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A19862	The wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans saluation) betweene Christ and Satan Opened in seuen most excellent, learned and zealous sermons, vpon the temptations of Christ, in the wilderness, &c. Seene and allowed.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1592 (1592)	STC 629; ESTC S100202	68,496	222

THE WONDERFVLL Combate for Gods glorie and Mans saluation betweene CHRIST and Satan Opened in seuen most excelent learned and zealous Sermons vpon the Temptations of CHRIST in the wildernes c. Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by Iohn Charlwood for Richard Smith and are to be sold at his Shop at the West doore of Paules 1592. ¶ To the right honorable Sir Iohn Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of her Highnes most Honorable priuie Councell after all terrestriall blessings and ioyes the perfect possession of all celestiall comforts hartely wished IF the painefull labours of the Learned right Honorable especially in Gods cause are generally aboue all things reputed most worthy acceptation the lesse then neede I feare my good Lord the receipt of this smal Volume containing not so manie leaues as most excellent Lessons nor so manie lines as sound assurances of eternall life The Tree from whence this heauenlie fruite was gathered may well bee discerned both by the beautie and taste the one not so commendable in the shewe but the other ten times more comfortable in substaunce And as hee is a sweete sounding Cimball or rather a singuler instrument in Gods Church for the propagation of his Truth and speciall reliefe of hunger-pining soules euen so doo these seauen Sermons beare witnes of him wading so weightely in Gods cause as by our Sauiors absolute Conquest of the diuell in all his Temptations our harts are cheered consciences prepared to imitate so good a guide whensoeuer our trialls happen So fearing least by needles circumstances I should seeme troublesome to your Honour when the goodnes of the woorke doth plainly declare it self in humble duetie I conclude praying for your Honours long health and happines as also to encrease the number that maye bee benefited by these Sermons To the Christian Reader CHristian Reader hauing sent vnto mee by a Gentleman a friend of mine certaine excellent Sermons with desire to haue them published to the world after perusing them to my great comfort I imparted them to other my friendes of better iudgement than my selfe who did earnestly encourage mee to the publishing of them which to my great cost I haue perfourmed Hoping the wel disposed wil be thankefull to God for them And because they are such as my best praise can no way sufficiently commend I leaue theyr praise to thy selfe when thou hast receiued comfort by them Finally as the Author to me is not certainly knowen so am I driuen to let them passe without name desiring you to suspend your iudgements whose they are Thus not doubting but I haue done God good seruice and pleased manie that happily haue heard them preached I end ¶ Two most excellent Praiers which the Preacher commonly vsed before his Exercises THat the name of God may be glorified by this our assembly and his holie Woord blessed to the end he hath ordained it let vs in all humblenes present our selues before the mercie seat of God the father in the name mediation of Christ Iesus his deer sonne through the sanctifying of his holy spirit with an vnfained humble acknowledgement both of our owne vnworthines to receiue anie of his graces and vnablenes when we haue receiued them to make right vse of them And both these by reason of our manifolde sundry sinnes and offences among the rest of this one as a chiefe one that wee diuers times haue bin hearers of his diuine and precious woord without care or cōscience to become the better therby let vs beseech him in the obedience of the life sacrifice of the death of Christ Iesus his deer sonne to receiue both vs this our humble confession to pardon both this and the rest of our sinnes and to turne from vs the punishments deseruedly due vnto them all especially that punishment which most vsualy he doth exercise at such meetings as this is which is the receiuing of his sacred word into a dead dull hart so departing with no more delight to heare nor desire to practise than we came with That so throgh the gracious assistance of his good Spirite inward adioined to the outward ministerie of his word at this present the thinges which shall bee spoken and heard may redound to some glorie of his euerlasting blessed name and to some Christian instruction comfort of our owne soules thorow Iesus Christ our onely Lord and Sauiour This praier ended hee proceedeth againe in this manner ANd as the Church of Christ wheresoeuer it is at this present assembled met together is mindfull of vs that be here 〈◊〉 is it our parts and duties in our praiers to remember it recommending vnto the Maiestie of Almightie God the prosperous and florishing Estate thereof beseeching God the Father for Christ Iesus hys sonnes sake to bee mercifull to all his seruaunts euen his whole Militant Church scattred farre and wide ouer the face of the whole earth both preseruing it in those trueths that it hath recouered from the sundrie grose and superstitious errors of the former age and restoring it also vnto that vnitie in his good time which it hath almost lost and daily looseth through the vnchristian and vnhappy contentions of these dayes of ours And in this Church let vs be mindfull of that part thereof which most especially principally needeth our remembrance that is the poore afflicted members of Christ Iesus in what place for what cause or with what crosse soeuer that it would please God to minister into our hearts the same spirit of compassion and feruencie now in the time of their need that we would wish should be ministred into theirs in the time of our need for them to become suters for vs. And let vs wish them al from the Lord in his good time the same ioyfull deliuerance and till his good time bee the same measure of patience that wee would wish vnto our owne soules or would haue them intreate and praye for at his hands for vs if euer our case shall be as theirs is at this present And forasmuch as those Churches or members of Churches which enioy the outward benefits of the Lord as of health plentie peace and quyetnesse doo manie times as much and for the most part much more neede the prayers of Christ his faithfull Congregation than those that are vnder his hande in the House of affliction Let vs beseech him for them also that he will giue vnto each and euerie of them a thankfull receiuing of those his benefites a sober vsing of them and a Christian employing of them to his glorie that hath sent them And in these our prayers let vs be mindfull also of the Churche and Countrey wherein we liue yeelding first and formost euer-more our vnfained and hartie thankes-giuings for all his mercies and gracious fauours vouchsafed this Land of ours and namely for our last no lesse gracious than meruailous deliuerance from our enemies and for all those good signes

