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A72164	The conquest of temptations, or Mans victory over Satan especially, the great assaults, at the agony of death, full of very strong and effectuall consolations, to sustaine and comfort the weakest heart, in the greatest conflicts which can befall a Christian in the vvhole course of of life, and approach of death / gathered by the holy and deuout labour of Iohn Gerard, doctor of diuinitie, and superintendent of Heldburge ; newly Englished by Rich. Bruch, minister of Gods word.	Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637.; Bruch, Richard, minister of Gods word.	1614 (1614)	STC 11767.5; ESTC S5215	71,686	143

that wee may apply our hearts vnto wisedome therefore a great part of Christian wisedome consists in the perpetuall Meditation of death That must a long time be learned which that it may once rightly be done stands vpon our eternall saluation It is appointed for all men once to dye but to dye godlily to dye in Christ to dye blessedly befalls not all men therefore our minde must be prepared to that blessed good disposition of dying yea it must be garded with the shield of the Word and Prayers For if at any surely in that last time of our life the enemie that hath a thousand wiles doth lay a snare for our saluation and endeauours with all his strength to wrest the possession thereof from vs whether some of the auncients doe apply it that the infernall Serpent is said especially to bite the heele for he knowes very well I say he knowes that all the matter is in safety if that last conflict be valiantly ouercome of vs on the other side that it will be ioyned with our euerlasting reproach and losse if the other parts of our life as it were of a Comedie being well acted wee behaue our selues not so comelily valiantly in this last Catastrophe Hence come those diuers tentations with which as it were with Rammes he assaults our hearts in diseases and in the agonie of death hence come those fierie Darts which he casts against vs with all his strength hence comes that horrour and anguish which wee feele when wee are set before the gates of Death Blessed is hee which shall heere ouercome blessed is he which shall be faithfull to death Apoc. 2.3 hee shall be made partaker of all those good things which are promised to the stout Souldiers of Christ in the Reuelation What is our life t' is Death we doe deface Our age by dying life and death doe pace Hand ioyn'd in hand But Christ the Captaine is And gate of life our death is slaine by his He that doth firmely trust in him shall bee From wound of death eternall safe and free But this our hope with diuers stormes is tost When in Deaths agonie we are neere lost To ouercome these stormes will most auaile vs Least life in lifes first entry chance to faile vs. Wherefore whereas I haue endeauoured by such an explication of the Historie of the Passion and death of Christ as I could make which I did set forth of late to instill into godly mindes the Meditation of the death of Christ I haue thought that I shall do a worke worth the labour if I propose vnto them also the Meditation of our death To which end I haue written this Manuell of Consolations to be opposed to the terrours of death and tentations in the agonie of death for mine owne priuate vse onely for I carrie about a sickly bodie a weake vessell Moreouer Death now of late hath made a very lamentable slaughter in my house and there are some causes for which it is feared that I shall not liue long Therefore I would prepare and arme my minde betimes to this last battell and hemmed in as I am with so many domestique euils I bestowed some dayes on the godly Meditation of this Booke which Meditations of mine such as they are seeing perhaps they may also be profitable to others I haue not gaine-sayed that they should be made common But this I would haue men admonished in the very entrance of this writing that I haue not written these things to secure impenitent and hard hearts but to the contrite broken and weake consciences Exhortations to true pietie haue another place this whole labour is imployed in consolations to be opposed to death and temptations in death Whosoeuer therefore desires to receiue this oyle of Consolations let him bring the vessell of a contrite heart For what is consolation vnto him which is not yet contrite broken or made sad But to you men very Reuerend and most famous Masters Friends and Brethren in Christ singularly beloued I would entitle this Manuell that there might be extant a publique testimonie of that most