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A00459	The Christian conflict and conquest set forth in a sermon at Pauls-crosse, upon Sunday the 19th of Iuly, 1635. By W.E.B.D. of St Mary Hall in Oxford	Evans, William, b. 1598 or 9.	1636 (1636)	STC 10595; ESTC S114790	45,067	78

as the the crafty pyrate doth somtime hang out the same colours that the honest Mariner doth thereby to entrappe him So Sathan will sometimes transforme himselfe into an Angel of light As thus he will set out licentiousnesse under the name of libertie drunkennesse under the colour of good fellowship covetousnesse under the name of good husbandry fury under the name of mettle or manhood whoredome under the name of loving a mistresse Simony under the name of gratuity unlawfull sports under the name of honest mirth and recreation Poperie under the name of old Religion or the Catholicke faith Depopulation and enclosing of commons under the name of using ones owne or doing with ones owne as he list c. Thus he dies all his bad clothes in good colours guilds over his false coyne sugars over his temptations and paints the foule faces of sinne with the fine colours of vertues and graces Yea hee will not sticke to adventure to deceive Saul under Samuels mantle O then what need have we to flye to Iesus Christ who dwelleth with prudence What need have we not to be carried with every thing that hath a shew of goodnesse or indifferency But to bring these painted strumpets of the Devill to the light yea and to the heat of the word of God And then their painting shall melt away and we shall see their beauty came out of the Devills boxe Beloved nimium ne crede colori be not carried away with colours and showes The Devill hath a faire colour for the foulest sinne A 7 th trick of the Devill is to put a vizard of evill upon that which is good As to call the Catholicke and Apostolicke doctrine of our Church heresie and the Professors thereof Hereticks so the Papists to call the wholesome discipline of our Church Popish superstition so the Schismaticks To call conscience of sinne and a desire in all things to live honestly precise nicenesse so the carnall Gospellers Thus by calling evill good and good evill hee would bring it to passe that there should be nothing but evill and so in the end nothing but woe For woe shall be to him that calls evill good and good evill Isa 5. 20. Another Stratageme of the Devill is to wound us with our owne weapons even with our very graces As thus if he sees some zealous and fervent in religion so that he can in no wise quench this fire then he will throw his Gun-powder into it and under the colour of zeale bring them to preposterous indiscretion yea to a blind and bold madnesse As to undertake being private men to reforme publick abuses without the Magistrates authority and to make as great fire for the rosting of an egge as for the rosting of an Oxe I meane to bee as zealous for the small as for the weightier matters of the law for the swadling clothes as for the body of religion for the circumstance as for the substance A thing very dangerous to the Church as we may see in the example of Auda Bishop in Persia who in an excesse of zeale throwing downe a Temple of the Pagans was the cause that the king thereby incensed threw downe all temples of the Christians as Theodoret writes Lib. 5. Remember then to keep the meane according to Gods word Isa 30. 21. Be not righteous overmuch make not thy selfe over wise Eccles 7. 16. If ye cannot doe that good ye desire doe that ye can and so bee zealous according to knowledge Rom. 10. 2. If with Paul ye cannot put downe Castor and Pollux the badges of heathenisme or Papisme yet doe not run out of the shippe S. Paul did not so Act. 28. 11. or if ye dwell in Ephesus an idolatrous place where the great Goddesse Diana is worshiped so that with S. Paul ye canot hinder it yet for all that doe not in an undiscreet zeale leaue your Minister runne out of Ephesus S. Paul did not so Act. 19. 10. I take it that wisdome is not from above when men will doe nothing unlesse they may doe what they will Surely such fiery zeale hath some of the Devills powder in it Another pollicy of Sathan to overthrow Gods servants and souldiours is to perswade those that bee great wits to prie into the counsells and decrees of their Generall Christ Iesus when they should follow him And to meddle with his Mysteries when they should meddle with their owne businesse knowing that to be the way to bring them out of favour and to be rebuked with Peter for curiosity with Quid ad te what is that to thee follow thou me Ioh. 21. 21. Many other wiles and Stratagems Sathan hath to ensnare and entrap us which I have now no time to relate these be they which be now most in use And by these you see what a dangerous enemy you have What remaineth then but that we shake off all security and provide and prepare to withstand him What remaineth but that wee should bee sober and watch seeing our adversary the Devill goeth about and seeketh so many waies to devoure us That is the counsell of the Apostle in this case let us follow it and watch Specially let us be carefull that wee give him no advantage against us and so betray our selves into his hands There be many waies whereby advantage is given unto Sathan And whereby as it were we tempt the Temptor One is being too wordly minded so much the text here doth teach us for therefore the Devill is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a ruler of the world Quia praevalet adversus eos qui mundana cogitant Saith Aretius upon the place that is because he prevailes much against those that are wordly minded And this the Apostle witnesseth more plainely in another place saying that they which be rich fall into temptation and a snare of the Devill 1. Tim. 6. 9. A second way whereby we give advantage unto Sathan against us is by living in the darknesse of ignorance This we are taught also here in the text in that Sathan is here called Rector tenebrarum .i. Ruler of the darknesse of this world for this is because he rules and domineires most over them that live in darknesse and blindnesse of mind in darke and blind ignorance of the Scripture And this our Saviour speakes in more plaine termes saying ye erre not knowing the Scriptures Mark 12. 24. so that if we will not fall into errours and the snares of the Devill we must beware how we live in darke ignorance A third way whereby we give the Devill advantage over us is by yeelding a little to his temptations as to sweare lie or steale a little and the like For if he can get us to yeeld to his motions in a little he will quickly bring us to more If this Serpent can wind in his head hee will quickly draw his whole body after Patente portâ impossibile est malum ulteriùs non procedere Set open but one gate

