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A97246	The cure of misprision or Selected notes, upon sundry questions in controversie (of main concernment) between the word, and the world. Tending to reconcile mens judgements, and unite their affections. Composed and published for the common good : as being a probable means to cure prejudice, and misprision in such as are not past cure. / by R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1646 (1646)	Wing Y149; Thomason E1144_1; ESTC R208480	108,291	199

but not themselves without a glasse so they looke to others not to themselves and they have much the more quiet for so doing an evill conscience beeing like a bad wife that will either bee gadding abroade or scolding at home Sect. 26. But could I prevaile with these men I would wish them to be sure that what they heare of such a professor be true because First report and that from the Devils servants is not a witnes of sufficient credit to make them passe sentence upon a servant of God Indeede if thou wilt bee led by report no marvell that thou condemnest them to the pit of hell for thou shalt be told that such a puritane will not sell a pennie-worth of Aqua-vite upon a sabbath to save a mans life That another will refuse to receive mony npon a bond or morgage to day being the Lords day that he may take the forfeiture or a good round composition to morrow That another hath undone such a man by extortion and sutes and being desired to let him out of prison makes answer No hee shall rot there for he is a wicked man and it is Gods will I should punish him In fine thou shalt be told that all professors will ly and Cozen though they will not sweare and judge all to bee damned reprobates who are not of their own sect with a multitude of the like Every one of which reports is as true as that Naboth was a blasphemer of God and the King Ieremiah an enemy to the State Paul a polluter of the Temple Steeven a destroyer of the law all the Disciples deceivers and Christ himselfe a wine bibber a Sabath breaker a seducer of the people a Belzebub c. Which slanders were generally reported and confidently beleeved in their severall times as the like are at this present Wherefore go not by heare-say except thou lovest lyes more then the truth Yea in this case if thou didst but know what wicked and malicious hearts some have against the Godly and how full they are of the Serpents venom as being Satans seede and partaking of his nature thou wouldest acknowledge that report joyned with the relaters own oath that he saw it and knows the same to be true is too weake a ground whereon to build so heavy a sentence as the imputation of an hypocrite As I could instance from experience did not the scripture afford examples thereof as in the case of Naboth Steven our Saviour Christ c. But Sect. 27. 2. Secondly For I will yet goe farther with thee Suppose thou art an eye and an eare witnesse of one mans being drunke of anothers swearing or lying of a third convicted of adultry and the like Each of them making an holy profession and shew of godlynesse yet this is not a sufficient ground for thee to conclude they are Hypocrites for to conclude any man an Hypocrite for one or two single acts of impiety when the tenor and maine course of his life is a current of honesty and goodnesse is against the rules both of Divinity Physick Experience and Philosophie Yea if one or a few sinfull acts were a demonstrance of an Hypocrite what would become of those Champions and Worthies recorded in holy writ where we read that Noah was drunke that Lot committed incest that Abraham told lyes that Ioseph swore prophanely that Jacob used indirect meanes to get the blessing that Aaron mutined against Moses and made a molten Calfe for the people to worship that David committed both adultry and mu●ther that Peter denyed and forswore his master and the like of many other the deare Saints and servants of God My m●ttter leads me to produce these instances the better to aswage their malice and stop their mouths who are so rash and uncharitable in judgeing their brethren in the like cases Nor should I deal uprightly if I passed them over But I grieve to thinke what a desparate woefull and contrary use many of them will make of it for as sundry of St. Pauls hearers Spider like wrested his Epistles and other Scripture unto their own destruction 2 Pet. 3. 15. 16. So these being of a serpentine nature a●d Satan by his policie working upon their depraved judgements and corrupt hearts when they hea●e of the slips and falls of these holy men will ●o●thwi●h deco●kt the mercy of God into poyson and appl● them as presi●ents for imitation yea as warrants for their continuing in their evill courses For al●hough evill was never made to bee imitated but goodnesse yet they will follow them in what they did amisse imitate none of their vertues nor once take notice of their repentance And although God never intended one tittle of his word for a temptation yet what is recorded therein of the Saints falls and his unspeakable mercy in pardoning the foulest sins hath proved by accident the losse of many thousan● soules But let such know that there cannot be a more grosse and sottish delusion for what indeed is an argument of ●eare they make an argument of presumption in sinning and what they hope shall excuse them doth but more properly condemn them because they had that warning before them What Pilote that were in his right wits when he seeth Seamarkes purposely set to give warning of Rocks Sands Shelves where on others have made shipwrack will take occasion therby to run his Ship upon them So what wise man that tenders the safety of his owne soule when he heareth these examples which are recorded for our warning wil● not make them as so many monitors to warne him to take ●eed For if they being so godly had their slips and falls let him that thinketh he stands take heed least ●e fall Nor will any that have grace make their sinnes and the mercy of God in pardoning them any incouragement to goe on more securely in a sinfull course but rather a caveat aud a spurr to worke out their salvations with fear and trembling as the Apostle exhorts Phil. 2. 12. And whosoever doth otherwise is like w th that foolish builder Lu. 14 28. to 31. to come short of his reckoning For their falls are written to raise us up when we are downe nor to cast us downe when we are up And appointed for our consolation afterward not for one presumption before They sinned that thou mightest not presume they were pardoned that thou mightest not dispair Sect. 28. Besides there is a mighty difference between the same sinnes in thee and in them whom thou so uncharitably censurest Namely between entertaining an evill once and often between falling into sinne and wallowing in it like a filthy swine or continuing therein a long time Between an action and an occupation between sins of infirmity and the common practice of sinne Betweene that which we strive against and grieve for and that wherein our whole delight is Between hating what we doe and our selves for doing it together with griefe and sorrow afterward And being glad of it