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A64281	The character of cruelty in the workers of iniquity ; and, Cure of contention among the people of God held forth in two sermons preached in the day of publick humiliation upon occasion of the late sad persecution in Piedmont / by Faithful Teate.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.; Teate, Faithful, b. 1621. Cure of contention among the people of God.	1656 (1656)	Wing T611; ESTC R26284	34,790	176

no lye their Conscience also bearing them witnesse in the Holy Ghost that they have great heavinesse and continuall sorrow in their heart that their Brethren according to the flesh are not such as themselves are as to grace and Priviledges Rom. 9.1 2 3. And yet for all this if any man will live godly in Christ Jesus hee must suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 Integrity is his guilt Innocence his Crime and this the Offence that he commits in that hee exerciseth himself to have a Conscience void of offence both towards God and towards all men Act. 24 16. So then because the willing Child receives the Fathers gift which the stubborn rejects with disdain though tendred to him upon equal terms yea though the other stand by and entreat him to accept what he hath accepted that he also may bee accepted even as hee is accepted because the Rebellious resolves to bee yet a Sinner therefore the innocent must bee a Sufferer 2 Thes 3.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O! how unreasonable are wicked men But though all this bee without Reason yet is it not without Use for 1 Wee may all see our naturall faces in this glasse wherefore the Apostle applies the Character of the wicked in this Psalm unto all that are in the state of Nature Rom. 3.9 10 11. by Nature we are All workers of Iniquity and so in as proximate a disposition as any others the Lord leaving us to our selves to eat up the people of God like bread such were some yea all of you and were sometimes alienated in your minds and enemies by wicked works Col. 1.21 And herein oh how hath God commended his love to us in that whilst we were such sinners Rom. 5.8 vers 10. yea such Enemies Christ died for us that hee should give his naturall body to bee bread for Paul that spake it and for many other Persecutors who did eat up his body mysticall as men eat bread Joh. 6.35 1 Cor. 1 i. 22 24. That the eating of the flesh and driking of the blood of a crucified Christ might be the cure of the eating of the flesh Jo. 6 54. and drinking of the blood of Persecuted Christians that as the latter was their great sin the former might be their great Salvation And hereby let us be the rather induced to pray as Christ wills us Matth. 5.44 for our Persecutors if among them there may be any chosen Vessell as was Saul and the more hopefully to blesse those that despitefully use us if possibly among such there may bee any belonging to the election of grace 2 Admire that the Lord of Sabaoth should yet leave us a seed Rom. 9.29 of that thinne crop of his Principall Wheat which all the ravinous Foules of the Air and greedy Dogs of the Earth even all the workers of Iniquity have ever conspired to devour who eat up Gods People like bread 3 Are you to suffer from the workers of Iniquity see then that you never suffer as the workers of Iniquity Happy are you when you suffer wrongfully for Christs name sake and are reproached for then the Spirit of God and of glory resteth on you 1 Pet. 4.14 But let none of you suffer as a Murtherer c as a busy-body in other mens matters verse 15. or as defiling the flesh or as despising Dominion or as speaking evil of Dignities Jude verse 8. And the rather because it is the guise of Persecutors as they do in Piedmont at this day to put the Saints into Bear-skins when they mind to bait them In regard of whom wee have the more need to make Davids Prayer Psa 5.8 Lead mee O Lord in thy Righteousnesse because of mine enemies because of mine observers make thy way straight before my face THe second point in this Character of their cruelty is their Ignorance and Folly They all have no knowledge for though Junius render this Interrogation by a positive assertion it cannot bee but that they should bee conscious c. because of the following vers viz. There were they in great fear c. yet I rather chuse with others to paraphrase this Interrogative by a Negative have they no knowledge i. e. they have no knowledge who may be said to bee void of Science though gall'd in conscience and are expresly charged to bee without understanding unplacable unmercifull Rom. 1.30 and yet knowing the judgement of God verse 32. Which sense as it is evidently consentaneous to other Scriptures for saith Christ Father forgive them for they know not what they do Luk. 23.34 And Paul saith had they known they would not have crucified c. as is aforesaid which the Lord therefore calls a kicking against the Pricks Act. 9.5 which thing no knowing man would bee drawn to do so is it not in the least incongruous to the genuine Analysis of this Psalm for whereas an Inquest is made in the second verse First Whether there were any that did understand or Secondly Seek God so is there an evident Return made in the Negative in this fourth verse First That they have no knowledge which appears by their eating up of Gods People like bread Secondly That they call not upon the Lord. And indeed well may the Interrogative bee resolved by a Negative for first They know not themselves nor secondly Those they persecute thirdly They know no cause for what they do and yet fourthly They know no bounds or measure in the doing of it First When the wicked which are but Gods sword and his hand Psa 17.13 14. have permission from God to take the sword into their own hands They either know not or act as if they knew not themselves to be men Psa 9.19 Exod. 5.2 or the Lord to bee God their heart is lifted up like the heart of Tyrus and they say they are God though they must dye like men Psa 82.7 and fall like one of the Princes yea though they bee men and not God yet they set their heart as the heart of God Ezek. 28.2 They say also how doth God know and is there knowledge in the most High Psal 73.11 Ah! there is no knowledge in them or else they would never ask such a question They are Gods Rod but know it not Isa 10.5 neither doth their heart think so vers 7. wherefore they shake themselves against him that lifted them up as if they were not combustible Wood. vers 15. Ah! little do they know what God will do with his Rod vers 17. when hee hath done with his Children and performed as 't is said vers 12. his whole work upon Mount Sion and on Jerusalem or what hee will do with his wash-pot Psal 60.8 when hee hath scoured his houshold Vessells Therefore they say their tongues and their hands and their swords are their own who is Lord over them Psal 12.4 〈◊〉 this he that sits in the heavens laugheth the Lord hath them in derision Psa 2.4 Yea when they

