The cause and cure of ignorance, error, enmity, atheisme, prophanesse, &c., or, A most hopefull and speedy way to grace and salvation, by plucking up impediments by the roote reduced to explication, confirmation, application, tending to illumination, sanctification, devotion / by R. Younge ...
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The cause and cure of ignorance, error, enmity, atheisme, prophanesse, &c., or, A most hopefull and speedy way to grace and salvation, by plucking up impediments by the roote reduced to explication, confirmation, application, tending to illumination, sanctification, devotion / by R. Younge ...
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1648.
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Grace (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.
Salvation -- Early works to 1800.
Calvinism -- Great Britain.
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SECT. 35.
10. IT is their use to threaten the reli∣gious, as all the men of Sodome threatned just Lot, that they would deale worse with him then with the Angels, Gen. 19.9. Iehoram, Elisha, saying, God do so to me, and more also if the head of Elisha shall stand on him this day, 2 Kings 6.31. And thus Paul, before his conversion, breathed out threatnings and slaughter a∣gainst the Disciples, Acts 9.1, 2.
It were no living for godly men, if their hands were allowed to bee as bloody as their hearts. But men and Devills are under restraint of the Al∣mighty.
Neither are their words more swel∣ling, or their designes more lavish, then their atchievements be vaine, and their execution short. Benhadad sends great words unto the King of Israel, as if it were nothing to conquer him: but stay the proofe, Benhadad flyes, and Israel pursues. Commonly they that
least can doe, best cavill can, and make the greatest flourish.
However, it is well for the inno∣cent, that wicked men cannot keepe their owne counsels, as God fetcheth their thoughts out of their owne mouthes, many times, even against their wills, for the good of his Chil∣dren; as we may see in Esau, when hee purposed the death of Iacob; and in Saul, touching David; and in Iezabel touching Elisha; whose threats did preserve them, whom they meant to kill. The wisdome and power of God could have found evasions for his Pro¦phets, with their enemies greatest se∣crecy: but now they need no other meanes of rescue, then their own lips. And it is a mercy (deserving thanks) from God, that the lightning of an∣ger in a cruell mans eyes, gives us warning of the thunderbolt in his hand.
But this concernes us only, when we are threatned by the potent: in o∣ther cases, our best way will bee to stand it out: for many a foe hath spo∣ken bravely, who in the push hath made more use of his heels, then of his