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A09462	Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1604 (1604)	STC 19747.7; ESTC S4051	89,009	206

found in them that they seeing our comforts in troubles may not be discouraged in the like trials Thus a Christian mans diet is more sowre thē sweet his physicke is more aloes then honie his life is more a pilgrimage then a progresse his death is more despised then honoured This if men would thinke of before afflictions would be as welcom to the soule of man as afflicted Ruth was to the field of Boaz. But because we looke not for them before they come think not on Gods doing when they are come and do desire to be happie both here and hereafter therfore we can away with the name of Naomi but in no case would we be called Mara We see the sea not the whale the Egyptian not the saluation the Lions mouth not him that stoppeth the Lions mouth If we could see God in our troubles as Elisha did in his then would we say There are more with vs then there are against vs. But because we do not therefore at euery assault of the Assyrians we say as the seruant to Elishah did Alas maister what shall we do and with the disciples Carest thou not maister that we perish Yet it is good for vs to suffer affliction Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receiue the crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to thē that loue him It is commanded by God practised by Christ yeelded to by the Saints assigned by Gods prouidence and good for vs each way We are Gods trees we shall grow better by pruning Gods pomander smell better by rubbing Gods spice be more profitable by bruising and Gods conduits we are the better by running Let vs suffer afflictions they are momentanie in respect of time fauors if we respect Gods loue and a meanes to bring vs to the kingdome of God If they did consume vs we might wish them an end but they do purge vs let vs be content They are Gods fan we are Gods wheate they are Gods boulter we are Gods meale they are Gods flame we are Gods bush they are Gods cords we are Gods sacrifice they are Gods f●rnace we are Gods gold The wheate will not be good without the fan nor the meale without the bolter nor the bush without the flame nor the sacrifice without the cords nor the gold without the fornace they are trials not punishments if we be sons punishments not trials if we be slaues Let vs then beare thē they will haue an end ioy will follow they shew vs our weaknesse they moue vs to pray they shew we are in the path way to heauen and make vs contemne this present world By them we learn to repent vs of sin past to take heed of sinne present and to foresee sin to come By them we receiue Gods spirit are like to Christ are acquainted with Gods power haue ioy in deliuerance know benefite of prosperitie made more hardie to suffer and haue cause to practise many excellent vertues They cause vs as one saith to seeke out Gods promise the promise to seeke faith faith to seeke prayer and prayer to find God Seeke and ye shall find call and he will answer waite he wil come I am to write an Epistle I must not be long Iobs messengers came not so fast on him but Iobs afflictions may come as fast vpō vs. Hath Dauid slaine a Bere he shall encounter with a Lion hath he killed a Lion he must fight with Goliah hath he subdued Goliah he must make a r●ad vpon the Philistims are the Philistims conquered Saul wil assault him Remēber Dauids troubles and foresee what may be our troubles The more righteous we are the more manifold are our troubles and the better we are the better we may indure them But as our troubles are many so are our deliuerances many God will deliuer vs out of all He that deliuered Noah frō the floud L●t frō Sodome Iacob from Esau Ioseph from Potiphar Moses from Pharaoh Israell frō Egypt Dauid from Saul Eliah from Acab Elysha from the Syrians Naaman from his leprosie Hezechiah from the plague the three children from the fire Daniel from the Lions Ioseph from Herod the Apostles from the Iewes and Christ from the Diuell he euen he will either deliuer vs frō trouble or comfort vs in trouble or mitigate troubles when they come vpon vs. He he hath promised to do it and he that hath promised is able to do it And this he doth sometimes by no meanes sometimes by small means sometimes by ordinarie means sometimes by extraordinarie sometimes contrarie to all meanes By no meanes he cured a creeple at Bethesda by small meanes he fed fiue thousand in the desert by ordinarie meanes he was brought from the pinnacle by meanes extraordinarie he was prouided for in hunger and contrarie to all meanes were the three children preserued in the fornace of fire I haue good cause to thinke of Gods gracious deliuerance being my selfe deliuered frō a great trouble Since the time I was vnkindly dismissed from my poore charge where I would haue continued if malice had not hindred me I haue liued in an end of this City dangerously in respect of the sicknesse poorely in regard of maintenāce and painfully in respect of my ministerie yet ti● this time hath the Lord deliuered me and 〈◊〉 Paule said he will deliuer me if that he se● it be best for me Let man therefore comfort himselfe in the Lord after two dayes he will reuiue vs and the third day he will raise vs vp againe Heauinesse may endure for a night but ioy will come in the morning Doubtlesse there is a reward for the righteous verily God retaineth not his wrath for euer Could he ouercome the world and can he not ouercome many troubles in the world Yea let one plague follow another as one quaile sings to another yet as the viper leaped on Paules hand and forthwith leaped off again so one trouble shall leape vpon the righteous and anon leape off againe though he fall he shall rise againe the righteous shall not be forsaken for euer If he hath deliuered vs from the guilt of our sinnes he will deliuer vs from the punishment of our sins Let vs then therefore be patient in trouble constant in hope rooted in loue let vs waite 〈◊〉 he will come call and he will heare beleeue and he will performe repent vs of our euill committed against him and he will repent of his euils intēded against vs. He is ouer vs by his prouidence about vs by his Angels in vs by his spirit with vs by his word vnder vs by his power and vpon vs by

