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A67761	A leafe from the tree of life wherewith to heal the nation of all strife and controversie, and to settle therein peace and unitie / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1661 (1661)	Wing Y166; ESTC R16742	22,659	19

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 read that of all the twelve none died a natural death save only S. Iohn 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 S. Hierome do report See Acts 7. 51 to 60. and 12. 1. to 5. Rom. 8. 36. Iohn 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 Empress also Yea under him and nine other Emperers there was such an innumerable company of innocent Christians put to death and tormented that S. Hierom in his Epistle to Chromatius and Heliodorus saith 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 Ianuary Yea there was two thousand suffered in the same place and at the same time with Nicanor Acts and Monuments page 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 S. 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. SIxthly 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 Jewes and Roman Emperours touching which I will refer you to the Book of Acts and Monuments and R●vel 17. The whore of Babylon was drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus 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 Ecclesiastical 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 unreproveable life abstain from drunkennesse swearing prophaning the Lords day separate himself from evill 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 our righteousnesse doe but exceed the righteousness of a swearer or a drunkard we are sure to be persecuted for our righteousness as Abel was persecuted of Cain because his Sacrifice was better then his If a man walke according to the rule of Gods Word he is too precise if he will be more then almost a Christian he is curious phantastical factious and shall be mocked with the Spirit as if the Spirit of God were a Spirit of dishonour and shame Yea in these times not to be an Atheist or Papist is to be a Fanatick as how common a thing is it to wound all holiness under the name of Fanatick a name so full of the Serpents enmity as the egge of a Cockatrice is full of poison What should I say the World is grown so much knave that 't is now a vice to be honest O the deplorable condition of these times Even the Devil himself durst not have been so impudent as to have scoft at holiness in those ancient and purer times but now I could even sink down with shame to see Christianity every where so discountenanced Our very names come into few mouths out of which they return but with reproaches Amongst the rest of our sins O God be merciciful to the contempt of thy Servants Eightly 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 love 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 evill of the things which they understand not and that many shall follow their damnable ways whereby the way of truth shall be evill 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 cruel mockings and scourgings bonds and imprisonments were stoned sawn asunder tempted slain with the sword endured the violence of fire were rackt wandred about in desarts and mountains in dens and caves of the earth in sheep-skins and goat skins destitute afflicted and tormented Not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Hebr. 11. 35 to 39. Yea turn ●…stical 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 broiled some brained with many the like and worse kinds of death for we read of no lesse then twenty nine several deaths they were put unto But to clear your sight I le give you some particular instances of the several 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. Secondly To contemn their supposed mean estate as Sanballat Tobia● and Gershom with the rest of that crue contemned Nehemiah and the Jewes Nehem. 4. 1 2 3. Thirdly To rejoyce at their supposed evill estate as the Princes of the Philistins did at Sampsons blindness and bondage Judg. 16. 25. Fourthly To hate them as all carnal men hate the members of Christ Matth. 10. 22. Fiftly To murmure against them as the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron Numb 11. 1. and 14. 2 3. Sixthly To censure their actions and misconster their intentions as Eliah did Davids zeal for Gods glory in fighting with Goliah 1 Sam. 17. 18. and those wicked

who amongst us do the like things that they did And will any wise man stumble at Religion for such mens ●c●ffs and reproaches what better can be expected from them What said the Orator to Salust It cannot be but he that lives thy life should speak thy language yea a man would choose his Religion by such mens enmity and it is a great honour to Religion that it hath such adversaries For as the Primitive Christians used to say when N●ro persecuted them they that know him must needs think it some great good which Nero so ha●ed and condemned so every wise man will love Religion the better and take it for a great honour to the Saints that ●ypocrites drunkards vitious followers of their lusts ●●se and lewd fellows godlesse Atheists and blind Sensualis●s are her s●●ffing adversaries And scarce do I know a better argument to perswade to love and imbrace it then that such men hate and deride it neither can it be the true Religion which is not every where thus spoken against Act. 28. 