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A67781	The tryall of true wisdom, with how to become wise indeed, or, A choice and cheap gift for a friend both to please and pleasure him, be he inferior or superior, sinful or faithful, ignorant or intelligent / By R. Younge ... ; add this as an appendix, or third part, to The hearts index, and, A short and sure way, to grace and salvation.	Younge, Richard.; Younge, Richard. Hearts-index, or, self-knowledg.; Younge, Richard. Short and sure way to grace and salvation.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y194; ESTC R39197	35,053	36

a blinde man stumble and fall Neither let us be discouraged maugre all their slander opposition Nor think the worse of our selves if such shall reproach us never so The Corinthians exceedingly slighted Paul he was this and he was that But what says Paul With me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you 1 Cor. 4. 3 4. VVe know little children will often laugh at wise men when they are about serious and necessary affairs which notwithstanding is not an argument of the unworthiness of the things they laugh at but of the folly of them which laugh Will the Merchant be discouraged because his wine pleaseth not a sicke mans palate Much lesse cause have we to be discouraged by their distaste or dislike of us and our actions as having more certainty to rely upon they perhaps have sense reason and experience to rely upon but we have them with the advantage of Gods Word and Spirit and Faith three infallible witnesses Yea we have great cause to rejoyce that they revile and speak evil of us For his is both a token of perdition to them and to us of salvation and that of God as the Apostle phraseth it Phil. 1. 28. True they may raise any slander upon the best of us as the Chief Priests did upon our Saviour Math. 28. 13 14. and that slander may be believed time out of minde as the Jewes to this day believe that his Disciples stole him cut of the Sepulchre Matth. 28. 15. to the hardning of many in their Atheism and Unbelief For what should hinder When Naboth was proved to be a blasphemer of God and Susanna a whore upon oath and the same recorded to posterity when Ieremiah was reported to be an enemy to the State Paul a polluter of the Temple Steven a destroyer of the Law All the Disciples deceivers and Christ himselfe a wine-bibber a Sabbath-breaker a seducer of the people a Belzebub c. So we may perhaps under-goe the like in one kind or other as the Devils servants want neither wit nor malice to devise But what need it trouble us so long as it shall add waight to our Crowns For if we any way suffer for Christ be it but rebuke for his sake happy are we here and great shall our reward be in heaven Mat. 5. 11 12. VVherefore let us never be ashamed of our Masters service nor of their censures No matter what Judas saith touching Maries ointment so long as Christ approves of it Did our Saviour Christ forbear to heal on the Sabbath day because the Scribes and Pharisees took it ●ll no but rather did it the more Luke 6. 7. to 12. and Luke 13. 31 32. VVhen Peter and John were charged to speak no more in the name of Jesus their answer was We cannot but speak that which we have heard and seen Acts 4. 20. VVhen Michol scoft David and called him fool for his dancing before the Arke His answer was I will be yet more vile and more lowly in mine own eyes He knew that nothing could be more heroical then this very abasement And it is our very case Every scoffing Michol for none else will do it every drunken sot derides our holy profession but with God and the gracious we shall be had in honour Yea our very malicious and scoffing adversaries shall honour us by deriding us Their dispraise is a mans honour their praise his dishonour VVherefore let us imitate St. Austin who as he feared the praise of good men so he detested that of evill and ungodly men And take our Saviours counsel seek to justifie our judgements to the children of wisdome of whom she is justified and not to fools by whom she is daily crucified Neither let any think the better of such whom they extoll for the blinde eat many a flie 61. Thirdly are the one regenerate the other carnall the one of this world the other chosen out of it the one children of light and of the day the other blinde and in darknesse the one Christs friends the other his enemies do the one live after the flesh the other after the spirit Gal. 5. 15. 1 Pet. 4. 