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A15496	The anchor of faith Vpon which, a Christian may repose in all manner of temptations. Especially in that great and dangerous gulfe of desperation. Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and burthen of their sinne, and not resisting themselues by the hand of faith, vpon the promises and inuitations of Christ, haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues, to the vtter confusion both of body and soule for euer.; Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1628 (1628)	STC 25763.5; ESTC S102508	45,869	112

the law of his spirit which maketh vs to liue in him and hath set vs free from the right of sin and death in such sort that wee may no more feare sinne nor death by Iesus Christ who hath ouercome all for our wealth and hath reconciled vs eternally to his Father who as our deare Father from hence-forth will shew fauour vnto vs for the loue of Iesus Christ his deare Sonne and so will take from vs all our sinnes as though we had neuer committed them Euen so doth he promise saying Mich. 7.18 19. God is one God willing to shew vs grace mercy he wil turn to vs wil be fauourable he wil take away our iniquities cast our sinns into the depth of the sea And again it is said of Gods wōderfull mercies The Lord is full of compassiō mercy Psal 103.8.9.10 c long suffering of great goodnes He wil not alwaies be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for euer He hath not delt with vs after our sins nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities For look how high the heauen is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also towards them that feare him Looke how wide also the east is from the west so far hath he set our sins frō vs. Yea like as a father pittieth his own children euen so is the Lord merciful vnto them that feare him for he knoweth wherof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust c. Of the great mercies of God towards sinners read more in Psal 145.8.9 Places of holy Scriptures setting forth Gods great mercies and 147.8.10 in Ioel. 2.13 Math. 18.11 2. Cor. 1.3 Eph. 2.4 1. Tim. 1.13 vnto the 18. verse Surely these places are words of most rare and singuler comfort and they be certaine firme sure and vnchangeable spoken and pronounced by the eternall verity it selfe therefore not to be mistrusted or dispaired of But yet let vs take heed least that verse be verified in vs Stulti cum vitant vitia in contraria currunt Let vs not abuse Gods mercies making a cloake thereof to couer our sinnes Let vs not presume too far and say as in Ecclesiastic 5.6 The mercy of God is great he wil forgiue my manifold sins for mercy wrath commeth from him c. CHAP. 4 The fourth Chapter concerning the Remedies to be vsed against the fourth cause of Desperatiō arising of the doubts suggested by the Diuel vnto many men to bring them into dispayre of their saluation by meanes of the small number of those that shall be saued in comparison of the great nūber of the reprobate A catalogue or rehearsall of many thinges whereby the Diuell craftily tempteth men to sin and desperation GReat indeed is the power manifold meruailous are the polices deuices wiles subtilties assaults and suggestions wherewith and wherby that wylie Foxe that old bitten Dogge that subtle Sathan the Diuell dayly and hourely practiseth to entice allure and euen as it were to force multitudes of men heare on earth into one sinne or other wherunto he findeth and proueth them to be naturally inclined and last of all vpon one occasion or other into Desperation If he espieth a man to be rich How the diuel tempteth by riches and to haue worldly blessings through the gift of God then will he apply him earnestly by his prosperity to lull him asleepe in the forgetfulnesse of God in worldly Pleasures pleasant Vanities transitory delights comforts and solaces and by trusting in his riches to lift vp himselfe arrogantly aboue others to swell in pride and to contemne his brethren committing and that with great sawcinesse and boldnesse manie fond palpable and grosse errors and follies against Gods word euen as if hee should say Who is the Lord On the other side if a man be poore he laboureth therby to make him contemptible before the world How the diuel tempteth by pouerty to pinch and nip him with the want of many thinges necessary both for backe and belly that hee seeth before his face many others haue in great in aboundant measure he soliciteth him to steale Pro. 30.9 to take the name of God in vaine to seeke after gaine by vnhonest vnlawfull and vngodly meanes to murmure distrust blaspheme and despayre How the Diuell tempteth by friends Gen. 3.6 Iob. 2.9 Ester 5.14 If a man haue friends he will vse them as his instruments to tempt vnto some euill by their lewd and wicked counsaile as he did procure Euah to doe vnto Adam Iob his wife to Iob. Haman his Wife vnto Haman How the Diuell tempteth by enemies If thou hast enemies then will he prick thee foreward by their procedings and dealings against thee vnto vniust choller wicked anger and diuelish reuenge If thou be carefull for thy family wife and children he will take hold vpon that occasiō to stuffe thy heart with too much desire of hauing How the Diuell tempteth by carefulnes and getting by right or by wrong and thereby through extreame couetousnes make thee to forgoe all