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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

obedience of the Law For even the regenerate or justified are debters not to the flesh to live after the flesh but to the Spirit to mortifie the deeds of the flesh Rom. 8. 12. Cha●ierus saith It is ●●nifest by the things fore-going Tom. 3. lib. 1 cap. 6. Th. 4. that an exceeding great inj●●y i● d 〈…〉 u● wh●● w●e are said to denie that wee are b 〈…〉 to the Law before God Wherefore if Bellarmine doth know those which say that the saithfull are subject to u● law before GOD and that Th. 5. the Decalogue of Moses doth n 〈…〉 belong to us hee sha●● have us not adversaries but follo 〈…〉 i● disputing boldly against such Againe The fulfilling of the Law can by 〈…〉 meanes bee accounted by the part but by the whole For the whole life not some one moment thereof is bound and it is bound to all not to one Hence the saying of Iames Hee is Ibid. l. 11. cap. 11. Th. 16. guilty of all which offendeth in one Neither can it otherwise bee understood because hee is not guilty of murther who doth onely steale but of theft onely Yet hee is guiltie of the breach of that whole Law part whereof is Th●● shalt not steale and another part whereof Tho● shalt not kill Now whereas the adverse Antinomist will I suppose reply all this is not Scripture I do confesse that these words in so many letters and syllables are not in the Scripture Yet I dare avow that this doctrine of the Lawes binding the regenerate to obedience being the doctrine not onely of our Church but of all other Christian Churches some few contentious Sectaries excepted who deserve not the name of a Church and of all sound solid and substantiall Divines is the expresse doctrine of sacred Scripture And that it is so I will now manifest and make perspicuous by pregnant places in the New Testament Mat. 5. 18 19 21 c. Christ 〈…〉 not to destroy the Law c. Yea he confirmes the continuance of it in every iot● or tittle till the heavens be no more and presseth punctually to a precise particular observation of it Rom. 3. 31. Do we then make void the Law through faith God forbid yea in establish the Law Faith therefore doth not evacuate but establish the Decalogue Rom. 7 7. By the Law we come to the knowledge of our sinnes Rom. 7. 22. 25. S. Paul delighted in the Law of God with his mind he served the law of God 1 Cor. 9. 21. Being not without law to God but under the law to Christ. Eph 6. 1 2. Children obey your parents Honour thy father c. 1 Tim. 1. 5. The end of the commandement is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of ●aith unfained Iam. 2. 8. If you fulfill the royall law of liberty c. S. Iam●s shewes what Law namely the Decalogue Do not comm●● adultery c. Vers 11. 1 Ioh. 2. 4. He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandements is a lyar 1 Iohn 3. 4. Sinne is the transgression of the Law Hence I conclude 1. That if ever the Law bound the regenerate to obedience which I suppose they will acknowledge it still doth Mat. 5. 18. Rom. 3. 31. 2. That since Christ Iesus the best expounder of Scripture doth so copiously confirme and corroborate the Morall Law in his Sermon on the Mount doth peremptorily pronounce that the breach thereof doth defile a man Mar. 7. 20 21 c. and so often inculcate that the keeping of the commandements is a sure and infallible signe of our love to him Ioh. 14. 15. 21. 23. 24. and of his love to us Ioh. 15. 10. 3. Since faith doth not supplant but strengthen the law 4. Since the holy men of God doe often urge and presse to do the duties commanded in the Law in their Epistles which they would not have done had not regenerate Christiane bee● bound to the obedience of the same 5. Since the Apostle S. Paul acknowledged that he served the Law of God with his mind and that he was under the Law to Christ 6. Since the Law of God hath not relinquished its regality and regiment being stiled by the Holy Ghost the royall Law 7. Since by the Law we come to the knowledge of sinne yea and all sinne is the transgression of the Law 8. Since the carelesse contemners and transgressours of Gods Law have no communion with God not s●ving knowledge of him 9. Since the end of the commandement i● charity c. therefore the Law is no enemy to purity of heart ●●ith unfained or Christian liberty this being the royall Law of liberty I may warrantably conclude against the absurd and erroneous ambiguous Antinomists That the Law of God doth binde the conscience of the regenerate Christian to obedience Furthermore because I suppose these cavillers will carpe against all these allegations as insufficient and weake because in none of them we are said to be bound by the Law to obedience I will therefore shew them these expresse words in sacred Scripture if that will satisfie and salve their seduced soules 1 Corinth 7. 