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A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

care of all true Christians that hee registers all the wrongs which are done unto them minding in time to right the same v. 45. And regarding registring and remembring the least injuries that are done to the least of his brethren v. 45. shall have denou●ced against them that dreadfull doome Depart from me you cursed c. Depart from me a King a Saviour at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore into everlasting fire where their worme never dieth and their fire is not quenched with the Divel and his Angels a departure dol●full and dreadfull with such consorts into torments so ea●el●sse endlesse hopelesse and helplesse For you gave me not meat● c. you are not without just cause condemned the cause of your condemnation is in your selves and of your selves you have omitted good duties and sins of omission are no lesse dangerous and damnable then sins of cōmissiō You have been despisers of the poore carelesse contemners of Christians under the Crosse you did not feed cloath lodge visit me in my afflicted members you have been cruell and cruelty is a cursed thing and cruell persons are cursed creatures you have beene merci●esse men without compassion naturall affection and the sin of u●mercifullnesse comprehends all wickednesse and is contrary to all righteousnes and the mercilesse man is gacelesse and void of all goodnes because cruelty makes men most unlike to God Mat. 5. 48 and most like to the divell Ioh. 8. 1 Pet. 5. 8. Therfore depart from me you cursed c. 2 A●d tho●e blesse● sheep sta●ding at Christs right hand Although th●y are to farre from chalenging heaven for their merit that they dislike and disclaime al mention made of their good works in the cause of their salvation or justification saying when saw we thee an hungry naked c. yet Christ doth testifi●●is good acceptance of their love shewed to others for his sake they shewing mercy to Christ in his living members and such as ●ack meate dri●k c in comforting and commending them for these their works of mercy Not but that there are more works of mercy then those six for according to the severall kinds of miseri●s so are mercies distinguished Not but that Christians shall be commended at the day of judgement for other performances as well as these Witnesse Matth. 19. 27 28. You which have followed 〈…〉 in the regeneration shall c. Witnesse Matth. ●4 46. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he commeth shall find so doing And witnesse Matth. 25. 21. Well done good and faithfull servant c. Yet these inferiour workes of the second Table are onely named and preferred Because they are such as each man may performe Because they best discover the hypocrifie of counterfeit Christians And they are chosen for their witnesse not their worth That we therefore may when he shall appeare have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his comming That we therefore may stand in the number of those to whom the King shall say Come you blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome c. Let us shew these workes of mercy so farre forth as occasion and ability will serve and so often as others want and we have 2. You poore people at such times as these assaulted and tempted by Satan to seek succour from and to ease your smart by meanes divellish and diabolicall and to dishonour the Lord by lying stealing railing reviling murmuring and distrust Betake your selves therefore to your spirituall weapons and take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in these evill dayes 1. Let your loynes be girt about with truth whereby you may be guarded and defended from loathsome lying and divellish dissimulation 2. Put upon you the brest plate of righteousnesse to shield and safeguard you against injurious violent and unjust dealings pilfering and purloining 3. Let your feet be shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace that you may passe through comfortably and couragiously the many piercing pressures of pinching penury 4. Above all take the shield of faith That will so support you that you shall indure seeing by it him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. 5. And take the helmet of salvation Hope which will comfort and consolate you against distracting discomfits and dreadfull feares strengthen and enable you to depend upon the Lord and expect with patient waiting without limiting the holy One of Israel helpe and deliverance from the Lord who is the health of your countenance and your God Psalme 42. 11. 6. And the sword of the Spirit which will defend you and drive away the tempter 1. This will store you with these and such like precious promises Psal 3● 19. The Lord will keepe them alive in the time of famine who feare him and hope in his mercy Psal 34. 10. They that feare the Lord shall not want any good thing Psal 37. 16. A little that the righteous hath is better than the riches of many wicked Mat. 6. 33. First seeke the kingdome of heaven and c. 2. This will shew you that God feeds the fowles Luke 12. 24. Yea the most feeble and filthy ravens Psal 147. 9. the beasts Psal 104. Infants Psal 71. 6. and wicked men Gen 21. 14 19. 3. This will certifie you that our gracious God did feed the many Israelites which came out of Egypt in a desolate and barran wildernesse Elijah with ravens 1 King 17. 