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A97247	The cure of preivdice, or, The doves of innocency and the serpents subtilty wherein the originall, continuance, properties, causes, endes, issue and effects of the worlds envie and hatred to the godly is pithily laid open and applyed. By R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1641 (1641)	Wing Y149B; ESTC R230928	73,141	127

cast at us though they incurre by it the danger of the Law Whereas religion makes wild beasts civill Atheisme and Impiety makes of wise men beasts and fooles How many have been knowne like him in Aesop who willingly lost one eye that his fellow might loose both Yea whereas the drift of such an ones preaching in case he be a minister is to make them like him in whose name they preach contrarily the very word of God by accident makes them degenerate into stocks and stones for hearing but their sinnes layd open and the judgement due thereunto they become so stupid and insensible of reason that now maugre all admonition the quarrell must end in blood Yea away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not meet that he should live Acts 22.22 7. And lastly It is their manner out of Enmity to slay the godly as Doeg slew Ahimeleck and the rest of the Priests even fourscore and five persons and Nob the City of Priests whom he smote with the edge of the sword both man and woman child and suckling at Sauls command 1 Sam. 22.19 Thus Jezabell slew all the Prophets of the Lord she could find 1 Kings 18.4 And Herod all the male children that were in Bethlehem and all the coasts thereof from two yeares old and under that he might make sure worke with Christ Mat. 2.16 And thus the inhabitants of Jerusalem Gods owne people chosen out of all the World used to make such havock of their owne Prophets that our Saviour bemoaning her case cryeth out O Jerusalem Jerusalem which killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee c. Matthew 23.37 And thus it fares with the Saints and servants of God at this day in such places where wicked men may have their wils Whereas those Romish Doctors are appointed for the saving of many they are all for destruction like rash Empiricks they can cure no way but by letting of blood and hereupon they turne their Massing into massacring the Schoole into a Camp Arguments into Armes teaching all their Proselites dismall conclusions as it hath been no rare thing for some of their Priests in Queene Maries raigne when in arguments they have found the weaknesse of their pens to fall to their penknives In stead of arguments they take up armes and in stead of zeale and the spirituall word they use fire and the sword yea treasons are their best reasons the Spanish Inquisition is their Grammer fire and fagot their rhetoricke Fleete and fetters their Logicke the Canons roare their musick poysoning their physick Yea their very building of the Church is by blowing up of common-wealths and in stead of fighting for God they fight against God and his Leivetenant And if at this day they catch but a Protestant in their net it is a miracle if ever he scapes death without making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience For if we will not obey them rather then God they have a Law by which men ought to dye a law like Draco's written with blood and sealed with death Of which their savage proceeding there are many reasons to be rendred First they must doe the workes of their Father the Devill he is a murtherer and so his children are given to blood John 8.44 Secondly that their deeds of darknesse may not come to light Vriah must be put to death least Davids adultry bee discovered and himselfe disgraced A living Curre you know will doe more harme then a dead Lyon And it is a sure rule that of Egges fryed in the pan come no ill Chickens Thirdly the wicked through malice seeke by all meanes to cut off the godly because their sinfull and wicked lives are reproved by their godly conversation neither can they follow their sinnes so freely as they would nor so quietly without detection or check Now if Abels good works reprove Caines evill deeds let Caine but take away the cause kill Abell and the effect shall not follow Fourthly whereas the godly are too hard for them in disputing take Steven for an instance they will be even with him by casting of stones stop his mouth with brickbats fetch arguments from the Shambles and this they are sure will doe when all other hopes and helps fayle So they make their party good if not with arguments of reason yet with argumēts of steel and Iron But this is a very hard way of consuting Fifthly their glory and credit with the World is eclipsed by suffering these which excell in vertue This made Adrian and Nero to kill all such as eclipsed their glory by any demerit and Mercine you know was murthered of her fellowes because shee did excell the rest in beauty Thus Herod thought he could not be King if Christ should raigne Yea as though he had beene of the race of the Ottomans he thought he could not raigne except the first thing he did he killed all the males in Bethlehem from two yeares old and under And the Pharisees that they should be despised if Christ were regarded And so much of the Actuall properties of this Enmity Qu. In how many of these kindes did our Saviour himselfe suffer whose example hitherto you have omitted in his owne person of the Jews his Countrey men and kinsfolke yea of the chiefe Priests Scribes and Pharisees who were teachers and expounders of the Law and which sate in Moses Chaire An. In every one of the 22. for as touching the Mentall Properties 1 They Envyed him Matth. 26.15 2 They Contemned him Matth. 12.24 13.55 3 They Rejoyced at him in his misery and destresse Mat. 27.29 4 They Hated him Iohn 7.7 2. Touching the Verball 1 They Murmured against him Luke 15.2 2 They Misconstrued his actions intentions Mat. 11. ●9 3 They Carryed tales of him Mat. 12.14 4 They Gave divellish counsell against him Mat. 27.20 5 They Scoft at him Matth. 27.42 6 They Nicknamed him Matth. 13.55 7 They Rayled on him Luke 23.39 8 They Slandered him Matth. 28.13 9 They Cursed him Gal. 3.13 10 They Threatned him Iohn 11.53 11 They Vndermined him in talke that they might accuse him Matth. 22.15 3. Touching the Actuall 1 They Vsed disdainful gestures before him Mat. 27.29.39 2 They VVithstood and contraryed his Doctrine Luke 5.21 Mat. 9.34 3 They Combined together and layd Plots to destroy him Mat. 12.14 4 They Tooke him prisoner Mat. 26.57 5 They Smote him Luke 22.64 6 They Hurt and wounded him Mat. 27.29 Iohn 19 34. 7 They Put him to death even that cursed death of the Crosse Matth. 27.35 That the Scriptures might be fulfilled which saith And thou shalt bruise his heele for all that he suffered was but in his Humanity and so no more then the bruising of his heele And why all this Not for any evill they found in him for their owne words are He hath done all things well Mark 7.37 He hath done such was his power all things such was his wisedome well such was his

