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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97246	The cure of misprision or Selected notes, upon sundry questions in controversie (of main concernment) between the word, and the world. Tending to reconcile mens judgements, and unite their affections. Composed and published for the common good : as being a probable means to cure prejudice, and misprision in such as are not past cure. / by R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1646 (1646)	Wing Y149; Thomason E1144_1; ESTC R208480	108,291	199

The Cure of MISPRISION Or Selected Notes upon sundry questions in controversie of main concernment Betwen The Word and The World Tending to Reconcile mens judgements and Unite their affections Composed and Published for the common good as being A probable means to Cure Prejudice and Misprision in such as are not past Cure by R. Junius Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their Fathers of the false Prophets Luke 6. 26. LONDON Printed by Tho. Paine for Benjamin Allen and are to bee sold at his shop in Popes-Head Alley 1646. To the Reader COurteous Reader The disease to which this Cure is applyed is epidemicall The hearts of men beeing anatomized it will bee found that the grand cause of their alienation from and opposition unto the waies of God is a secret obstruction arising from that which as the seed of it the Author calls Misprision This Book describes the disease very lively in the Symptomes of it and prescribes the Cure in a very artificiall method laid downe in great variety of matter and elegancy of conveyance The receipt is made up of well chosen ingredients strong and therefore likely to be operative sweet thereby inviting the patient to take it If the Jaundies be removed out of thy eye wherby the things of God have been represented to thee in a false colour Let the chief Physitian have all the glory of thy recovery which is all the reward the confectioner expects for his paines THO GOODVVIN JO. ARROVVSMITH RICHARD VINES To all such as speake evil of the Way of Truth and of the things which they understand not 2. Pet. 2. 12. by way of Preparative WEc desire to heare of thee what thou thinkest for as concerning this Sect wee know that every where it is spoken against Acts 28. 22. They cal evil good and good evil put darknes for light light for darknes bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter They iustifie the wicked and take away the righteousnes of the righteous from him Isay 5. 20. 23. By honour and dishonour by evil report and good report as deceivers and yet true 2 Cor. 6. 8. They think it strange that ye runne not with them unto the same excesse of ryot therefore speake they evil of you 1 Pet. 4. 4. These things will they do unto you for my names sake because they have not known the Father nor me Job 15. 21. and 16. 3. We speake the wisdom of God in a mystery even the hidden wisdome which God ordain'd before the world unto our glory which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory 1 Cor. 2. 7. 8. Because they received not the love of the truth tha● they might be saved for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should beleeve a ly that they all might be damned who beleeved not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnes 2 Thes 2. 10 11. 12. And this is the condemnation that Light is come into the World and men loved darknesse rather then Light because their deeds were evil For every one that evil doth hateth the light least his deeds should bee reprooved John 3. 19 20. Should men hold their peace at thy Lyes and when thou mockest others shall none make th●e ashamed Job 11. 3 We would have Cured Babylon but shee would not be cured Jerm 51. 9. This peoples heart is waxed fat and their ears are dull of hearing and their eys they have closed le●t they should see with their eyes hear with their eares and should understand with their hearts and should bee converted and I should heale them Matth. 13. 15. Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things 2 Tim. 2. 7. The Cure of Misprision or selected Notes upon sundry questions in controversy of main concernment between the Word and the World tending to recon●ile mens judgements and unite their aff●ctions Section 1. Question WHy is there so much jarring and discord so little love and peace amongst us since wee all professe our selves men the best of creatures Christians the best of men Protestants the best of Christians Answer It proceeds primarily from the variousnesse of our dispositions for since the fall there is not more variety of faces voyces hand-writings c. then of humors As take twenty men where you please as they dwell or passe the streets there will not be two of them conditioned alike as were David and Jonathan yea goe into the same Church be it in City or Country where is a mixt audience of men seeming to professe the same Religion and cull out the like number may it not be said of them Quot homines tot sententia so many men so many mindes or may they not be stiled or described much after this manner the Rich worldling the Civill Justiciary the Loose libertine the Temporary beleever the Opinionist the Formalist the Weake Christian the Experimentall Christian the Atheist the Papist the Moderate man the Common Protestant the Newter the Ignorant Man the Prudent Man