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A40659	A comment on the eleven first verses of the fourth chapter of S. Matthew's Gospel concerning Christs temptations delivered in XII sermons at St. Clements, Eastcheap, London / by Tho. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1652 (1652)	Wing F2421; ESTC R31517	55,746	204

Thirdly Man's Protection I say Man's Protection The words being spoken principally of Christ as a person and secondarily of him and his as they make up one mystical Body whereof Christ is the Head In which sense it will fall to the share of the meanest sincere Christian to come within the compass of this Angelical protection conceive him but the last joynt of the least toe of Christ's foot yet is he a lively member thereof and by the promise in the Text to be secured Angels are very handy to preserve Gods servants from danger Psal. 34.7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them Matth. 18.10 In heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven Their Angels that is deputed to their protection Thus such Pages and servants which wait on the young children of great persons are commonly called the childrens men and the childrens maids though their parents hired them and pay them meat drink and wages Angels are God's angels as he employeth them our angels as employed about us How then comes it to pass that many of Gods servants have such mischances even in their feet Mephibosheth a childe of five yeers old therefore the more innocent son to a good father and afterward a good man himself 2 Sam. 4.4 was lame of his feet by a fall from the arms of his fleeing nurse Reverend Doctor Willet with a fall from his horse Anno 1621 returning from London to his house so bruised his foot that it hastened his death Are the Angels of good men absent or impotent or sullen or sleeping when such mischances betide them No mischances can befal the godly Not chances because all things are ordered by divine Providence not mischances because all things work for the good of Gods children Know then that all promises of temporal preservation run with this tacite reservation in Gods bosome always provided that He in his infinite wisdom conceiveth not the contrary more conducing to his own glory for reasons best known to himself For this cause sometimes God countermands Angelical protection and ordereth that those heavenly spirits should in some cases suspend their attendance on men What shall we return to the Angels in recompence of their attendance about us seeing omne beneficium requirit officium All favours received require some duty returned Let not God's servants be ever found unthankful No worshipping of them which they themselves disavow Rev. 22.9 See thou do it not No praying to them whereof no promise precept nor precedent in Scripture But first make honourable mention of them give them their titles It is uncivil to speak of Gentlemen Knights Lords Dukes Kings without the additions of Worship Honour Grace Majestie So name Angels with their due Epithets Good angels contrary to evil angels Psal 78.49 Excelling angels Psal. 103.20 Holy angels Matth. 25.31 Angels of light 2 Cor. 11.14 Elect angels 1 Tim. 5.21 Such honour have all his Angels Secondly Learn Humility by them No better thanks can be given the Angels then if thou beest made the better by them Much was the condescension of Maximilian the Germane Emperour when at the Siege of a City he served in daily pay under our King Henry the eighth Hence that in the Grammar Meruit sub rege in Gallia understand Belgica But the distance is not so great between an Emperour and a King as between Angels and Men yet they without any regret attend on the servants of God Lastly Be thankful to God for them David knew as well as we what service the Angels performed for us yet it never troubled him what he should do in requital thereof whose thoughts were taken up to deserve an higher engagement Psal. 116.12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of salvation Amongst which benefits Angels protection was a principal Serve God and thou shalt satisfie the Angels for all their attendance about thee Come we now to behold the words as abused by Satan Here some will tax the devil for mis-citing the text because whereas David said Lest thou dash thy foot Satan inserts Lest at any time thou dash But though Satan accuseth us we will not accuse him without cause An Indefinite is equivalent to an Universal At any time though not literally expressed is vertually implyed in the words His grand fault in mis-alleadging the words is this That as Hanun 2 Sam. 10.4 cut off the beards and cloathes of David's Ambassadours in the middle so Satan cites this Scripture by halfs I confess not for number of words but for the sense thereof he leaves out a moytie of the text the most effectual and operative words therein which were not onely of the Commission at large but the Quorum viz. in all thy ways God promising his protect●on on no other terms but whilst men confine themselves to their Vocation Satan is an excellent Textuary and most knowing in Scripture He knoweth every Book Chapter Verse Word Syllable Letter in the Old and New Testament even in the Original Languages wherein they were written He needeth no Concordance alphabetically to finde out places who hath them all ad unguem But it is observable that in all the Scripture from Genesis to Revelation Satan knoweth not one text which tendereth comfort unto him Many are unto him doleful messengers of despair as that Heb. 2.16 He took not on him the nature of angels That Iude vers. 6. And the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day Many texts present him with sadness partly from his incapability of salvation for want of a Saviour partly from his impossibility to repent because of his implacable and invincible malice How far more happie is the poorest soul who though not book-learn'd hath onely a magazine of some select places and promises in Scripture gotten not onely by heart but in his heart whence he may apply consolation to his soul Satan may be cunning in Scripture but the Scripture cannot be comfortable to him It is not enough to hear Scripture alleadg'd in point of faith or fact but with the Bereans we must examine whether the things be so Five things herein must be enquired after 1. Is the thing alleadg'd in Scripture or no It is strange that many things by vulgar errour and common credulity pass for currant to be in Scripture when no such matter is to be found therein Many things are taken up by content without either weighing or telling them Ye have heard it hath been said Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy Matth. 5.45 But where is it said Thou shalt hate thine enemy Surely nowhere in Gods Word though some silly Jews might ignorantly suppose it there 2. If it be in Scripture Is it just so as they cite it