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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21049	The mischiefe and miserie of scandals both taken, and giuen. By Ier. Dyke, minister of Epping in Essex	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1631 (1631)	STC 7419; ESTC S100164	93,861	283

that see them It is no lesse woe for the present to loose the Ioy of ones saluation then to loose saluation it selfe But that was not all See Verse 8. make mee to heare ioy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce God therefore not onely tooke away his ioy but God brake the bones of him What an exquisite torture is the punishment of the wheele whē a Malefactour hath his bones broken one to day another to morrow Such is the woe that God wil bring vpon scandalous ones specially if they belong to him Hee wil bring them to the wheele he wil cracke and breake their bones he will haue them to the racke and fill their consciences with so much anguish that they shall vndergoe as much woe as if all the bones in their bodies were broken in pieces That the bones which thou hast broken Yea their bones shal be so broken that they will not quickly nor suddenly bee healed againe Nathan in the Name of God did that which one would haue thought might haue set Dauids bones and giuen them ease Thy sinne is forgiuen thee and yet we see after this he cries out of his bones It lay in his bones still When men after Scandals are ouer-quickly whole againe cranke and iolly it is to bee feared their bones were neuer broken to the purpose Well thus we see what a woe there is for giuers of offence woe bee to the man whose bones God wil breake and therefore woe to him by whom the offence commeth If he belong to God God will breake his bones if he belong not to God but were an Hypocrite God will then happily harden his heart that he may breake his necke 3. God will bring eternall woe vpon them That is if the person falling into scandal did before his scandal but act a part personate religion and were no better then an Hypocrite then though possibly he may escape some of the former woes yet God will pay him with with aduantage make vp all forbearance with doubling and trebling the principall The greater his fall was here the deeper shall his fall be into Hell o Vniuscuiusque casus tanto maior●s est criminis quanto prius quam caderet maioris erat virtutis Barn de interior Dom. cap. 50. The higher the place is from which a man fals the deeper a man plunges into the pit of myre into which hee fals A man that makes profession of Religion is set higher then another man is and if hee professe in hypocrisie and fall into scandal hee by reason of the height from whence hee fals fals deeper into wrath hel then another doth At this happily our Sauiour aymes Matth. 18. 6. It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke and that hee were drowned in the depth of the sea A man so vsed were but in an ill case and yet it is a better case then the case of some scandalous person A man cast into the Sea in any place of it is but in an ill case for suppose hee bee not drowned yet will hee be shrewdly doused and cannot but be in danger But cast a man into the depth of the Sea into the huge Deepes which cannot bee bottom'd and there is but little hope of such a mans life But yet such a man may scape Ionas was cast into the deepe in the middest of the seas the depth closed him round about Ion. 2. 3 5. and yet hee escaped A man by prouidence may meete with a planke or a piece of a mast in such vast depths and possibly may escape But take a man cast him not onely into the Sea but into the depth of the Sea and not onely into the depth but cast him in with an heauie stone specially a milstone specially with such an heauie milstone as cannot bee turned about with a mans hand but must bee turned about with the strength of a beast and such a milstone some thinke is here intended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mola asinaria such a milstone as is turned about by the helpe of an Asse and let him be cast into the depth of the Sea with it as Hierome sayes some Malefactors in those Countries vsed to be serued and what possibilitie is there to escape drowning Now this is the case of scandalous Hypocrites If scandalous persons bee Hypocrites then will their iudgement and woe be great and ineuitable Their scandal is a great heauie milstone about their necke with this milstone God casts them not into the shallow but into the depth the gulfe of Hell And this milstone sinkes them and this milstone holds them downe for euer rising againe Milstones do not make surer worke for the drowning then Scandals doe for the damning of personating grosse Hypocrites CHAP. VIII Why God is so smart and so seuere in his Iustice against those by whom Scandals come WE haue seene how sharpe and seuere the Iustice of God is in punishing such by whom offences come Consider we a little as wee haue seene the seueritie of his Iustice so the Iustice of his seueritie and why God doth deale thus roundly with offenders in that kind I conceiue there bee foure speciall reasons of Gods so dealing 1. Because by Scandals Gods holy and glorious Name is polluted and blasphemed and so God in a high measure wronged God is a iealous God and he will not hold him guiltlesse that takes his Name in vaine that is hee will surely meete with and bee reuenged vpon such as doe it It is a greater matter to pollute and profane Gods Name then it is to take his name in vaine If therefore God will deale so seuerely with them that doe but take his Name in vaine how much more will hee make them smart that doe pollute his Name and cause it to be blasphemed by the malignant enemies of his truth The defiling of Gods Name is an heynous thing wee see how sharpe God was with Moses and Aaron they must both die and not come into the Land of Canaan But what was the reason See Deut. 32. 51. Because yee trespassed against mee amongst the children of Israel But what was that trespasse Because yee sanctified me not in the middest of the children of Israel And must they die and not enter Canaan because they sanctified not what if they had polluted his Name If it be so heynous not to sanctifie what is it to pollute and defile Gods Name And this sinne is p Numquid dici de Hunis potest Ecce quales sunt qui Christiam dicuntur Numquid de Saxonibus aut Francis Ecce quae faciunt quise asserunt Christi esse cultores Numquid propter Maurorum efferos mores lex sacro-sancta culpatur Nunquid Scytharum aut Gepidarum inhumanissimi ritus in maled●ctum atque blasphemiā nomen Domini Saluatoris inducunt Hoc autem vt dixi malum peculialiter tantum Christi●●●rum est quia per eos tantummodo