give strength to his poor Jam. 1.26 27. Psa 29.11 weak people abroad and blesse his people at home with Peace So Prayes Your Highnesse most humble Servant Faithful Teate TO THE SONS OF VIOLENCE Yee Men of Belial THe God of Peace hath sent mee this day to proclaim war against you for waging war with his People who will shortly bruise you with Satan your Leader under his feet except you speedily humble your selves under his Mighty hand Furie is not in him who would set up Briers and Thorns in battell against him Isa 27.4 5. Hee would go through them and burn them together or let them take hold of his strength that hee might make Peace with him for them and hee shall make Peace The Lord is a man of War The Lamb is a Lyon who ever hardned himself against God and prospered Your Fathers where are they and the Persecutors do they live for ever Verily nay The Lord hath sworn that hee will have war with Amalek continually Exod. 17.16 Psal 55.23 and that bloodie and deceitfull men shall not live out half their dayes Agree therefore with your Adversarie quickly whilst you are in the way Kisse the Son lest he bee angry and yee perish for hee cometh Psal 9● 13 for he cometh to judge the Earth Slight not the Alarm though it be but a Child that blows the Trumpet THE CHARACTER OF CRUELTY In the workers of Iniquity PSALM 14.4 Have all the workers of Iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat Bread THis day of Humiliation is as the day of Hezekiah 2 Kin. 1.3 a day of trouble and of Rebuke and Blasphemy His practise therefore may bee our president who 1. Draws up a bill of Complaint against the Adversaries of Gods People or rather takes it as drawn put to his hand and spreads it before the Lord. vers 14. 2. Prefers a Bill of Petition in behalf of the People of God vers 19. Now therefore O Lord our God! save c. Thus with a Bill in each hand up hee marcheth unto the house of the Lord knowing that the way to prevail against the Esaus of the world is to prevail as did Israel vers 14 15. c. with God first Go you therefore this day and do likewise Spread before the Lord the sad Tydings that are come from the persecuted Vallies The Lilies whereof are among Cruel Thornes And say with Hezekiah Now therefore O Lord our God save c. This Psalm or Maschil Psal 53.1 i. e. Psa ● Psalm of Instruction for its singular use penned twice over by David may bee your directory in this your Duty Consisting 1 Of Complaint against the fool the abominable workers vers 1. The men void of understanding vers 2. The filthy transgressors and evill Doers verse 3. Unto which our Text is added to shew how sinners fill up the measure of their sins all way adding iniquity to iniquity even drunkennesse with the blood of Saints unto their thirst after other sins for as the Anthropophagi the Man-eaters are the most abominable with men so are these Hagiophagi these savage Saint-Eaters in the Eyes of the Lord. Wherefore 2. The Psalmist turns his bill of Complaint into a Bill of Supplication in the last verse being none other than the very Petition which I am perswaded you are on purpose Assembled to preferre before the Lord this day viz. Oh! that the salvation of Israel were come out of Sion Our Text is part of the former part of the Psalm viz. the Inditement which according to form is preferred in the Kings Name The crimes are alledged to bee against the Honour and Dignity of God himself in the first vers For proof of the Accusation Application is made to the judge of the Bench as an Eye-witnesse of the matter of fact vers 2 3. The Lord looked down from the heaven to see c. Now in this fourth verse which is our Text seeing the Judge is himself invoked and cannot but attest the crimes hee riseth up as Ahashuerus upon Esters complaint that shee and her people were sold to destruction Esth 7.4 saith the King who is hee and where is hee that durst presume in his heart to do so As if hee should say is there any man so imprudent any so impudent as to presume in his heart to do so so saith God here Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread Do they understand themselves no better Have they no more wit then so Have they banished all prudence from them Doth nothing but furious rage dwell with them Hath cruel passion thus put out the eye of their reason and that they might bee the more tyrannous towards others have they thus begun their Tyranny upon their own souls surely they would never behave themselves so strangely Deut. 32.27 were there any understanding or Counsell in them Have they no knowledge of MEE or of MINE that they dare presume in their hearts to do as they do Have they nothing to eat as bread but the Apple of mine eye No people to make a prey of but my people mine by Choice by Calling by Covenant by Purchase by Self-Resignation on their part and gracious obsignation on my part my called faithfull chosen ransomed sanctified sealed Servants Have they none other to make bold withall but these they must bee biting and not onely biting but eating and not onely eating but eating up and have they no knowledge how dearly they must pay for these stolen morsells of this sweet breed Ah! if they knew the people of God and who it is that saith unto them Touch not mine annointed Psa 105.15 for who so toucheth them toucheth the apple of mine eye Zech. 2 8. they would sooner choose to feed on their own flesh then on this bread but now hereby I know they have no knowledge This wisdome none of the Princes of the world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2.8 or cut off Messiah the Prince as t is expressed Dan. 9.26 nor have eaten up his people as it is in the Text. Where then is the wise where is the scribe 1 Cor. 1.20 where is the learned of this world sith all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge where is the Ahitophel and where are the crafty Counsellors Psa 83.3 where are the persecutors that say of the Saints come let us deal wisely with them as Exo. 1.10 Surely if wee plough with the Lords heifer wee shall soon find out this Riddle The wisdome of this world is foolishnesse with God 1 Cor. 3.19 and however wise they may bee to do evil yet have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up Gods People like bread The instruction is That Folly and Fury and the extremity of both is notoriously manifest in that spirit of