straight friendship and brotherhood which hitherto we haue obserued betweene our selues one to another seeing that of all and amongst all I esteeme you dearest in this world as of whose pietie curtesie faithfulnesse and other many vertues I haue had plentifull experience in our fiue yeeres conuersation You also carrie about you a sickly body neither can it chuse but that the memory of Death should daily come into your minds Therefore I doe not doubt although your faith doth not want those props which I haue gathered together in this little Booke for mine owne and other mens vse yet that the reading thereof will not be vnpleasant vnto you Especially seeing whatsoeuer is in it it doth proceede from a friendly well-affected minde The Lord Iesus with his grace and with his spirit euery way blesse vs and the labours of our Ministerie Giuen at Coburg the Kalends of May. Anno. 1611. RR. VV. DD. Studiosiss I. G. D. THE TABLE of Temptations 1 THe fore-runners of death 2 The three-forked Mace of death 3 The vexation of sinne 4 The memory of Actuall sinne 5 The doubting of the application of the benefites of Christ 6 The false perswasion of faith 7 Insufficient griefe 8 The waight of griefe 9 Desperation 10 Blasphemie 11 The particularity of the promises 12 The absolute decree of reprobation 13 The application of the merit of Christ 14 The want of the euidence of the words 15 Falling out of the couenant of Baptisme 16 Vncertaine taking into the couenant of Baptisme 17 The vnworthy vse of the holy Supper 18 The weakenesse of faith 19 The want of the feeling of faith 20 The want of power to beleeue 21 The small number of good workes 22 The want of merits 23 The accusation of the Law 24 The accusation of conscience 25 Too late repentance 26 Doubting of the grace of God 27 Defect of due preparation 28 The doubting of the inhabitation of the holy Spirit 29 The doubting of perseuerance 30 The snares and strength of Satan 31 The Apostasie of many 32 Doubting of the writing into the Book of life 33 The feare of Death 34 The sting of death 35 The sorrowes of death 36 Too timely death 37 Seruices farther due to the Church 38 Our life abridged by our owne default 39 The loue of this life 40 Separation from Wife Children and kinsfolke 41 The stopping vp of the eares in death 42 The apparent inutilitie of the redemption 43 The horrour of the dust 44 The absurdity of the resurrection 45 The flames of Purgatorie 46 The rigour of the last iudgement In conclusion is added a prayer in sicknes FINIS Consolations to be opposed to all Temptations in generall but more specially to Death and to the Temptations in the agony of Death I. The fore-runners of Death The Tempted A Disease 2 Cor. 1.9 the vsher and forerunner of death

and the reward of eternall life that notwithstanding thou become not thereby carnally secure The infallible promises of God doe frée thée from doubting the exhortations and comminations of God doe free thée from carnall securitie There is securitie no where in this life but in the hope of the promises of God alone August in Psal 94. Id. 2. de bono perseuer c. 13. In this life which wholy is a tentation vpon earth he that séemes to stand let him take héede least he fall therefore those that will not perseuere are mingled by the most prouident counsell of God with those which shall perseuere that we may learne to be not loftily wise but agréeing with the humble and worke out our saluation with feare trembling Therefore with one eye of thine heart behold the mercie of God but with the other the iustice of God out of the faithfull beholding of the mercy of God let there arise in thine heart the confidence of perseuerance out of the feare of the iustice of God let there arise in it the flight of carnall security Let the feare of God wound thy flesh least the loue of sinfull flesh deceiue thée Psa 147.11 The delight of the Lord is in them that feare him and hope in his mercy Let the inward man hope and trust let the outward man feare and tremble XXXII The doubting of the writing in the Booke of life The Tempted THey alone doe perseuere and receiue the Crowne of perseuerance which are written in the Booke of life But how may I know that I am written in that Booke The Comforter Apoc. 13.8 cap. 21.27 THat Booke of life is Christ from whence it is called the Booke of life of the Lambe The writing into this Booke of life is nothing else but the election of the beléeuers in Christ to eternal life Eph. 1.5 Apoc. 17.8 For euen as the faithfull are said to be chosen in Christ before the foundations of the world were laid