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Darkest dungeon affliction all heroes10/10/2023 ![]() ![]() not because he is evill, but because he is so much better than himselfe, 1 Iohn 3.12. If God be a mans friend, that will be his enemy if they exercise their ma∣lice, it is where he shewes mercy: and indeed he refuseth to be an Abel, whom the malice of Cain doth not exercise (as Gregory speaks:) for it is an everlasting rule of the Apostles, He that is borne after the flesh, will persecute him that is borne after the Spirit, Gal. He that hath no grace himselfe, is vex∣ed to see it in another: godly men are thornes in wicked mens eyes, as Iob was in the devils because they are good, or because they are deerely beloved of God: If a mans person and wayes please God, the world will be displea∣sed with both. It is not enough for them to be bad them∣selves, except they raile at, and persecute the good. e, as re∣fuse to consort with them as they have done formerly.That we will no longer continue misera∣ble with them: they envie to see themselves casheired, as persons infected with the plague will scoffe at such of their acquaintan If a Convert comes home, the Angels wel∣come him with Songs, the devils follow him with uproare and fury, his old acquaintance with scornes and obloquie for they thinke it quarrell enough that we will no longer runne with them to the same excesse of riot, 1 Peter 4.4. Yea, the World and the Devill therefore hate us, because God hath chosen us. Neither can Gods love be injoyed, without Satans di∣sturbance. For god∣linesse and temptation are such inseparable at∣tendants on the same person, that a mans sins be no sooner forgiven, and hee rescued from Satan, but that Lion fomes, and roares, and bestirs himselfe to recover his losse. ![]() Regiments being the Subjects of two severall Kings, Satan and CHRIST, are governed by Lawes opposite and cleane contrary each to the other: whereby it comes to passe, that grievous temptations and persecutions doe al∣wayes accompany the remission of sins: That all men (as Austine speakes) are neces∣sitated to miseries, which bend their course towards the Kingdome of Heaven. IN the former Treatises I have proved, that there is a naturall enmity and a spiritual Antipa∣thy betweene the Men of the World, and the children of GOD betweene the seed of the Serpent, and the seed of the Woman. Why the Lord suffers his children so to be tra∣duced, and persecuted, by his and their ene∣mies: and first, That it makes for the glo∣ry of his power. ![]()
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