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A09462	Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1604 (1604)	STC 19747.7; ESTC S4051	89,009	206

in the world that the diuell can carrie a man or woman from one countrey to another if God giue him leaue but so as he cannot do it with such celeritie and expedition as men imagine Some foolishly thinke he can carrie one many hundred miles in an houre which is a thing impossible for such a violent motion would stop a mans breath as we see if a man fall from the toppe of an high steeple his wind is gone ere he come halfe the way to the ground Againe hence we see that the diuell may by Gods permission haue power ouer the bodies of godly men and those which haue greatest graces and strongest faith in God For seeing he had power ouer the bodie of Christ to transport it from place to place by the permission of God why may he not if God giue him leaue haue power of any mās bodie though he be neuer so true a beleeuer If he had power in the head why not in the mēbers if he had power to annoy Iob to kill his childrē destroy thē though they were no doubt the holy seruants of God why may not the diuell haue power ouer our bodies to carie a mā frō one place to another If the Diuell could by Gods permissiō tormēt the bodie of one that was a daughter of faithfull Abraham and euen 18. yeares afflict her so as she was bruised and bowed together by Satan then no doubt he can do the lesse to remoue mens bodies from place to place And this may serue to admonish those who thinke their faith is so strong that the diuel cannot annoy thē or any way bewitch them But if the diuell haue power by Gods permission to torment the bodies of the faithfull yea to destroy the bodies of Iobs childrē who no doubt were the true seruants of God he may if God giue him leaue bewitch the godliest man that liueth For we know what the holy Ghost faith that all things fall out and all things come alike to good and bad and there is no difference in outward things oftentimes betweene the children of God and the wicked To the holy citie That is Ierusalem Luk. 4. 9. Now this citie was called holy for sundrie causes First because in Ierusalem was the temple of the Lord where were the sacrifices and other ceremonies prescribe● by God for his own worship Secondly i● the temple they had the law of God and the bookes of Moses and the Prophets read an● expounded vnto them Thirdly becaus● Ierusalem was a mother Church frō whenc● religion did flow and was dispersed into many places of the world Now for these considerations Ierusalem is called the holy citie This church at Ierusalem though it hao many corruptions in it yet our Sauiour Christ cals it holy and it was a true Church of God Then hence I conclude that the Church of God in England though there be in it many blemishes corruptions yet may it be and in truth is the true Church of God For the Church of God in England is proprotionable to the Church at Ierusalē for as they had Moses and the Prophets read and expounded so haue we nay we haue the Gospell now soundly preached which they then had not in so plaine and plentifull manner as we haue They had the Sacraments of the old Testament so we haue Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. Their Church was a mother church to deriue Religion to many other and though our Church cannot be called a Mother church yet it may be truly called a nourcing Church to many neighbour churches round about vs. As Christ and his Apostles did not therfore separate themselues or refuse to ioyne with them in the seruice of God because of the corruptions in this church at Ierusalem but did teach and preach in the Temple so none may therefore separate themselues and refuse to ioyne with the people of God in his seruice and worship because of some few corruptions that remaine in it Nay such as for these do separate themselues from Gods people do cut themselues from Christ himselfe seeing they seuer themselues from the Church of God If any shall say that the church of Rome is the true Church of God as well as the Church of Ierusalem seeing the Romish church hath as many priuiledges as the Church at Ierusalem I answer By examining the particulars it will appeare to the contrarie As first the Church of Rome braggeth that she hath her succession from the Apostles but I answer succession from persons without succession in the Apostles doctrine can be no true note of the Church Secondly the Church of Rome hath the sacrament of Baptisme yet that proues he● not the true Church for in Samaria they had the Sacrament of circumcision and so in other places and yet it cannot be proued that they were the true Churches of God Besides I answer the church of Rome hath baptisme no otherwise then a theefe hath a true mans purse now it cannot be said that a theefe is therefore a true man because he hath a true mans purse Lastly though the Church of Rome haue the outward baptisme yet she in doctrine ouerturnes the inward baptisme namely the true imputed iustification and inherent sanctification of Christ by the spirit 3 The Church of Rome holdeth the Apostles Creed but it is onely in word for the truth is their God whome they worship is an Idoll and their Christ is a false counterfeit Christ forged by their owne braine as may appeare to all that will search their doctrine 4 She saith that they hold the word of God and the writings of the Apostles but it will appeare in their writings that they hold it but in shew not in truth for in the maine grounds of religion they ouerturne the doctrine of the Prophets Apostles Againe they hold the Scriptures but as a lanthorn holds the candle not for it selfe but for those that passe by so the Church of Rome haue the word of God not for themselues but for the good of Gods children which euer lye hid in the middest of Poperie 5 She brags that she is the mother-church of many Churches I answer we must consider that citie as Rome is and as Rome was the old Rome which was in the time of Paul was the true Church of God but as for that old Rome it is dead and buried and this new Rome is that whore of Babylon no mother-church but a cruell step-mother to Religion By al this we may see that the present church of Rome is no Church of God but onely in name and outward shew And seeing that the Diuell tempts our Sauiour Christ in the holy citie we learne that there is no place so holy but the Diuell can broach his temptations in it as we may see Zach. 3. 1. 2. and therfore this condemnes that dotage and sorcery of the Church of Rome who teach that their charmed holy water their

