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truth_n	believe_v	receive_v	unrighteousness_n	1,743	5	11.2223	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67779	A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1664 (1664)	Wing Y191A; ESTC R218572	39,339	35

excess in sin with further obduration not only delivers them up ●o Satan the God of this world who so blinds their minds and deludes their understanding● that the light of the glorious Gosp●l of Christ shall not shine unto them 2 Cor. 4.3 4. Eph. 2.2 2 Thes 2.9 But he gives them up even to a reprobate judgment to the hardness of their hearts and to walk in their own counsels Psal ●1 11 12. Rom. 1.21 to 32. And better be given up to Satan as the incestuous Corinthian was than thus to be given up For he was thereby converted saved as God used the matter making the Scorpion a medicine against the sting of the Scorpion the Horseleech a means to abate the vicious and superfluous bloud so ordering Satans craft and malice to ends which himself intended not Whereas these are given over as a desperate Patient is given over by his Physician when there is no hope of his recovery As thus Because they will not receive the truth in love that they might be saved for this cause God gives them up to strong delusions that they should believe lies that all they might be damned who believe not the truth but take pleasure in unrighteousness they are the very words of the Holy Ghost 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. If any vvould see more touching the woful condition of a deluded worldling and how Satan gulls wicked men with a world of misprisions that he may the better cheat them of their souls Let them read The Drunkards Character and The Cure of Misprision for in this I study all possible brevity being loath either to surfeit or cloy the Swearer who is commonly short-breathed in well-doing and lest adding more should hinder him from hearing this for Satan and his corrupt heart will not condescend he shall hold out to hear his beloved sin so spoken against Memb. 5. Sect. 1. Only I will insert a few notions aphorisms or conclusions touching the former point of Gods forbearing to punish the most flagitious sinners when they so horribly provoke him together with some pregnant examples of some that he hath executed Martial Law upon even in this life Cornelius Gallus not to mention many nor any that every Author sets down died in the very act of his filthiness as Plutarch well notes Nitingal Parson of Crondall in Kent was struck dead in the Pulpit as he was belching out his spleen against Religion and zealous Professors of the Gospel It was the usual imprecation of Henry Earl of Schuartzbourg Let me be drowned in a Jakes if it be not so and such was his end You may remember one Lieutenant of the Tower was hanged it had wont to be his usual imprecation as he confessed at his death Earl Godwin wishing at the Kings Table that the bread he eat might choak him if he were guilty of Alphreds death whom he had before slain was presently choaked and fell down dead Yea his lands also sunk into the Sea and are called Godwins sands where thousands since have made shipwrack It was usual with John Peter mentioned in the Book of Martyrs 〈…〉 say If it be not true I pray God I may rot ere I die and God saying Ame 〈…〉 t he rotted away indeed A Serving-man in Lincolnshire for every trifle used to swear Gods precious bloud and would not be warned by his friends to leave it insomuch that hearing the bell tole in the very anguish of death he started up in his bed and swore by the former oath that bell toled for him whereupon immediately the bloud most fearfully issued as it were in streams from all parts of his body not one place left free and so died Popiel King of Poland had ever this wish in his mouth If it be not true I would the Rats might eat me and so it came to pass for he was so assailed by them at a banquet that neither his guards nor fire nor water could defend him from them as Munster mentions The Jews said Let his bloud be upon us and upon our children and what followed Sixteen hundred years are now past since they wished themselves thus wretched and have they not ever since been the hate and scorn of the world Did they not many of them live to see their City buried in ashes and drowned in bloud to see themselves no Nation Was there ever any people under heaven that was made so famous a spectacle of misery and desolation They have had what they called for to the ful and it 's just that they who long for a curse should have it Yet how many among us do familiarly curse their wives children c Nor is it seldom that God pay them in their own coin men profane Gods Name and he makes their names to stink When the pestilence rageth in our streets blasphemy and execration must confess that they have their due wages Blasphemers live swearing and die raving it is but their wages Sect. 2. He punisheth some in the Suburbs of Hell that they might never come into the City it self The evil he now suffers uncorrected he refers to be condemned Sin knows the doom it must smart here or hereafter Outward plagues are but favour in comparison of spiritual judgments and spiritual judgments but light to eternal torments God doth not punish all flagitious sinners here that he may allow some space to repent and that none may doubt his promise of a General Judgment nor does he forbear all here lest the World should deny his providence and question his justice Memb. 6. Sect. 1. But what do I urge reason to men of a reprobate judgment to admonish them is to no more purpose than if one should speak to life-less stones or sence-less plants or wit-less beasts for they will never fear any thing till they be in Hell-fire wherefore God leaves them to be confuted with fire and brimstone since nothing else will do it If there be any here that believe a Resurrection as I hope better things of some of you all such I would beseech by the mercies of God before mentioned that they would not be so desperately wicked as to mock their admonisher scoff at the means to be saved and make themselves merry with their own damnations but that they would entertain this message as if it were an Epistle sent from God himself to invite and call them to repentance Yea consider seriously what I have said and do not oh do not mock at Gods Word nor sport away your souls into those pains which are easeless endless remediless Shall we give an account at the day of judgment for every idle word we speak Mat. 12.36 never give a reckoning for our wicked swearing and cursing We shall be judged by our words v. 37. Are you willing to be saved if you are Break off your sins by repentance Dan. 4.27 Cease to do evil learn to do well Isa 1.16 17. Seriously grieve and bewail for the millions of times that you have