4 6. and a poore widow Ver. 9. in the time of famine 4. This will declare and demonstrate that the Lord is your Shepheard Psal 23. 1. and mercifull Father From which precious promises and practices of our good and gracious God you may thus arm and animate your selves and with this weapon wound the Divell dissipate and disanull his direfull darts to diffident distrustfulnesse 1. H●th the true and unchangeable Iehovah who cannot lie Tit. 1. 1. whose promises are yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1. 20. made so many and such mercifull promises 2. Doth he feed and provide for the fowles of the aire the wild beasts of the desarts the wicked and ungodly the young and helplesse infants 3. Is it undeniably manifest that such who have depended upon God in extremities have beene sufficiently provided for Luke 22. 35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes lacked ye any thing And they said Nothing By extraordinary meanes the ordinary failing Exod. 16. 4. Will wicked men feed their wicked and good children Will good men feed their godly and ungodly children Will bruit and savage beasts feed and provide for their young Will fowles of the aire feed and foster theirs And shall we distrust to whom those sure and certaine sweet and precious promises belong we being better than beasts birds and sonnes of Belial The Lord having beene our trust from our youth by whom we have beene holden up from the wombe Psal 71. 6. He being the same to us now he was to his chosen formerly

these things to your charity especially since I am compelled hereunto by a certaine opportunity from those things which have beene spoken It is convenient to speake of almesdeeds alwaies since we also alwaies need mercy from the Lord. But it is now more needfull in regard of the great cold for truly in summer the gentlenes of the time doth much solace the poore because they are without danger although they go naked when they ar● clothed with the sun-beames and sleepe securely upon the bare pavement neither do they need so much shoes or wine or such large feeding they contenting themselves with the fountaines of water and that time of the yeare doth furnish a suddaine table to them of small herbes of little worth and a little pulse To which is added another no lesse commodity for they which build houses till the earth and sayle on the sea doe much need their service But in winter they are divers waies afflicted and vexed hunger doth destroy their bowels within cold doth consume their flesh without besides they then neede more food warm●r clothing beds something to lie on shooes and many other things and which is most grievous the time doth not affoord worke Therefore because they need much and want worke no man giving to these distressed ones hire or enjoyning them worke let us at length stretch out our hands to give not onely hire but almes-deeds c. I should be glad if the lamentable languishing lookes if the discomfiting dolourous distresses if the painefull pinching penury if the asperate appaling anxieties of our poore people did not paralell those of Antioch but I feare me they surpasse and surmount them It is needlesse and superfluous I suppose for me to tell you that our pinched if not pined poore are many and much multiplied or that their present pressures are violently vexing if not insufferably and intollerably for 1. Not onely are they constrained in regard of other mens hard-heartednesse want of bowels of compassion and desire of private personall enrichment though with the cries and cursings the ruine and destruction of the oppressed to part with their commodities at such low and under rates that they may be said rather to give away then sell the fruites of their labour 2. But also that which they buy they purchase at excessive Some barley that d●y sc February 25. ●631 sold for 6 s 2 d a strike in Ketering market prices the scarcity and scantnesse of all sorts of necessary food being so great so generall of such timely begining and of such long continuance that I thinke neither we nor our fathers have seene the like 3. And that which adds the greatest burden of miseries upon these miserable of dolours upon these distressed men is want of worke and imployment For although a man could sell at a deare rate and buy at a low price yet wanting things saleable and not having money to buy things vendible he is not at all benefited by these assisting advantages I thinke it farre better for a poore man to give 5 s for a strike of corne having worke to get the same then to have liberty to buy the selfe-same corne for 5 d not knowing how to procure that 5 d to purchase the same Say not beloved brethren of your distressed neighbours Object 1 Give them the law and whip them Give them the law and stock them until you first give them the law and relieve them Our pious and wholesome lawes take order as well for their provision as punishment Our sword of justice hath or ought to have two edges one to punish and correct the criminous the other to patronize and defend the distressed Give them for every oath and curse according to the law 1 s. Give them for every one who prophaneth the Sabbath by playing 3 s-4 d by selling by travelling 1 l. according to our religious Statutes Give them from your ale-houses who keepe not the size 1 l for ale-house keepers suffering men to sit tipling long in their houses 10 s for every tipler in an ale-house 3 s-4 d c. for every one who is drunke 5 s. Give the aged and impotent poore competent reliefe Give the able and working poore labour and imployment and then give correction to the idle poore and spare not Say not beloved brethren they are idle they are idle as Object 2 cruell Pharoah said to the distressed Israelites exacting the tale of brickes not allowing straw to make them Exod. 5. and therefore they must not eate For some are necessarily idle who are unoccupied because they want worke as well as others are voluntarily idle who may worke and will not ceasing to labour through love of ease of which latter onely Saint Paul speakes saying If any will not not doth not worke neither should he eate 2 Thess 3. 