15. A brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases namely to performe matrimoniall duties to unbelieveing yoke-fellowes which will depart from and forsake them Vers 27. Art then bound to a wife Seeke not to be loosed Vers 39. The wife is bound by the Law as long as her husband liveth Hence I inferre That since the Law of God doth binde the believing husband and wife to performe all manner of matrimoniall duties to their unbelieving yoke-fellowes which are pleased to dwell with them and that since the husband and wife being regenerate are bound by the Law each to other so long as they live together therefore that part of the Law which doth comprise and comprehend the duties of husbands and wives each to other namely the fift and seventh commandements doth bind the conscience of the regenerate to obedience therefore either all the Morall Law doth bind or els that this branch of the second Table is more authenticall and of more absolute authority not only than all the second Table besides but also than the first Table yet our Saviour saith the second is but like unto the first stiling it the first and great commandement Mat. 22. 38. Oh that I could perswade them to take notice how they confront contradict contend against the concordant confessions of the reformed Churches the sound solid and substantiall truths taught and defended by the ancient and moderne Worthies and the infallible and unde●iable truth of Gods Word Oh that men would cordially consider that such vile and vicious positions make men unfit not onely for Christian but also for common commerce and company with mankind For how can Kings and Princes be se●●red from rebellion of such subjects How can masters and fathers be assured of reverence and obedience from such children and servants

How can husbands and wives be perswaded of conjugall love and fidelity from such yoke-fellowes How can traders and traffiquers be ascertained of true and honest dealing from such people who are conceited that the Law of God doth not bind them to obedience Oh that these beguiled and unstable soules would question and conferre after this or the like manner with their consciences Tell me Conscience are not murders adulteries thefts and such like sinnes and why Tell me Conscience how thou knowest that lying swearing evill thoughts concupiscence and the like are sinnes Tell me Conscience whence is it that thou wilt not allow me to steale kill commit adulterie or the like And their consciences except they lie in a lethall lethargie will answer Not onely are thefts murders and adulteries sinnes but also covetous desires unadvised anger and lustfull thoughts because they are a transgression of Gods Law I know that the fore-named and other workes of darkenesse are sinnes because the Law of God forbids them And I dare not approve of the doing of such like things because they are contrary to and condemned by the most holy and heavenly Law of God This abject and absurd foolish fancy therefore of these lawlesse and licentious Antinomists The Law of God doth not bind the conscience of the regenerate to obedience being contrary and repugnant unto the testimony of all orthodoxe Churches and of their learned and pious Worthies and against the sincere and sacred Word of God supplanting and suppressing subtilly and sinfully all sorts of societies both Christian and common commerce betwixt man and man and being gainesaid by their owne consciences if they are but illightened is a sottish and sinnefull a false and filthy a ridiculous and rotten a vile and vicious an untrue and unchristian a faithlesse and fantasticall opinion position and absurdity CHAP. VIII Christian souldiers must be strong wherein and why Duty 3 WE being the souldiers of Christ that we may warre a good warfare let us be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes 6. 10. As corporall strength and bodily abilities are necessary for martiall men and a principall meanes in such like combats to obtaine the victory Witnesse Sauls policie who when he saw any strong man he tooke him to him 1 Sam. 14. 52. Witnesse that matchlesse mirrour of mankind Samson who slew a thousand men with the jaw of an asse Iudg. 15. 15. caried away the gates of Gaza Vers 16. And pulled down the house upon three thousand Philistines Ver. 17. Witnes the commendation of Davids Worthies for their might 2 Sam. 23. Witnesse that saying of the Gadites 1 Chron. 12. 8. They were men of might men of warre fit for the battel● that could handle shield and buckler whose faces were like the faces of Lions Witnesse the name of the place where the young men of Ioab and Ab●er slew each other called the field of strong men 2 Sam. 2. 16. And witnesse th●se sayings in the Canticles 3. 7. Threescore strong men about Salomons bed 4. 4. The shield of strong men So in the spirituall warfare against the enemies of our salvation spirituall strength is an excellent and a necessary meanes and helpe for Christian souldiers to guard and defend to fence and fortifie them against the Divell and his hellish complices This made S. Steven so puissant and invincible Acts 6. 