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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67743	The cause and cure of ignorance, error, enmity, atheisme, prophanesse, &c., or, A most hopefull and speedy way to grace and salvation, by plucking up impediments by the roote reduced to explication, confirmation, application, tending to illumination, sanctification, devotion / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y143; ESTC R16605	116,892	303

And Saul touching David 1 Sam. 26.21 Yea I know they are perswaded well of them even when they speake most to the contrary though I expect not they should use them thereafter We know Pilate judged Christ guiltlesse but yet he put him to death And Festus acknowledged that Paul was without crime yet he left him in prison I dare say Tertullus knew that he lyed when hee called Paul a Pestilent fellow his conscience could not chuse but answer him Thou lyest in thy throat Tertulus Paul is an honester man than thy selfe And must not these mens consciences tell them that the same they accuse so are in their lives the most unreproveable of the Land Yea I will appeal to their greatest adversaries whether the Protestant at large or those who are called Puritans be of the purest Religion and most reformed to the Primitive Church For not seldome are wicked mens judgements forced to yeeld unto that truth against which their affections maintaine a rebellion And yet as if they would stamp Gods Image on the Devills drosse and the Devills Image on Gods silver they justifie those actions and persons which God condemnes and condemn those which he justifies True these enemies to holines spare not to cast asper●●ions on us else how should they worke their wills How should Naboth be cleanly put to death if he be not first accused of blasphemy 1 Kin. 21.13 and the like of Ioseph Eliah Ieremiah Susanna Paul Stephen and our Saviour Christ himself But if you marke it they are as guilty of the crimes whereof they be accused as Ioseph was in forcing of his Mi●tris or as Naboth and the rest were of those things which were layd to their charge I speak not of those monsters those white Devills who make Religion a stalking Hor●e to villany I know too many dishonour God by wearing of his livery But what was Satan to the children of God Iob 1.6 though hee thrust himselfe into their company Or what wise man will tax all the Apostles because one was a Iudas To argue because some are so and so therefore the rest are alike is a saplesse reason only becomming a foole An argument that deserves rather laughter than beleife Yet most men are 〈◊〉 fooles or rather brute beasts led with sensuality and made to be taken and destroyed as Saint Peter speaks who because they love to speake evill of the way of truth 2 Pet. 2.2.12 If they see but an hipocrite discover himselfe they not onely harden themselves in their sinnes and as it were breake their owne necks at this stumbling block being Satans trap set on purpose to catch their blinde soules in but condemn all the rest of his profession to be such as he is save that they dissemble their hypocrisie more closly cunningly which is as equal and ●u●t as it was for Simeon and Levi to murder all the Sechemites for the offence only of Hamors Son But as all are not theeves that Dogs bark at so all are not hypocrites which they terme so But admit there were more than there are the faults of many should not make us uncharitable to all Nor the goodnesse of some make us credulous of the rest SECT 52. INdeed as all our enemies are not alike witty so they are not alike malicious for some transcend this way as Doeg did the rest of Sauls servants another way you shall know such an one by these few markes his hatred is so inveterate and universall that hee spends all his wits in frothy scoffes and invectives against the whole people of God and as if the door were not wide enough except he set open all the windows and break downe the walls to let in this infectious ayre his tongue scrues something against the religious into all discourses and when his owne invention failes it shall be supplyed with what he hath heard for as the Papists never found any error spued out by the Ancients but they have licked it up superstitiously to abuse the same so he never heares of any scoffe slander or devillish invective formerly devised but he licks it up that he may spit it out againe in the face of some Professor or on the other side poyson those with whom he doth converse being to his company like a mad dog that so biteth every one he meets that they become madde too and as apt to bite others as himselfe or in case he meets with another like himselfe in wit and malice it may bee said of them as Diogenes spake of two ill conditioned women when hee saw them talking See how the viper and the Aspe are changing poyson And nothing so tickles the spleen or glads the heart of such as that discourse which may most shame profession disgrace Relion and dishonour God But O that ever those tongues which dare call God Father should suffer them●elves thus to be moved and possessed by that uncleane spirit Or that ever the church should own such for her children In the Primitive times the Church would have denied her blessing to such a Sonne that should have thought himselfe disparaged by serving Christ and wearing of his livery although hee had not scoft at others yet this man flatters himself that he is a Christian yea you cannot beat him from it but that he is as good a Christian as the precisest and shall goe to Heaven as soone But let him that reads consider whether it be not a fearefull thing to lend to Satan the heart for devinng the tongue for uttering and the eare for hearing of calumnies and all this to disgrace the grace of God in his children and make it fruitlesse to themselves and others O impiety to be abhorred Such sport on earth is only sport for the Fiends in Hell and let them look to it for such joyes may chance to cost them eternall mourning yea certainly if the infernall Tophet be not for them in case they repent not it can challenge no guests for I may well say unto such an one Many sinners have done wickly but thou surpassest them al thine is such a superlative such a soul murthering sin that no other sin can paralel it SECT 53. BUt thou hast plenty of excuses to pacify thy blinded and benummed conscience Yea thou wantest not some carnall reasons to make it good as an easie in●ention may put false matters into true Sylogismes And amongst the rest thou wouldest not have men singular wherefore that they may have lesse zeale and more temper thou seekest to allay their heat with frumps and scoffes and taunts and jeeres as how often doe we hear remisse professors strive to choake all forward holinesse and zeale by commending the golden meane For carnall men who cleave as close to custome and example of the greatest number as clay to a Cart Wheele thinke every one exorbitant that walketh not after their rule 1 Pet. 4.4 As the Sodomites thought of Lot Gen. 19.9 the hundred

