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A97253 Panoplia, or, Armour of proof for a weak Christian, against the worlds envy, scoffs and reproaches together with the doves innocency and the serpents subtility, upon Gen. 3. 15. / by R.J. [sic] Younge, Richard. 1652 (1652) Wing Y167C; ESTC R43836 38,326 37

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born Gen. 27.41 Thirdly After the Law before Christ between Doeg and the 85 Priests which he slew with the edge of the sword 1 Sam. 22 18 19. between Jezabel and all the Prophets of the Lord which she destroyed 1 King 18.13 14. and between the heads of Israel in Micaiahs time and all that were good Mich. 3.2 Fourthly Since the Gospel in the time of Christ and his Apostles this enmity so manifested it self not only in the Gentiles but in the Jews Gods own people who first raised those persecutions against Christ and his members that having beheaded John Baptist his harbinger and crucified himself the Lord of life We reade that of all the twelve none died a naturall death save only St John and he also was banished by Domitian to Patmos and at another time thrust into a Tun of seething oyl at Rome as Tertullian and St Hierom do report See Acts 7 51 ●o 60. and 12 ● to 5. Rom 8.36 Joh. 21.18 19. Fifthly After the Apostles if we consider the residue of the ten Persecutions raised by the Romans against the Christians which was for three hundred years till the coming of godly Constantine we finde that under Dioclesian seventeen thousand Christians were slain in one moneth amongst whom was Serena the Emperesse also Yea under him and nine other Emperours there was such an innumerable company of innocent Christians put to death and tormented that St Hierom in his Epistle to Chromatius and Heleod●●● ●aith There is no one day in the year unto which the number of five thousand Martyrs might not be ascribed except only the first day of January Yea there was two thousand suffered in the same place and at the same time with Nicanor Acts and Monuments pag. 32. who were put to the most exquisite deaths and torments that ever the wit or malice of men or devils could invent to inflict upon them and all for professing the faith of Christ and being holy which makes St Paul cry out I think that God hath set forth us the last Apostles as men appointed to death 1 Cor. 4.9 CHAP. VI. SIxtly From the Primitive times and infancy of the Church hitherto the Turk and the Pope have acted their parts in shedding the blood of the Saints as well as the Jews and Roman Emperours touching which I will refer you to the Book of Acts and Monuments and Revel 17. The whore of Babylon was drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus ver 6. Which in part was fulfilled in England under the reign of Queen Mary and in France where before many late bloody massacres there were more then two hundred thousand who suffered Martyrdom about Transubstantiation See Ecclesiasticall History lib. 6. cap. 4 5 16. But Seventhly To come to these present times wherein we live Is it possible for a man to live a conscionable and unreprovable life abstain from drunkennesse swearing prophaning the Lords day separate himself from evil company be zealous for the glory of God admonish others that do amisse c. without being traduced calumniated hated slandered and persecuted for the same no it is not possible for if a man but walk according to the rule of Gods word he is too precise if he will be more then almost a Christian he is curious phantasticall factious and shall be mockt with the spirit What should I say the world is grown so much knave that 't is now a vice to be honest True blessed be God and good Laws we suffer little but the lash of evil tongues but were wicked mens powers answerable to their wills and malice they would not suffer a godly man to live as I shall in due place shew you Eighthly For the time to come It is like not only to continue but the last remnants of time are sure to have the most of it because as in them ●ove shall wax cold Matth. 24.12 so as love groweth cold contention groweth hot More expresly the Holy Ghost foretells that in the last dayes the times shall be perilous and that toward the end of the world there shall be scoffers false accusers cursed speakers fierce despisers of them that are good and being fleshly not having the spirit they shall speak evil of the things which they understand not and that many shall follow their damnable wayes whereby the way of truth shall be evil spoken of And that as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so these also shall resist the truth being men of corrupt mindes reprobate concerning the faith being before of old ordained to condemnation 2 Tim. 3.1 to 13. 2 Pet. 2 2. and 3.3 Jude 4.10.16 18 19. And so much of the third particular CHAP. VII FOurthly It would be considered that what you suffer is far short of what others have suffered before you for whereas you suffer a little tongue-persecution your betters and such as the world was not worthy of have suffered cruell mockings and scourgings bonds and imprisonments were stoned sawn asunder tempted slain with the sword endured the violence of fire were wract wandered about in desarts and mountains and in dens and caves of the earth in sheep-skins and goat-skins destitute afflicted tortured and tormented Not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11.35 to 39. Yea turn over Ecclesiasticall History and you shall finde that some of the Martyrs were stoned some crucified some beheaded some thrust thorow with spears some burnt with fire some broyled some brained with many the like and worse kindes of death for we read of no lesse then twenty nine severall deaths they were put unto But to cleer your sight I le give you some particular instances of the severall wayes that the best of Gods people have suffered before you First You shall finde that it hath been the manner of wicked men out of this enmity to envy the vertuous and good estate of the godly as Cain envied Abel Gen. 4.5 Saul David 1 Sam. 18.28 29. and those unbeleeving Jews Paul Acts 17.13 Secondly To contemn their supposed mean estate as Sanballat Tobiah and Gershom with the rest of that crue contemned Nehemiah and the Jews Nehem. 4.1 2 3. Rabsheke Hezekiah and his people 2 King 18.19 to 36. And the Epicurean Philosophers Paul Acts 17.18 Thirdly To rejoyce at their supposed evil estate as the Princes of the Philistins did at Sampsons blindnesse and bondage Judg. 16.25 Peninnah at Hannahs barrennesse especially when she went up to the house of the Lord 1 Sam. 1.6 7. And the Jews at the Disciples and the rest of the Church when Herod vexed some and slew others Acts 12.1 2 3. Fourthly To hate them as all carnall men hate the members of Christ Matth. 10.22 Ahab Eliah 1 King 22.8 and 18.10 And Haman Mordecai Esth 3.5 to 15. CHAP. VIII FIftly To murmur against them as Labans sons murmured against Jacob Gen. 31.1 The Israelites against Moses and Aaron Numb 11.1 and 14.2 3. and the