8 10. This made Paul so couragious to confront Elimas the sorcerer Acts 13. 9 10. to conflict with the Iewes and Philosophers Act● 17. 17. and to contemne bonds and afflictions Acts 24. 26 27. 5. This enabled him to doe all things through Christ tha● strengthened him Phil. 4. 13. This was one meanes whereby those young men 1 Ioh. 2. 14. overcame the wicked one Hence it is that the Apostle Saint Paul stirres up the Corinthians to be strong 1 Corinth 16. 13. perswades the Ephesians to be strong in the Lord Ephes 6. 10 and incites Timothy to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Iesus 2 Timothy 2. 1. And hence it is that the Apostle Saint Peter prayes unto the Lord to strengthen his Church 1 Pet. 5. 10. Be we therefore strong in the Spirit or in the precious prevailing graces of Gods saving and sanctifying Spirit set down and specified Gal 5. 1● c. 1. Be we strong in love that we may love First God in Christ for his owne sake yea so that we may with earnest ardency desire and with our utmost endeavours diligently strive in the frequent and faithfull use of the meanes to have communion with God And that we may love his Word and will above gold yea above much fine gold Psal 119. 129. and beyond expression Vers 97. Secondly And our neighbour for Gods sake yea so that we may shew love and doe good even to them that wrong and abuse us And that we may love all good men especially because God beares a speciall affection towards them and because they have in them whatsoever is amiable and lovely And let us strive to be so strong in this Christian love that the many waters of the greatest force and violence used by Tyrants and Tormentours to avert and turne the same from the Lord may not quench put out or overcome it nor the flouds or liberall store of the overflowing waters of deepe and grievous afflictions drowne extinguish or overthrow Cant. 8 7. 2. Be we strong in joy that divine joy which commeth from the Lord and is placed in him Neh●m 8. 10. Whereby we may perfectly joy in God in that joyfull worke of our regeneration in Gods grace and that blessed hope of eternall glory with him yea so that it may make us to joy and rejoyce at the good and welfare of others Rom. 12. 15. Moderate all our griefes and sorrowes and inable us to joy even in tri●ulations Romans 5. 3. They being pledges of Gods love and trials of our faith and patience 3. Be we strong in peace that so we may walke in the way of peace Rom. 3. 17. Leading quiet and peaceable lives full of unity and good agreement avoiding quarrelsome contentions seeking to edifie one another by doing or taking good Rom. 14. 19. and labouring to live void of offence to God and man not willingly taking nor giving offence 4. Be we strong in long suffering by which we shal be inabled to mitigate and moderate our unadvised anger and diabolical disturbing desires of revenge when great and manifold wrongs and injuries are done unto us and diligently to discharge the duties of our Christian callings with painefulnesse profit and without partiality 2 Tim. 4. 2. 5. Be we strong in gentlenesse that so we may be inabled to give good speech and to shew good countenance even to them that wrong and abuse us without intent and purpose of revenge so that we may be courteous and tractable ready to give mild words easie to be intreated and to be spoken to apt to please loath to displease

he replies Health and safety attend you my Lord and great King who hast vouchsafed to reclaime me by these stripes Yet I am sure that renownefull honour is from hence From hence it was that the Saints did glory in tribulation Rom. 5. 3. And Saint Paul in the crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ Gal. 6. 17. These being glorious scarres and honourable maimes These being laudable liveries of a Christian souldier making him conformable to Christ his heavenly Captaine and prevailing Conquerer 1 Pet. 4. 13 14. By these we glorifie the God of all glory Iohn 11. 19. Yea the Church and our selves Eph. 3. 13. Yea so farre forth that the greater the crosse the greater the comfort in this languishing life and more illustrious crowne in that haven of happinesse and heaven of blisse Rom. 8. 17. 2 Thess 1. 5 But many of Gods dearest darlings and beloved favourites Object 1 are destroyed in fiery tryals and open persecution by fire and faggot slaughtering swords fainting famine and other dreadfull and direfull deaths True yet they die not in Gods displeasure but in his favour Answ Their death is no shame but an honour to them They are not destroyed in soule but in body By the losse of a temporall life full of miseries they obtaine and enjoy life eternall which is most happy Stormes and tempests drive the mariners to the haven so troubles and afflictions the elect to their happy haven a●d inexpugnable rocke Christ Iesus As the vine is then fit for the taste when it hath beene crushed in the presse the corne is then fit to make bread of when it is ground the gold is then pure when it hath beene tryed in the fire so the godly are most pleasing vnto God when they have beene in the furnace of affliction But persecutions and afflictions cause backsliding apostasie Object 2 in diverse who Demas-like fall away or like the stony ground who when persecution or affliction ariseth for the Words sake immediatly are offended Mar. 4. 