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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

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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