godlines and piety How the Diuell tempteth by security and carelesnes On the other side if thou be careles that 's it that he can make vse of also for as S. Bernard saith Infert diabolus securitatē vt inferat etiam perditionem c. In heauē Angels became diuels In Paradise Adam and Euah fel into disobedience In the schoole of Christ Iudas became a traitor to his Lord Maister al this saith S. Bern. through security and retchlesnes to keepe themselues in that good state wherein they were once set Hast thou strength thereby will hee take occasion to embolden and harden thee to doe iniury and wrong and to set vpon thy weaker Hast thou health and a strong able body How the Diuell tempteth by strength by health ablenesse of body beauty by those will hee induce and entice thée to one kinde or other of lewdnes and dissolutnes Hast thou beauty that will he make an instrument for bawdry an inticemēt and an allurement to voluptuousnes wanton delights Hast thou honour and dignity in the world How the diuel tempteth by honour and dignity thereby will he blow the bellows of pride audacity and boldnesse to oppresse to crush and tread vnder foote thine inferiours Hast thou viuacity How the Diuell tempteth by quicknes of spirit sharpnes of wit quicknes of spirit and sharpenes of wit and learning these also will he striue to abuse wrest to serue his turne to excogitate inuent and deuise a thousand vanities yea all the rare and excellent guiftes of God which God doth bestow on any man this Diuell this arch-enemy of mankind will leaue no waies nor meanes vnattempted to procure man to abuse the same to a cleane contrary ende if it were possible to that for which they were bestowed How the diuel tempteth by

forsake vs nor giue vs ouer for euer here is his mercy Auoid therfore Sathan once I say againe auoide cease to suggest or to ingest into any mans heart that he should think because that God doth crosse afflict him that therefore he doth hate forsake and vtterly casteth of those with whom he so dealeth for this is most true that as Christ Iesus hath taught vs to call vpon him by the name of a Father saying Our father which art in heauen so he loues vs as a Father for his sake and againe hee will be more mindfull of vs then our owne Mothers for why himselfe hath so taught vs and so promised as appeareth in Esa 49. How God loueth and dealeth with his children Examine and consider but a little the procéedings and dealings of Mothers and Fathers with their children therby shall you see and perceiue more clearely how God handles his children vnder their afflictions troubles and crosses It is the fashion manner of a good kind and naturall Father that faine would see good proofe of his child first to instruct and teach him in the vertuous course and waies of wel-doing Secondly to giue him oftentimes warning and monition to keepe him in that good way which he hath taught him Thirdly if words will not serue then to ierke him now and then with the rodde Fourthly in case his child being now growne vp waxe stubborne malapart and disobedient if he will needes spend his thrift wantonly prodigally and ryotously in ill company then comes his Father drawes him out by the eares and with a whip or cudgell beates him till his bones cracke All this he doth yet with a fatherly loue and a naturall kind affection to feare him and to tame him and as it were with violence to bring him to amendment not minding to forsake him nor vtterly to cast him off for euer Euen such as this is the dealing of our heauenly Father with his vntowardly stubborne and disobedient children For first he teacheth and instructeth them by the Ministers Teachers and Preachers of his holy word and will he giueth them often monitions warning to walke in his waies Gods rods of what sort they are and to liue in his obedience which if they despise and will not follow then he vseth his rods as pouerty sicknes diseases crosses in their children in their stocke in their crop and such like and when this will not serue nor doe any good but stil on they waxe obstinate and stubborne and care not neither for words nor warning for stripes nor gentle correction then God sendeth vpon them more heauy grieuous punishments as plagues pestilēces dearth casualties of fire wars losse of victory fire and sword captiuity and other such like great almost intollerable mischiefs and all these to worke in them acknowledging of God hūbling thēselues vnder the mighty hand of God sorrowfulnes of hart for their negligence in seruing of God What God seeketh to worke by dealing hardly with his children and true vnfained repentance and turning againe vnto God who then is as ready to receiue them as euer he was before and with mercy and louing kind benefites to blesse them Examples hereof holy scriptures afforde vs not a few but especially in the gouernment of Gods chosen people the Isralites wherein it doth plainly appeare that although God did oftentimes punish the disobedience falling away of those his people yet it euer prooued nothing els but the displeasure of a kinde and louing father which sought not their vtter ouerthrow but rather their reformation and amendment Let vs therefore in the like cases not despayre of Gods mercy but amend our former wicked course of life yeeld our selues patiently vnto our heauenly father reioyce in him in the middest of our troubles afflictions for as