17. True in counterfeit not in currant Christians in time-servers Answ not in truly religious 1 Ioh. 2. 19. Though the spuming drossie metals are consumed yet the pure and precious gold is purged by the fiery fining furnace Though the dusty chaffe and empty graines are driven and blowne away by the winnowing wind yet the good and solid corn is therby cleansed although the rotten leaking vessell perisheth by the raging sea yet the sound Christian like a good ship governed by a discreet and wise pilot the more he is rocked and tossed with these boysterous billowes the faster he saileth A ship and ship-man are of great credit after but not before they have indured many sturdy weather-beating stormes according to that of S. Cyprian A Pilot is knowne in a tempest a souldier is tried in battell SECT 6. Motive 5. Drawne from the persons afflicting both principall and instrumentall THe fift Motive drawne from the persons afflicting First The prime and principall the Author and efficient of all our afflictions is the Lord of Davids reproachfull revilings 2 Samuel 16. 10. of Iobs extraordinary and unspeakable losse Iob 1. 21. And of all evill Amos 3. 7. Consider therefore advisedly 1. What this God is to us namely a most mercifull and tender-hearted Father loving us entirely yea beyond all comparison and expression 2. Why and for what causes the Lord so gracious doth afflict us namely 1. Either to make manifest and reveal openly the proper lot and peculiar portion of the godly as in Abel 2. To try and take an experimentall proofe of the faith hope patience zeale love constancy and other graces of the righteous as in Iob. 3. To exalt and elevate from contemned basenesse to magnificent glory as in Ioseph 4. To manifest and shew Gods glory as in the man who was blind from his birth Ioh. 9. 3. 5. To declare and make it evident that Christ his kingdome is not of this world as in his Apostles Ioh. 18. 36. 6. To correct and chastise for sinne already committed as in David 2 Sam. 12. 14. 24. 7. To preoccupate and prevent sin to come as in S. Paul 2 Cor. 12. 7. 8. To renew and re-establish dying and decaying grace as in the Israelites Hos 5. 15. 9. To wean and withdraw our doting desires from the sweet and sugred baits and be witching enticements of this deceitfull world these crucifying us to the world and the world to us Gal. 6. 14. As a nurse useth to annoint her brests with some bitter worme wood to weane her child from sucking so our gracious God to withdraw us from the poysonous pleasures and delights of this world giveth us persecutions and afflictions 10. Or to make mute and put to shamefull silence Satan and his cursed co-adjutours divellishly cavilling against the Saints saying such and such are religious for sinister respects gaine favour or the like But if persecution should come their hypocrisie will be perspicuous Iob 1. 9 11. Doth Iob feare God for nought Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side Thou hast blessed the worke of his hands and his substance is increased in the land But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face Chap. 2. Vers 4. Satan answered the Lord and said Skinne for skinne yea all that a man hath will be give for his life But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face Iob and other sincere servants of God delivered into the hands of Satan and his cruell complices have manifested the contrary to these slanderous objecters that they serve God faithfully as well in afflicting adversity as in delighting prosperity Iob 13. 15. Although he kill me yet will I trust in him 2. Corinthians 6. 4 5. But in all things approoving our selves as the Ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in watchings in fastings c. If for either any or all these causes the Lord doth or shall afflict us it is for our owne good and therefore we should with patience indure it 2. The persons afflicting us instrumentally being as Gods rods whereby he smites his staffe wherewith he beats in and having no ability to touch smite or do any thing against us without leave and license from our good and gracious God are either 1. Men such as cruell Cain scoffing Ishmael profane Esau the ungodly Philistims Midianites Moabites Egyptians c. Amongst whom the peculiar people of God live like lillies amongst thornes like sheep amongst wolves yet not therefore to be daunted or dismayed but to indure with invincible resolution undaunted valour and all chearfull alacrity their utmost spight and extreamest oppositions Which that we may do let us wisely and advisedly consider 1. That they are but Gods rods Isa 10. 5.