so their names are said to be written in the booke of life from the beginning of the world Therefore we must iudge as of election so also of the writing into the Booke of life not from that which goeth before but from that which followeth after Bern. Serm. 1. Septuag There are manifest signes and tokens of saluation giuen so that it is without all doubt that he is of the number of the chosen in whom those signes shall remaine For as many as are elected from eternity to life they doe heare the word of saluation in time they beléeue on Christ they shew forth the fruits of the spirit they perseuere in faith 1 Ioh. 5.10 He therefore which beléeues on the Son hath the testimonie of God in himselfe for the holy Ghost doth testifie in the heart of beléeuers that they are the Sons of God Rom. 8.16 and written into the Booke of life Those whom God hath predestinated from eternitie Luk. 10.20 Rom. 8.29 whose names he hath written in heauen those doth he call in time by the word iustifie by true faith on Christ that faith shewes it selfe forth by true inuocation of God by patience in the Crosse by the study of holines Therfore let the holy wholsome meditation of election and the Booke of life begin from the wounds of Christ hanging on the Crosse hée that beléeues on him and perseueres in faith is iustified and written into the Booke of the liuing Rom. 10.9 Hast thou not béene receiued by Baptisme into the couenant of grace washed with the blood of Christ from thy sinnes regenerated and renued by the holy Ghost This is an euident signe that thou art written into the booke of life Gal. 3.26.27 For we are all the Sons of God by faith séeing as many as are baptised haue put on Christ How commeth it to passe that falling into sinne out of infirmitie after Baptisme thou hast not béene bruised Sauanar in Psal 31. who hath put vnder his hand who hath receiued thée againe into grace who but the Lord This is a great signe of thine election the elect when he shall fall shall not be bruised God hath written not the Tables of the destinies or the decrees of Rhadamantus but the Booke of life when he chose vs in Christ before the foundations of the world were laide Therefore séeke in Christ by faith the election of thée to life and writing of thée into the Booke of life walke by faith that thou mayest come to predestination Ex Aug. Lom 6.1 sent dist 41. D. They which rashly and without the limits of the word doe search the depth of God are plunged at length ouer head and eares into the déepe XXXIII The feare of Death The Tempted IT is good for mee to cleane vnto Christ I will not let him depart out of my heart before hee blesse mee I haue decreed with true faith to perseuere in Christ that it may be my lot to raigne together with him In the meane time I confesse that I am not yet free from all terrour of death neither doe I feele so great strength and helpe of the Spirit that with the Apostle I desire ardently to be dissolued The Comforter INdéede this is the infirmitie of our flesh and propertie of our corrupt nature that we are more desirous of this life fading then of the life to come that is not flitting Hence comes that feare and terrour of death which that thou mayest ouercome by the power of the spirit and mayest grow in the strength of the inner man waigh those things diligently which I shall propose vnto thée out of the store-house of the heauenly truth First Math. 10.30 Iob. 14.5 it is certaine that euen the haires of our heads are vnder an account with God the number of our moneths is appointed of him he hath set vs downe a bound which wée can by no meanes passe a● our dayes were written in his Booke Psa 139.5 before any one of them was Therefore good reason thou shouldest rest thy selfe in this fatherly will of God of his grace he gaue thée life hée brought thée forth wonderfully out of the close places of thy Mothers belly as long as he would haue thée to be in life he hath kept thée safe and sound from a thousand dangers hée doth now aske againe the soule which heretofore he hath giuen thée surely he doth not take away that which is thine but he askes againe that which is his owne now what action can there lie against him which askes for that againe which he hath lent Furthermore the soule which hée doth require of thée hée doth translate into the ioyes of the heauenly Paradise and wil restore the same againe to the body in the time to come adorned with greater glory and with more shining gifts That body which is reposed into the Chamber of the graue shall in time to come be a farre more glorious worthy and