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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]
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Younge, Richard.
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devise such cruell tortures for all those that but profest themselve Christians This made Ahab so hate Eliah that there was not one Kingdom or Nation where he had not sent to take away his life 1 King 18.10 And this made the Papists dig many of our choice Ministers out of their graves that they might the better curse them with bell bock and candle Yea ask from East to West from one Pole to the other search all records under Heaven if ever there was the like of the intended Powder plot Neither does this hatred extend it self to this or that person alone but to the whole generation of the godly as is well exprest Psal 83. Come let us cut them off from being a Nation and let the Name of Israel be no more in remembrance ver 4 12. And the like we see in Haman whose hatred to Mordecai was so deadly that he thought it too little to lay hands on him only except he destroyed all the Jews his people that were throughout the whole Kingdom of Ahashuerosh Esth 3.5 6. For the effecting whereof he offered ten thousand tallents of silver into the Kings treasury ver 9 13. And of his minde was Herodias who preferred the head of John Baptist before the half of Herods Kingdom And such another was cruell Arundale Archbishop of Canterbury who swore he would not leave a slip of professors in this Land And the world is no changeling for this age hath but too many such Hamans and Arundales who so hate the children of God that they wish as Caligula once did of the Romanes that they had all but one neck that so they might cut it off at a blow were it in their power As why are not our Sanctuaries turned into shambles and our Beds made to swim with our blouds but that the God of Israel hath crossed the confederacy of Balack and their wickednesse doth not prosper For their studies are the plots of our ruine and the best they intend is the destruction and overthrow of Religion or the religious or both Matth. 24.9 Joh. 16.2 Yea their enmity and hatred is so virulent and bitter that were their power answerable to their wils and malice the brother would betray the brother to death the father the sonne and the children would rise up against their parents and cause them to die the kinsman against the kinsman and the friend against the friend only for professing Christs Name and being religious as himself affirms Matth. 10.34 35 36. Luk. 21.16 17. Neither is it strange for this was one of the ends of Christs coming into the world as appears Matth. 10.34 35. where himself saith Think not that I am come to send peace but the sword meaning between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman for I am come to set a man at variance against his father the daughter in law angainst the mother in law and a mans enemies shall be they of his own houshold Luk. 12.51 52 53. Neither want we presidents of this For by whom was upright Abel persecuted and slaine but by his own brother Cain who scoft at righteous Noah but his own son Cham by whom was that vertuous and religious Lady Barbara put to death for imbracing the Christian faith but by her own father Dioscorus who made Serena the Empresse a Martyr for her faith in Christ but her own husband Dioclesian who helped to burn Bradford but Bourne whose life he had formerly saved And lastly By whom was our Saviour Christ betrayed but by his own Disciple Judas CHAP. XIX VVHerein consists their unlikenesse and contratiety Convert Minister There be more differences between the children of God and the children of the devil then there are between men and beasts But principally they differ in their judgements affections and actions How they differ in their judgements and affections I have shewn upon another occasion How in their actions and practice which occasions the greatest strife and discord I will acquaint you as briefly as I can There is nothing more common then for all sorts and kindes of men to hate scorn persecute reproach revile accuse slander and condemn the religious because their own works are evil and wicked and the others good holy and righteous As whâ—râ—fore slew Cain his brother saith S. John but because his own works were evil and his brothers good 1 Joh. 3.12 Why was Joseph accused of his Mistresse for an adulterer and thereupon committed to prison but because he would not be an adulterer like her Gen. 39 yea it was his party coloured coat composed of all kinds of graces and blessings that formerly procured his bretherens hate And what is it that Jobs wife expostulates with him about but his integrity as if she took it ill that he took it no worse his patience made her impatient Wherefore was holy David as himself complains almost in every Psalm had in derision hated slandered reviled contemned and made a proverb and song of the drunkards and other wicked man which sate in the gate but because he followed the things that were good and pleasing unto God and in him put his trust Psal 11.2 and 22.6 7 8. and 37.14 and 69.10 11 12. And lastly for I might be endlesse in the prosecution of this Why were all the just in Solomons time had in abomination and mockt of the wicked but because they were upright in their way and holy in their conversation Prov. 29.27 Or those numberlesse Martyrs whose souls S. John saw under the Altar Revel 6.9 killed but for the word of God and for the testimony which they maintained And the Master himself not for any evil as themselves are forced to confesse Mar. 7.37 Which examples sufficiently prove that that great Dragon the Devil and these his subjects are wroth with none but the woman and the remnant of her seed which keep the commandements of God and have the testimony of Jesus Revel 12 17. All was quiet at Ephesus before St Paul came thither but then there arose no small strife about that way Acts 19.23 c. A wolfe flies not upon a painted sheep we can with delight look upon the picture of a Toad It is your active Christian that is most spighted and persecuted As how many with us may complain with Jeremy that because they live a godly life themselves and call upon others to do the same they are cursed of every one and counted contentious Jer. 15.10 It faring with many as it did with Caius Selius of whom the heathen were woâ—t to say that he was a good man but he was a Christian Yea let but a spâ—â—k of fervent devotion break out in a family all the rest are up in clamours as when bells ring disorderly every one is ready with his bucket to â—â—ench the fire disgraced he must be for a puritane but only by Laodiâ—eans Indifferency strives to dash zeal out of countenance And the reason is wheresoever Christ comes there will