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A67752	Good report from bad men, no mean disparagement together with A cordial for Christians, when they receive evil, for well doing, being an arrow drawn forth of that sententious quiver, intituled, A Christian library, or, A pleasant and plentifull paradise of practical divinity.	Younge, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y156; ESTC R17037	11,106	9

suffered as with what affection willingnesse and patience he suffered that did nobilitate the merit of his sufferings And the Disciple is not above his Master Matth. 10.24 25. Shall wee then thinke much to taste of that Cup of which our Saviour dranke so deep Christ wore a Crowne of Thornes for me and shall I grudge to weare this Paper cap for him said John Huss when they put a cap upon his head that had ugly Devils painted on it with the Title of Heresie The Apostle gives a generall testimony of all the Saints in the Old Testament saying some endured the violence of five some were wrack'd others were tryed by mockings and scourgings bonds and imprisonments some stoned some heaven in sunder some slain with the sword and the like being such as the world was not worthy of as you may read Heb. 11. Yea our Fore-fathers here in England most willingly under-went those fiery trials and shall any of Christs hand shrinke under the burthen of an ayery tryall onely Neither have any of Gods Children from the first to the last been exempt from suffering what you do namely tongue-persecution And it is an everlasting rule He that is borne after the flesh will persecute him that is borne after the spirit Gal. 4 29. When CHRIST was borne all Jerusalem was troubled and Herod cut the throats if all the children in Bethlehem Matth. 2.3 10 22. All was quiet at Ephesus before St. Paul came thither but then there arose no small strife about that way Acts 19.23 c. Again Sect. 6. Fifthly Are you scoft and scorned how can the world pleasure or honour you more First for Honour Reproach in Gods service is the best preferment For as in the Wars to have the hottest and most dangerous service imposed upon them by their Generall is accounted the greatest honour Neither will he confer the same upon any but the stoutest and most valiant So even ●●aring the Crosse with Christ is as great a preferment in the Court of Heaven as it is in an earthly Count for the Prince to take off his owne Role and put it on the back of his servant as you may perceive by the Lords speech to Paul Acts 9.15 16. 23.11 And our Saviours words to his Apostles Acts 1.8 Yea sayes Father Latimer to suffer for Christ is the greatest priviledge that God gives in this world And the story of Job is a book-case to prove it Yea the same Job professes that if his adversary should write a Booke against him he would esteem it his crowne Job 31.35 36 37. Whence Moses esteemed the rebuke of Christ greater rules then all the treasures of Aegypt Heb. 11.26 Whence Peter and John when they were beaten and imprisoned departed from the Councell rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for Christs Name Acts 5.41 They esteemed it a grace to be disgraced for him And so it hath been accounted by the best and wisest ever since They that reproach me saith St. Austine do against their wills increase my honour both with God and good men And another of the Fathers It is the highest degree of reputation to be euill spoken if for well doing It is no small credit with the vile to have a vile estimation Tertullian thought much the better of Christianity because Nero persecuted it Calvin made the reproaches and evill speeches of his enemies a matter of great joy to him To be disliked of evill men sayes Picus Mirandula is to be praysed for goodnesse their dispraise is a mans honour their praise his dishonour Never did Neckarchife become me so well as this chaine said Alice Drivers when they fastned her to the Stake to be burnt And what said a French Martyr when a Rope was put about his fellowes neck Give me that Gold chaine and dub me ●Knight also of that noble Order And shall we grutch to beare a few scoffs for CHRIST No but in our greatest streights and extremities let us acknowledge it a favour and give GOD thanks And indeed it is the sum of all Religion to be thankfull to GOD in the midst of miseries But if thou canst not beare a few ill words for thy Saviour without murmuring and impatience how wouldst thou endure wounds for him yea how wouldst thou afford him thine ●●ires and write patience with thine own blood Then Sect. 7. 2ly For profit Let a good man be scoft and scorned for a fault lie will be the better for it to his dying day His enemies by their evill tongues shall beget in him a good and holy life For happily they shall bring to his remembrance sins forgotten weàn him from the love of the world discover whether he be sincere or no make him humble exercise and improve his patience and all his other graces and augment his glory Yea his patient suffering shall be rewarded here as well as hereafter Deut. 23.5 2 Sam. 16.12 Blessed are they which suffer for righteousness for theirs is the kingdome of heaven Matth. 5.10 to 14. They that suffer here for well doing shall be crowned hereafter for well suffering And certainly nothing that we can suffer here can be compared with those woes we have deserved in Hell or those joyes we are reserved to in Heaven By our crosses sanctified weight is added to our Crowne of Hisse Our Enemies saith Bernard are but our Fathers Goldsmiths working to add pearls to the Crowns of the Saints Whence Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11.26 And hence it is that the Holy Ghost calls upon us to rejoyce and be exceeding glad when men shall revile and persecute and say all manner of evill against us falsely for Christs sake and tels us we are blessed and happy for that the spirit of glory and of God does so much the more rest upon us which on their parts is evill spoken of but on our part is glorified 1 Pet. 4.12 13 14. Mat. 5.11 12. Phil. 1.28 29. Rev. 2.13 And this hath made thousands to embrace the very flames when they might easily have been freed by exchanging eternall happiness for temporary and transitory Your cruelty is our glory laid the Martyrs in Tertullians time to their persecutors For the harder we are put to it the greater shall our reward be in Heaven It is to my losse said Gordius the Martyr if you bare me any thing of my sufferings Sect. 8. Now if in conclusion the most malicious practices of our worst and greatest Enemies by the blessing of God and our well husbanding of them prove no other in effect to us then did the malice of Josephs brethren Mistris and Lord to him then the malice of Haman to Mordecai and the Jewes Then Balacks malice to the Children of Israel Then the Devils spight to Job Then the malice of Achitophel Shimei to David Or then the Arians malice to Paphnutius all which made for their