2. Then look we for no love from or peace with them Different dispositions can never agree There can be no amity where there is no sympathy Athens and Sparta could never agree for that the one was addicted to serve Minerva the other Mars Yea when it was said of Phocian and Demosthenes that they could never agree it was answered No how should they when the one drinks water and the other wine Much more may it be applyed to these when the holy Ghost sayes 2 Cor. 6. What communion between light and darknesse what peace between the Believer and the Infidel or unbeliever vers. 14 15. And in another place Know ye not that the amity of the world is the enmity of God And that whosoever will be a friend of the world maketh himselfe the enemy of God Jam. 4. 4. And again He that is borne after the flesh will persecute him that is born after the Spirit Gal. 4. 29. Yea Solomon tels us directly and in plain terms That a wicked man is abomination to the just and that he who is upright in his way is abomination to the wicked Pro. 29. 27. Even our very ways which God hath commanded us to walke in are abomination to them VVhence it is that the Naturall man can agree with all that be naturall be they civill or prophane Turkes or Jewes Papists or Atheists because all these agree with him in blindnesse and darknesse But with a sincere and holy Christian a practicer of piety he can never agree because his light is contrary to the natural mans darknesse Grace in the one is a secret disgrace to the other VVherefore to be without enemies or to have such our friends we may rather wish then hope yea once to expect it were an effect of frenzy not of hope Onely let not us by our offending God or jarring amongst our selves put weapons into their hands to wound us withal and then we are sure to have Christ who is able enough to vindicate all our wrongs to assist us and prevent our Enemies 62. Fourthly If none be truly wise but such as have pass'd the second birth and that this wisdome which makes us differ cometh downe from the Father of lights and that we cannot have it except God vouchsafe to give it us it may teach us to be humble Job 42. 6. And not like the Ape that is proud of his Masters jacket And thankefull for Heavenly notions grow not in us wee spin them not out of our own breasts Nor was there any thing in us that makes us differ we slept nigh half our time in ignorance and that wee ever awakened it was onely Gods infinite goodnesse and free grace VVhat cause have we then to blesse the giver And to become suiters to our Saviour in their behalf who are not yet awake That he will be pleased to open their eyes and remove that vail which is laid over their hearts in their hearing the Gospel 2 Cor. 3. 14 15 16. And in the mean-time let us condole their disastres and drop some teares in pity and compassion for their great and grievous misery Fifthly and lastly If with God one spark of spiritual experimental and saving knowledge be of more worth then all humane wisdome and learning then strive we after that knowledge that will make us for ever blessed Let us so be learned that we may be saved Let us not in our hearing reading and communication do as little children that looke onely upon the babies in a Booke without regard to the matter therein contained But like men in yeares have more respect to the pith and solidity of the matter then to the phrase and to the profit of our souls then the pleasing of our senses Yea let us so minde what we either hear or read that if any vertue be commended we practice it if any vice condemned we avoid it if any consolation be insinuated we appropriate it if any good example be propounded wee follow it Yea so minde wee what we hear or read as if it were spoke onely to each of us in particular which to do is to be for ever happy Good counsell for our young Gulls who will hear no other Ministers but such as flatter sinne and flout holinesse nor read other Books then such as fill them with Pride and Lust and the Devil So I have given you a good and profitable Book one faultlesse fault being born with An answer that may satisfie such as shall make the Objection I expect viz. about repetition which I take to be a fault deserving thanks If any shall finde themselves gainers by reading of this piece let them also peruse the two fore-going parts viz. The Hearts Index and A short and sure way to Grace and salvation as treating upon the most needful subjects for a natural mans conversion that I could think of The which being small things are sold onely by James Crump in Little Bartholomews wel-yard And by Henry Cripps in Popes-head Alley ERRATA Not to mention all the litterall mistakes and points misplaced there is one fault in the Title page so grosse though it past the view both of Transcriber Composer Corrector and Authour without being discerned that it would be mended with a pen and of Floreligus made Florilegus FINIS

