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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"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 9, 2024.
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1. First, by Testimonies: They shall hate and persecute you, yea, they shall excom∣municate and kill you for my Names sake, saith our Saviour to his Disciples, be∣cause they have not knowne the Father, nor me, John 16.2, 3. and 15.21. And again they are an offence unto us, because they un∣derstand not the things which are of God, but the things which are of men, Matth. 16.23. And are deceived, because they know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God, Matth. 22.29. Luke 19.42.
2. Secondly, by Examples and Rea∣son. This the Apostle confesseth to have been the cause of his persecuting the Church, 1 Tim. 1.13. Who so soon as he was inlightned with the saving knowledge of the truth, changed his note, with his name, and preached that faith, which before be persecuted, Its worth the noting, how he was no sooner in∣formed, but he was reformed. Now if we looke upon him as Saul, wee shall see what we are by generation; if wee looke upon him as Paul, we shall see what we are, or should be, by regene∣ration. Neither is it strange, that the world through ignorance, should hate and persecute the members of Christ:
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for upon the same ground, they even crucified Christ himselfe, Father forgive them, saith he of his murtherers, for they know not what they doe. And why have the Kings of the earth, in all ages banded themselves together against the Lord, and against his Christ, Psal. 22. But because they knew him not. John 15.21. For if the Princes of this world had knowne, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, as the holy Ghost speakes, 1 Cor. 2.8.
Alas poore ignorant soules, they did but imitate Oedipus: who killed his Father Laius King of Thebes; and thought he had killed his enemy. And what do the Cavaliers now, in killing the Saints? But as if one with his Hatchet, should cut off the bough of a tree; upon which hee standeth. For they are beholding to the Religious, for their very breath. Neither is their great plot, any other peece of policy; then as if the Sodomites, should make hast to turne out Lot and his Fa∣mily: that fire and brimstone may make hast, to destroy them. For as when Noah, and his Family were once entred the Arke, the Flood came and
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destroyed the first World, Gen. 7.11, 13. So the number of Christs Church be∣ing accomplished fire shal come down to destroy the second World, at which time, the Devill and all Reprobates shall be laid up in hell.
Oh the wickednesse, and witlesnesse of our Malignants! Methinkes the Parliament, may justly twit their un∣naturall Country: as Themistocles once did his Athenians, with these words: Are yee weary of receiving so many benifits by one Assembly. And cer∣taynly if ever it shalbe dissolved with∣out their consent, (which God for∣bid) it would faire with the causers of it, (mens eyes being opened) as it did with the Authors of Socrates his death: which I finde thus reported.
After that Socrates was put to death at Athens; Arastophones rehearsed a Tra∣gedy of his, concerning Palamides: at the hearing whereof, the people were so moved: that they presently fel upon the Authors of Socrates his death, and drew them forth to punishment.
But to return, to what we intend: If we consider it rightly, we shall find, that ignorance is the cause of all sin.
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Sin indeed at the first was the cause of ignorance, but now ignorance is the cause of sin: Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring abound, saith the Prophet, because there is no knowledge of God in the land, Hos. 4.1.2. It is a people that doe erre in their hearts. saith God, why? because they have not knowne my wayes, Psal. 95.10.
Notes
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A second cause is ignorance
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Proved 1. by testi∣monies.
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2 By ex∣amples.
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Wicked behol∣ding to the godly for their lives.
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Malig∣nants as witlesse as wicked.