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A67743	The cause and cure of ignorance, error, enmity, atheisme, prophanesse, &c., or, A most hopefull and speedy way to grace and salvation, by plucking up impediments by the roote reduced to explication, confirmation, application, tending to illumination, sanctification, devotion / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y143; ESTC R16605	116,892	303

it was the Devills mind in her mouth his heart in her lips when tempted to eate the forbidden fruite Nor did David once dreame that it was Sathan which moved him to number the people 1 Chron. 21.1 Much lesse did Peter who so dearly loved Christ imagine that he was set on by Sathan to tempt his own Lord and Master with those affectionate words Master pity thy self for if Christ had pitied himselfe Peter and all the World had perished Yet hee was so which occasioned Christ to answer him get thee behind me Sathan Mat. 16.22 23. Whence we may argue that if Sathan can make the best and wisest of Gods children and servants who hate the very appearance of evill 1 Thess. 5.22 Iude 23. Eph. 5.27 2 Pet. 3.14 Iam. 1.27 have the eye of faith and the spirits direction and know the minde of Christ 1 Cor. 2.12 13 15 16. Iohn 10.14 above others to doe him such service unwittingly and besides their intention how much more can he prevaile with and make use of his owne servants and children that delight only in wickednesse and have not the least knowledge of or ability to discerne spirituall things 1 Cor. 2.14 2 Cor. 4.4 1 Tim. 4.2 But will you know how it comes to passe that you call evill good and good evill put darkenesse for light and light for darkenesse bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter that you justifie the wicked and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him Isai. 5.20.23 And so fight under Sathans banner against Gods people And yet take your selves to bee not Sathans but Gods servants I will shew you five maine Reasons of it I pray marke them First So long as you are in your naturall condition you have eyes and see not eares and heare not hearts and understand not spirituall things As Christ himselfe plainly affirmes Matth. 13.15 and his Apostle Acts 28.27 and before them both the Prophet Isay chap. 6.9.10 And the reason of that is you have a vaile or curtaine drawne over your hearts which is never taken away untill ye turne to the Lord by repentance at which time it is taken away as you may reade 2 Cor. 3.14 15 16. Rom. 12.2 1 Cor. 2.14 15 16. Secondly long custome and the commonnesse of this sinne hath taken away the sense of it 1 Tim. 4.2 Heb. 3.13 Yea quite turned it from a sin and that the greatest to a vertue As how many in this land for all they are Traytors to God and take up armes against all that worship him in spirit in truth would yet be counted and are so by the blind world not onely honest men but good Christians Whereas if it were not so common and in fashion they would be counted very Atheists and Devills and so they are accounted of all but them that are Atheists How many that scoffe at traduce and nick-name the conscionable Puritans and hate them even for the graces of Gods spirit which shine in them would yet be counted Religious men whereas if it were not so usuall and that custome had not bleered mens minds it would bee counted no better than open rebellion and blasphemy against God so it is counted by all but them that use it This sin is counted no sin and yet it is the most desperate sinne and does more hurt than all his fellowes Thirdly To helpe forward when God sends to you his Gospell thereby to cure and save you you will not be cured Jer. 51.9 Yea you so hate the light of the Gospell that you shun it all you can least your deeds should be reprooved John 3.19 10. Or else you stop your eares and shut your eyes least you should see with your eyes and heare with your eares and should understand with your hearts and should he converted and Christ should heale you as himselfe affirmes Matth. 13.15 And what is light to him that will shut his eyes against it Or reason to him that will stop his eares from hearing it Fourthly Here upon because you will not receive the truth in love that you might be saved for this cause God gives you up to strong delusions that you should beleeve a lye That all of you might be damned who beleeve not the the truth but take pleasure in unrighteousnesse They are the very words of the Holy ghost 2 Thess. 2.10 11 12. of which see more Rom. 1.21 to 32. Fiftly and lastly Sathan the God of this World hath blinded your mindes that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ which is the image of God should not shine unto you 2 Cor. 4.3 4. Ephes. 2.2 2 Thess. 2.9 10. 1 Tim. 4.2 For as Sathan is the Prince of darkenesse so hee rules in the darkenesse of the understanding dealing with wicked men as Faulkoners do with their Haukes who that they may carry them quietly and doe what they list unto them First blinde their eyes with a hood Neither could men else hear the Gospell day after day and yeare after yeare which is the strong arme of the Lord and the mighty power of God to salvation Rom. 1.16 and the sword of the spirit Ephe. 6.17 and like as a fire or an Hammer that breaketh even the rocke in peeces Ier. 23.29 30. And that irresistable Cannon shot that is mighty to beat downe all the strong holds of sinne and Sathan 2 Cor. 10.4 quick and powerfull And sharper then any two edged sword and peir●eth even to the dividing asunder of the soule and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and to the discerning of the very thoughts and secret intents of the heart Heb. 4.12 And stand it out even refusing the free offer of grace and salvation Neither could they other then hate sin love holinesse For besides that any wise man would rather be saved than damned Plato a very heathen could say that vertue if it be clearly seene moves great love and affection Yea if wee could descerne good from evill perfectly that subtile Serpent could deceive no longer And because hee cannot force men against their wills which leaves us without excuse for though that old Sheba blowes many an inticing blast to carry us away from our true allegiance to Christ Iesus our King yet the minde of man is not capable of a violation either from man or Sathan therefore he useth his utmost pollicy to perswade us And by desception of our reason whereby we mistake vertue for vice and vice for vertue hee cheefly prevailes For no vice could ever bee loved but for the seeming good which it makes shew of And Sathan is so cunning a Sophister and so dexterous a Retoritian in perswading that hee desires no more then to bee heard speake As what thinke you if that old Serpent and Sophister did so easily perswade Eve by himself and Adam by her to beleeve what hee spake though they had heard God himselfe say the contrary immediatly before what hope

