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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]
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Younge, Richard.
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Wing Y167C; ESTC R43836
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But even our grave Bishops and Fathers of the Church did not long since go thus by hear-say and persecute the conscionable because drunkards and deboished persons did so censuring them in their High Commission and other Courts Ecclesiasticall as the other did on their Ale-benches It may seem above beleef and yet it was so only those barking Currs did these great Mastifs wake Whom we may liken to noysome Flies which sting while they live and stink when they are dead though blessed be God we are now rid of them I need not tell you how many of their Lordships and their Creatures have come to their great preferments by being bitter Malignants against the best men for no knowing man can thereof be ignorant Thus I mighâ— go on in giving you other reasons of their censuring and slandering us as one in regard of Satan who loseth so many of his Subjects or Captives as turn beleevers for every repentant sinner is as a prisoner broke loose from his chains of darknesse And another in regard of the World which loseth a limb or member When a convert will no longer accompany them in their wicked customs And shew you that it fares with all beleevers as it did with Paul who so long as he joyned with the High-Priests and Elders to make havock of the Church was no whit molested by them but when he became a convert and preached in the name of Iesus none so hated and persecuted as he I might also make it appear that atheisme or unbelief is another cause speaking of truth another breaking off society with them another the serpentine preaching of some Ministers another the scandalous lives of some professors another flocking after Sermons another as they make them but these I 'le passe and give you but one more with which I will conclude this discourse CHAP. XVII THe main and most materiall cause why wicked men so mortally hate the godly and which breeds so many quarrels is the contrariety of their natures as I briefly hinted in the thirteenth reason 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 1 Cor. 6.18 Gal. 3.26 Joh. 1.12 17.14 21 22. 2 Pet. 1.4 being like God in holinesse 1 Pet. 1.15 Bretheren of and heirs annexed with Christ Rom. 8.17 29. Members of his body 1 Cor. 12.27 Bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh Eph. 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. Joh. 6.70 8.44 Matth. 13.38 39. 2 Cor. 4.4 2 Tim. 2.26 Gen. 3.15 5.3 Ephes 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 simpathy no reconciling of the wolfe and the lambe 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 darknesse Heaven and hell are not more contrary One bloud one belly one house one education could never make Cain and Abel accord Jacob and Esau 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. And indeed what is the corporall simpathy to the spirituall 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 blindenesse and darknesse 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 ods one with another yet they will concur and joyn against the godly The Libertines Cirenians Alexandrians Celicians and Asians differ they never so much will join in dispute against Steven Act. 6.9 The Saduces Pharises and Herodians were sectaries of divers and adverse factions all differing one from another yet all join together against our Saviour Matth. 22. Herod neither loved the Jews nor the Jews Herod yet both are agreed to vex 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 Nature will give a man leave to be any thing save a sound Christian and agree with all others be their opinions never so contrary provided they agree in the main are all seed of the same serpent but let the naturall man meet with one that is spirituall they agree like heat and cold if the one stayes the other flies or if both stay they agree like two poisons in one stomach the one being ever sick of the other be they never so neer allied 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 marvell for though they dwell in the same house yet they belong to two severall Kingdoms and albeit they both remain upon earth yet they are governed by two severall Laws the ones Burguship being in heaven Phil. 3.20 and the other being a denizon belonging to hell as Irish men are dwellers in Ircland but donizens of England and governed by the Statutes of this Kingdom CHAP. XVIII NOr is this of theirs an ordinary hatred but the most bitter exorbitant unlimited and implacable of all others No such concord no such discord saith one of the Learned as that which proceeds from Religion My name sayes Luther is more odious to them then any thiefe or murtherer 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 disgest Mahometisme then Lutheranisme The case of two many in our daies in opposing the reformation Behold saith David mine enemies for they are many and they hate me with a cruell hatred Psal 25.19 yea so cruell that it makes their teeth gnash and their hearts burst again as it fared with those that stoned Steven Acts 7.54 This made the truths adversaries give St Paul stripes above measure 2 Cor. 11.23 And the Heathen Emperours to