nothing more uncertaine than the houre thereof thy pulse may leave beating before thou canst fetch thy breath Wherefore thinke not as Lot's Sons in Law that we speake in jest least you feel the fire wrath of God in earnest SECT 69. 2 SEcondly nor at any time doe they altogether thinke there is no God c. For as the best faith is but like the twilight mixed with some degree of darknesse and infidelity so the most grounded Atheisme is mixed with some degree either of beleife or doubting What saith David The foole hath said in his heart there is no God in his heart he hath said it but in his heart hee never beleeved it No foole ever thought it peremptorily he would fain have it so he cannot beleive it so it is an opinioÌ„ which he suggests to his heart not which his heart suggests to him and this makes him fearful to dye to dye fearfully Tully speaking of Metrodorus an Atheist in his time saith Nec quemquam vidi qui magis ea timeret quae timenda esse negaret They that make a flout of Hell Affirmant mihi tibi non sibi noctu non interdiu their mouthes tell us so their hearts doe not tell their mouths so No hell I dare say if there were a generall collection made throughout the whole world that there might bee no judgement day these men would be none of the backwardest Yea if they had as many Provinces as Ahasuerus had they would give an hundred and six and twenty of them to bee sure of it The consciences even of wicked men can never bee so charmed or over-ruled either by arguments or the temptations of Sathan that they can let goe the sense of a God-head We are all borne Idolaters and chuse rather to adore the Sunne the Moone yea the meanest of all creatures rather than not acknowledge a Deity You may sooner get a Conscience to beleeve all the fables in the Popish legend or Turkish Alcaroâ— than that this universall frame is without a minde Prima est haec ultio quod se Iudice nemo nocens absolvitur So that to say truely they doe not and yet they do beleive there is a God and a Hell for when they admit conscience into their councell they doe beleeve but because they would rather not beleeve it they stifle Conscience stop their owne eares and flatter their hearts with the contrary opinion Like as it fared with the Philistims of Ashdod 1 Sam. 6. who when they had stood

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