Rea. 4 Further when two are at a great distance and neither do yield, buckle nor comply to, or with one another, there must needs be a great enmity: now saith our Saviour Christ you cannot love God and Mammon, you must love the one and hate the other, God will have no complying: and for this reason the Senate of Rome, as the Historians give it, would not acknowledge Jesus Christ to be a God, because he is such a one, (said they) as if we acknowledge him to be God, he will not let us acknowledge other Gods, other Gods will comply & be content we shall acknowledge others also, but for this Christ, if we acknowledge him we must acknowledge none other, now God is very ⟨p. 11⟩incomplying in all his ways therefore certainly God himself must needs have many enemies; & very deadly: Use. Hence we may see that it is no strange and new thing for us that are the people of God to meet with enemies: why should we be discouraged though we meet with enemies? Are we better then our Lord and Master? shall God himself have many enemies, and shall we think to have none? It was 1the complaint of a heathen man, I have enemies, his friend standing by gave him this answer, but that •s worse that thou hast no friends, though 2a man have many enemies, yet if he hath some faithful friends he may comfort himself thus, though I have most bitter and vile enemies, yet I have as ⟨p. 12⟩fast & sure friends: so that here is a further argument to shore up our unbelieving harts God himself hath many enemies.
Rea. 4 Further when two are at a great distance and neither doe yeeld, buckle nor comply to, or with one another, there must needes be a greate enmity: now saith our Sauiour Christ you cannot loue God and Mammon, you must loue the one and hate the other, God will haue no complying: and for this reason the Senate of Rome, as the Historians giue it, would not acknowledg Jesus Christ to be a God, because he is such a one, (said they) as if we acknowledg him to be God, he will not let us acknowledge other Gods, other Gods will comply & be content we shall acknowledg others also, but for this Christ, if we acknowledge him we must acknowledge none other, now God is very ⟨p. 11⟩incomplying in all his wayes therefore certainly God himselfe must needs haue many enemies; & very deadly: Vse. Hence we may see that it is no strange and new thing for us that are the people of God to meete with enemies: why should we be discouraged though we meete with enemies? Are we better then our Lord and Maister? shall God himselfe haue many enemies, and shall we thinke to haue none? It was 1the complainte of a heathen man, I haue enemies, his friend standing by gaue him this answere, but that •s worse that thou hast no friēds, though 2a man haue many enemies, yet if he hath some faithfull friends he may comfort himselfe thus, though I haue most bitter and vile enemies, yet I haue as ⟨p. 12⟩fast & sure friends: so that here is a further argument to shore up our unbeleeuing harts God himselfe hath many enemies.
- 1Inimices habeo
- 2sed pejus est quod amicos non habes.