much as there is nothing more sure thē that if we returne to him but he wil likewise turn again vnto vs with a gracious fatherly mind heart good will In this behalfe also is God compared and likened vnto a kind louing mother Gods affection to his Children like vnto a kind louing mothers affection for like as a natural mother is very carefull watchfull diligent about her child she trimmeth it she dresseth it feedeth it nourisheth it praieth to God heartily for it and doth all the good she can for it with a most louing tender motherly affection yet now and then she is so disquieted in hir mind so mooued and prouoked by her childs peltishnes frowardnes and vnrulines that she is euen against her owne nature forced to bee angrye with it to chide it and sometimes to beat it Euen so like vnto this motherly dealing is the properly and naturall affection of God towards Mankind who as he would not the death of a sinner so neither delighteth he in any manner of griefe sorrow trouble or misfortune of man were he not sometimes stirred vp moued and prouoked through our frowardnes vnthankfulnes vnkindnes to chasten correct vs and like as a mother though she bee angry and offended with her c●ild for a time yet her displeasure soone passeth away she giueth it not ouer she forsaketh it not she forgetteth it not for euer Euen after the like fashion doth God our heauenly father deale with man nay more mindful more kind and more pittifull is God towards vs This is most true the mouth of God himselfe hath spoken it for those are hi● words Can a woman forget her own● child not haue compassiō on the son o● her womb Esa 49.15 though she should forget yet will not I forget thee And finally to draw to an end of this cōparison eue● as a Mother when her child is impish peeuish and wayward menaceth and threateneth it to throw it away to a Begger s●arreth it with some bugs throsts Hobgoblins or such like and all to make it quiet and to cling the more vnto her so likewise our good Father when he seeth that we forget him make smaller rekoning of him then becomes vs waxe vnthankfull vntowardly to al goodnes declining and hasting on apace to follow all sin and iniquity then he sometimes sheweth vs t●e terrible faces of fearefull troubles and dangers and he will bring vs into great perrils yea and for our vnthankfulnes and other such like offences he will now then take away by one meanes or ●ther our health our wealth our peace our liberty our safety c. And all this doth hee to cause vs to turne backe againe vnto him to cleaue and cling the faster vnto him to pray call vpon him the more faithfully heartely and zealously for his help deliuerance to esteem better of his gifts when we enioy them and to be more thankefull for them when we haue them So that the very causes of all troubles crosses and calamities are not to worke in vs murmuring grudging despayre

Desperation is the great seruitude or bondage or sinne with which whosoeuer is clogged hee becommeth thereby the seruant of sinne Iohn 8.34 And the wofull and hurtfull effects of sinnes are the procurements of Gods curses and plagues vpon bodyes The woful ●urtfull effects of sinne soules lands children stocke croppe and euery thing else that a man hath or goeth about at home or abroade in town or in field in Citty or in Contry by land or by water Deu. 28. Leu. 26. Sin hardeneth the heart Heb. 3.13 It fighteth against the soule 1. Pet. 2.11 It gnaweth tormenteth the conscience 1. Sa. 25.31 And bringeth men into the most damnable gulfe of Desperation wherein multitudes of Worldlinges Matcheuillians Epicures impious Atheists are dayly implunged and irreuocably drowned for euer CHAP. 6 THe Fourth cause of Desperation do many gather to themselues vpon the wordes of Christ in Mat. 7.13 The fourth cause of Desperation Strait is the gate narrow is the way that leadeth vnto life few there be that find it And againe out of Mat. 20.16 Many are called but few are chosen And againe out of Luk. 13.24 Striue to enter in at the straite gate for many I say vnto you will seeke to enter in shal not be able All which places doe plainly teach that few shall be saued for in bidding to striue to enter in Christ giueth vs to vnderstand that it is no easie matter but a matter that requireth great strife paines and earnest diligence against the World the Flesh and the Diuell Vpon these considerations The feare and doubt of many many begin to feare and to tremble to stagger and no doubt whether they may thinke themselues to be in the number of those few that shall be saued yea or no and so are drawne into dispayre whiles that they finde this present euil world against them with all the baytes snares nettes and lets pleasures and profits thereof to catch them The great and manifold aduersa●es of mans saluation all which the diuel vseth as meanes to Desperation fetter them and intangle them whiles they finde their own flesh their owne corrupted nature against them their reason poysoned their wils and affections blinded their naturall wisdome concupiscences and lusts ministring strength to Satans temptations taking part against them daily and howerly ready to betray them into his hands whiles that they see and perceiue euen legions of Diuells euen all the Diuells in hell against them with all their crafty heades maruailous strength infinite wiles cunning deuises déep slights and tryed temptations