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A85388	The tyranny of Satan, discovered by the teares of a converted sinner, in a sermon preached in Paules Church, on the 28 of August, 1642. By Thomas Gage, formerly a Romish Priest, for the space of 38 yeares, and now truly reconciled to the Church of England.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing G116; Thomason E119_20; ESTC R3263	28,403	44

I will allure ●●r and bring her into the wildernesse and speak comfortably unto her She shall not thinke that her wickednesse can be greater than my mercies When she most flies from me then will I most allure her Behold here dearely Beloved the good nature of our good God who like unto a su●er and wooer when his mistris most disdaineth him wooeth her more allureth her with faire and courteous promises Even so doth God with a Soule when we follow most the vices of our heart the vanities of the world seeking to please our senses and bellies more than the Lord disdaining and contemning our God and Maker then doth he wooe our Soules then doth he allure them then doth he bring them into the wildernesse from all occasions of pride of selfe-love of vanities and pstimes There when he hath got them from the worldly pleasures doth he speak comfortably unto them O Soule saith he why dost thou follow any lovers but me there is none loveth thee better than my selfe I have bestowed more upon thee than any adulterous lover of thine The beauty of thy face which thou so much esteemest is my guift The dainties of fowle and fish which so voluptuously thou bestowest upon thy belly I first bestowed them upon thee The riches of pearles rubies rings and diamonds wherewith thou shewest thy selfe so faire an object to thy lovers eye are all my gifts The flowers of all sorts and best persumes wherewith thou delightest so much thy senses I gave them to thee Why then deare Soule dost thou turne from me Why dost thou shun me for other lovers They carry thee to perdition but I to blisse and happinesse They seek thy paines and torment I thy rest and glory They fall away like a flower which to day is and to morrow will not be but I shall remaine for ever Thus O dearly Beloved doth God speake comfortably to a Soulel thus doth he allure her thus doth he woo and entice her thus doth he when furthest she flys from him discover the riches of his mercies to her An ancient Doctor called John Raulinus Cluniacexsis saith what by experience we daily know Quanto magis srigus viget tanto magis videtur Coelum stellatum The greater the frost and cold is the m●re bright do the star's appeare and shew themselves in the darkenesse of the night Lauretus who borrowed his doctrine out of Thomas Aquinas and Austin saith also of the stars in a morall explication Stellae productae in Coelo designare possunt dona Spiritus Sanctir That they may be a symbole or figure of the favours and guifts of the Holy Ghost What then meaneth it that these stars which are symbols of Gods favours shine brightest when the frost and cold is greatest O it signifieth that when a heart is most cold and frozen most voyd of the heat of the love of God then doth the Lord strive to shine brightest into that heart than doth he most discover the glittering spangles of his mercy than doth he manifest the glorious stars of his Heavenly comforts for to teach us that none shall despaire though never so deeply plunged into sin though never so cruelly tyrannized by the Devill for God with his mercies can and often hath changed a wicked sinner to a holy life and of a persecut●r and e●emy hath made a holy Apostle I cannot here passe over with silence a witty observation of Chrysostome upon those words which the Angell of the Lord spoke to Joseph Mat. 2. 13. saying Arise and take the young childe and his mother and fly into Aegypt and be thou there untill I bring thee word for Herod will secke the young Childs to destroy him Vpon these words Chrysostome groundeth great admirations wondring that God would send his only begotten Son into Aegypt a Countrey that above all Countreys misused and kept under hard slavery Gods own chosen people not suffering them to go out till God hardned Pharaoh's heart and Moses after many wonders shewed with the hand of the Lord tooke them out of bondage Now then if this Countrey was first so rebellious against God himself and his Commands how commeth it to passe saith Chrysostome that God will trust his Deare and only Son Jesus Christ with so perfidious and disobedient a Nation Could not there be Order given that Christ might bee kept from the fury of Herod in any other Countrey and not in Aegypt so stubborne an enemy to God and his Elect People Chrysostome answereth O commutatio dextrae excelsi ut popului qui a tefuerat persecutor populi primogeniti postea sieret custos unigeniti● O wonderfull change and alteration of the right hand of the Lord saith Chrysostome that that people which before had been a persecutor and enemy of the first chosen People of God now should be trusted with Gods only Son and should be made keeper of him to desend him and protect him from the wicked plots of Herod What is this But to magnifie and set out the great mercies of God who so strangely worketh alterations in Nations and in particular soules making those his dearest friends which were his greatest enemies and persecutors This is the power of the mercy of God which can prevaile against all the strength of Satan who can deliver a soule possessed by the Devill and bring it to a state more happy than ever miserable it was in Satans power This the Prophet Micah