necessity of sanctification against the irreligious and reproachfull diabolicall and blasphemous barkings against the same some of their fraternity as I have heard reported terming it scurvy sanctification Sixtly I have shewed the extent and excellency of Christian Book 4. Cap. 6. pag. 242. liberty wherein I have contradicted and confuted their lawlesse and licentious liberty Seventhly I have opened and unfolded the doctrine of justification Book 4 Cap. 5. pag. 233. to informe and teach them the truth of that of which they talk and talk so much to little purpose in which they would seeme wondrous wise although they wander wide of the way Eightly Although their tenet of Gods not afflicting his children for their sinnes is so repugnant to the regall rule of sacred Writ and so ridiculous to rectified reason that the relating is a sufficient refutation thereof Yet I much bewailing their err●neous wandrings and earnestly desiring their deliverance from their deluding dotage● will instruct and informe them in the truth if they are not intractable and unteachable True it is that sufferings are not alwayes and onely for sin Iohn 9. 3. Neither hath this man sinned nor his father Great was the errour therefore of Christs Disciples In thinking there was no other cause of the mans blindnesse but sinne In thinki●g he could not be justly punished with blindnesse from his birth because he had not then committed any actuall sinne and in thinking he could not be justly punished for any sinne save his owne or his parents for he might be punished for Adams For although all miseries be effects of sinne yet sinne is not the onely cause of mans misery there being as well moving and fi●all causes as that which is the procuring cause as for example First There are diverse moving causes of afflictions 1. In regard of the wicked the moving cause is Gods just displeasure justice and anger 2. In regard of the elect the moving cause is Gods love towards them 3. In regard of both the moving cause is Gods good will and pleasure Secondly There are diverse finall causes of afflictions 1. In regard of God his glory and the manifestation of his power 2. In regard of the parties punished their good and the exercise of Gods graces in them 3. In regard of others their fore-warning and making them without excuse Notwithstanding sinne is the onely meritorious cause of punishments temporall and eternall Lo● 3. 39. 2 Sa● 12. 10. 1 Corinth 11. Rom. 5. 12. Neither doth our Saviours answer D. Am. l. 2. de Conscientia cap. 16. Thes 13. contradict the certainty hereof Iohn 9. 3. This m●● hath not sinned 1. By his owne sinne or the sinne of his parents he hath not deserved more justly to be borne blind than any other sinuer which seeth from his birth or than any of your selves for Gods purpose was not by this blindnesse to punish the sinnes of this man and so to satisfie his justice but rather thereby to make way for his mercy and to prepare matter for his Sonne Christ to worke upon when he came into the world and was God manifested in the flesh Concerning the word punishment we may say and that truly and warrantably God punisheth his children for their sinnes Though not with satisfactory punishments to satisfie and make amends for their sinnes nor with vindicative punishment to take vengeance upon them for their transgressions yet with chastening punishments fatherly correcting them for their humbling amendment Psal 73. 14. Daily have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I beene punished whipped or scourged yea the same word is used Ver. 5. and rightly translated plagued Ninthly I have shewed that the law of God doth bind the Book 3. Cap. 14. pag. 183. Book 4. Cap. 6. pag. 253. conscience of regenerate Christians to obedience against their absurd annihilating of and prophane pratlings against the holy and heavenly law of our good and gracious God To prevent all future contradictions I have set downe the concordant confessions of eight reformed Churches I have shewed the judgement of some of the ancient Fathers to which I have added testimonies of Scriptures and certaine reasons that they might consider had they but wit or will to consider that in striving to support their rotten ruinous and ridiculous positions they contradict the ancient Worthies the most sound and orthodoxe Churches militant upon earth and by name this of England whereof we are members and also the most true and undeniable Word of God not onely in the old but also in the new Testament Yet as the same seed sowne by the selfe same seedsman in a fertile soyle yeelds a plentifull increase falling in stony ground is scorched in thorny is choaked and in high-wayes is devoured As the same wholsome and nourishing food which cheereth and refresheth strengtheneth and supporteth the sound and healthfull man increaseth and augmenteth corrupt and vicious humours maladies and miseries in a distempered body And as the same radiant and resplendent rayes of that royall majesticall runner in the firmament which softeneth waxe hardereth clay which makes fragrant flowers more odoriferous makes corrupt carrion more odious So the pure and precious Word of God which is the savour of life unto life to some is the savor of death unto death unto others 2 Cor. 2. 