foundation before wee either raise the walls or cover it with the Roofe so this Text being the foundation roote or spring of our insuing discourse it is necessary for the better supporting and also conceiving of that which follows clearly to open it or take it in peeces that every part may bee viewed severally Ans. The whole frame or substance of the text being a generall Proclamation of VVarre even of its owne accord falls or empties it selfe into ten parts And they especially leade us to consider these particulars Viz. The Thing proclaimed The Author proclaiming The Captains Souldiers between whom The Cause why The End wherefore The Time when The Manner how The Place where The Continuance The Issue effects Quest. The whole being thus let fall into parts let us take up each severall in order and view it And first tell me what is intimated by this Enmity which is here proclamed Ans. By Enmity is ment a bitter inveterate irreconsiliable and endlesse hatred and devision opposite to that amity and familiarity which formerly had been betweene the Woman and the Serpent Breifly it is the very gall of the Prince of darkenesse Quest. Who was the Author and proclamor of it Ans. The Authour and principall efficient of it is God himselfe for it we looke a little backe to the preceding verse wee shall see that this I is Iehovah the eternall God and Lord of Hosts Quest. Betweene whom was this Enmity proclamed Ans. Between the Serpent and his seed on the one side and the woman and her seed on the other Quest. What is meant by the Serpent and his seede Ans. By the Serpent wee are to understand Sathan who opened the Serpents mouth and caused it to speake with mans voyce as the Lord by an Angell opened the mouth of Balaams Asse Num. 22. Secondly by the Serpents seede is ment the whole Generation of wicked men as interpreters conclude generally and other Scriptures make cleare calling them Serpents Generations of vipers and Children of the Divell Mat. 23.33 Iohn 8.44 and 1 Iohn 3.10 yea when Sathan by seducing Adam to breake Gods law in eating the forbidden fruite had deformed him after his own Image as God had formed him after his hee intituled all his heires to that name the seede of the Serpent Iohn 8.44 of which more hereafter Quest. What is meant by the woman and her seed Ans. By the woman is meant Eve by her seede wee are to understand first and cheifely Christ the singular seede who was so the seed of the woman as that hee was not of the Man Gal. 4.4 being borne of a Virgin Esay 7.14 Secondly it implyeth all the elect his members who are not only Eves seede as she was the Mother of all liveing by nature but by faith also as else where they are called the seed or children of Abraham Gal. 3.29 Quest. What may bee gathered from these tearmes thus explicated and what instructions afford they Ans. 1. That there was a twofold Kingdom set up in this world A Kingdome of darkenesse of sinne and of misery and a Kingdome of light of holinesse and of happinesse the King and cheife Commander of the one being Sathan the Prince of darkenesse the God of this world that is of all wicked men in this World And cheife of evill spirits his subjects all the sons of Adam without exception or exemption of any even the Elect before calling and Regeneration and the reprobate without limitation And the King of the other being Christ called in scripture the wonderfull Councellor the mighty God the everlasting Father and Prince of peace the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Isa. 9.6 Rev. 17.14 who is also the chief of men even the chief son of man His Subjects the godly alone by which I understand so many of the Elect as are regenerate though indeed wee have all received our presse-money in baptisme and ought every one according to our ingagement maintain this fight against the Devil and the World 2. That Sathan hath more Subjects th●n any Emperor in the world yea more men to serve and fight for him th●n the Trinity which made us that the little handfull of the Church is invironed and besieged with a numberless Multitude of deadly Enemies All the Armadoes and Troopes of Devills all the Companies of the wicked all the forces and powers of Hell have bent their Bowes and made ready their Arrowes that they may privily shoote at the righteous who are the only marke of their malice and white at which they levell Psa. 11.2 I confesse among us Christians Christ is the subject of all tongues Oh that hee were the object of all hearts but whereas the Schoole disputes of him the Pulpit preaches of him Hipocrites talk of him time servers make use of him Polititians pretend him Profane men swear by him Civill honest men persecute him Millions professe him few love him few serve him few care to honour him Godly men even amongst us Christians are like timber Trees in a wood here one and there one yea it is to bee feared that as once in Israel a thousand followed Baal for one that followed God So now in England many serve the world and the flesh and the Devill for one that truely serves God in sincerity truth and holinesse 3 If our Enemies are so many in number so great in might in malice in experience and cunning as from hence wee are informed yea if wee have Enemies inferiour as wicked men exterior as the world interior as the flesh superiour as the Devill it behooves us not to trust to our owne strength Hercules himselfe could not coape with two adversaries at once but to implore the assistance of Almighty God and Christ our Captaine whose weakenesse was too strong for all their power and might the which beeing done feare not a strong Enemie against thee seeing thou hast a stronger friend with thee SECT 7. Quest. WHat collect you in particular from those words I will put Enmity c. Ans. This shewes the stabillity and certainty of it for with God neither doth his word disagree from his intention because hee is truth it selfe nor his deede from his word because hee is power it selfe God is not as man that hee should lye neither as the Sonne of man that he should repent Hath hee said I will put enmity and shall be not do it Or hath he spoaken the word and shall not hee accomplish it Numb 23.19 Heaven and Earth shall passe away but one jott or tittle of ●is word shall not passe til all bee fulfilled Mat. 5.18 Quest. What instruction affords this Ans. 1 That to be without reproaches or persecutions wee may rather wish then hope for what peace can we looke for betweene the seede of the woman and the seede of the Serpent seeing God himselfe from the beginni●g hath set them at Enmity yea once to expect it were