prophecied in the 4 Chap. of his Prophecies and 10 ver. saying Be in pain and labour to bring forth O daughter of Sion like a woman in travell for vow shalt thou go forth out of the City and thou shalt dwell in the field th●u shalt go even to Babylon there shalt thou bee delivered there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies What greater confusion was there ever than in Babylon What greater blindnesse than there What greater or crueller slavery than there Yet saith Micah there shalt thou bee delivered there the Lord shall redeeme 〈◊〉 from thine enemies for to teach us that there is no sinner so deeply drowned into the depth of sin so bitterly beaten by Satan so hardly captivated and bound with the bonds and fetters of his iniquities but yet the mercy of the Lord is able to take him out Therefore O dearely beloved make use of this doctrin never despaire of Gods savours though as Christ said in my text to Peter Satan sift you as wheat separating you from the white flower of the elect and chosen p●ople though he separate you like chaffe from the corne from the sin●…full granes and members of the Church by beating you as Corne is beaten with the flaile by striking out your eyes that you may not see by making you dumb that you may not speake nor cry unto the Lord by making you deaf that you may not heare any goodnesse yet despaire not of his mercies for out of Babylon the place of greatest confusion

THE TYRANNY OF SATAN Discovered by the teares of a Converted Sinner in a Sermon Preached in Paules Church on the 28 of August 1642. By THOMAS GAGE formerly a Romish Priest for the space of 38 yeares and now truly reconciled to the Church of England LONDON Printed by Tho. Badgor for Humphrey Mosley at the Prince's Armes in Pauls Church-yard M.DC.XLII To the Right Honorable ISAAC PENNINGTON Lord Major of the City of London together with the Right Worshipfull the Sheriffes and Aldermen of the same City SIRS MAy it please you Saul that great Persecutor of the new beginning Church of Christ that enemy who breathed out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord after he was cast down from his horse and his pride was quelled by the might and power of Christ he was by the Lords order committed to the care of Ananias Acts 9. 11. True it is Ananias answered the Lord that he was jealous and fearefull of Saul because he had heard by many how much evill he had done to the Saints at Jerusalem 13. v. But the Lord replyed no more unto him but that he should not feare nor mistrust him because he had turned his heart and made him a chosen vessell to beare his name before the Gentiles and Kings and children of Israel that he would teach him how great things he should suffer for his names sake Let it please your Honour and Worships to behold here my own case deciphered for if Saul persecuted the Church of Christ I my selfe have persecuted the same Church by opposing the doctrin of it by preaching and teaching contrary to it by procuring to seduce soules from it by writing against it But now it hath pleased that mighty and powerfull Lord against whom there is no resistance to cast me down upon the ground to quell my pride to lighten me round about with the beames and light of his mercies to make me know how hard a thing it is to kicke against the will calling of God and with trembling and feare to make me say Lord what wilt thou have me to do If Saul was sent to Damascus to Ananias a chiefe and zealous follower of Christ that by him he might be protected from the Jews and enemies of the Lord who doubtles hearing of his change and conversion would have cruelly torne and slaughtered him if they could have found him So I my selfe by a secret and inward order which I have found by God delivered to my Soule have judged it meet and fit to search out in this City some zealous Ananias some religious follower of Christs pure doctrin that I may be safely sheltered protected from the violent attēpts of the Lords enemies the Papists who I know will endeavour to do me all the mischief they can Therfore let it please your Honor and Wps. who are well known to be as Ananias in Damascus zealous and truly religious followers of Christs own doctrin and favorers of the pure Word of the Lord to cast your eyes upon me a new converted Saul to shelter and protect me from those that plot my mischief O when surest they are to hinder my perseverance in the truth by plotting and studying my destruction let them find me hovering under the wings of your protection O feare not nor say what Ananias said I have heard by many of this man how much evill he hath done to thy Saints but praise the work of the Lord in me who hath opened now my eyes who hath brought me now out of Babylon who hath made me confesse my sins and iniquities with a sorrowfull and contrite heart And as it pleased the Lord to shew Saul as soon as he was converted how great things he should suffer for his names sake even so be you confident as I my self am that this my calling conversion is purely meerly from above and from the Lord from whom I have receiv'd this testimony that he hath shewed me already how great things I must suffer for his names sake for I must for him suffer many injuries and calumniations from the Papists I must suffer the losse of all my kinred I must suffer the losse of that maintenance which I was wont to receive from them I must suffer want and poverty But for whom For the Lords sake for the teaching and preaching the precise rule of the Word of the Lord for abjuring all Popish errors for renouncing all supertitions for abhorring all idolatries