without the other we shall never inherit part of his glory in heaven if we do not take his glories part upon earth And with God it is much about one whether we be doers of evil or no binderers For if we must not see our neighbours ox nor his sheep go astray or fall into a pit but we must reduce him a●d help him out of it Deut. 22.1 we are much more bound to help our neighbour himself from dropping into the bottomless pit of Hell And what know we but we may win our brother and so save his soul Mat. 18.15 Sect. 11. They will hiss like Serpents if we trouble their nests never so little And it is a sure sign the horse is galled that stirs too much when he is touched But what are these men like and how are they like to speed in the end They are like the Thracian flint that burns with water and is quenched with oyl their souls are the worse for Gods endeavour to better them His holy precepts and prohibitions do either harden them as the Sun hardens clay and cold water hot iron or else they enrage them as a furious mastiffe Dog is the madder for his chain Sect. 12. But to be exasperated with good counsel and in stead of penitency to break into choler when fury sparkles in those eyes which should gush out with water it is an evident sign of one that shall perish Prov. 29.1 Read the words and tremble A man that hardneth his neck being often reproved shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy see more Prov. 1.24 25 26 to 33. Whence it is the Prophet tells Amaziah I know that God hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not obeyed my counsel 2 Chro 25.16 20. and that the Holy Ghost speaking of Ely's sons saith that they would not hearken unto nor obey the voice of their father because the Lord was determined to destroy them 1 Sam. 2.25 Yea it is an observation of Livy that when the destruction of a Person or Nation is destined then the wholsome warnings both of God and Man are set at nought And in reason that sin is past all cure which strives against the cure Herbs that are worse for watering Trees that are less fruitful for dunging and pruning are to be rooted out or hewn down Even salvation it self will not save those that spill the potion and fling away the plaister When God would have cured Babylon and she would not be cured then she is given up to destruction without further warning Sect. 13. Ignorant Worldlings who will believe nothing which comes not within the compass of their five senses think that because God strikes not he minds not Psal 50.21 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of me● is fully set in them to do evil as Solomon speaks Eccles 8.11 They are like the Israelites 1 Sam. 12.15 to 20. they will not believe without a miracle and it will be a miracle if ever they be saved For should they see miracle upon miracle should God forthwith strike one dead with a thunder-bolt and rain down fire and brimsto●e upon anoth●r and cause the earth to swallow down a third quick while they are blaspheming him they would be as far from believing as they were before as the examples of the old world the Sodomites Pharaoh Baalam Ahab Belshazzer M●lch●us and those great Clerks the Scribes and Pharisees together with thousands of the Jews sufficiently manifest Yea it is easier for a man possest with ma●y Devils to be disposs●st to ra●se one from the dead or to turn a stone into flesh in which God should meet with no opposition than perswade an habituated Swearer to believe these ensuing precept prediction testimonies of the Gospel or any other saving truth M●t. 5.20 12.36 25.30 to 46. 2 Thes 1.7 8 9. 2.12 Heb. 12.14.29 Rev. 20.12 to the end Deut. 29.19 30. Prov. 1.24 to 33. Sect. 14. Well may they believe what the World the Flesh and the Devil suggests unto them As Satan that he may make smooth their way to perdition will perswade the most impudent and insolent sinners Drunkards Adult●●ers Blasphemers Sabbath-breakers Blo●d-thirsty murtherers Persecuters of the godly and ●o●●emners of Religio● that they may take liberty to continue their sensual lusts by a testimony of Scripture and apply Christs passion as a warrant for their licentiousness his Death as a license to sin his Cross as a Lette●s patent to do mischief And hereupon as if a Malefactor should head his d●um of rebellion with his pardon they live as if the gospel were quite contrary to the rule of the law or as if God were neither to be feared nor cared for Hence they exercise their saucy wits in prophane scoffs at religion disgrace that blood whereof hereafter they would give a thousand worlds for o●e drop Hence they tear heaven with their blasphemies and bandy the dreadful Name of God in their impure and polluted mouths by their bloudy oaths and execrations hence they are so witless graceless and shameless as to swear and curse even as dogs bark Yea they have so sworn away all grace that they count it a grace to swear and are so far from believing what God threatens in his Word against sin and what is affirmed of his justice and severity in punishing all wilful and impenitent sinners with eternal destruction of body and soul that they presume to have part in that merit which in every part they have so abused to be purged by that blood which now they take all occasions to disgrace to be saved by the same wounds and bloud which they swear by and so often swear away to have Christ an Advocate for them in the next life when they are Advocates against Christ in this That heaven will meet them at their last hour when all their life long they have galloped in the beaten road toward hell And that though they live like swine all their life long yet one cry for mercy at the last gasp shall ●ransfo●m them into Saints And this is the strong faith they are so apt to boast of viz. presumption not confidence Or rather Hope frighted out of its wits For notwithstanding all this in believing the Scriptures they fall ●hort of the Devils themselves For the Devils do really believe that God is no less true and just then he is merciful as his Word declares him to be and thereu●●n they tremble as St. James hath it Jam. 2.19 whereas these men 〈◊〉 not a word that God speaks so as to be bettered by it Sect. 15. And no marvel for their wont hath been to believe Satan rather than God as did our first Parents Gen. 3. Therefore now after they have rejected all means of grace when they are so crusted in their v●llany that custom is become a second or new nature God that he may punish their hardness and