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blood_n	drink_v	eat_v	saviour_n	5,467	4	7.4314	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53923	The best way to mend the world, and to prevent the growth of popery by perswading the rising generation to an early and serious practice of piety: with answers to the principal cavils of Satan and his agents against it, &c. By Samuel Peck, minister of the word at Poplar.	Peck, Samuel.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1034; ESTC R222715	74,034	180

fool he walks and looks as if he had neither life nor soul in him This saith Satan you must expect and meet with if you will be so precise and singular and can you bear this 1. Well be it so Yet to overcome this prejudice against Religion and the practice of it think who they be that are offended at your new course of life and well-doing They are the most vile contemptible people in the world that vilifie the wayes of God and sincere followers of his Son And it is most absurd and ridiculous in them to do it 't is as if a man should laugh at the shining of the Sun as if a crooked and deformed person should deride one that is straight and beautifull as if a company of Vassals should vilifie those that are at liberty Yea as if a company of condemned Malefactors should laugh at all that are not in the same condemnation And therefore their derisions and reproaches are not at all to be valued or taken notice of 2. Though you may be reproached for being good religious and holy by men yet you are most highly esteemed of God and most dearly beloved of Jesus Christ He esteems you as the most excellent persons here and will own you reward and crown you in the face of the proudest scorners at the last day Those persons you read of in Heb. 11. who were vilified and reproached as the Rubbish and Off-scowring of the world were the men saith the Apostle of whom the world was not worthy The World as highly as it thought of it self and as meanly as it judged of them was not worthy of their company and for whom God had provided some better thing than the world is Now having honour and Heb. 11. 38 40. esteem with God what need you value the reproach or scorn of men This is but the common lot of the righteous to be debased and vilified by the wicked Jeremiah not worthy to live David the song of the Drunkards Job an Hypocrite and St. Paul a pestilent fellow and mover of Sedition nay Christ himself who had no sin in his Nature and did nothing amiss in his Life was vilified and reproached beyond what you ever were or can be He was reputed an Impostor a cheat an enemy to Caesar a Blasphemer a Friend to Publicans and sinners a conjurer who cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of Devils And were Christ now on Earth the Hectoring Atheists and hellish Ishmaels of our time would mock and scoff at him For 't is not you but your godliness not you but Christ in you that they deride and vilifie Now what Christ said of persecution is true of derision If they persecute me deride me they will also persecute and deride you and surely if you have your Masters fare you have little reason to complain Moreover these men shall one day pay dear for their taunts and scoffs at the followers of Christ when he shall come in the Glory of the Father Matt. 18. 6. Jude v. 14 15. with his holy Angels to take vengeance on them for all their hard speeches against the godly When they shall wish their tongues had had as many blisters on them as their Jawes had teeth wish that their tongues had cleaved to the roof of their mouth yea that they had never been For they shall be now convinced Christ was the Butt they shot at through your sides who will now reward them for what they have done against you or said against you as said and done against himself And their bitter scoffings shall now be turned into hellish and eternal howlings Now they would lye at the feet of the meanest of you who are found holy in that day to share with you in your happiness if it might be Therefore when you have any thoughts or Motions of serving God and setting your faces Heaven-ward be not disheartened by this the reproaches of wicked men They are not to be regarded they did the same to Christ himself you are never the less but the more Esteemed and Beloved of God who will shortly convince the mad world who are the most worthy and render to them a full and just recompense of reward § 3. The Devil endeavours to quash all thoughts and purposes in young persons of being Religious by representing Religion as too difficult and hard for them Tells them that the way which is called holy is marvellous uneasie and paved throughout with difficulty As the disciples once said to our Saviour when they heard him declare Joh. 6. 60. himself to be the Bread of life and that they which did not eat his flesh and drink his blood had no part in him O say they this is an hard saying who can hear it So saith Satan to young men when they hear of the necessity of following Christ of the necessity of being Religious holy and walking circumspectly O this is a rough way who can walk in it There are many harsh sayings in Religion which you cannot hear many heavy yoaks which you cannot bear and many hard duties which you cannot do Can you endure to hear of renouncing the world mortifying the flesh and denying your selves your youthfull sports and pastimes and all innocent and necessary delights and Recreations To be tyed up to a strict austere precise life living like Diogenes in his Tub or an Hermit in his Cell never giving your selves liberty to please your selves in one sinfull action in one gracefull Oath gainfull Lye or wanton dalliance can you go bound hand and foot and tongue-tied all your days can you hear these sayings and truckle to these intolerable restrictions You can never bear it never brook it to continue constant in a way so difficult Is not the way you are in where you have all the liberty you can desire much better Are you not greatly imprudent to be bound who may go free Free from the severities of Religion and niceties of holiness which the way of wisdom is made up of and which all the followers of Christ must daily and hourly observe or else they can have no peace night or day Thus doth this hellish adversary by his wiles wind himself into the hearts of young persons that he may gain upon them and win them to his will to their eternall perdition if they yeild to him But to obviate so great an evil be alwayes prepared with these or the like Meditations 1. That the most difficult things are the most Excellent Difficilia quae pulchra difficulty implies excellency the way of Religion though difficult is excellent 'T is called a more excellent way 'T is 1 Cor. 12. ult Rev. 15. 3. Prov. 3. 17. Prov. 8. 32. Psal 110. 24 25. the way of truth and righteousness a way of peace and pleasantness a way of pleasure and delightfulness yea a way of glory and happiness And what difficulty will not men go through to obtain things excellent what hazards and hardships do men