16. for evill men and seducers will waxe worse and worse deceiving and being deceived 2 Tim. 3. 13. Acts 13. 10. And these enemies of righteousness● will not cease to pervert the right wayes of the Lord. And therfore as the Lord gives up Ephraim Hos 4. 17. Ephraim is joyned to ido●s let him alone cease to admonish him for he is incureable As the Angell said to Iohn Rev. 22. 11. He that is filthy let him be filthy still And as great Basil said of Eu●omius and his followers Why Basil adu Eun. lib. 2. should I contradict mad men And a little after I suppose those who cannot b● cured will not be benefitted by the multitude of those things which are spoken And before ●ruly I am afraid Lib. 1. lest by often repeating other mens blasphemi●s I should pollute my selfe So I might say to what purpose should I confute these fond and phantasticall people For variety of reasons will do those which are i● curable no good c. Yet part●y to justifie the doctrine of all the reformed Churches and in particular of the Church of England as s●u●d and orthodoxe as any under the cope of heaven against a viperine and venemous viper-like brood of lawlesse and licentious libertines partly to strengthen and support those that stand partly to uphold and keep from falling those that are weake pattly to ●eale if it be possible these silly yet selfe-conceipted s●ctaries or els to suppresse and supplant what in me lieth their palpable yet pernicious absurdities that others may the better shun and avoid them according to that substantiall and pregnant saying of great Basil Lur●ing impiety is more dangerous than

and time of tempting which may animate us 4. We shall gaine experience as of Gods fidelity and faithfulnesse in his terrible threats and comminations and of the severity of his justice punishing sin in his Saints and peculiar people which may make us tremble So of his fidelity in his promises of his great might and omnipotency in that he can uphold us 2 Cor. 12. 9. of his singular mercy in that he will sustaine and strengthen us of his wonderfull wisdome in that when he hath tried and exercised his children he knoweth how to deliver them out of temptations 2 Pet. 2. 9. which will make us triumphant 6. Anger doth wonderfully animate men yea this doth so warme and inflame the bloud and add such vigour and valour this doth so incitate and incourage exasperate and inforce to encounters that one man in anger dreads not to contend with many and men unarmed heated and heartened herewith are often fearelesse to fight with weaponed men and bruit beasts which naturally feare and flie from us being made angry regardlesly Cotem fortitudinis Tusc quaest L. 4. Magnâ se exuscitat irâ rush upon even deadly and destroying weapons And as Tully termes anger the whetstone of fortitude so humane histories plentifully prove the same by Aeneas Vlyss●● and others which by anger have beene much helped and heartened to combate couragiously and therefore they have so ennobled Irarum omnes essun lit habenas Nate quid indomitas tantus furor excitat iras this affection that they deny it residence save in generous spirits Non cadit in molles nobilis ira viros Neither is the sacred Scripture silent but doth produce plentifull proofs for this purpose witnesse Moses whose anger waxing hot he tooke the calfe which the people had made rebuked Aaron and commanded the Levites to execute judgements upon the idolaters Exod. 32. 19 20 26. Witnesse Phineas who being zealous for the Lord took a javelin in his hand and slew Zimri and Cozbi sinning against the Lord Num. 25. 8 11. Witnesse Nehemiah who was very angry and rebuked the nobles and the rulers Neh. 5. 6 7. Witnesse Ieremy who being full of the fury or anger of the Lord did powre it out Ier. 6. 11. Witnesse our Saviour Mar. 3. 5. who when he had looked upon them with anger said to the man Stretch forth thine hand Convey into and cherish in our soules this corroborating anger which may make us valiant and couragious against sin and Satan the world and wicked men I do not countenance nor commend all sorts of anger There is an anger which God forbids Eph. 4. 31. Let anger be put away from you There is an anger which stirres up strife Pro. 15. 18. An angry man stirs up strife There is an anger which manifests folly Eccl. 7. 9. Anger rests in the bosome of fooles There is an anger which is a worke of the flesh Galat. 5. 20. There is an anger which distempers all the body as great Basil in aliquot Script locos Basil saith An angry man doth lose his comlinesse yea the shape of a man and puts on the likenesse of a beast consider a while an angry man he rageth he railes like a drunkard his eys are changed and made fierce and bloudy his heart is inflamed his bloud is moved thou shalt see him filing his teeth like a wild boare speaking often foolishly and leaving words imperfect he hath no respect of affinity or familiars he spareth none to satisfie his owne lust he doth continually barke c. There is an anger which is murder Mat. 5. 