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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20957	A preparation to suffer for the Gospell of Iesus Christ. Or, A most Christian exercise full of comfort and consolation for these present times. Written in French by the learned, and zealous, Peter Du Moulin, Profresor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Sedan	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 7336; ESTC S118563	17,868	86

on the earth and of those vnder the earth and euery tongue shall confesse that IESVS is the Lord sitting in glory with God the Father This is the glorious name by which and for which all things were all creatures subsist haue their being their life their operations and their good and yet neuerthelesse it is hated of men after the custome of many barbarous Nations who at the rising of the Sunne shoote their Arrowes against it with a thousand maledictions because they doe but feele the ardour and heate of it at high noone day not considering that without the benefit of his beames and vertue they could not liue And euen so the world shoote the darts of their hatred and madnesse against Christ who is the Sonne of Righteousnes when they apprehend but the ardour of persecution or else supposing that Christ brings with him some Inconuenience whereas indeed hee is the true sunne of all happines and that without his light and special grace there is nothing but darknes misery the shaddowes of death and death eternall Persons empoysoned with this hatred against the name of Christ are of two sorts some be those which make no profession at all of him but openly detest him as Paynims Iewes Turkes and miscreants The other haue some knowledge of him but yet they are erronious Christians mingling the word of God with false Doctrines Superstitions Inuentions and humane Traditions such as be the Heretikes and adherents to Antichrist And though this latter sort and their beleeuers auouch not publikly any hatred to the name of Christ yet they shew it by plaine and euident effects as Saul before his conuersion persecuted the Church of God though his intention and meaning was no wayes such And which is much to be lamented deluded and abused Christians shewe oftentimes more rancorous implacable hatred against the true faithful then those people themselues which hold the Gospel in abomination and suppose they beare a great zeale to Iesus Christ when they persecute him in his members and that they offer an acceptable sacrifi●e vnto God when they put his children to death If it be wonderfull therfore that this name of Christ is hated of men is it not likewise a very strange thing that true Christians should be hated one of another For though they haue the most principall rights in the citie of this world yet are they intreated as strangers they loue all the world and all the world hates them they seek after peace euery one makes warre against them they are detested of their enemies and yet they pray for them They are the honestest men of all others and yet are persecuted then the most wicked sort they liue in the flesh and yet not according to the flesh they conuerse on earth and are citizens of heauen they submit themselues to Lawes in their obedience and by their holy life surmount and excell them others curse them and they blesse they are punished and tormented as malefactors and men would not haue them confesse and acknowledge who they are their good names are slandered and depraued and yet wee are enforced to commend their integritie mortall enmitie is put in practise against them and no iust reason can bee rendred thereof men are ignorant of their Profession and notwithstanding condemne it In a word looke what the soule is to the body the same are the faithfull to the world the soule is dispersed ouer all the members of the body and the faithfull ouer the seuerall parts of the earth the soule dwelleth in the body yet is not of the body and so the faithfull dwel in the world yet are not of the world the soule loueth the body though the body warre and contest with it and the faithfull loue all the world though all the world be opposite to them the soule is enclosed within the body as within a gaole or prison and yet she preserues the bodie and the faithfull are imprisoned and shut vp in this world as within a prison and yet they preserue support the world by reason that for their sakes God forbeares to destroy it and when the number of the faithfull is accomplished then the world shall ende and finish The soule is incomparably more excellent then the body and the faithfull of infinite more value then the world The soule is of heauen and the body of the earth so are all the faithfull heauenly whereas the body is wholly earthly and terrestriall The immortall soule dwelleth as a stranger within our mortall tabernacle and so the faithfull haue but a trauailing life in this corruptible world attending most blessed and happie immortalitie The soule being depriued of bodily delights is made the better and more perfect and so the faithful rudely intreated by the world doe profit the more in the exercise of vertue From whence proceedes it then that they are so hated of the world why from this that they are not of the world for if they were of the world the world would loue them because euery thing loues it's like But in that they are distinguished and separated from the world by the profession of the Gospell which a doctrine so sweet amiable and healthfull comprehending and exposing the promises of the grace of God and of life eternall propounding such sacred and admirable misteries such perfect and diuine Instructions how comes it to be thus hated First in that the world is ignorant of it for those that truly know it cannot but loue and embrace it and so of violent presecutors they many times become ardent and zealous Professours The reason of this ignorance is because it is altogether spirituall celestiall and the world earthly and carnall which cannot beleeue nor apprehend it by reason of the sublimitie and excellency thereof no more then the beasts can be capable of the discourse of Reason To which purpose the Apostle affirmes in the first to the Corinthians the second chapter Wee propound wisedome to the perfect a wisedome no wayes of this world neither of the princes of this world which come to nothing but we propound the wisdome of God which consists in mysterie that is to say hidden which God had ordeined before all ages for our glory which none of the Princes of this world haue knowen for had they knowen it they would neuer haue crucified the Lord of Glory But as it is written these bee things which the eye neuer saw the eare heard nor that neuer hath entred into the heart of man but God hath reuealed them vnto vs by his Spirit for the spirit sounds all things yea euen the profoundest matters of God For who is he amongst men that knoweth the very things of man but the spirit of man which is in him No man in like manner knoweth the things of God but the Spirit of God Now we haue receiued not the spirit of this world but the Spirit which is of God to the end that we might know the things that are