beginning and break it if we can while it is but a whipcord And to vse the like pollicie in a good matter that the King of Egipt did in a bad who tooke order that euerie male childe should be killed to keepe the Israelites downe betimes against the succession of temptation to entertaine the succession of prayer Now to the matter The Diuell deales as with a Citie In the first he tells him he must be famished except hee can turne stones into bread Secondly he comes to make a traine of Scripture to intrap him Now hee comes to the ordinary meanes of dealing that is when men striue about anie thing and both parties are loath to yeeld there will be some parley of composition and sharing betweene them So here the diuell seeing that he cannot ouer-throw his faith offereth him to compound and on hys part hee is content to giue Christ all the Kingdomes of the world if our Sauiour for his part will but fall downe and worship him The diuel before came disguised in the shape of a male-content as that Christ should bee in such hunger Next he came in the habite of a Diuine and that verie demurely with his Psalter in his hand Now he comes in all his Royaltie like the Prince of this world as he is so called Iohn 4. 30. Hee dooth not stand pelting wyth Christ but goes roundly and frankelie to woorke hee offers all that hee hath and that is no small matter to bring Christ but to one sinne that so hee might ouer-throwe all mankinde He comes no more now with Si filius Dei es for that we see is here left he would not haue him thinke on it hee would haue him now filius seculi This is called by Saint Paule the bewitching Temptation whereby men become so foolish as that after they haue begun in the spirite they wyll ende in the flesh Galath 3. 3. Where the Diuell cannot preuayle eyther by our owne concupiscence or by hys enticings hee will see what hee can doo with his Dragons taile and by that meanes say the Fathers hee did more hurt than by the other Secondly his tayle is said to drawe downe the third part of the starres of heauen and to cast them to the earth Apoc. 12. 4. Wee are heere to consider first the preparation that the diuell makes by taking him vp to an high hill to make the offer vers 8. Secondly the temptation it selfe vers 9. Thirdly our Sauiours answere and the shield he opposeth to it verse 10. Fourthly the issue of the conflict the victorie vers 11. In the first we are to consider first the diuells methode secondly the place and ground thirdly his pollicie in not onely telling what he would giue but in shewing thereof fourthly the things themselues which hee offers which are two the kingdome of the earth and the glorie thereof I. First of his methode Ephes. 4. 14. we are warned not to be wauering caried about with euerie wynd of doctrine by the deceipt and craftines of men whereby they lye in waite to deceiue Craftines and deceipt then be the instruments which the Diuell vseth he brings Christ from the Wildernesse to the Temple and from the Temple to the Mountain to destroy the Temple which Mountain is prosperitie So in aduersitie wee vowe to God that we will serue him but after helpe we breake it II. Secondly the lysts wher this temptation was vsed was the Mountaine The reason why hee chose this place rather than anie other is the fitnes of it in regard of the prospect The wildernes we know was a melancholie place and in no wise fit for this temptation so neither was the pinacle for besides that it might haue hindred the working of this temptation beeyng the pinacle of the Temple the prospect was not good enough For though it were high yet there were diuers hilles about Ierusalem vvhich would haue hindred the sight of manie things And though Sion were a mountaine yet in respect of Mount Hermon and Lybanus it is sayd to bee but a little one Psal. 42. 6. and Psalm 68. 16. Basan is said to be the great hill Therefore as good chose a conuenient hill both for height and neerenes where hee might behold the whole Land of Chanaan Deut. 32. 49. So here the Diuell chose an exceeding high mountaine wher a high minde might best take view and contemplate such where his horizon might be as spacious as was possible where his sight might not be hindered by any meane obiect III. Thirdly he sets before his eies al the kingdomes of the earth There is nothing so soone entised led awaye as the eye it is the Broker betweene the hart all wicked lusts that be in the world And therefore it was great follie in Ezechias to shew his roabes and treasure Esa. 39. 2. as he was told by the Prophete it stirred vp such coales of desire in them that sawe them as could not bee quenched till they had fetcht awaye all that he had and all that his Auncestours had layd vp euen till that day It is the wisedome that is vsed nowe a dayes when men would haue one thing for another to shewe the thing they would so exchange as the buyer sheweth his money and the seller his wares in the best manner that hee can each to entice the other by the eye to the desire of the hart It is the diuels ancient sleight he wold not go about to perswade the matter in words till he might withall present the thing to the eye So he dealt with Eue Gen. 3. 6. First he shewed her how pleasant the frute was and the woman sawe it So the cause of the deluge was Gen. 6. 2. that the sonnes of God saw the beautie of the daughters of men Achabs seeing of Naboths vineyard 1. Kin. 21. 2. for that it laye neere his house was the cause of all the mischiefe that followed This same foolish vanitie of apparell whereof I haue giuen so often warning out of this place comes from hence I saw a fine Babilonish garment and desiring it I tooke it saith Achan Iosua 7. 21. So the seeing of the brybe blindeth the eyes of the Iudge Deut. 16. 19. So still the sight of the eye allureth the hart to desire The Heathen man therefore wished that vertue and honestie might as well bee seene with bodily eyes for then he thinketh that Admirabiles amores excitarent su● So if we could as well see that which God hath for vs as that the diuell here offereth vs we would not regard the diuels largesse Moses and the other Patriarchs saw him which is inuisible which had prouided a better thing for them therefore he refused to bee called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter Heb. 11. 27. and to enjoy the pleasure of sinne But you are not so to take it as though it were a thing simplie ill to behold such things or to looke on a cup-boord of plate or to stand on