22. namely sinfull or unadvised anger It is unadvised anger which proceeds from selfe-love from dislike or hatred of the person with whom one is angry It is unadvised anger which intends private respects is o●t quickly mooved continueth long and is desirous of revenge It is unadvised anger when men are angry with God his doings corrections and dealings as Ionah was Ion. 4 3. It is unadvised anger when men are angry for any thing save for sin and so causlesly It is unadvised anger when men are angry more for small sinnes than great for pettie offences against themselves more than great transgressions against God It is unadvised anger if it exceeds although the cause be just Gen. 49. 7. It is unadvised anger which doth not aime at the glory of God the restraint of sinne but it s owne glory and profit Pro. 21. 24. It is unadvised anger which breakes out into execrations curses and makes men unfit for the discharging of the duties of their calling It is unadvised anger which is not moderated in convenient time Eph. 4. 26. This vile and vicious anger ought so to be abhorred of us that we should not make any friendship with such angry men Pro. 22. 24. But there is an anger which is good for God is often angry Christ was angry and good men have beene commendably angry 1. Let therefore the occasions of our anger be just and weighty like those of Moses who was angry for the reservation of Manna Exod. 16. 20. the making of the golden calfe Exod. 32. 19. and the rebellion of the people Num. 16. 13. Like that of Phineas who was angry for the shamefull fornication Num. 25. 8 11. Like that of David who was angry for the shamefull incest of Amnon 2 Sam. 13. 2. Like that of Elias who was angry for the cruelty and apostasie of Israel 1 King 19. 4. Like that of Nehemiah who was angry for their ●●ury and oppression Neh. 5. 6. Like that of Ieremie who was angry for their impenitency and contempt of the Word Ier. 6. 11. Like that of our Saviour who was angry for the hardnesse of their hearts Mar. 3 5. 2. Let the motives or moving causes of our anger be an earnest desire to maintaine the glory of God Exo. 16 20. Fervent love of necessity and vertue Psal 119 39. utter hatred and detestation of vice an industrious care to pacifie Gods wrathfull displeasure Iosh 7. 8. And a carefull endeavour to save the party with whom we are angry 3. Let the proper and principall object of our anger be sin onely offending our good and gracio is God namely our own 2 Cor. 7. 11. and others Num. 25. By accident consequent secondary and lesse principall the sinner 4. Let the proportion and measure of our anger be more for sinnes against God lesse for sinnes wrongs and trespasses against our selves 5. Let the manner be deliberate advised charitable mercifull moderate and compassionate Iam. 1. 19. 6. Let the continuance be short Eph. 4. 26. Then our anger thus qualified it being not against the person but sin of our neighbour or of our selves it proceeding from love of the party with whom we are angry it being against sin for Gods glory because he is thereby dishonoured it is not sinfull but a holy affection very helpfull and much avail●ble for u● Christian souldiers as great Basil

pure and perfect 2. The Arke and Dagon cannot stand together 3. God and Baal cannot be worshipped together aright 4. Christ and Belial have no agreement 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16. 3 Discretely 1. Least they be dalled dulled amazed or confounded through over-much over-hard or over-long instructions 2. Least they be discouraged or dismayed from going forward through difficulties disclosed unto them 4 Diligently for their wits are wandring and gadding and their memories fi●le and slippery 5. And the nearer our end approacheth the more let us apply our selves to instruct them carefully Deut. 31. 32. 33. Iosh 23. 24. cordially and continually Considering 1. The great and unspeakable losse of our mispent time past and gone 1 Pet. 4. 3. 2. The invaluable and inestimable gaine of time present and pretious in redeeming the same by enriching our selves and others Psal 90. 12 Gal. 6. 10. 3. The lamentable lacke of time to come the day of our life being worne and wasted and the night of our death come when we cannot worke Pro 6. 8. Ioh. 9. 4. 4. The constant and conscionable care that should bee in us to continue in well-doing Matth. 24. 46. Romanes 2. 7. 5. The priviledges and profits of our perseverance in piety and pious performances Rev. 2. 10. 6. The incessant and incredible growth in grace which should be yea and is in us if we be such we seeme to be as the Saints of God are and have beene Psal 92. 12. Rev. 2. 19. All which expressely and earnestly incitate and exhort us hereunto Secondly By counsell and advising exhorting and perswading them to good things Gen. 19. 14. 49. 2. Ruth 3. 3 4. 2 Chron. 22. 3. Pro. 31 1 2 3. and earnestly without ceasing calling upon them to continue and proceed in the true service of God 1 King 2. 