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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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