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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27246	A sermon preached in S. Lawrence-Jewry Church on the fifth of November, Anno Dom. 1678 by Joseph Bedle ...	Bedle, Joseph, 1644 or 5-1692.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1675; ESTC R19388	10,966	31

are advised to live a holy righteous and godly life they are but hated for their labour These men say they are not for our turn they are men of another world they have a fashion by themselves they hate our ways and therefore we must hate them Fourthly A righteous man and a wicked man differ in their End and in the Means about their End their interest is vastly different and this contracts the odium Or else the enmity may proceed from this that the wicked sees the righteous more happy than himself this begets envy He looks upon him to be his Enemy and he 's greatly disturbed to see him prosper Therefore David prays Gather not my soul with sinners nor my life with bloody men in whose hands is mischief This was the ground of the Devil's quarrel with the Woman When the Dragon saw he was cast unto the earth he persecuted the Woman that brought forth the man-child Rev. 12.13 Thus you see what 's the ground of wicked mens persecuting the Church of God and I hope you believe that they are industrious to work out her ruine VSE Let us then be as industrious for the preservation of it self-preservation is a Law of Nature and to preserve Religion in its purity and regularity we are commanded by the Law of God And therefore we are bound to appear in open field against the common Profaners and Corrupters of it What Reason can there be given why we should not be as zealous for the propagating that Religion we profess and believe to be true as the Romanists are for theirs there is none that I can think of but yet 't is not so Though the Romanists differ amongst themselves yet they all are as one man against the Protestants when 't is our business to supplant and destroy one another one 's for Paul another for Apollo a third for Cephas as if Christ could be divided This I fear without a speedy Reformation will be our ruine we are taught by an Infallible Spirit that a Church divided against it self cannot stand long And yet how industrious are many to make breaches and create differences by making Worship to affront Worship and one Church to jostle out or beat down another I refer it to any Man's judgment whether or not by these our Differences have not been much augmented the Protestant Religion lost much Ground and the Enemy prevailed much against us I confess I can hear sometimes the Pope call'd Antichrist and the Whore of Babylon but what does all this signifie strong Arguments wrapt up in better Words must impair his Cause Peace Unity and Uniformity amongst our selves must work out his Interest it cannot reasonably be expected without it But where lies the fault that must not be mention'd I have been sometimes thinking this was a Cause every Man so vigorously prosecutes his private Interest that they care not what becomes of the whole or at least the Publick concern is much neglected Or if this must not be allowed the Cause may not I say as the King to the Woman of Tekoah Is not the hand of Joab in all this Is not the Jesuits Hand in our Divisions and Separation It was notable Counsel that was given to Benhadad when he was routed by the King of Israel viz. Change your place take the Kings away every Man out of his place and put Captains in their rooms then shall we be stronger than they 1 Kings 20.24 25. Thus the Jesuits know that many of their Doctrines are so odious that they will not pass from them as they are but let new Men broach the same Errours with a fair gloss upon them then shall they pass currantly As for instance Their Doctrine of Infallibillity most of the reformation start at it but let this be turn'd into a state of perfection in this life and be managed by the demure Creature call'd a Quaker then it shall slide down glibly amongst the common sort of people If the Jesuits preach the lawfulness of deposing Kings and Princes at the Pope's pleasure 't is cry'd down as Heretical and Damnable and very good reason for it However let a man of another Face a new Name and a more pleasing Aspect preach and practise Rebellion too then the croud immediately cries out Curse ye Meros Curse him bitterly because they do not come out to help the Lord against the mighty Though I always thought we were to embrace Truth for its own sake and hate Errour because 't is such let either of them be managed by what person soever else we may be justly charg'd with what St. Jude speaks of having men's persons in admiration because of advantage and so consequently inherit the portion St. James lays before us viz. to commit Sin and to be convinced of the Law as Transgressors James 2.9 And thus have we discoursed of the former part of the Text clouded and full of troubles We come now to the brighter and better side long may it be so And is fallen into the Ditch which he made These words bring us to the event of a wicked Man's labour He fell into the Ditch that he made Note God not only disappoints the wicked Designs of the Enemies of his Church but he turns them to their own hurt and detriment Their own Plots are their own Plagues he wrests their Swords out of their Hands and turns them into their own Bowels he serves all his Enemies as David did Goliah he cuts off their Heads with their own Sword Nothing hath amongst the Heathens been accounted more just than that a man fall by the same means which he designed should be the ruine of his Neighbour It hath of old been proved true That evil Counsel is worst to him that gives it The Wicked is snared in the works of his own Hands the Wicked in his Pride doth persecute the Poor let them be taken in the Devices they have imagined Psalm 10.2 His own Iniquities shall take the Wicked himself and he shall be holden with the Cords of his Sins Satan makes use of a Woman to subvert and destroy the very race of Mankind the woman tempts Adam to eat the forbidden Fruit thus man falls however man is restored by the Seed of the Woman to a safer and surer Estate than he was in before Joseph's Brethren have a design to hinder his Prophesies and to make his Dreams but idle things upon this they sell him as a Captive or Slave into Egypt then they thought he would not expect to be worshipped by them when he was in that condition himself However this design effected what they endeavoured to have prevented there happening a Famin they are forced to go into Egypt and there bow and cringe to Joseph for Bread The Jews take counsel to kill Christ thinking that if they let him alone all men would believe on him and the Romans would come and take away both their Place and Nation And this very thing proved the means of effecting what