have wee to stand out being so extreamly degenerated If they in the state of innocency when they had wisdome at wil and reason at command found him too hard for them when they fell once to argue the case with him how much more too weake shall wee finde our selves that are as wee are and when our owne flesh is become our Enemy and his cunning Soliciter My brethren be no longer deceived but hearken more to what God speaks in his word lesse to the Tempter for hee will set a faire coulour upon the foulest sinne that ever was committed witnesse his words to Eve when shee eate the forbidden fruite at the price of death eternall Gen. 3. Witnesse the glorious pretences which Hammon made to Ahashuerosh that he might procure that bloody decree against all the Iewes Ester 3. and a thousand more which I could reckon up And so on the contrary what good action can bee so splendent and glorious but hee will bring reasons in appearance to make it not onely faulty but odious witnesse our saviours casting out devills which saith he by the mouthes of the Scribes and Pharisees is done through Belzebub hee will make the people beleeve that either the action is evill or if good not God but himselfe will have the glory of it Matt. 12.24 Yea through Sathans subtilty Christ was made the greatest offender that offended not once in all his life which would make a wise man suspect his owne judgement or the common fame to examin things throughly before they condemne one whom they know no evill by But not to weary you with instances If hee can perswade men as hee hath done millions that they shall doe God good service in putting his prophets to death as Christ himselfe expresly tell us Iohn 16.2 What can hee not perswade them to As what stone so rough but hee can smooth it what stuffe so pittifull but hee can set a glosse upon it for like a Beare hee can lick into fashion the mostmis-shapen and deformed lumpe Or like a Dogge heale any wound hee can reach with his tongue Yea your selves cannot choose but know except you bee starke blinde what golden eloquence he will whisper in your eares what brasen impudence what subtile shifts what quainte querks what cunning conveyances what jugling shuffling and packing hee will use to make any sin feasible like the Hare which if shee dare not trust to her speed she will try the turne And so on the contrary to discourage Gods people in good Neither could concupisence bring forth sin without the consent of reason and reason would never consent so long as the eyes are open Yea if the light of knowledge might freely shine in the soule Sathans suggestions would soon make him ashamed and vanish with all his workes of darknesse Or if temptations might bee but turned about and shewne on both sides his Kingdome would not be so populous wherefore when he sets upon any poore soule he shews the baite hides the hooke Whence it is that Sathan hath more servants to fight for him here below then the Trinity which made us Else how should that bee true which our saviour Christ and his Apostles so often inculcate viz. that the whole World lyeth in wickednesse 1 John 5.19 That the number of those whom Sathan shall deceive is as the sand of the Sea Revel 20.8 and 13.16 Isay 10.22 Rom. 9.27 That the greatest number goe the broade way to destruction and but a few the narrow way which leadeth unto life Matth. 7.13 14. That many are caled viz. by the outward ministery of the word but few chosen Matth. 20.16 and 22.14 sad predictions Oh that we could not apply them but experience shewes that among them that call themselves Christians scarse one of an hundred whose practise is answerable either to the gospell their christian profession or the millions or mercies they have received Yea notwithstanding the Holy ghost tells us in the word and wee heare it dayly That every man shall be judged according to his workes be they good or evill Revel 20.13 and 22.12 And that we shall give an account at the day of judgement for every idle word wee speake Matth. 12.36 And that wee neede no other ground of our last and heaviest doome then ye have not given ye have not visited c. Matth. 25.41 to 46. and that the righteous shall scarsly be saved And that many shall seeke to enter in at the strait gate and shall not be able Luke 13.24 the which scriptures if they bee true what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse as the Apostle speakes 2 Pet. 3.11 And yet most men live as if the Gospell were quite contrary to the rule of the Law as if God were neither to bee feared nor cared for As if they were neither beholding to him nor affraid of him both out of his debt and danger Yea as if there were no God to judge nor Hell to punish nor heaven to reward I cannot think of it without astonishment I remember Cyprian brings in the Devill triumphing over Christ in this manner As for my followers sayth the Devill I never dyed for them as Christ hath done for his I never promised them so great reward as Christ hath done to his and yet I have more followers than hee and they doe more for me than his doe for him Oh that men would duly consider how true this is and amend before the draw-bridge bee taken up but this is the misery and a just plague upon our so much formality and prophanesse under our so much meanes of grace there bee very few men that make not the whole Bible and all the Sermons they heare yea the checks of their owne consciences and the motions of Gods spirit utterly in-effectuall for want of wit and grace to apply the same to themselves whereas if they would rightly and ingenuously apply but one text or two as Matth. 7.12 and 16.26 or the like unto their owne soules as they can unto others being better able to discerne others moates than their owne beames they might be everlastingly happy But this is the gift of God alone and naturall men love their sins better than their soules Objection But you will say what is this to us Wee live unrebukably wee pay every man his owne wee are temperate chaste c. wee goe duely to Church pray in our families make conscience of swearing lying c. Answer But does it flow from a pious and good heart sanctified by the Holy ghost 1 Tim. 1.5 Acts 15.9 Is it done in faith and out of right ends as out of love and obedience because God commands the same that hee may bee glorified and others edified thereby Otherwise all your best performances are no better in Gods account then the offering of swins blood or the cutting off of a dogs neck as himselfe shewes Isay