lying in ambush against their poore soules who séeth not the thousands are caried headlong to destuction through the temptations of either the world the flesh or the diuell And thus are we poore wretches in a most pittiful case assaulted and betraied on euery side CHAP. 7 THe fift cause of Desperation ariseth from the manifold crosses afflictions of this present life The fifth cause of desperation for from hence it is that some men being daily feretted followed on euen almost pressed down with temporall afflictions and troubles Sundry kinds of crosses and afflictions as penury pouerty hunger nakednes sicknes of body troubles of mind vnquiet suggestions of the flesh temptations of the Diuel persecutiōs imprisonments losse of friends losse of goods losse of good name and fame a wicked crooked froward mate in matrimony disobedient vntoward children vnkind vnthankfull friends vnderserued malice enuy hatred of froward neighbours many other such like crosses as daily in one sort or other befal men When they once feele themselues touched and tryed herewith Ier. 20. anon they take occasion hereby to cry out and lementably to houle and curse the day wherein they were borne Ier. 15. to call that an vnhappy houre wherein their mothers brought them forth Iob. 3. to wish they had dyed in their birth that they had perished so soone as they came out of their mothers wombe that some hill might fall vpon them ouerwhelme them that so they might shortly bee rid out of their paines Yea they will not be perswaded that these thinges are sent of God for the most part to such as he loueth but rather to such as he hateth and that neuer a louing father wil handle his children so as they are handled Now the Diuell most subtilly lying in wayte for his aduantoge taketh hold on this their weakenesse and striueth by little little by such occasiōs as these to worke vtter desperation in them and by these meanes oftentimes forceth some to sodaine wretched and desperate ends CHAP. 8 THe sixt cause of Desperation is long custome of sin The sixt cause of Desperation whereby a man yeeldeth and submitteth himselfe as an obedient ready bon●-slaue to the Diuell little respecting if not vtterly contemning both God and his word whose dull conscience through giuing himselfe ouer to impurity filthines of life is waxed hard in iniquity and corrupt waies and as it were burned with a hot iron so that he is now past all sense féeling of sinn Long custome groweth into a second nature this long costome groweth as it were into a second nature in processe of time which to expell is a matter of great difficulty This is it which the Prophet Ierim meant where he affirmed that it is as hard a thing for such to doe any good that haue bin continually inured with doeing of euil as it is to wash a Blackamoore or Aethiopian skinne white or to chang the spots of a Leopard And therefore according to our English adage as that which is bred in the bone will neuer lightly out of the flesh so an old wont or custome of any vice be it of lying swearing gaming drinking whooring or any other such like will seldome or neuer be remedied whereby it oftentimes commeth to passe that in the end the Diuel by this meanes hauing laid a foundation so fitting his purpose to worke on bringeth his old customers to dispaire CHAP. 1. The first Chapter concerning the Remedies against the temptations assaults of Satan being the first speciall cause of Desperation before intreated of in Ch. 3 TO méete with the dangerous and manifould temptations of Satan that great enemy of mankind wherewith hee continually after other sinnes first committed laboureth to bring vs into the deepe gulph of desperation It shall not be amisse nay rather it shall be our best course and remedie to learne practise that most sure safe and excellent counsaile which the holy ghost giueth by those two worthy Apostles of our Sauiour Christ Eph 6. Iam. 4. Saint Paul S. Iam s their counsel against the temptat●●ns ass●ults of Sath n. S. Paul and S. Iames wherof S. Paul saith Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stād against the assaults of the Diuel S. Iam. saith Resist

gods word And finally the very Word of God giuen through Gods great and infinite goodnesse to be our spirituall Sword to resist and encounter the Diuell with which as S. Iames saith is able to saue the souls of men which as S. Paul saith is the power of God to saluation to euery one that beleeueth which as holy Dau. saith was a lanterne vnto his feet a light vnto his paths This euen this wil the Diuil so far forth as euer he may with al the cunning fetches crafts policies that euer he can deuise How the Diuell will abuse wrest and misapl● gods word seeke to abuse wrest and misapply from the true meaning sence and signification thereof to confirme lies vntruths and heresies therby he will draw some texts and sentences thereof to bring men into presumption of their owne Vertues Worthines and merits to their vtter ouerthrow And likewise with some other places sentences thereof he will bestir himselfe to bring men to wauer in faith to doubt of Gods graces and mercies through Christ so finally to fall into vtter desperation And thus doth he dayly abuse and wrest all those places of holy Scriptures before noted and alledged in the fourth cause of Desperation tending to prooue the small number of those that shall be saued in