declaring that the subiect of this hatred shall bee the profession of his Name as wee are in like manner aduertised in other places That by many afflictions we must attaine to the kingdome of heauen Acts 14. and that all those which will in pietie according to Iesus Christ must suffer persecution 2. Tim. 3. the which the faithfull haue so clearely prooued to bee true by experience that wee need not cōfirm it by examples Christ sayes not simply You shall be exposed but which is more hated for there were many sects of Philosophers which contradicted but not hated them And in all Faculties and Sciences wee see Doctors dispute one against another with much passion and zeale both in speech and writing and yet without violence but as for the faithfull Christ saith vnto them You shall bee hated And as hatred is the source and spring of the wickedest affections and actions of enuie choller detraction iniurie exprobation persecution and crueltie so in affirming that wee shall be hated it intimates vnto vs that the combates assaults which shall bee vrged vpon vs by the world are of no small difficultie For what pernitious designe is there which hatred doth not nurse what outrage does not that enter into what is it fed and sustained withall but with ruine blood and slaughter Her throat is an open sepulchre Rom. 3. Shee vseth her tongue fraudulently vnder her lips there is the venom of the Aspe her mouth is full of cursing bitternesse her feet are swift to shed blood destruction and misery is in her wayes she knowes not the way of peace And questionlesse to the end wee might not suppose how this hatred of the world against vs is but slight and triuiall Iesus Christ describes it vnto vs to bee so cruell and implacable that getting the masterie of the Senses and changing reason into rage it will violate all humanitie all respects and bands of nature with more horrible and tragicall barbarisme embrew her handes in the blood of her nearest Allies For the brother shall deliuer vp his brother to death the father the childe the children shall rise vp against their fathers and mothers and cause them to be put to death and in respect of others what will shee not attempt Shee is so furious that she will destroy Prouinces put Cities to the sacke and whole Estates to ashes vnder a passion to set therein on a flaming fire the Church of God shee will make the fields and riuers looke redde with the blood of the poore and faithfull Saints and fill the world with cruell inflictions with prodigious massacres with horrible murders of an infinite number of innocent persons without any detection of iust crime without regard to sexe age or condition shee will omit no fraud malice perfidiousnesse nor periury shee will hold for a maxime of conscience to make conscience of nothing esteem it for an article of faith to keepe no faith at all vnder pretext of Religion to manifest nothing but irreligion she peruerts not onely the will but the vnderstanding and makes frantick mad For as when a great fire is kindled it sends vp on high a grosse thicke vapour In like manner when this hatred is inflamed in the heart it sends vp into the intellector vnderstanding an obscure and duskish fume which doth obfuscate reason and taking away the true vse therof makes a man degenerate into a sauage and cruell beast And though we see not this hatred alwaies to breake forth in bloody effects it is because God who by the inuisible chaines of his omnipotent power hampers and shackles the malignant depresseth them So that when the enemies of the Church permit her to liue in some quiet and repose and doe not openly persecute her it growes not through the defect of will but of power This hatred is then no more extinguished then the heate of the coale vnder ashes or the venome of a Serpent congealed and mortified by frigiditie Shee is alwayes liuing in the world and when she openly discouers not her selfe she sets and couers causing matters to hatch vpon all occasions wherof these present seasons yeelds vs a liuely proofe and testimonie And which moreouer may seeme more strange Christ sayes not vnto vs you shall bee hated of some speciall men but of all that is to say of all such as doe not receiue the veritie and puritie of the Gospell this signifying that we should not haue a part but the whole world exasperated together against vs. And though it bee diuided into different Affections Factions and Religions and that one Nation is an enemie to another and that there are likewise some which magnifie themselues in the Title of Christians yet they will euer appeare in this poynt to hate vs they will vnite to dissipate vs and assemble to worke our extirpation So the Pharisees and Sadduces accorded to oppose themselues ioyntly to Iesus Christ Herode and Pilate who were enemies grew reconciled to crucifie him And euen so the Kings of the earth though in their Estates they haue contrary designes yet wil they take the same counsell the same resolution and the same correspondencie to fauour Antichrist and to persecute the children of God So as the accord of the world is nothing but a conspiracie against the Church and peace amongst the wicked nothing but warre against God and his Saints The occasion of this hatred against the faithfull is the meer profession of the Name of Christ although oftentimes the pretext be otherwise For they which liue out of this holy profession are so far from being hated of the world that on the contrary they are beloued and cherished the world permitting them to liue in all licentiousnesse and excesse For if the faithfull would imitate them in the errour of beliefe and peruersenesse of life the world would change the hatred they beare towards them to all fauour and loue It is a very strange thing that this name of Christ so sweet amiable should be so odious this Name more odoriferous then spread perfumes this Name which is not onely a good odour in the nostrills of God in himselfe but also for vs making all acceptable to God which wee present vnto him our Prayers or Affections our workes and our persons But as wee say that the Tygers enter into rage vpon the sent of any Aromaticke druggs so in like manner the world becomes starke mad vpon the very odour of the Name of Christ By this Name Diseases haue been cured the deafe haue heard the blind haue seene the dead men haue been raised vp By this Name wicked spirits haue been expelled Hell hath trembled thereat Death was destroyed God appeased Paradise laid open and all Beleeuers saued This Name is venerable among the Angels adored of the Blessed exalted aboue any other name that can be nominated in this world or in the world to come To this Name euery knee must bow both of those aboue in heauen of those