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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93394	Satans temptation, and Gods preservation: or Satans policy and Gods mercy most lively and amply set forth in the discovery of the several temptations, desertions, troubles, and afflictions, that have accompanied the life of Robert Smith of Ludshelf, alias Litchfield, in the county of Southampton, gent. Wherein is discovered the method that Satan took in the several gradations thereof. With an accompt of the life of the author. Published for the benefit, comfort, and support, of any of Gods servants, that now are, or shall be, cast into such a deplorable condition.	Smith, Robert, fl. 1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4163; ESTC R231576	19,074	94

said Imployment having not missed before and since my being Sworn above six or seven Terms this Two or Three and Twenty Years besides Ten Years Service and Study previous to the same So that I bless Almighty God that he hath so infinitely beyond my Deserts dealt so Lovingly with me by raising me out of the great depth of Adversity and affording me so many happy Years since I bless God that I have Imployed those opportunities to the benefit of others and my self But as to the Ability I have shewn in what business hath been committed to my Care and what success I have had therein Modesty suffers me not to Relate Yet my Reflections thereon affords matter of Comfort to my self and Praise to the God of all Grace and Mercy Therefore I leave these things to the Judgment and Observation of those several Worthy Gentlemen of the Laiety and Clergy Ladies and others who have received benefit thereby What Integrity Care and Industry I have used out of my way in the Superviewing of any Estate in the course of Husbandry Or in the management of the several Trusts and care of Mens Families and Fortunes reposed in me I leave to those that for many Years have had the Experience thereof to declare desiring in general no Man to do more for me and mine then I have done for them and theirs But Soli Dei Gloriae I desire that to God may the Glory of all be refered because the Power and Glory is from him solely derived And now Courteous Reader having according to my Promise given thee a short and true Narrative of my Life after my late Conflict Give me leave to Speak a few words to the several Persons into whose hands these Lines may come Some there are who out of a lofty high Spirit and a prophane Mind may contemn the Subject matter thereof because written in a common Scriptural Dialect which may be thought inconsistent with a Man of my Pretensions These are to be answered And to such I say That for want of being conversant in the Book of God many Personages of Noble Extract have extreamly wanted such helps at the time of their Deaths then plain Scripture Truths and Expressions being of most Use and Comfort And likewise many of the greatest Sages of the Law both Common and Civil have Gloried to Write in the Stile of the Divine Law-giver And can we be Wiser then he that is Wisdom it self Can we hope to find better Weapons then those by which our Lord hath overcome Mat. 4.4 And shall those that are Travelling unto that Heavenly Country of Canaan despise the Language thereof There are others that Scoffingly by their Words or Snearingly by the Language of their Eyes one upon another abounding only in their own Sense and the common Sense of the World will be apt to contemn and think meanly of the Author for thus exposing his own Imperfections These are to be pittied That their Humours are so conformed to the Similitude of this World For they may as well Ridicule the Blessed Apostles for Recording their Failings and Miscarriages but I bless God I am arrived to St. Pauls Temper To Glory in the things which concern mine Infirmities 2 Corrin 11.30 There are others that are frequently buffeted with Satan and are under dolorous Temptations These are to be comforted Good Christians Read Study and consider all those innumerable Star-like Promises which the Heavenly Book of God is bespangled withal Consider what multitudes of Examples and Deliverances God hath given to his Church and People in all Ages to me the most unworthy of all his Servants amongst the rest Ponder well the foregoing experiences and a Divine blessing accompany your Meditations Be strong in the Lord Eph. 6.10 and in the Power of his Might for God shall shortly tread down Satan under your Feet Romans 16.20 hold out therefore to the end And be Faithful to Christ to Death and he will give you the Crown of Life Rev. 2.10 But to hasten to an end having by the Mercy and goodness of Almighty God passed through this Fire of Affliction and through this Sea of Trouble and Arrived at the Haven of a long experienced Recovery and having through Divine Providence changed my condition with a Person of Vertue and of a good Family by whom God as an Emblem and Pledge of his Love hath given me one Child I Lived in happy Peace and Tranquility Now as the Apostle saith Fighting the good Fight of Faith that I may finish my Course with Joy Seeing that from henceforth 2 Tim. 4.7 8. is laid up for me the Crown of Righteousness which God the Righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but to all that Love his appearing And therefore with Angels and Arch-angels and all the Heavenly Host for this Glorious Deliverance I Bless and Magnifie thy Name Oh Lord World without End Amen Glory to God in the highest On Earth Peace Good will towards Men. FINIS