suggestions of Satan and the dulnesse of our owne flesh good Lord remoue these impediments and giue vs eue●● ●ne grace to heare thy word in feare and ●●uerence as in thy presence and to receiue the same not as from man but as from Iesus Christ and when we haue heard thy word graunt that it may be not the sauor of death to our deeper condemnation but the sauor of life to our eternall comfort and saluation For this cause write the same in euery one of our hearts and tranforme vs into the obedience of the same in our life and conuersation And because Satan is a deadly enemie to the ministerie of thy word good Lord confound Satan dissolue in euery one of vs the cursed workes of the Diuel worke thine owne good works shew thy selfe more merciful in blessing of thy word then Satan is or can be malicious in hindring of the same Heare vs we beseech thee in these requests and graunt these graces to euery one of vs not for our owne merits for vnto vs belongeth nothing but eternall shame and confusion for our sinnes but for the merites of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be giuen of euery one of vs all praise honor and glory both now and for euermore Amen The voice of a person 1. Carnall of Euill I do it and will do Good I do it not nor will do 2. Regenerate of Euill I do it but would not do it Good I do not that I would 3. Glorified of Euill I do it not neither 〈◊〉 I do it Good I do it and will do it To the right Honorable and vertuous Ladies the Countesse of Cumberland and the Countesse of Warwicke grace and peace RIght Honorable in the former 〈◊〉 is the combat of Christ in this latter is set downe the combat of a Christian. He that fought with our head will fight with the members and he that assaulted Christ will assaile all Christians But Christ did beare troubles and was borne out of them we must haue troubles and shall be borne out of them If our afflictions were plagues as to the Egyptians curses as to Cham destruction as to Sodome desolation as to Israel then had we cause to flie from them as Moses did from that miraculous serpent But since they are but the trials of faith corrections of a father visitations from the Bishop of our soules since they are as Phlebotomie to a Pleurisie and a purgation to a Plethora they are to be endured with all patience How Christ did endure them you may reade in that Treatise how a Christian must you may see in this The former Treatise I presented to your honorable brother this latter to you most honorable sisters I desired to annex this to the former discourse because it is sutable to that present argument and I know not to whom I may better present it then to you who haue experience of this Christian warfare If it please you but to reade these holy meditations and to entertaine this poore mite into your rich treasury by the reading I doubt not but you shal haue much comfort and by your entertaining the church shal haue much good Now that good God who hath giuen your mind to know him giue you also an heart to lo● him and as you are Honorable in the eyes of this world so he make you most honorable in the eyes of his Maiestie And thus crauing pardon I commit you to the grace of that God who will honor them that loue him and comfort them that seeke comfort from him Your Honors in the Lord Robert Hill A comfort for the feeble minded wherein is set downe that spirituall combat which is betwixt a Christian and Satan Lidia SIr I heard you with much comfort when you preached vpon the temptations of Christ. I pray you instruct me concerning the temptations of a Christian and giue me leaue to aske you certaine questic●s Paul Say on Lidia What is it which we call Christi●● warfare Paul Christian warfare is concerning the right way of fighting in the spirituall battel Lidia Which be the parts thereof Paul The parts thereof are the preparation to battell and the combat it selfe Lidia How may I prepare my self vnto it Paul To the preparation you must vse the complete armor of God Eph. 6. 13. For this cause take vnto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to resist in the euill day and hauing finished all things stand fast Lidia How many parts hath this armor Paul The parts thereof are especially six 1. truth 2. iustice 3. Euangelicall obedience 4. faith 5. the word of God 6. continuall and feruent prayer with watching as you may reade Eph. 6. 14. Stand fast therefore your loynes girded about with veritie and hauing o● the brest-plate of righteousnesse 15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace 16. Aboue all take the shield of Faith wherewith ye may quench all the fierie darts of the wicked 17. And take the helmet of saluation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God 18. And pray alwayes with all maner of prayer and supplication in the spirit and watch thereunto with al perseuerance and supplication for all Saints 1. Pet. 5. 8. Be sober and watch for your aduersarie the diuel as a roring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may deuoure Lidia What then is the combat Paul The combat is a mutuall conflict of them that fight spiritually Lidia Who are the warriors Paul The warriors are the tempter and the Christian souldier Ephes. 6. 12. For we wrastle not against flesh and bloud but against principalities against powers and against the worldly gouernors the princes of the darknesse of this world against spirituall wickednesses which are in high places Lidia Whom call you the tempter Paul The tempter is the Prince or his helpers The Prince is Satan and his Angels which are spirituall wickednesses in high things His helpers are the flesh and the world Lid. What is the conflict of these warriors Paul The conflict of all these is temptation whereby a man is prouoked to commit such wickednesse as is hurtfull to the saluation of his soule 1. Pet. 2. 11. Dearely beloued I beseech you as strangers and pilgrimes abstaine from fleshly lustes which fight against the soule Lidia What must I note in this Christian souldier Paul In the souldier two things are to be considered his resisting and his fall Lidia VVhat is his resistance Paul Resistance is an action whereby the souldier doth withstand temptation through grace working inwardly in him 1. Iohn 2. 14. I write vnto you babes because ye haue knowne the Father I haue written to you fathers because ye haue knowne him that is from the beginning I haue written to you yong men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye haue ouercome the wicked 1. Pet. 5.