scope and the occasion of the words Now that I may goe on in a method in the further opening and handling hereof may it please you to observe with me these 2 parts First a conflict Secondly a conquest The conflict in these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we wrestle The conquest in these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand In the conflict note with me these three things 1. the combatants 2. the cause of the combate and 3. the time The combatants of the one side as defendants are we we wrestle The combatants of the other side as assaylants are the flesh the world and the Devill We wrestle against flesh and blood against principalities and powers against spirituall wickednesses Indeed the text faith here we wrestle not against flesh blood as if that were not an assayling enemy But the meaning is not so the Apostle in saying we wrestle not against flēsh and blood doth not meane not at all but not so much as Bullinger not alone as Calvin and Zanchius upon the place not only as appeares by collation of scripture For in another place the Apostle saith that the flesh lusteth against the spirit Gal. 5. 17. So then the flesh that is our owne corrupt flesh and blood And againe the flesh that is other wicked men which are flesh and blood as we are these together with Sathan here called principalities and powers are the enemies that we are to combate with The cause of the combate is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in coelestibus in heavenly things that is pro coelestibus as Chrysostome Oecumenius aud Musculus upon the place Illud enim in coelestibus est pro eo quod est pro coelestibus The English renders in coelestibus in high places not in heavēly things but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. places the substantive is not in the originall but only the adjective 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. heavenly so that we may referre the adjective Coelestibus either to locis places or rebus things according as our Church doth elsewhere Dominicall Epist. 21. and both true for it is true that Sathan the enemy of mankind fights against us in coelestibus locis in high places for he is the Prince of the aire Ephes 2. 2. And it is true likewise that hee fights against us in coelestibus rebus about heavenly things as Gods glory our owne salvation the graces of Gods spirit and eternall happinesse And this non ut ipse victoriam adeptus aliquid consequatur not to doe himselfe good sed ut nos privet to doe us hurt And so here he fights against us in coelestibus about heavenly things ut nos illis spoliat that he might deprive us of them And this is the cause of the combate The time thereof is the time present 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the text that is there is a wrestling speaking in the present tense And as there is so there will be quamdiù nos principes tenebrarum as long as the servants of God and sonnes of Belial the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent doe last together that is as long as the world lasts that is the limited time of this combate And these be the particulars of the Conflict In the Conquest likewise we have three things to consider 1. the meanes how it is to be obtained 2. The manner how the said meanes is to bee used And 3. the motive The meanes is the armour of God The manner how to use it is to put it on The motive is that ye may stand These bee the parts and particulars both of Conflict and Conquest of which in order And first of the Conflict and therein of the combatants we 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we wrestle We that is we that be faithfull in Christ Iesus Ephes 1. v. 1. v. 1. we that come to serve the Lord Ecclus. 2. v. 1. specially we that serve at the Altar and are the Ministers of Iesus Christ as S. Paul we must wrestle and fight the Lords battailes against his and our enemies The condition of the children and servants of God in this life is military 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a warfare upon earth as Iob saith c. 7. v. 1. God that is a man of warre Exod. 15. 3. made man also to be-a man of warre Gen. 3. 15. putting enmity betweene the woman and the Serpent and between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent and saying it shall breake thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele And this breaking and bruising this warring and wrestling which the Lord did then proclaime betweene the woman and the Serpent and betweene her seed and his seed hath gone along and continued to this very day even to us so that nobis Lucta we wrestle We all we that have given up our names unto Christ and taken the oath of allegeance unto him in our Baptisme and renewed it by receiving the Lords supper and so professed open hostility against Satan the world and the flesh wee must wrestle Hic in castris ille in rostris in scholis in nemore in agro in pelago in palatio hic ferro corpus ille animum dolis hit argutiis linguam hic pedibus ille equo hic currit ille navigat omnes militant as Petrarch hath it Whosoever will live godly in Christ must warre with the Dragon and his Angels Revel 12. 7. 17. Specially if wee bee any thing zealous for the Lord of hoasts As Elijah 1. Kings 17. or earnest in in Gods cause as S. Paul or forward for the word of God and for the testimony of Iesus Christ as S. Iohn Revel 1. 9 then we must looke for sharpe affronts and hard oppositions harder then if wee be remisse and carelesse in Gods cause Sathan is no opposer of such as live securely in their sinnes His kingdome is not divided against it selfe he is more crafty then so His bent is against the good and the best most The greatest temptation that ever hee made was against Christ and so is still against good Christians He will sift them Luk. 22. 31. they shall be sure to feele his fiery darts they must wrestle Yea and this wrestling or Conflict is not a matter of sport as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is sometime taken but such as maketh the body of him that striveth to shake againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enim dicitur quia corpus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 quatitur The Christians war is a fierce warre Now this being so that our life is a souldiours life a warfare upon earth a continuall wrestling and fighting with Sathan and his complices Let us consider our calling and endeavour to walke worthy of it in shewing our selves good souldiours of Iesus Christ Let us not thinke it enough to take presse money and