Of these Enchiridions a Repenting Prodigal upon occasion of his late return thinks himself bound to give ten thousand for others good and takes it for an incomparable favour that it came into his heart so to do Yielding a threefold reason thereof First because it is probable that that Medecine which hath cured one desperate Patient if it be communicated may work the same effect upon others and that those thoughts which our experience hath found comfortable and useful to our selves should with neglect of all censures be communicated to others Secondly because the retribution of his obedience may in some proportion answer his offence as was that of Pauls who as he had done more evil to the Saints then all the rest of the Apostles so he laboured more then they all in adding to the Church such as should be saved 1 Cor. 15.10 Act. 9.16 Thirdly for that at exemplary offendors leave their inventions and evil practises to posterity whereby they cease not to sin though they cease to live for when dead they are still tempting and still sin so long as they cause sin yea how should not every Turke that perisheth by Mahomets jugling add to the pile of his unspeakable horrors So if we sow good works succession shall reap them and we shall be happy in making others so Good Report from Bad men no mean disparagement TOGETHER With a Cordial for Christians when they receive evil for well doing BEING An Arrow drawn forth of that Sententious Quiver Intituled A Christian Library or a pleasant and plentifull Paradise of practical Divinity SECT. 1. Convert REverend Sir when by a providence you heard me swear and curse you gave me a printed Paper to convince me of that fowle audacious provoking and yet unprofitable sin and withall intreated me to read three larger Tracts viz. A short and sure way to grace and salvation The hearts Index with A serious and pathetical description of Heaven and Hell This to me whom you had never before seen seemed no less absurd then strange and having a darke heart in stead of great love and thanks I returned you a most churlish and uncivil answer and accordingly when I met with my drunken consorts I read it with no less scorn then ignorance but before I had done it made me tremble nor could I rest until I had perused the other three Books which have so represented the very thoughts secrets and deceitfulness of my heart unto my conscience that I could not but say of them as the woman of Samaria once spake of our Saviour They have told me all things that ever I did John 4.29 Which made me conclude with that Vnbeliever 1 Cor. 14.24 25. That the hand of God was in the contriving of them Nor could they ever have so done if they were not of God as the young man in the Gospel reasoned with the Pharisees touching Jesus when he had opened his eyes that had been blind from his birth John 9.32 33. Which is such a mercy that no tongue is able to express for till then I went on in the broad way and worlds road to destruction without any mistrust What change they have wrought in me with Gods blessing upon the means and how greatly I have longed to see you again I forbear to mention Onely this when I had read them in reference to Levit. 19.17 and in compassion to their pretious soules who are neither able not willing to help themselves I have and not without some comfortable success taken up your trade in giving the Papers and mentioning the Books to all that I hear blaspheme my Maker or belch out their spleen against goodness As well considering that one soule is of more worth then the Indies And indeed whose heart would it not make to bleed to see what multitudes there are that go blindfold to destruction and no man offer to stop or check them before they arrive there from whence there is no redemption Matth. 7.13.14 1 John 5.19 Revel. 20.8 and 13 16. Rom. 9.27 2 Tim. 2.26 2 Cor. 4.4 Ephes. 2.1 to 4. John 8.44 And certainly it more then behoves me as being myself snatcht out of the fire Jude 23. to do what I can to draw others of my brethren after me in imitation of Andrew John 1.41 and Philip v. 45. and the women of Samaria John 4.28 to 41. and Peter Luke 22.32 Acts 2.41 4.4 c. 3. and of Moses Exod. 32.32 and Paul Rom. 9.3 Neither are we of the communion of Saints if we desire not the salvation of others Yea how could I be thankful to my Redeemer that hath done and suffered so much for me or in the least love God and my Neighbour if I should not thus resolve as by my sins and bad example I have drawn others from God so now I will all I can draw others with my self to God yea what a shame were it If I should not be as faithful a servant to my Saviour As I have formerly been to Sathan Saul converted will build up as fast as ever he pulled down and preach as zealously as ever he persecuted Onely there is a great rub in the way which makes me fear I shall not be able to hold out for I am so scoft and scorned where ever I come both by Parents Friends and Enemies for giving these Papers that they make me even weary of my life as the daughters of Heth did Rebecca Gen. 27 46. And yet I dare not leave off since our Saviour faith expressly that he will be ashamed of such at the latter day who are now ashamed for his sake to bear a few scoffs and reproaches from the World Marke 8.38 Nevertheless I am in a wonderful strait for if I seek to please God and discharge my conscience I displease the world and that will hate and vex me if I seek to please the world I displease God and he will hate and condemn me Now though the case he plain enough for better it is to have all the world mine enemies then my Maker my Redeemer and my Conscience Acts 5.29 Yet it almost beats me off from being religious back to the world And certainly he must be more spirit then flesh that can contentedly make himself contemptible to follow Christ be pointed at for singularity indure so many base and vile nicknames have his Religion judged hypocrisie his godly simplicity silliness his zeal madness and the like malicious and mischievous constructions made of whatsoever he speaks or does For my part I could better abide a stake God assisting me then the mocks scoffs and scornes which every where I meet withall Its death to me to be mockt as it fared with Zedekiah Jer. 38.19 Now could you cure me of my cowardliness as you have of my cursing and swearing I should have cause indeed to bless the time that ever I saw you and why not Since God hath given you the Tongue of the learned to administer a word in season to them