22. But CHAP. X. SIxthly and lastly Observe but the reasons why they do it and this will notably confirm and strengthen you against their 〈◊〉 and s●●●ns Convert Have they any reason for their so doing Minist Not properly For as the Prophet very often complains they are mine enemies without a cause and they hate me without a cause c. Psal. 35. 7. and 69. 4. though they pretended many causes So they have no just cause no● reason to hate censure and slander us as they do for not vill deed can have a good reason yet they do it not without many by reasons and self-ends As First The main and most material cause why wicked men so mortally hate the godly and which breeds so many quarrels is the contrariety of their natures being as contrary one to the other as are God and the devil the one being the children of God and partaking of the divine nature as being one with the Father and the Son 2 Cor. 6. 18. Gal. 3. 26. Joh. 1. 12. and 17. 14 21 22. 2 Pet. 1. 4. being like God i● holiness 1 Pet. 1. 15. Brethren of and 〈◊〉 annexed with Christ Rom. 8. 17. 29. Members of his b●ay 1 Cor. 12. 27. B●n● of his ●●ne and flesh of his flesh Ep● 5 30. having his spirit dwelling in them Rom. 8 9 16. and being Temples of the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6. 19. Jam. 1. 18. Joh. 1. 13. 3. 5. 8. 1 Joh. 3 9. And the other being the seed of the serpent and children of the devil and so partake of his nature as is plain by 1 Joh. 3. 8 10 12 14. and 6. 70. and 8. 44. Matth. 13. 38 39. 2 Cor. 4. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 26. Gen. 3. 15. and 5. 3. Eph. 2. 2 c. Which being so how is it possible they should ever agree although God had not proclaimed an enmity between them For there can be no amity where there is no sympathy no reconciling of the wolf and the lam● the winds and the sea no neighbourhood no alliance no conjunction is able to make the cursed seed of the serpent and the blessed seed of the woman ever agree For fire and water light and darkness heaven and hell are not more contrary One bloud one belly one house one education could never make Cain and Ab●● accord Jacob and Esa● Isaac and Ishmael at one Yea though they be man and wife parent and childe yet if they be not like they will not like 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. As how many a wife is so much the more hated because a zealous wife how many a childe lesse beloved because a religious childe how many a servant lesse respected because a godly servant And no marvel for though they dwell in the same house yet they belong to two several Kingdoms and albeit they both remain upon earth yet they are governed by two several Laws the ones Burguship being in heaven Phil. 3. 20. and the other being a Denizen belonging to hell as Irish men are dwellers in Ireland but denize●s of England and governed by the Statutes of this Kingdom And indeed what is the corporal sympathy to the spiritual antipathy Can there be such a parity between the parent and the childe the husband and the wife as there is a disparity between God and Satan no certainly A wicked man can agree with all that are wicked be they Papists or Turks or Atheists Prophane or Civill men for all these agree with him in blindness and darkness and are all seed of the same Serpent but with sincere Christians and practisers of piety he can never agree the religious shall be sure of opposition because their light is contrary to his darknesse grace in the one is a secret disgrace to the other Yea let wicked men be at never so much odds one with another yet they will concur and joyn against the godly Acts 6. 9. The Sadduces Pharise●● and Herodians were Sectaries of divers and adverse Factions all differing one from another yet all joyn together against our Saviour Matth. 22. Herod neither loved the Jews nor the Jews Herod yet both are agreed to ●ex the Church Yea Herod and Pilate two enemies will agree so it be against Christ they will fall in one with another to fall out with God CHAP. XI NOr is this of theirs an ordinary hatred but the most bitter exorbitant unlimitted and implacable of all others No such concord no such discord saith one of the Learned as that which proceeds from Religion He that is upright in his wayes saith Solomon is an abomination to the wicked Prov. 29 27. My name sayes Luther is more odious to them then any thief or murderer as Christ was more detestable to the Jews then Barabas And it was evident enough for the Pope was so busie and hot against Luther that he neglected to look to all Christendom against the Turk which declared that he would easier digest Mahometisme then Lutheranisme The case of two many in our dayes in opposing the Reformation Behold saith David mine enemies for they are many and they hate me with a cruel hatred Psal. 25. 19. Yea so cruel that it makes their teeth gnash and their hearts burst again as it fared with those that stoned Stephen Acts 7. 54. This made the truths adversaries give St. Paul stripes above measure 2 Cor. 11. 23. And the Heathen Emperors to devise such cruel tortures for all those that but profest themselves Christians This made Ahab so hate Eliah that there was not one Kingdom or Nation where he had not sent to take away his life 1 King 18. 10. And this made the Papists dig many of our choice Ministers out of their graves that they might the b●tter curse them with Bell Book and Candle Yea ask from East to West from one Pole to the other search all records under Heaven if ever there was the like of the intended Powder-plot Neither does this