all hope of being wiser they had rather keep conscience blind that it may flatter them than inform it that it may give a just verdict against them counting it less trouble to believe a favorable falshood than to examine whether it be true So that it is impossible for fleshly minded men to believe what sots they are touching the good of their souls Wherefore when we see the folly and misery of those that serve sin and Satan and how peevishly averse they are to their own eternal salvation let us pity them as being so much more worthy our commiseration as they are more uncapable of their own misery And so much of the First sort namely Sensuallists Sect. 43. SEcondly There is another degree of Knowledge that is accrued or obtained by education and learning observation and experience called natural or speculative knowledge or reason improved For humane learning is as oyl to the lamp of our reason and makes it burn cleerer but faith and illumination of the spirit more than doubles the sight of our minds as a prospective glass does the corporal sight Matth. 16. 17. 1 Cor. 2. 7. to 17. Joh. 12. 46. For as the soul is the lamp of the body and reason of the soul and religion of reason and faith of religion so Christ is the light and life of Faith Joh. 1. 9. 8. 12. Act. 26. 18. Eph. 5. 14. Christ is the sun of the soul reason and faith the two eyes reason discerns natural objects faith spiritual and supernatural We may see far with our bodily eye sence farther with the minds eye reason but farther with the souls eye faith than with both And the Beleever hath the addition of Gods spirit and faith above all other men I am the light of the world saith our Saviour he that followeth me meaning by a lively faith shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life Joh. 8. 12. and more see two eyes than one yea the day with one eye does far more things descry than night can do with more than Argos eyes So that as meer sense is uncapable of the rules of reason so reason is no less uncapable of the things that are divine and supernatural Jer. 10. 14. 1 Cor. 2. 14 15 16. Eph. 5. 8. And as to speak is only proper to men so to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven is only propper to believers Psal. 25. 14. Prov. 3. 32. Amos. 3. 7. Now of natural and speculative knowledge the wicked have as large a share as the godly but of spiritual experimental and saving knowledge which is supernatural and descendeth from above Jam. 3. 17. and keepeth a man from every evil way Prov. 2. 12. the wicked have no part with the godly Whence all men in their natural condition are said to be blind and in darkness Matth. 4. 16. 15. 14. Eph. 4. 18 19. 5. 8. Whereas believers are called children of light and of the day 1 Thes. 5. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Nor is this kind of knowledge any way attainable but by Grace from above No learning experience or pains in studdy and Books will bring them to it Ephe. 1. 17 18. 3. 19. except they become new creatures have hearts eyes and eares sanctified from above and that the holy Ghost becomes their teacher Deut. 29. 2 3 4. Psal. 111. 10. Joh. ●● 15. Rom. 8. 14 15. Nor is it saving knowledge that they seek after For though many of them be great seekers after knowledge great pains-takers to become wise yet it is not divine and supernatural knowledge that they labor for or desire Indeed wisdom in the largest sense hath ever carried that shew of excellency with it that not only the good have highly affected it as Moses who studied for wisdom and Solomon who prayed for wisdom and the Queen of Sheba who travelled for wisdom and David who to get wisdom made the word his counsellor hated every false way and was a man after Gods own heart but the very wicked have labored for it who are ashamed of other vertues as O the pleasure that rational men take in it Prov. 2. 3 10 11. 10. 14. Phil. 3. 8. Knowledge is so fair a virgin that every cleer eye is in love with her it is a pearl despised of none but swine Prov. 2. 3. 10. 11. whereas brutish and blockish men as little regard it they who care not for one dram of goodness would yet have a full scale of knowledge Amongst all the trees of the garden none so pleaseth them as the tree of knowledge And as wisdom is excellent above all so it is affected of all as oyl was both of the wise and foolish virgins It hath been a mark that every man hath shot at ever since Eve sought to be as wise as her Maker but as a hundreth shoot for one that hitts the white so an hundred aim at wisdom for one that lights upon it Eccles. 7. 