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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

very houre what they ought to say or rather the holy Ghost shall speake in them Mark 13.9.11 Luk. 12.11 12. And which of the Martyrs did not finde the same verified Alice Drivers being a poore mans daughter and brought up at the Plow in defence of Gods truth and in the cause of Christ at her examination put all the Doctors to silence so that they had not a word to say but one looked upon another Indeed Bonner thought hee had non-plust a plaine fellow with his Sophistry about the reall presence But he answered him to the purpose My Lord quoth he I cannot so well dispute for the truth as you can against it but I can burne for the truth which you will never doe And did it a good argument to prove that he knew truth from falshood better than the Bishop Thus as no man can see God and live so no man can see Christ who is God sitting at the right hand of his Father in heaven so long as hee lives a meer naturall man 1 Cor. 2.14 God will not powre new wine but into new vessells Matth. 9.17 Christ is said to have expounded all things to his Disciples apart to shew that if we will have Christ to teach us wee must goe apart from the world If any will doe Gods will saith our Saviour he shall know the Doctrine whether it be of God or no Iohn 7.17 So that no man can learne this doctrine but he that doth it as no man could learn the Virgins song but they that sang it Revel 14.3 Yea if the feare of the Lord as Solomon speakes is the beginning of wisdome how should they have wisdome that have not the feare of the Lord All unrepentant sinners are enemies to God servants to Satan now we men doe not tell our secrets to enemies neither will an Artificer teach another mans servant his trade but the righteous are Christs friends and brethren and sisters and father and mother between whom there is a kinde of familiarity so that he makes them of his counsell His secrets saith Solomon are with the righteous Pro. 3.32 And again Psal. ●● 14 The secrets of the Lord are revealed to them that fear him and his Covenant is to give them understanding See this in Abrahams example Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do saith God Gen. 18.17 As if this were an offence in God if he should tell the righteous no more then he tells the wicked Be●ides What should he doe with a talent that will not improve it And let a wicked man know never so much he is resolved to be never the better man And they that are unwilling to obey God thinkes unworthy to know which is but equity Indeed if they will put off concerning their former conversation the old man with his corruptions and deceiveable lusts and be changed by the renewing of their mindes and by putting on the new man which after God is treated in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephe. 4.20 to 25. Col. 3.10 2 Cor. 5.17 1 Joh. 4.7 Then they shall see what the good and acceptable and perfect will of God is as Saint Paul and our Saviour Christ shews Rom. 12.2 Matth. 5.8 For God in the person of wisdome hath made a generall promise to all that will serve him Prov. 1. If thou wilt turne saith God at my correction I will powre out my heart unto thee and make thee understand my words Verse 23. But else they shall blindly goe on in persecuting Christ and his members perhaps to the killing of his Prophets and thinke also that they doe God good service Iohn 16.2.3 For as they like not to retaine God in their knowledge saith the Apostle so God shall give them over to vile affections and to a reprobate minde Rom. 1.28 And because they will not receive the truth in love that they might be saved therefore God shall send them strong delusions that they might beleeve lyes that all they might bee damned which beleeve not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes. 2.10.11.12 And is it not iust with God to say they would none of Christ let them welcome Sathan and Antichrist SECT 65. Quest. WHat instruction from the premisses Ans. As it ought to stop all wicked mens mouthes so it may both serve for direction and comfort to the godly and to informe all First If it be so that all naturall men are uncapable of divine and supernaturall knowledge that they are blinde touching spirituall things let not any carnall wretch hereafter dare to speake evill of the things actions and persons which are out of the reach of his capasity but silently suspend his judgement untill he is better informed For as it pertaineth not to the rusticke to judge of Letters so it belongeth not to naturall men to judge of spirituall things And in matters of sensure nothing but a certaine knowledge should make us give a certain judgement in the mean time confesse that Ioseph may know his brethren although they know not him He which is spirituall discerneth all things yet he himselfe is Iudged of no man 1 Cor. 2.14 that is of no naturall man 2. Let those that have used to speake evill of the way of truth learne to kicke no more against the pricks lest they bring the same curse upon themselves that those did which brought up an evill report of the holy Land viz. that As they never entred into the terrestriall Canaan So these never enter into the Celestiall Yea put case they shall think to doe God good service in it for there is a way saith Solomon that seemeth right to a man but the issues thereof are the wayes of death Pro. 14.22 As many shall thinke they doe God good service in putting his children so death Ioh. 16.2 even that Monke thought no lesse who poysoned Henry the seventh Emperor of Germany with the sacramentall bread And so did the Powder Traytors intending to blow up the whole State Maximinian thought the blood of christians would be an acceptable sacrifice to his Gods So Francis the second of France And Phillip the second of Spaine thought of the Lutherans blood in their dominions In the sixth councell of Toledo it was inacted that the King of Spaine should suffer none to live in his dominions that professed not the Roman Catholique Religion Whereupon King Philip having hardly escaped shipwrack as he returned from the Low Countries said he was delivered by the singular providence of God to root out Lutheranisme which he presently began to doe prosessing that he had rather have no Subjects then such In which opinion many depart But as men go to a Lottery with heads full of hopes but returne with hearts full of blankes so will it one day fare with these men 3 If all who deride and persecute the godly are ignorant persons as hath been proved then let not Gods children be discouraged maugre all slander and