comparison of the huge and great number of the reprobate Those places I say doth he vrge vpon the consciences of many in the world by his misapplying of them and by his misconstruing of Christs purpose drift and meaning therein draweth and driueth them to feare and to tremble to doubt and despayre that they are none of that small number seeing so few shall be saued But O thou man that art thus tried The true vse of those Scriptures which the Diuell seeketh to abuse to bring men to desperation thereby tempted and drawne towards temptation for thy remedy and helpe herein Search the Scriptures and consider vpon those places to what end and purpose Christ deliuered this doctrine and thou shalt anon proue and finde that his meaning was nothing lesse then to driue men into dispayre but rather hereby to exhort perswade and to giue caueats and warning peeces vnto all men that run at randome after the world to remember them selus and their dangers and tickle states to awake rouse them vp that are so fast lulled a sleepe in the dangerous cradle of security and retchlesnesse that so they might be touched mooued and stirred vp to embrace in time when time serues a farre more diligent and watchfull care of their saluation that by such meanes they may bee found in the number of Christs litle flock and of those few that shal be saued whō the Apostle Paul exhorteth to make an end of their saluation with feare trembling Phi. 2.1 by which they might be made more carefull and more diligent in that theire so waighty a busines CHAP. 5 The fift Chapter wherein are contained the comforts helpes remedies against the fift cause of desperatiō which is the heauy and great waight of crosses afflictions troubles and necessities that God suffereth to fall vpon many in this life MOst true most notable and most comfortable for the distressed afflicted children of God Ro. 8.22 is that golden sentence of the holy Ghost penned by his chosen vessell S Paul Rom. 8.28 All things work together for the best to thē that loue God For euen the afflictions troubles of Gods children are so sanctified vnto them by the spirit He. 12.10 that by the same they are made pertakers of Gods holines Heb. 12.14 1 The. 1.6 By the same they enioy the quiet frut of Righteousnesse By the same they attaine vnto a greater measure of Ioy in the holy Ghost Gal. 6 14 1 Cor 11 32 By the same the world is crusified to them and they to the world By the same they are made conformable to Christs death By the same they are kept from the condemnation of the wourld Rom 5 5 By the same they learne experience patience hope c. The comforts and commodities of the crosses and afflictions to Gods children So that these things rightly pondred weighed and considered their Crosses are mercies their losses gaines ther afflictions are their schoolings and their aduersity their learned Vniuersity Auoide thou Sathan thou canst not make these afflictōs crosses and trubles neither good nor likely causes of Desperation so they be taken borne and vsed as they ought to bee for it is written for the learning comfort helpe and remedie of all Gods afflicted children whome thou wouldest full gladly perswade that their afflictions are signes prognosticating tokens of Gods wrath and so consequently if thou couldst thou wouldst draw them therby to despaire of Gods loue mercy Pro. 2.12 It is written I say That the Lord correcteth him whom he loueth euē as the father doth the child in whom he delighteth And againe My son He. 12.5 6 7.8.9 c. despise not the chastning of the Lord neither faint when thou art rebuked of him for whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth he scourgeth euery son that he receiueth If ye indure chastning God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sons for what son is it whō the father chasteneth not If therfore ye be without correction whereof al are pertakers thē are ye bastards not sons so forth vnto the 12 .v. These many other such like sayinges sentences of the holy scriptures are most euidēt testimonies that afflictions troubles crosses and vexations are sure tokens of Gods grace mercy and fauour wherby God assureth vs of his merciful will and fatherly good heart towards vs and not signes of his wrath heauy displeasure as the diuell would perswade vs thereby to cause vs to dispaire God indeed oftentimes sendeth euilles euen vpon his owne beloued children Why God sendeth euils to his children how he sendeth comforts in the middest of euils but yet to the intent to doe them good thereby and withall in the middest of those euils which he toucheth them with hee sendeh them some comforts to hold their hearts with Examples hereof you may see in Adam and Euah for whē for their disobedience God would banish them out of that most pleasant place in all the world wherein at the first he had placed them yet in the middest of that punishment which he had laid vppon them his fatherly kindnesse shewed it selfe for before he droue them out hee made them coates to arme them against all weather and he comforted them with a promise of the blessed seed Iesus Christ which should restore that saluation to mankind which they had lost by yéelding to the Serpents entisings Gen. 3.12 This was and this is the most kind louing dealing of God with man he wil make vs to smart a little for our sinnes here is his iustice but yet so that he will not vtterly