nor error in his doctrine Which of you said hee can rebuke me of sinne Yet the World traduced him for a Samaritan a Blasphemer a Sorcerer a wine bibber an enemy to Caesar and what not Thus they deale with the godly as sometimes a lustfull person will doe by a chaste woman when he cannot take away her honesty he will take away her credit brag of effecting his will with her when yet he could never have admittance into her company Bad natures whom they cannot reach by imitation they will by detraction like the Fox what they cannot attaine to they will depresse and seeme to despise their cunning is to condemne others that themseves may be justified As Caligula tooke off the heads from the Images of the gods to set up his own Or as Merchants who to raise the price of their own commodities beate down the prices of others And have they not reason thus to doe Yes for how is a vicious person discredited and made contemptible by the vertuous life of an holy man We know straight lines helpe to shew the crooked And it is easie to guesse that Pharaohs fat Kine made the leane ones more ilfavoured A swarthy and hard featured visage loves not the company of cleare beauties Againe another reason is They judge others by themselves now they doe all their good in hypocrisie and so thereafter judge of others Saint Chrysostome hath given the rule As it is an hard thing saith he for one to suspect another to be evill who is good himselfe so it is as hard for him to suppose another to be good who is himselfe ill And we see it fulfilled in Nero who verily beleeved that all men were most fowle libidinists because himselfe was such an one 3. Wicked men manifest their enmity against the religious by carrying tales of them unto others as C ham carryed tales to his brethren of Noahs nakednesse his tongue was the trumpet to sound forth his Fathers shame Gen. 9.22 thus Doeg carryed tales to Saul of David and Abimelech 1 Sam. 22.9 10. and the Ziphins two severall times brought tydings to Saul where David had hid himselfe to the end Saul might slay him 1 Sam. 23.19 20. 26.1 And those Libertines with other suborned men against Steven to the Councell of Priests Acts 6.8 to 15. And of this burthen many amongst us are in continuall travell For how frequently doe debauched drunkards and incorrigible sinners resembling their father the Devill who both by name Revel 12.10 and by nature Job 1.7 8 9. is a continuall Accuser of the brethren carry tales to their fellowes of such as will not consorte with them Yea of their faithfull Ministers especially if hee thunders in his doctrine and lightens in his conversation as Gregory Nazianzen speakes of Basil Yea and thinke they doe as good service in it as Secretaries and espialls of Princes doe to the State when they bring in bills of Intelligence But doe they as they ought with an upright minde tell both our vertues and vices impartially as Suetonius writeth of the twelve Caesars and so leave the upshot to collection No but rather as the Jewes did by Paul Acts 24. charge us with many things as that we are pestilent fellowes movers of sedition and maintaienrs of schisme but proving nothing verse 13. And indeed how should they when every word they speak is a slander Or if otherwise they look on our infirmities they looke not on our graces on our repentance No these Flyes skip over all a mans sound parts I meane his excellencies to fasten on a scab or ulcer resembling our Prognosticators that are more diligent to make mention of foule weather then of fayre stormes and thunder they much harp upon but calme and serene dayes passe them unobserved whereas an ingenuous nature would passe over the evill where he findes more good considering we are full of faults by nature good not without our care and industry for a minde well qualified is often beholding to the industry of the owner and Vlysses as Homer relates was so applauded for the acutenesse of an ingenious mind that men spared to object unto him the deformity of his body But these contrarily for want of matter to except against will coyne it of their owne heads And that they may deliver themselves with the greater Emphasis will affirme as that Gymnosophist in Plutarch did of those Orators to Alexander That every one of them doth exceed his fellowes and sware that the matter is so cleare and manifest that all the Towne ings of him meaning the good fellowes of the towne and to speake truth the parties faults are so cleare and evident that you may see them as well in the darke as with a candle as appeares by the sequell For are there not some godly and faithful both Christians and Preachers that have beene often I say not ninety five times accused by them as Aristophanes was by the Athenians and every time found innocent Though no thankes to their accusers for they endeavour all they can to corrupt such as heare them and forestall their judgements against the good and goodnesse O that men were so wise as to heare the tale-bearer with indignation examine before they trust beleeve his reports if infallibly true with unwillingnesse acknowledge it with griefe hide our neighbours faults with honest excuses and bury them in silence for commonly it fares with the first relator as it doth with a stone throwne into the water which of it selfe makes but one circle but that one begets an hundred and so both offends and infects many others but alwayes proves himselfe to be uncharitable It were good for other men if tale-bearers would consider this but better for themselves True the wise and honest are able as so many Angels of God to discerne truth from slander though to the griefe of many good hearts no musick can be so sweet to the eares of others as to heare well of themselves ill of the religious And these as they often set the former on worke so they are resolutely opinionated in beleeving o● lyes as Saint Austin speakes of the Priscillianists whereby they supererogate of Satan But what is the end of these tale-bearers and informers against good men Follow them to their ends and you shall see that if ever the Lord open their eyes to see this their fact they are even in this life rewarded with the strappadoes of an humane soule rackt in conscience and tortured with the very flashes of Hell fire and not seldome forced to lay violent hands upon themselves being never well nor in their owne place till they bee in Hell Acts 1.25 4. It is their manner to perswade and give devillish counsell to others like themselves to persecute the godly as Balaam gave wicked counsell to Balack against the Children of Israel when he could not be suffered to curse them Revel 2.14 Thus the Princes and Rulers did to Zedekiah the King against Jeremiah saying