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A97253	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]	Younge, Richard.	1652 (1652)	Wing Y167C; ESTC R43836	38,326	37

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 migh● 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

born Gen. 27.41 Thirdly After the Law before Christ between Doeg and the 85 Priests which he slew with the edge of the sword 1 Sam. 22 18 19. between Jezabel and all the Prophets of the Lord which she destroyed 1 King 18.13 14. and between the heads of Israel in Micaiahs time and all that were good Mich. 3.2 Fourthly Since the Gospel in the time of Christ and his Apostles 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 reade that of all the twelve none died a naturall death save only St John 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 St Hierom do report See Acts 7 51 ●o 60. and 12 ● to 5. Rom 8.36 Joh. 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 Emperesse also Yea under him and nine other Emperours there was such an innumerable company of innocent Christians put to death and tormented that St Hierom in his Epistle to Chromatius and Heleod●●● ●aith 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 January Yea there was two thousand suffered in the same place and at the same time with Nicanor Acts and Monuments pag. 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 St 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. SIxtly 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 Jews and Roman Emperours touching which I will refer you to the Book of Acts and Monuments and Revel 17. The whore of Babylon was drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus 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 Ecclesiasticall 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 unreprovable life abstain from drunkennesse swearing prophaning the Lords day separate himself from evil 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 a man but walk according to the rule of Gods word he is too precise if he will be more then almost a Christian he is curious phantasticall factious and shall be mockt with the spirit What should I say the world is grown so much knave that 't is now a vice to be honest True blessed be God and good Laws we suffer little but the lash of evil tongues but were wicked mens powers answerable to their wills and malice they would not suffer a godly man to live as I shall in due place shew you Eighthly 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 ●ove 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 evil of the things which they understand not and that many shall follow their damnable wayes whereby the way of truth shall be evil 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 cruell mockings and scourgings bonds and imprisonments were stoned sawn asunder tempted slain with the sword endured the violence of fire were wract wandered about in desarts and mountains and in dens and caves of the earth in sheep-skins and goat-skins destitute afflicted tortured and tormented Not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11.35 to 39. Yea turn over Ecclesiasticall 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 broyled some brained with many the like and worse kindes of death for we read of no lesse then twenty nine severall deaths they were put unto But to cleer your sight I le give you some particular instances of the severall 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 Saul David 1 Sam. 18.28 29. and those unbeleeving Jews Paul Acts 17.13 Secondly To contemn their supposed mean estate as Sanballat Tobiah and Gershom with the rest of that crue contemned Nehemiah and the Jews Nehem. 4.1 2 3. Rabsheke Hezekiah and his people 2 King 18.19 to 36. And the Epicurean Philosophers Paul Acts 17.18 Thirdly To rejoyce at their supposed evil estate as the Princes of the Philistins did at Sampsons blindnesse and bondage Judg. 16.25 Peninnah at Hannahs barrennesse especially when she went up to the house of the Lord 1 Sam. 1.6 7. And the Jews at the Disciples and the rest of the Church when Herod vexed some and slew others Acts 12.1 2 3. Fourthly To hate them as all carnall men hate the members of Christ Matth. 10.22 Ahab Eliah 1 King 22.8 and 18.10 And Haman Mordecai Esth 3.5 to 15. CHAP. VIII FIftly To murmur against them as Labans sons murmured against Jacob Gen. 31.1 The Israelites against Moses and Aaron Numb 11.1 and 14.2 3. and the