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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10134	The righteous mans euils, and the Lords deliuerances. By Gilbert Primerose, minister of the French Church in London	Primrose, Gilbert, ca. 1580-1642.	1625 (1625)	STC 20391; ESTC S112004	181,800	248

betwixt man and beastes as betwixt the serpent and man the like disagreement and farre greater is betwixt the righteous and the wicked man for p Pro. 29.27 an uniust man is an abomination to the iust and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked These contrary inclinations had their beginning with the world and shall not have an end untill the worlds end God is justice and righteousnesse it selfe and the divell professed enmity against him from the beginning What wonder then if he bee an enemy to the righteous man who is but Gods creature As soone as man was created he seduced and supplanted him Then God proclaimed unreconcileable warre betweene them saying to the divell who was shrowded under the shape of a serpent q Gen 3.15 I will put enmity betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seede and her seed It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele The serpents seed is the brood of wicked men which have beene from the beginning namely those which persecute the Gospell The seede of the woman is our Lord Iesus Christ with the whole band of righteous men Iohn saw a battel in heaven r Rev. 12.17 Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his Angells Iesus Christ who onely is this Michael because he onely is like unto God and his Angels and Saints fought against the divell and all the hellish rabble of wicked men and of divells like unto himselfe There is no manifest cause knowne of the Antipathies and contrarietie of dispositions which are in nature but the causes of disagreement betweene the righteous and unrighteous man are knowne They flow from contrary springs and therefore their affections their actions their effects their ends are contrary Are not God and the divell enemies The wicked man Å¿ 1. Ioh. 3.8 is of the divell the righteous man t Ver 9. is borne of God Hence it is that the children beare out their fathers quarrell the wicked is hud-winked with ignorance v Ioh. 16.3 He knoweth no the Father nor the Sonne neither will hee know them x Psal 36.3 he will not learne to be wise that he may doe good y Ioh. 17.8 The righteous man knoweth surely that Christ is come out from the Father and beleeveth that the Father hath sent him a Rom 8 5 The wicked is after the flesh and therefore he minds the things of the flesh The righteous being after the spirit minds the things of the spirit The wicked mans workes are b Gal. 5.19 20 21. the workes of the flesh which are these Adultery fornication uncleannesse lasciviousnesse idolatry witcheraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murthers drunkennesse reuilings and such like The righteous mans works are c Ve. 22 23 the fruits of the spirit that is to wit Love ioy peace long suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance Where there is so great a contrarietie and repugnancie of affections of actions of workes what wonder if there be great enmitie The righteous man is light in the Lord and d Ioh. 3.20 every man that doth evill hateth the light neither commeth to the light lest his deedes should bee discovered for that cause hee hateth the righteous man as the Pharisees hated Iesus Christ because hee reprooved them of their vices The righteous man likewise hateth the wicked e Psal 139.21 22. Doe I not hate them O Lord saith David that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies When heat and cold moisture and drought hardnesse and softnesse light and darknesse shall leaue off to bee at variance then then shall the righteous and wicked man ioyne hands and enter into confederacy one with another f 2. Cor. 6.14 15 16. for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what communion hath light with darknesse and what concord hath Christ with Beliall and what part hath he that beleeveth with an Infidell and what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idolls In this discord there is this notable difference that the righteous man hateth rather the vice than the person of the wicked and seeketh by prayers to God by exhortations admonitions good examples to convert him whereas the wicked hateth both the vertues and the person of the righteous and seeketh to destroy him III. From thence it is that assoone as a man begins to apply his mind and heart unto righteousnesse Satan and the wicked world conspire to undoe him for like as g Dan. 3.16 17 18. Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury and the forme of his visage was changed against Shadrac Meshac and Habednego when to his face they refused to fall downe and worship the image which he had made and commanded that the furnace wherein they were to bee cast should bee kindled seuen times more than it was wont to be heat even so assoon as a man begins to draw his neck out of Satans coller to shunne the company of wicked men to draw neere unto God by repentance and newnesse of life and to register his name in the Church booke that he may be saved in the communion of the Saints Satan sets all his malice on a flame to devoure him and the wicked rush upon him with bill and claw to teare him in peeces For as theeves breake not into an house where there is nothing but straw hay stubble but onely into such places where there is gold silver precious stones and rich furniture so the divell and his limbes heede not rascals and scurvie fellowes but if any man bee a worshipper of God and doth his will they lye in waite secretly as a Lyon in his denne they hide the snare in his way they crouch they stoope to catch him into their net As soone as Christ was borne h Mat. 2.16 Herod became out of his wits seeking to slay him to teach us that as soon as we become Christians by a spirituall birth wee shall not have want of Herods to seeke our lives As soone as the i Rev. 12.3 c. red dragon saw rhe woman with child travelling in her birth and ready to be delivered hee stood before her that he might devoure her childe as soon as it was borne but her child being caught up unto God and she taking her selfe to her wings to save her life by flying into the wildernes he cast out of his mouth a floud of water to drowne her What was this vision but a type of the Church against whom the divell stirreth up a world of wicked men as so many waves of an overflowing river to swallow her up when after a long barrennesse she conceiveth againe and brings foorth children to God Then ye heare nothing amongst those blood thirstie butchers but crying k Ier. 11 19 Let us destroy the tree with the