28. because they are mistaken in the thing For as Iacob in the dark mistook Leah for Rachael so many a blind soul takes that to be wisdom which is not like Eve who thought it wisdom to eate the forbidden fruit and Absalom who thought it wisdom to lye with his Fathers Concubines in the sight of all the people and the false Steward who thought it wisdom to deceive his Master And so of Josephs brethren of Pharoah and his deep counsellors of Achitophel of Herod of the Pharisees in their project to destroy Jesus and many the like All these thought they did wisely but they were mistaken and their projects proved foolish and turned to their own ruine Sect. 44. BUt take some Instances to prove that all sorts of Naturians are Fools in comparrison of the Godly I 'le begin with those that rep●●e themselves and are reputed by others the wisest amongst men And they are your profound Humanists and cunning Polititians wherein you shall see whether the most and greatest number are not grosly mistaken in their opinions and verdicts touching Wisdom First for profound Hamanists a man would think that they were incomparably wise for none so thirst after knowledge and wisdom as they to get it they are no niggards of their labor nor do they leave any thing unstudied but themselves They know all parts and places of the created world can discourse of every thing visible and invisible divine humane and mundane whether it be meant of substances or accidents are ignorant of nothing but the way to heaven are acquainted with all Laws and customs save the Law of God and customs of Christianity they are strangers no where but in the court of their own consciences Yea they build as hard and erect as high as did the Babel-builders but all to no purpose they never come to the roof and when they die they are undone They spend all their time in seeking after wisdom as Alchimists spend all their estates to find out the Philosophers

sparing of their censures How-ever I could wish that our Reverend Divines would afford themselves more liberty in this case then they do There be some expressions that we borrow from our Predecessors that deserve to be mentioned or used by a Minister that remains perhaps twenty or thirty years in a Parish more then once though it be to the same Congregation for that which takes not or is not minded at one time may at another and how many have been converted by that onely argument that God seeth all things even in the darke when the doors are shut and the curtains drawn Nor do I think that a dull and flat tool or instrument would be used when a more quick and sharp one may be had at as easie a rate and perhaps neerer at hand But we are mostly even the best of us loth to deny our selves though it be for our Masters many of our Brethrens great gain and advantage But of this by the way onely a word or two more that may reach to all that are in their natural condition and I shall conclude 58. In the last place Are not all wilfull sinners arrant fools who Adam-like will receive what-ever comes or is offered them be it bribe or other sinful bait not once thinking this is forbidden fruit and thou shalt die the death That think the vowed enemy of their souls can offer them a bait without a hook you cannot but acknowledg them stark fools though thou thy self beest one of the number Again for men to dishonour God and blaspheme his Name while he does support and relieve them to runne from him while he does call them and forget him while he does feed them To imitate the Common Protestants in Queen Maries time who laughed the Martyrs to scorn and esteemed them superstitious fools to lose their lives and fortunes for matters of Religion accounting faith holinesse immortality of the soul c. meer fopperies and illusions To be quick-sighted in other mens failings and blinde to their own Are not these so many infallible properties of a fool and yet these are the lively characters of every sensuallist In so much that if I should give you a list or Catalogue of all the fools in one City or County You would blesse your selves that there are so few Bedlam houses and yet so many out of their wits that can not perceive or discern the same And yet no wonder for as I told you-ere-while Sensual men are so be-nighted and puzled with blindnesse that they know no other way then the flesh leads them Yea many by losse of conscience become Atheists and by losse of reason Beasts Yea to any thing that is spiritually good the natural man is blinde and deafe and dead as ye may see by these ensuing Scriptures 1 Tim. 5. 6. Rom. 1. 21 22 25. Ephes. 5. 14. Isa. 6. 9 10. John 12 40. Psal. 69. 23. Matth. 4. 16 15. 14. Ephes. 4. 18 19. 5. 8. 1 Pet. 2 9. Acts 28. 27. Rom. 11. 8. Matth. 23. 16 17. 19. 24. 26. 27. 3 4 5. 2 Pet. 2. 16. Revel. 3. 17. Rom. 6. 13. 8. 11. Micah 7. 16. Psal. 58. 4. Eph. 2. 