10. Say not beloved brethren you want ability to imploy the Object 1 one sort and to relieve the other For sure it is if old mens reports are true we have more silver and gold then our forefathers had wee fare more deliciously then our forefathers did and our garments are more costly and gay then our forefathers were Spare we therefore some unnecessary superfluities from our selves that we may be better enabled to communicate to others But since their condition is every way so dreadfull and distressing If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies 1. Open your eyes behold and see the urgent necessities of your brethren looke upon their pale and pining countenances their wan and watry faces See how many and what able bodies are necessarily idle and thereby enforced some to pilfer some to begg and all to languish Cast a few lookes into poore mens houses many of which I feare are worse provided of necessary comforts for this life then rich mens swine yea dogs 2. Open your eares to heare the bitter bewailing the dolefull lamentations sorrowfull sighings of sad and sighing parents not knowing how or which way to asswage and mitigate the keene and cutting the rough and asperate hunger of themselves and their condoling children Open your eares to heare the grievous groaning and miserable moanings of pinched and pining children complaining and crying to their afflicted parents in vaine for bread 3. That by hearing and seeing your brethrens vehement and urgent extremities that by taking notice of and beholding other mens miseries you may put on bowels of compassion fellow-feeling and pittie and demonstrate or shew your compassionate mercifull and pittifu●l hearts which alone is not sufficient by your compassionate mercifull and pitifull hand which is also necessary That as compassion in God is the cause of comfort towards us so compassion in us may be the cause of comfort towards distressed Christians Motive 1. That so wee may bee free from unmercifullnesse one quality badge and character of mis-beleeving miscreants Rom. 1. 30. 2. That so we may assimulate

dangerous chimneyes in a house In these we are commonly corrupt judges extenuating and excusing those we ought wholly to extirpate and expulse pleading for and patronizing those we ought to prosecute and pervert mitigating and mincing those we ought to maligne and massacre In these is the greatest danger these winding and scruing into our soules almost insensibly partly in regard of our owne inclination to give them entertainement partly in regard of their infatuating insinuations by meanes of their fawning sleering seeming sweet and favourie bewitching inchantments And the breach made by these must be repaired by renewed repentance It is therefore of absolute necessity that we should watch and ward especially against these our personall pollutions 4. Wisely and warily watch we over our selves in times of peace plenty and prosperity when we have eaten and are full we must then beware that we forget not the Lord our God Deut. 8. 10 11. Such is the infirmity of mans nature ●ar Chron. lib 2. pa● 125. that in prosperity delight doth occasion negligence in bridling of hurtfull affections For then we are most prone and provoked to carelesse corrupting Lux 〈…〉 security Psal 30. 6. In my prosperity I said I shall never be removed For we are then much inclined and very subject to abuse the same By deceiptfully doting on the● setting our hearts upon them Psal 62. 10. If riches increase set not your hearts upon them Confidently trusting in them and boastingly bragging of them Psalm● 49. 6. They that trust in their wealth and boast c. Wantonly wasting vainely and viciously consuming the same Luke 12. 19. Eat drinke and be me●ry Luke 15. 13. Iam. 5. 5. Ye have eaten c. Slavishly serving Mammon as our God placing our hearts upon it as our chiefest treasure Mat. 6. 21. Carelesly neglecting and cursedly contemning the poore and needy members of our deare Saviour 1 Timoth. 6. 18. Iames 2. 6. For we are ready wretchlesly then to forget and fors●ke the Lord who hath beene so bountifull and beneficiall to us Deut. 8. 11 14. Lest I be full and deny thee c. Prov. 30. 9. Yea and to sacrifice to our owne net because our portion is fat Hab. 1. 16. Saying in our heart our own power and might hath gotten us this wealth Deut. 8. 17. As therefore the stag in the fairest green and most pleasant pasture looketh most about him and feareth danger so should we in our greatest pleasures and prosperous preferments in our most honourable happinesse here on earth 5. In the doing of things warrantable and lawfull as the works and duties of our personall and particular callings we must be advisedly circumspect and very vigilant Luke 3. 