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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Younge, Richard.
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Printed at London :: By R.I. for N. Brook ...,
1648.
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Grace (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.
Salvation -- Early works to 1800.
Calvinism -- Great Britain.
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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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67743.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2025.

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SECT. 42.

6 IT is usuall with them to hurt and maime the godly:* 1.1 as the whole Congregation of the Children of Is∣rael would have served those true hearted Spyes, for seeking to appease the tumult, and speaking well of the Land of Cana, had not the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, Numb. 14.10. Thus the Philistims put out Sampsons eyes, when they had bound him, Iudg. 16.21. and thus the Iewes of Aniochia and Ico••••m hurt Paul, when they toned him, and drew him out of the City, supposing he had beene dead, Act. 14.19. Neither have succeeding ages wanted Alexanders,

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who have done much hurt to Gods people: for not seldome when reason and railing failed, have they come to plow-mans Logick, Gun-powder arguments, open violence, taking up swords to strike, or stones to cast at us, though they incurre by it the danger of the Law. Whereas religion makes wild beasts civill; Atheisme, and Im∣piety makes of wise meu beasts and ools. How many have been known, like him in Esop, who willingly lost one eye, that his fellow might loose both.* 1.2

Yea, whereas the drift of such an ones preaching, in case he be a mini∣ster, is to make them like him, in whose name they preach: contrarily, the very word of God, by accident, makes them degenerate into stockes and stones: for hearing but their sins layd open, and the judgement due thereunto, they become so stupid and in sensible of reason, that now, maugre all admonition, the quarrell must end in blood: Yea, away with such a fellow from the earth, for it is not meet that he should live, Acts 22.22.

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