1. If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. But it is otherwise with the godly as let Satan or the world offer a wise Christian the bait of pleasure or profit his answer shall be I will not buy repentance so dear I will not lose my soul to please my sense If affliction comes he will consider that Gods punishments for sinne calls for conversion from sin and in case God speaks to him by his Word to forsake his evill wayes and turn again to him he will amend his course lest if he heare not the word he should feel the sword Whereas nothing will confute a fool but fire and brimstone The Lord spake to Manasses and to his people but they would not regard Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the Captains of the Host of the King of Ashur that took Manasses and put him in fetters and brought him in chains and carried him to Babel 2 Chron. 33. 10 11. Fools saith holy David by reason of their transgression and because of their iniquity Psal. 107. 17. From which words Musculus infers that all wilfull transgressors are arrant fools And it is the saying of Cardan That dishonesty is nothing else but folly and madnesse Yea Solomon throughout all his Proverbs by a fool means the natural man and by a wise man a man sanctified O that it were rightly learned and laid to heart by all that are yet in the state of un-regeneracy for it is every one of their cases To conclude in a word Without knowledge the soul is not good Prov. 19. 2. The ignorant cannot be innocent I am the light of the world sayes our Saviour John 8. 12. 12. 46. Where light is not Christ is not for Christ is light 59. And so according to my skill I have performed what I at first promised It remains before we leave it that some use be made thereof that so both wise and weak may learn something from what hath been spoken of this subject Wherefore in the first place If it be so that both the sensual and rational even all that are yet in their natural estate are uncapable of divine and super-natural knowledge that they are blinde touching spiritual things Then let not any carnal wretch hereafter dare to speak evill of the things actions or persons that are out of the reach of his capacity but silently suspend his judgement untill he be better informed For as it pertaineth not to the Rustick to jugde of letters So it belongeth not to natural men to judg of spiritual things Yea let those ignorant ones that have used to speak evill of the way of truth learn to kick no more against the pricks lest they bring upon themselves the same curse that their fellows did who brought up an evill report of the Holy Land Num. 13. 32 33. 14. 23 24. Yea put case they shall think they do God good service in it as many do in persecuting and putting to death his children and Ambassadors John 16. 2. as a world of examples witnesse Yea the Jews thought they did marvellous well in crucifying the Lord of life But what says the holy Ghost Prov. 14. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death vers. 12. Even the Powder-traytors thought they merited when they intended to blow up the whole State Alass Natural men are no more fit to judge of spiritual matters then blinde men are fit to judge of colours And yet none more forward then they as you may see by those blinde Sodomites that dealt so roughly and coursely with Lot and his two Angel● Gen. 19. 1. to 12. That they are ignorant and so unfit is

must be blown out of us before saving knowledge will be poured into us Christ will know none but the humble and none but humble souls truly know Christ Now the way to become humble is by taking a serious view of our wants The Peacocks pride is much abated when she looks on the blacknesse of her legs and feet Now suppose we know never so much yet that which we know is far lesse then that which we are ignorant of and the more we know the more we know we want Pro. 1. 5 7. Psal. 73. 22. And the lesle sensible we are of our blindness sicknesse deformity c. the more blinde sick and deformed we are Fifthly Thou must labour to get a true and lively faith For as without faith we cannot please God so without faith no man can know God Faith most cleerly beholds those things which are hid both from the eye of sense and the eye of reason John 12. 46. Unregenerate men that what faith are like blinde Sampson without his guide Or like Poliphemus who never had but one eye and that Ulysses put out For so does the pleasure and custome of sinne blinde the Sensuallist We must have mindes lifted above nature to see and love things above nature heavenly wisdome to see heavenly truth or else that truth which is saving will be to us a mystery Mark 4. 11. If it seem not foolishnesse 1 Cor. 2. 7 8 14. To them that are lost the Gospel is hid 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. Whereas the Believer discerns all things even the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2. 10. 12. 15 16. Yea God Giveth him a mouth and wisdome where against all his adversaries shall not be able to speak or resist Luk. 21. 