11 13 14. That we be not slaves and drudges unto the same but that we manage them as with industry and diligence so with discretion and piety that we may according to our Masters direction and precept first seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse Matth. 6. 33. giving and gaining from them time to our selves for the sincere service of God That we conscionably imploy our selves to labour in these our lawfull vocations and callings lawfully christianly namely Testifying hereby our son-like filiall obedience to the most just and irreprehensible injunctions of our good God and gracious Father Eph. 4. 28. 2 Thess 3. 12. moderating our inordinate desires after and immoderate love unto these vaine and vanishing fickle and fading things Depending upon Gods all-seeing and all-sufficient providence and upon his sure and certaine great and gracious promises not upon these limber and brittle slaves of reed Religiously sanctifying them by the Word of God and prayer 1 Tim 4. 5. Comfortably contenting our selves with whatsoever successe either prosperous or adverse it shall please the Lord to appoint and allot upon our endeavours Learning in whatsoever estate to be content Phil. 4. 11. Seeking the fruition and enjoyment of these not long lasting transitory riches not by sinister corrupt and indirect meanes but piously lawfully and warrantably Not as prime principall and necessary but as secondary blessings and benefits not needfull to our salvation nor the peculiar priviledge of Gods precious people Possessing and using the same thankfully being gratefull to a God so good and gracious to us so vile and undeserving Charitably compassionately communicating to the needy distressed members of our blessed Saviour 6. In our religious actions our most pious and best performances we must be very vigilant for in these the Divell will be maliciously medling to marre and poyson such like duties Striving to insuse put and powre in fond foolish and faithlesse fancies into our minds to withdraw and dishearten them from such like pious practises and sacred actions Endeavouring to distract and so disable and interrupt us by his injurious insinuating injections and divellish temptations in the present time and very act of performing them And labouring with his utmost abilities to swell and puffe up with privie if not palpable pride parasitically soothing and slatteringly applauding us after the deed duly and dutif●lly done purposing thereby to pollute and putrifie our purest exactest and precisest performances It is not therefore onely convenient and of some consequence but of great importance and urgent necessity for us to be very warie and watchfull that we do good and sacred actions well and holily things commanded so as we are commanded practises of piety so that they may be acceptable and pleasing unto the Lord. And therefore be we perswaded with care and circumspection so to ponder premeditate and consider of the matter That before the doing of such duties we resist and remove all letts and impediments which as obstacles may hinder we lay hold upon take and improve all opportunities and fitting occasions which may help forward and further that so we may be more apt and able prompt and prepared fit and furnished to do our duty That in the doing of them we behave our selves well and wisely performing them rightly and religiously That after all is done through our owne vilenesse and viciousnesse all our labour be not lost and all our endeavours made void and frustrate being impoysoned and corrupted by pride 1 Cor. 4. 7. or oppressed and over-whelmed by lightnesse and inconstancy Ier. 34. 11. And thus to conclude this important duty of the Christian warriour 1. Let the many patheticall premonitions of perils and Motives dangers to which we are prone especially if we omit or neglect our watch Luke 22. 32. 2. Let the many peremptory precepts of our absolute and soveraigne Lord and Commander Christ Iesus Mar. 13. 37. 14. 34. 3. Let the many precious promises of peculiar priviledges to Christian vigilance 4. Let the many pious and praise-worthy practices of Christ Iesus our Captaine and of former Christians our fellow-souldiers in this particular duty Mar. 14. 37. 5. Let the many present pressures of anguish and affliction of trials troubles and temptations 6. Let the many prerogatives of this

as able and ready to succour and support us now as he did them in their extremities And his care of and compassion towards us surpassing infinitely and beyond all comparison not onely that of birds or beasts towards their young but also that of men good and bad towards their children We will not do it SECT 9. Against Antinomists THe want of these warlike weapons is a prime and principall cause that so many doting and deluded halting and hollow-hearted weake and wavering rotten and relapsed Christians unsound and unsetled in the wayes of life are tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine Eph. 4. 14 by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lie in wait to deceive of which sort we lately have had some wandring seducers which creeping into houses have led captive some silly yet selfe-conceipted men and women laden with sinnes led away with diverse lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Now as 2 Tim. 3. 6. Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth whose folly I have formerly endeavoured to manifest in this place in naming some the very naming being a sufficient consutation of the most they are so fond and phantasticall and confuting others of their foolish fancies in my discourse of the Society of Saints in which First I have shewed that the Saints on earth are sinners although not such sinners as dogs and swine or sonnes of Belial and answered their objections by which they pretend to prove that the Saints in this life are so pure and perfect as that Book 1. Cap. 3. pag 54. Book 3. Cap. 8. pag. 139. Book 5. Cap. 6. pag. 242. they are free from sinne For although it is true that all the sinnes of the Saints are pardoned not onely those which are past and present but also in some sort those to come yet hence to inferre therefore the Saints are free from sinne is absurd and erroneous All sinnes of justified persons are pardoned yet differently Sinnes past by a formall application sinnes Am. Theol. l. 1 c. 27. Thes 24. to come by a virtuall Sinnes past in themselves sinnes to come in the subject or person sinning saith D. Ames All their sinnes are pardoned yet not so as to free them from sinne in this life for although the children of God have Perk. Gal. 1. pag. 186. the pardon of their sinnes to come not onely in respect of Gods decree to pardon but also in respect of his promise to pardon and in respect of the procurement of pardon upon the crosse yet they want the pardon of their sinnes untill the Lord doth give and communicate Christ unto them and applieth to their conscience the remission of their sinnes and therfore the pardon of their sinnes is not fully and absolutely given them untill they recover themselves and renew their repentance God doth pardon all the sinnes of his children yea their sinnes to come not simply but upon condition of future repentance and absolutely when they repent and renew the same 2 Sam. 12 2 Cor. 5. 21. Should a man inferre that because in Gods decree all men shall die and come to judgement that therefore all men are dead and come to judgement Should a man inferre that because in respect of Gods promise in respect of the procurement the Saints are glorified that therefore the Saints who are under trials of cruell mockings and scourgings yea moreover in bonds and imprisonments who wander in sheeps skins and goats skins being destitute afflicted and tormented and they who as yet are unborne and never saw the Sun are already actually glorified in heaven I suppose every man would censure such conclusions as irreligious if not unreasonable as unreasonable if not senslesse as unsound if not absurd as fantasticall if not franticke as erroneous if not hereticall I therefore since this their inference is as imprudent and improbable as incongruous and inconsiderate heartily and humbly wish and desire these silly deluded soules to lay aside their owne selfe-conceiptednesse and selfe-justice to discerne and deplore their owne disabilities and desist from disturbing the Church with their dis●onant distractions Secondly I haue clearely manifested the differences and agreements betweene the justified Iewes and Christians to be such that the covenant betweene the Lord them and us is one and the same according to the Doctrine of our Church Hom. of faith B. 1. which saith Although they were not named Christen men yet was it a Christian faith that they had for they looked for all benefits of God the Father through the merits of his Sonne Iesus Christ as we do This difference is betweene them and us for they looked when Christ should come and we be in the time when he is come Therefore saith S. Augustine the time is altered but not the faith for we have both one faith in one Christ the same Holy Ghost also that we have had they saith S. Paul for as the Holy Ghost doth teach us to trust in God and to call upon him as our Father so did he teach them to say as it is written Thou Lord art our Father and Redeemer thy Name is without Isa 43. beginning and everlasting God gave them then grace to be his children as he doth us now against the gainesayings of these contradicting cavillers Thirdly I have clearly proved that obedience to Gods precepts Book 3. Cap. 14. pag. 179. is one meanes whereby we keepe covenant with God and therefore a part of the covenant of grace which these ignorantly condemne as false speaking evill of those things which they know not for did they but understand what this covenant is betweene God and his people namely Gods contract with them concerning the obtaining of eternall life did they but know that this covenant consists of two parts Gods promise to them sc to give them Christ and his benefits as remission of sinnes and salvation to be their God and to save them to deale mercifully and truly with them and theirs to God sc to be his people and to serve him to repent of their sinnes and receive Christ by faith to yeeld obedience to his will did they but know that universall obedience is if not the substance of this covenant on the Saints part yet the principall part thereof as is evident Exod 19. 8. Nehem. 10. 28. Ezra 10. 3. They would not so wickedly and wilfully with such preposterous prejudice perversly pronounce this orthodoxe truth The Law of God is part of the covenant of grace ungrounded and erroneous Fourthly I have expresly evidence that the Saints of Book 3. Cap. 16. pag. 194. Book 4. Cap. 5. pag. 230. God ought to feare as well as love the Lord contrary to their perverse position that love and feare cannot stand together Fiftly I have delineated and described the inamouring Book 4. Cap. 5. pag. 237. excellency and inevitable