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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97253	Panoplia, or, Armour of proof for a weak Christian, against the worlds envy, scoffs and reproaches together with the doves innocency and the serpents subtility, upon Gen. 3. 15. / by R.J. [sic]	Younge, Richard.	1652 (1652)	Wing Y167C; ESTC R43836	38,326	37

are not regenerate nor were ever disciplin'd in the school of Christ. The ignoblenesse of their dispositions and breeding may be a sufficient ground For basenesse what it cannot attain to it will vilicate and deprave As no wonder if a Carter censure a Scholler or a Clown a Courtier so none can think it strange that brutish sensualists should censure the Saints for sullen shallow censorious proud dissembling c. That they should mistake the way to Heaven for the most melancholy walk when all that are born of God and taught by his Spirit know them the most merry wise charitable humble and plain dealing people Indeed time and experience will alter their judgements be they never so brutish and base as it universally fared with the old world Gen. 6. and 7. chapters who for one hundred and twenty years together harboured many base thoughts of Noah thinking him half mad to bestow so much labour and cost in building so vast a vessel as the Ark was but in processe of time when they stood upon the tops of the mountains expecting within a minute to be drowned in those waters they beheld him secure to their greater vexation and acknowledged themselves stark mad for not timely beleeving him Fiftly Guiltinesse is another main reason for commonly suspition proceeds from a self-defect and a bad construction from a bad minde Deceit●ull over will mistrustfull be But no mistrust is found in honesty Naturall men mostly measure others by their own bushel and so form their opinions and censures of us according to the mold of wickednesse that is in their own hearts and doing all their own good in hipocrisie they cannot think us better then themselves And yet it is a rule which seldom fails That as Cham was worse then Noah whom he derided and Ishmael worse then Isaac whom he mocked and Saul worse then David whom he persecuted and Iezabel worse then Naboth whom she defamed and murthered and Herod worse then Iohn Baptist whom he beheaded So they which are wont to censure and slander others have greater faults themselves and cause to be censured and condemned of others which faults they cannot tell how to cover but by disgracing of others And the censured in Scripture are alwayes more precious in Gods sight then the censurer as in the Pharisee and Publican Luk. 18. and in those Barbarians and Paul Acts 28.3 4. Sixtly Pride is no small cause for a proud man is wont to admire his own actions but to abate the valu and derogate from the esteem of others every whit as basely to vilifie other mens doings as he over highly prizeth his own I saith the proud Pharisee am not as this Publican Luk. 18.11 Neither was he if you mark it for the Publican condemning himself was justified and saved he justifying himself was everlastingly condemned Again They know their glory and credit with the world is greatly eclipsed by such as excell in vertue Their vicious lives are plainly reproved and their persons most grievously shamed by the holy conversation of good men And this makes them smut the face that is fairer blemish honest mens fame by their censuring and aspersions that they may mitigate their own shame with others discredit like Potiphars wife they pretend we are guilty that themselves may be taken for innocent Seventhly Another cause is prejudice or misprision for this like a painted pair of Spectacles casteth a false colour upon the best actions As we see in Ahab and Iezabel touching Eliah and Micaiah CHAP. XIV EIghtly They suppose we are not as we seem ergo we are Puritants Hypocrits c. A reason of great force with States men and Polititians Herod thinks Christ comes to dethrone him therefore to make sure work ke murthers all the males in Bethlem Cambyses dreames overnight that his brother should be King of Persia therefore he puts him to death the next morning Saul supposes David a traytor therefore know ye not that the sonne of Iesse hath conspired against me But it were as good an argument to reason thus All the Apostles were imposters and the Gospel it self a fable for so thought the Scribes and Pharisees A man shall do God good service in persecuting of his faithfull servants for so thought the Prelates as themselves have confest upon their examination Or lastly there is no God for so the fool hath said in his heart Psal 14.1 and 53.1 Ninethly They envy the godly either first because they do better as Cain did Abel or secondly because they fare better as Esau did Iacob or thirdly because they are better esteemed as Saul did David And this i● another cause for ill will never speaks well and envy is sick if her neighbour be well The ones successe is the others vexation the envious emulate what they cannot imitate Whence arises all their censuring and misconstruing their persons actions and intentions For whom they cannot reach by imitation they will endeavour to do by detraction and because they cannot seduce us they will if they can traduce us if we will not partake with them in their sins we shall in their shame if Ioseph will not be lewd with his mistress he shall be thought as guilty and suffer as much as if he were Tenthly Sometimes they censure and slander us out of self-love either that they may gain or at least not lose of their honours pleasures profits Sauls flatterers will sooth him up in his evil surmises against David saying The sonne of Iesse hath conspired against thee that they may have fields and Vineyards given them be made Captains over thousands and Captains over hundreds And this tempted Balaam against his conscience even to curse where he should blesse he saw how his cursing and cursed counsel might please Balack and blesse himself with a gainfull and gallant promotion And the like in Demetrius for as Paul substracts from Demetrius his profit so Demetrius detracts from Pauls credit Which was many a mans case within these few years for some have climed up to preferment by envaying against the Puritans and others been ruined and disgraced by preaching against the Prelates Eleventhly By depraving all good men themselves though swearers drunkards whoremongers shall be judged indifferent honest men for were all the world ugly deformity would be no monster Yea a base person may come to preferment if none be thought better then himself He that hath but one eye may be King amongst the blinde Whereupon to have themselves thought as good as any other they will not have any thought good that dwells near them CHAP. XV. TWelfthly Their passions and affections make them so exceeding partiall that they will more deeply censure our fearing of God then their own blaspheming him and hold it a more hainous crime for us to be sober then for themselves to be drunk You may think it a big word for want of acquaintance with such But Drunkards and Swearers know I speak truth And I the more confidently beleeve my