Scripture roundly as wel as he And therfore we must be wary how we entertaine doctrines of heretikes and false teachers though they seeme to proue them by the Scriptures for the Diuel he hath his scriptum est it is written as ready as may be But we must learne to proue the spirits that is the doctrines of men whether they be of God or not 1. Iohn 4. 1. lest the Diuel and wicked men deceiue vs for we see here how the Diuel can alleage Scripture and that fitly for his purpose And it is the subtil practise of the diuel to alleage Scripture that so he may perswade men to receiue his damnable doctrines and become heretickes and scismatickes And to this end he doth grosly abuse the Scriptures yea when he would perswade men to liue in sinne he hath his Scriptum est very ready and can tel them At what time soeuer a sinner doth repent him of his sinne he shall haue mercie and truly by his abusing of Scripture he preuailes with many The wordes which the diuell alleageth are taken out of the fourescore and eleuenth Psalme the eleuenth verse For he shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee in all thy wayes c. Now the Diuell in alleaging and propounding the words is very precise and sheweth himselfe very carefull in repeating of the words in so much as he will not leaue out no not this particle For which might well haue bene left out Yet in the end he stickes not to leaue out a whole clause which is the maine point and ground of Gods promise namely this to keepe thee in all thy wayes Where we may see how the diuell doth most vil●ly abuse the Scriptures of God and it is vsuall with him in his allegations to put in or to put out something or some way or other to depraue them or to corrupt the sense and meaning of the Scriptures to serue his owne turne And as this is the diuels manner in his alleaging and dealing with the Scriptures so do the Papists as his scholers For though in word they hold the Scriptures yet it is vsuall with them to put in or leaue out or by some meanes to corrupt and depraue thē in the sense and meaning as might be shewed by example Well seeing the diuell is so skilfull in the Scriptures and can alleage them so readily and so fitly for his purpose and withall is so malicious to mince them and depraue them it should make all men to studie the holy Scriptures that so we might be acquainted with them and be able to disclose and to descry Satans fallations and subtilties and we should wish with Moses that all the Lords people could prophecie But especially the Ministers of the word they must labour to be thorowly acquainted with the booke of God to obserue euen the circumstances of the text else the diuell will cast a mist before their eyes and beguile them with his subtill fallations and therefore they must do as Ezechiel did eate vp the book of God And that we might not perceiue Satans subtilties and deceit he labours to keepe men in ignorance of the word and by all meanes to haue the Scriptures hid and darke and if it were possible to root out the schooles of learning and that the Bible might be burned And as he preuailes in Poperie to bring men to this that all religion and the Scriptures might hang on mens deuises and mans learning as they do in Poperie ground all vpon Lumbard the maister of the Sentences and barre the common people from the Scriptures locking them vp in an vnknowne tong so with Christians he taketh the like course for he perswades them that the Scriptures are hard to be vnderstood and very obscure and troublesome and therfore he drawes men● minds from the studie of them to reade the writings of men because they seeme to be more pleasant and delectable that so 〈◊〉 being not acquainted with the text might not descrie his deceipts and subtilties Againe seeing the diuell can alleage the word of God and say It is written and that he can bring in Scripture fit for his purpose what a shame is it for Christians if they do not labor so to know the Scriptures of God that they may alleage them as occasion shall serue that not as some do to heape place vpon place without all reason but to alleage them fitly and to the purpose Lastly seeing this is a diuellish and satanicall practise in alleaging the Scriptures to depraue and corrupt them to leaue out and put in at his pleasure it must warne vs that when we are lawfully called we do speake and vtter the words of other men euen all no more but all neither putting to them nor taking from thē and that without changing their words or the sense and meaning of them He shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee The true sense of the place is this that the Lore had a speciall care of his people and when he sent any iudgement vpon the Israelites he gaue them this comfortable promise that in the middest of all their troubles he himselfe would protect them And as this promise was made to them so it is generall to the whole Church of God and belongs to vs. For in all common iudgements and calamities the children of God which walke in his waies shal be sure to haue protection and securitie for the Angels of God by his appointment do hold them vp as it were in their hands In which words there is a comparison taken from nurses who hauing children committed to their care do hold them very charily and tenderly in their hands and dare not let them go out of their armes euen so the Angels of God by his appointment become euen as nurses to his children in all their lawful wayes and do attend vpō them and are very carefull to protect them from danger so long as they keepe themselues within the compasse of Gods word It is true indeed that iudgement begins at the house of God and he often afflicts his dearest children to trie their faith and patience yet is is most certaine that in commō calamities the children of God shall haue protection and security yea the Angels of God as it were nurses shal hold them in their hands and defend them so long as they keepe themselues in the wayes of God and within the compasse of his will in his word But if they leaue the way of Gods commandements and wāder in by-paths and go out of their lawfull callings they haue no assurāce of Gods protection neither haue Gods Angels any charge to watch ouer them Seeing then God hath made so mercifull a promise of protection to all them that walke in his wayes and within the compasse of his commaundements it should warne vs all to beware how we go out of our wayes and lawfull callings but that we studie the law of God and as we looke for