2 3. 1 Chro. 28. 9 10. for as it is impossible to keepe flesh well savoured without seasoning as it is impossible for fish to live without water as it is impossible but that the rose should wither which is overgrown of thornes So it is impossible that children which with many vices are assaulted and not succoured but in the end they should be infamed and to the dishonour of parents most wickedly overcome and it is impossible for parents to have any comfort of their children in their age unlesse they have instructed them in vertue and godlinesse in their youth Thirdly By correcting them Gen. 34. 30. Pro. 3. 12. 4. 3. 19. 18. 22. 15. 23. 13 14. 29. 15 17. Heb. 12. 5. First Although many parents in regard 1. Either of their fond and foolish pity preposterous love and carnall kindnesse 2. Or of their blindnesse and blockishnesse in looking on their childrens faults 3. Or of the grudging and murmuring of their children Pro. 19 18. 4. Or of the childish or carelesse feare of hurting or marring them 5. Or in regard of trifling and frivolons feare of ill report in being accounted and reputed cruell and tyrannicall 1. Either rebuke and correct not at all like David 1 King 1. 6. 2. Or lightly and tenderly when the fault is great like Eli 1 Sam. 3. 13. 3. Or for some faults not for others 4. If not sooth them up in their sinfull waies justifying and bearing them out in evill or praising and commending them for the same Secondly As divers on the other hand 1. Either rebuke and correct them sharply and severely when the fault is light or little 2. Or punish or rebuke at all when no offence is done 3. Or rebuke and correct for weldoing 4. Or without admonition and instruction Yet this unpleasant and unsavoury duty 1. Is not onely consonant to the office and duty of parents for what son is there whom the father chasteneth not no chastening argues bastardy but sonship Heb. 12. 8. 2. But also of necessary importance and inconceaveable vtility If with moderation councell and according to the quality of the offence Ephes 6. 4. Col. 3. 21. 1. For foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child this is a meanes to drive it out Pro. 22. 15. 2. Therefore it must not be withholden Pro. 23. 13. 3. This being a meanes to deliver from hell Pro. 23. 14 4. This giving wisedome to the corrected Pro. 29. 15. 5. And rest with delight to the father correcting Prov. 29. 17. 6. This teaching and learning them obedience Heb. 5. 8. 7. Whereas impunity incourageth in evill hasteneth and helpeth forward their destruction Publiquely proclaimeth parents hatred Pro. 13. 24. and openly doth prognosticate their shame succeeding Pro. 29. 15. 8. And this being so pleasing to God whose we are and whom we serve that Saint Augustine affirmeth that they who August in Abra sacrif crucifie their childrens youthfull affections offer to God such a sacrifice as Abraham did who offered his son Fourthly By praying for them for ought we to pray for all men how much more for our children bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh whom we have impoysoned and polluted with divers defiling distainings of originall and actuall contagious sins and transgressions They being also to encounter not some effeminate and womanish forces nor onely some forcible and furious foes with a few short skirmishing excursions But to enter Pel Mel into this Christian warfare without any exception or truce In which they must continually conflict with and confront enemies unparaleld for power puissance and pollicy for cruelty craft and cunning without intermission and interruption untill at death they having conquered shall be crowned Fourthly Pray we not onely for friends and favourites kinred and acquaintance neighbours and neare allyes whom God hath linked to us by naturall and civill bonds and ligaments The Lord having knit and conjoyned us by these outward ties for the mutuall good one of another and that wee might be helpefull each to other But also for strangers with whom we have no acquaintance whom wee never saw or knew yea and for enemies who hate and hurt curse and calumniate plague and persecute us even unto death Thus Abraham piously prayed for the wicked Sodomites Gen. 18. 23. Thus to doe was expressely enjoyned by our Soveraigne Lord and Saviour Matth. 5. 44. and piously practised by himselfe when his enemies devised against and did him all the hurt they possibly could Luke 23. 34. Father forgive them for they know not what they doe Thus doing we shall passe on in these peerelesse paths prescribed and pattern'd out unto us by the holy men of God Rom. 12. 14. Blesse them that persecute you 1 Cor. 4. 12. being reviled we blesse Act. 7. 60. Lord lay not this sin to their charge was the sweet swan-like song and patheticall petition for and the friend-like favourable and fertile farewell of Saint Steven unto his barbarous and bloud-thirsty persecutors when they injuriously injustly enragedly and inhumanely savagely and satanically stoned him even then as he breathed out and bequeathed