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A19037	The parable of the vncleane spirit pithily opened, and plainly applied; wherein is shewed Sathans possession, his dispossession, and repossession. A worke needfull for these secure times, in which the most neglect the meanes oftheir salvation. Preached, and now published, by Edmund Cobbes minister of the Word of God.	Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3.	1633 (1633)	STC 5454; ESTC S116664	66,367	214

stop the devills mouth For if wee studie to please men rather than God then wee cannot be the servants of God Let us then couragiously shew our selves on Christs side by taking his part against the enemies of his truth because there is no peace to be expected with Sathan or his instruments unlesse it be upon dishonourable conditions Sathan is like to Nahash the Ammonite that would not 1 Sam. 11 make a league with the men of Iabesh Gilead unlesse hee might put out their eyes so Sathan will not admit of any conditions unlesse he may coole our zeale and hinder us in the meanes of our Salvation and therefore wee had neede to stand upon our guard for if hee prevaile hee will leade us captive unto sinne and inthrall our bodies and soules to miserable bondage and therefore let us shew our selves valiant and encourage one another as the Philistins did and quite our 1 Sam. 4 selves like men and fight it out away with base cowardice wee shall prevaile Sathan hath no power but from God nor is able to molest us without his permission to incourage us to fight let us remember hee is but a vanquished slave Christ our Captaine hath overcome him Heb. 2. 14. with all his ayds the world Ioh. 16. 33. the flesh Rom. 8. 1. Againe he hath promised wee shall prevaile and that if we resist the divell he shall flie from ●m 4 7. us and hath promised to tread him under foot Rom. 16. 26. as hee hath beene by the godly before us 1 Ioh. 2. 14. This is a point necessary to bee considered in our dayes wherein Sathan and his instruments so much prevaile over Gods people abroad the consideration hereof makes many a poore soule stagger as if God had cast off the care of his people and therefore they discourage themselves with needelesse feares and begin to fawne and curry favour with Sathan and his instruments Papists Atheists and the like as if God were like to have the worst and his Children were like to goe to the wall But let us renew the battell for Christ seemes to ●ll from heaven as Iehu once Who is ●n my side Who Let us then cry to ●od for helpe and manfully use those ●eapons hee hath sanctified for that ●urpose the word which is mighty ●rough God to the pulling downe of ●rong houlds 2 Cor. 10. 4. The shield of ●aith whereby we shall be able to quench ●ll the fiery darts of the wicked Ephe. 6. ●6 And remember above all things ●hat it is not enough to fight with Gods weapons unlesse wee borrow his Arme and therefore when wee prevaile let him have the glory Psal 50. 51. 2. This doctrine is usefull for terrour to all Sathans instruments that march under his colours against Gods Children they doe but loose their labour and kicke against the prickes for God must prevaile and will disappoint all his enemies of their hopes and let the world see they doe but loose their labour and plucke downe vengeance upon their soules for God will speake to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore dispeasure Psal 2 5 And thus much for Sathans departure and demeanour when he is gone He walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none Then he saith I will returne into my Vers 44. house from whence I came out when he is come he findeth it empty swept and garnished Wee are now come to the second generall point propounded wherein we are to observe Sathans diligence to regaine his former possession and to examine the reasons that induce him thereunto Then he saith I will returne to my house The divell being ignorant of Gods secrets and so not knowing whose names are written in the Booke of life hopes to gaine the day upon the best of Gods Children and if he cannot prevaile hee will not cease to be an enemy but will come on with more and more malice and if he cannot prevaile by policie hee will see what he can do by furie Then he saith I will returne In the words observe these particulars 1. Sathans undaunted resolution contained in these words I will returne 2. The Terminus ad quem or place whither To my house which hee exemplifies by the affection he beares to it My house whence I came out 3. The reasons that induce him to make his re-entrie and they are described by 3. adjuncts 1. The house is emptie Emptie Per pigritiam et negligentiam 2. It is swept 3. It is garnished Wee will first endeavour to free the words from obscurity and then according to the method proposed gather such instructions as naturally arise He findeth it emptie Ob. What is meant by this An. To be empty is to be voyd of faith and hee that hath no faith is also empty of good works For true faith is never alone though in the worke of justification it justifies alone without any dependencie of good workes yet in the declaration and manifestation thereof it is alwayes joyned with good workes Iam. 2. which are inseparable companions of faith But hypocrites are empty of faith the mistresse and good workes the handmaide and so being empty of both they are fit places for Sathan to set up his rest 2. He findeth it swept Ob. What Swept Per consuetudinem peccati is meant hereby An. Hypocrites content themselves with a little counterfeit repentance and to make shew of a little humiliation for the sinnes which the world takes notice of These are swept over slightly and superficially with the besome of hypocrisy but the sinnes of profit and pleasures these are baked on but if wee will be a swept house for God then all our darling and pleasing sinnes must be scraped and pa●ed away by greater labour than ●weeping A stayned and defiled cloth ●s not easily made cleane there must bee washing and cleansing and great paines An old inveterate sore saith the wise man troubleth the Physitian So old inveterate sinnes which are baked and caked to our nature will not easily bee sweeped away it is a hard matter to bring men to repentance which are dyed in graine in sin there must be much scraping and digging to cast out this filth sweeping will not serve the turne for sinne by long continuance have defiled these houses which are our bodies How will this appeare may some say Doe but consider how much rotten and unsavorie communication proceeds out of our mouth how much envie and malice boiles in our hearts doth not this shew that there is much filthinesse within and doe wee then thinke a little counterfeit repentance will serve the turne no no there must be powing paring and scraping out of the uncleannesse of our nature much purging out of the drosse out of our soules else wee are but swept houses of Sathan It is garnished Ob. What is that An. The hypocrites heart is Garnished Per hypocrysim garnished with hypocrisie and counterfeit holinesse his heart