chambers and shut thy doores about thee hide thy felfe as it were for a little moment untill the indignation be overpast Then wings are given her l Rev. 12.14 that she may flie into the wildernesse into her place from the face of the serpent and be nourished there for a time and times and halfe a time even for the time of Gods good pleasure Then having her backe turned to the world her face to God then being in her conjunction with Iesus Christ her Sun she possesseth in him a secret but a most cleer perfect light Then is fulfilled in her that which is written in the Psalmes m Psal 45.13 The kings daughter is all glorious within She remaineth not alwayes thus but after the few dayes of her vanishing out of the sight of the world like a bride coming out of her chamber shee rejoyceth to begin her race againe and to quicken with her light them that dwell in the valley of the shadow of death having nothing firme nothing constant in this world but the inconstancie of her unsteadfast estate As there is a vicissitude and interchangeable course of light and darkenesse of the day the night of Summer and Winter As n Eccles 1.6 9. the thing that hath bin is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall bee done and there is no new thing under the Sunne all things having in their inequalitie this equalitie that they goe and come like the wind which whirleth about continually from the South to the North and returneth againe according to his circutes So the Church of God so righteous men which are in the Church have their alterations changings from good to evill from evill to good and againe from good to evill from prosperity to adversity from adversity to prosperity by a perpetuall and most constant revolution till the great and long looked-for day of refreshing come and put an end to all our evills ingulfing them in the eternall joyes of heavenly goods And therefore David telleth us in our text by forme of history through his owne experience and fortelleth us by forme of prophecie that Many are the Evills of the Righteous But the Lord delivereth him out of them all II. Peruse all the ancient histories and yee shall finde that it hath ever been so The first man was scarcely come out of Gods hands and created after the likenesse of his maker when Satan tempted seduced overthrew and plunged him into an Ocean of evills and woes Then he might have wept because Many are the evills of the Righteous Look how soon he is cast down to the ground by Satans malice he is as soone lifted up by the mighty power of Gods hand and the mercifull promise of the seed of the woman Then he might have sung for joy because the Lord delivereth him out of them all The promise was a prediction of the vicissitude of evills and of goods shared to the Church o Gen. 3 15. I will saith God to the serpent put enmitie betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seede and her seede It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele The seede of the woman is Iesus Christ the righteous and the Church of righteous men with him and under him The serpent shall bruise the Churches heel Many are the Evills of the Righteous The seed of the woman shall bruise his head But the Lord delivereth him out of them all p Gen. 4.8.25 Cain killing Abel his righteous brother caused a heart-breaking sorrow to his righteous parents Adam Eue Many are the Evills of the Righteous God gave them another seede in stead of Abel whom Cain slew and they called him Seth But the Lord delivereth him out of them all When the world was drowned in a deluge of waters Noah was constrained to see all his kindred and all the children of God overwhelmed by the flood and to lie prisoner in the Arke with his familie q Gen. 8.13 the space of a yeare among all kind of beasts to save his life Many are the Evills of the Righteous At the yeares end God remembred him drying up the waters brought him out of that captivitie and r Gen. 9.9 established a new covenant with him But the Lord delivereth him out of them all Å¿ Gen. 12 1 4. Heb. 11.8 9 Abraham obeying Gods calling left his country his kindred and fathers house and went out not knowing whither hee went hee sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange countrey dwelling in tabernacles which hee removed from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people His wife was twice ravished the countrey people abused him his nephew Lot rewarded his good deeds with unthankfulnes with all this his wife was barren and hee had no children Many are the Evills of the Righteous In the middest of his afflictions as it were in the fit of an ague t Gen. 24 35. God gave him flocks and heards and silver and gold and camels and asses and men-servants and maid-servants in so great a number that v Gen. 14.14 he armed of his servants borne in his owne house three hundred and eighteene for the rescuing of Lot x Psal 105 14 15. God suffered no man to doe him wrong he rebuked Kings for his sake saying Touch not mine anointed and doe my Prophets no harme Hee constrained them to render him his wife undefiled he gave him a sonne in his old age to make him laugh But the Lord delivereth him out of them all God prophecied to Abraham that y Gen. 15.13 14. his seed should be a stranger in a land that was not theirs and should serve them and be afflicted by them foure hundred yeares So it was And so was averred this saying of David Many are the evills of the Righteous Heare also the prophecie of the Catastrophe And also that nation whom they shall serve will I iudge and afterward shall they come out with great substance So was it also But the Lord delivereth him out of them all When the people had taken possession of the Land of promise flowing with milke and hony how many times were they beaten vanquished subdued oppressed by the Philistines Amorites Moabites and other neighbors Many are the evills of the Righteous They cryed to God and he heard their requests he sent them men clothed with his Spirit which delivered them he gave them as many dayes of peace as they had of warre But the Lord delivereth him out of all Ye have heard in what troubles in what dangers in what disquiet and perplexities David lived a great while after he was anointed King of Israel and what afflictions he had in his owne familie ye know also what was the event of them all and that he spake by his owne experience when he said Many are the evils of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Ye have read