the Proud Man the Persecutor the Profound humanist the Cunning polititian the Cauterized drunkard c. And are these likely to agree in all poynts of Religion which are infinite when the same sermon shall be admired by one slighted by another deeply censured by a third yea when a fourth shall weepe at it a f●●tlcoffe and jeere at it a sixt tremble at it a seventh curse and blaspheme both at it and the messenger our Saviours own case John 7. which yet is no wonder since some are as deeply in love with vice and error as others are with vertue and truth But secondly What hope is there that we should all agree when the holy Ghost who best knowes our rame compares severall men to almost every several rall creature in the universe purposely to shew that the Epicure is not more like a Swine the lustfull person a Goat the ●raudulent man a Fox the backbiter a barking Dog the slanderer an Aspe the oppressor a Wolfe the persecuter a Tyger the Church-robber a wild Boar the seducer a Serpent the traytor a viper c. then every one of them is unlike another Which yet is not all for let carnall men be at never so much ods one with another yet they will concur and joyne against the ●odly as for example Edom and Ishmael Moab and the Hagarius Gobal and Ammon Amaleck and the Philistins the men of Tyre and Assur had all severall Gods yet all conspire against the true God Psal 83. 5. to 9. Manasses against Ephraim and Ephraim against Manasses but both against Judah H●rad and Pilate two enemies will agree so it be against Christ they will fall in one with another to fall out with God the Sadduces Pharises and Herodians were sectaries of divers and adverse factions all differing one from another and yet all these joyne together against

is Satans mind in their mouth his heart in their lips 119. No possibility of beeing saved untill wee find our selves in a lost condition 32. Every Atheist upon occasion can seem a saint 146. Scandals are traps and ginns laid to destroy wicked men 75. while they scoffe at us God laughs at them 127. if they cannot seduce us they will traduce us 116. Signes of a wicked man 39. Sinne is so bred in the bone that it will never out of the flesh 52. the godly see sinne in all they speake think or do 8. but naturall men want eyes to see their sinnes 22. trouble for sin a good signe 78. the lesse sensible the more sick 33. naturall men will either deny their sins or justifie them or shift them off to some other 18. or by subtile distinctions make them no sinnes 18. petty sinnes no sinnes with them 19. they are never troubled for sinfull thoughts vain words c. 16. or for Sinnes of omission 16. the true Catholick hath a Catholick care of all sinne 92. a vast difference betweene the sinnes of the Godly and wicked in divers particulars 62. Sinne in the regenerate nothing but sinne in the unregenerate 65. the sinnes of the Godly and wicked so differ that in comparison the former are said not to sinne 63. where sinne now abounds grace may asmuch abound 48. to be the same alone and in publique a notable signe of sinc●rity 96. They slander us to mitigate their own shame 117. If we scruple small matters they say wee stumble at strawes and leap over blocks 82. but it is themselves that strain at gnats and swallow Camels 82. Six reasons of making conscience of smal sins 85. 87. 88. 89. 93. to scruple smal sins the best evidence of sincerity 95 examples of severe punishment for small sinnes 89. 90. least things great tryalls of a good conscience 92. hee that is unjust in the least will rather in the greatest 92. 93. the wages of the least sin is death 90. one sin will keep possession for Satan as well astwenty 91. no sinne small but comparatively 90. They speak evil of us because they cannot doe evill to us 120 or that they may have some colour to persecute us 120. or that they may incite others to do the like 121. The spirit only ●onvinces of sinne 34 36. How to know whether we be spirituall or no 14. They forestall the simple with strange surmises against the godly 125. If we refuse to sweare or drink with them we are puritans 81 T. A good signe to know the true religion by 12 to know the truth wee must become spirituall 4. the truthes adversa●ies pretend as great love to it as he● best friends 154. nothing must bee yeelded to that may prejudice the truth 108. some as deeply in love with vice and error as others are with vertue and truth 2 V. Why God permits his people to vary 6. The better vice is the worse it is 135. The uprightnesse of Lewis the 12t 126. W. The Waldenses cleared 126. God will not see weaknesses where he sees truth 36. Wicked men flint unto good wax to what is ill 105 they cannot but tell others that they are wicked 43. they honour us by deriding us 175. God in his accepts of the will for the work 66. We can do nothing without a million of witnesses 96 we may judge of men by their workes 41. and by their words 42. 43. it is only in Christ that we or our works are accepted 32. Z A description of Zeale 104. naturall men preferre a quiet prophanes before a Zealous devotion 106. FJNJS Errata The Reader is desired to expunge two lines and a halfe in page 31 beginning at the 22. line which by an over-●i●ht escaped and in page 137. line 5. for Herod-like read Pilate-like Other litterall mistakes and points misplaced there are which the reader may be pleased to beare withall