15. These are the five steps which lead up to the palace of wisdome which all must ascend by that mean to enter If you have once attained this precious grace of saving knowledge you will as much as in you lies employ the same to the glory of the giver And so much to prove that he is the wisest man whose knowledge lies in the best things as the weaker vessel may hold the better liquor and that if men be never so learned except they have learned the Mystery of the Gospel and what it is to be borne again by their own experience which few with their great learning do indeed know they are in Gods account no better then fooles I come now to prove that the greatest Politician is a verier fool then the former 52. Secondly If we shall look upon the most cunning Politician with a single eye judge righteous judgement and not according to appearance onely we shall finde that the greatest Polilician is the greatest fool For he turns all his Religion into hypocrisie into Statisme yea into Atheism making Christianity a very foot-stool to policy I confesse they are wiser in their generation then the children of light and are so acknowledged by Christ himself Luke 16. 8. But why not that there is a deficiency of power in the godly but will for could not David go as far as Achitophel could not Paul shew as much cunning as Tertullus Yes surely if they would But because their Master Christ hath commanded them to be innocent as doves They have resolved in an heroical disposition with Abraham Gen. 14. 22. that the King of Sodome shall not make them rich No crooked or indirect meanes shall bring them in profit they will not be beholding to the king of Hell for a shoo-ty And hereupon the Foxes wiles never enter into the Lions head But to speak of them as they are These cunning Politicians in stead of being wise as serpents they are wise serpents They are so arted in subtleties through time and practice that they are neer upon as wise as that old serpent the Devill Indeed he hath one trick beyond all theirs for like a cunning fencer he that taught them all their tricks kept this one to himselfe namely how to cheate them of their soules But take a short Character of them They are such cunning dissemblers that like Pope Alexander the sixth what they thinke they never speak Why is this cast away saith Iudas Crafty cub he would have had it himself They are like a fellow that rides to the pillory they goe not the way they look They will cut a mans throat under colour of courtesie as Ulysses by gold and forged letters was the meanes of stoning Palamides even while he made shew of defending him And then to wipe off all suspition from themselves their gesture and conntenance shall be like Julius Caesar's who seeing Pompey's head fell a weeping as if he had been sorry for it when by his onely meanes it was cut off So like Rowers in a boat whilest in their pretence they look one way in their intent they goe the quire contrary As our Saviour found it to fare with the Pharisees and Sadducees Matth. 16. 1 3. which made him to conclude with O hypocrites Nor shall any man be able to determine either by their gesture words or actions what they resolve though like Hebrew letters you spell them backward Onely this you may be sure of that they do not intend what they pretend Like as in jugling feats though we know not how they are done yet we know well that they are not done as they seem to be Now if they can any way advantage themselves by anothers ruine and do it cunningly as Iezabel did when she killed Naboth by suborning false witnesse against him and proclaimed a Fast before the murther Though all such policy be but misery and all such knowledge ignorance Yet ô how wise they think themselves but they are grosly mistaken for wherein does this their great wisdom consist but first in being wise to deceive others as the Old serpent did our first Parents or secondly in the end to deceive themselves as the same serpent did which brought a curse upon himselfe for so doing Gen. 3. The crafty Fox hugg'd himselfe to think how he had cozened the Crow of her break-fast but when he had eaten it and found himself poysoned with it he wisht the Crow her own again Wealth got by deceit is like a piece of butterd spunge an Italian trick it goes down glib but in the stomack swells and will never be got out again The gains a man gets by deceiving at last he may put in his eye and yet see himselfe miserable Sin is the greatest cheater in the world for it deceives the deceiver §. 53 That it is so with them and all others who goe to Counsell and leave the God of wisdome behind them let their case be viewed in other persons What saith Pharaoh to his deep Counsellors Come let us do wisely when indeed he went about that which destroyed both him and his countrey The Scribes Pharisees and Elders took counsel against Christ as though they would most wisely prevent their own salvation Josephs brethren to prevent his