Let these my sufferings serve to your Honor and Worships for a true testimony of my conversion let these my sufferings remove from you all feares and jealousies of my perseverance that thus with your favorable protectiō I may rejoyce in my calling I may freely teach the pure Word of the Lord I may oppose all Antichristian doctrin and by my example may draw many wandring soules to the true Faith Church of Christ And I shall alwayes pray to the Lord to keep your Honor and Worships in grace and that you may so rule govern this City by your conscionable and upright actions before God and men that you may truly here be called zelotes of the Honour of the Lord and afterwards you may have your seats above in the triumphant City of Jerusalem Your Hon. and Wor. humble and faithfull servant in the things of God and Christ THOMAS GAGE To the Right Worshipfull Sir SAMUEL OWFIELD A Worthy Member of the House of COMMONS now assembled in PARLIAMENT SIR IF my boldnesse may reach so far upon your patience I shall briefly touch what Iohn in the fift chap. of his Gospell writeth of a poole which was in Ierusalem called Bethesda About this poole were wont to lye a great multitude of impotent folke blind lame and withered waiting for the moving of the water which was done by an Angel who went down at a certain time into the poole and troubled the water and then whosoever stepped in was cured of whatsoever disease he had But one lying there 38 years who in all this time could never be cured because being of himselfe impotent as he answered to our Saviour he had no man when the water was troubled to help him or to put him into the poole I will not stand to moralise this holy story unto you at large least you might justly say that I abuse to much your patience by confounding the stile of an Epistle which ought to be brief with the division parts and order of a Sermon Only I beg your patience so far as to peruse this my ensuing Sermon and in it you shall find an impotent man not only blind but deafe and dumbe and truelly beaten by Satan and by him expulsed out of the Church of Christ and as I may truly say lying in this misery neare 3● years The discourse of my ensuing Sermon will informe You that I my selfe have been this impotent man Many times my Conscience hath been moved and troubled from above with good and

my kinred and dearest friends Awake awake my soule and like Abraham leave now thy flesh and bloud that thou mayst become rich and great in the sight of thy Lord Away all feares away all humane and temporall respects away to much love of worldly pelse O Lord I for thy sake I hate and leave this day that meanes which hither to from Papists I have received O Lord I know they threaten my destruction but into thy hands do I this day commend my spirit O let that be safe I though here my body be mangled and torne into thousand pieces do thou protect me and I will feare no enemies do thou continue thy mercies to me and I with David will sing and teach them for ever Now dearely Beloved I have disclosed unto you the miseries of a wretched sinner the cruelty and unsatiable tyranny of Satan over those that he sifts away from the fruitfull granes of Christ's Church I have discovered unto you the heavy blows he giveth them and have made my self a President of so miserable and wretched an estate Now give eare I beseech you to the second poi●t of my Text where Christ having told Peter how Satan desired to have him that he might sift him as wheat Christ comforted him presently saying But I have prayed for thee that thy faith faile not For to teach us that though we be never so tyrannized by Satan never so abused and beaten never so dumb so blind and so deafe Yet the mercies of God are able to relieve us And God himselfe would not be mercifull and omnipotent if any miseries of ours how great soever should prevaile or exceed the power of his mercies Nay when by sin we are most wretched and most forlorn then doth God shew most the power of his sweet and comfortable mercies and forgetteth not 40 only but a 1000 yeares ill spent in sin and iniquity as David teacheth us Psalm 90. 3 4. saying Thou turnest man to destruction Again thou sayest Come again ye child en of men for a thousand yeares in thy sight are but as yesterday Behold though a man be turned to destruction though a soule be quite lost utterly defaced and spoyled Yet Come again ye children of men Let but these destroyed and forlorne soul●s turne again unto the Lord and a thousand years ill spent in sinnes and iniquities shall bee pardoned so easily that they shall seeme but as one day ill spent for God is mercifull and will make the least that may bee made of our sinnes if from our hearts wee turn unto him Nay when most we offend him then chiefly doth he strive with his mercies to allure us unto him By the greatnesse of his mercies he striveth to shew himselfe our God and Saviour as I have observed in that answer which he sent unto John in the 11 of Mat. where John sent two of his Disciples to know of him if he were the Messias and Saviour of the world whom they expected To which message our Saviour made no other answer but that of the 5 verse saying The blind receive their sight and the lame walke the lepers are cleansed and the deaf heare the dead are raised up and the poore have the Gospel preached unto them The only way to know that Christ is a Saviour is by seeing his works of mercy either Spirituall or Corporall for by the blind which he corporally and spiritually cureth by the leprous soules and bodies which he cleanseth by the deaf to whom he restoreth corporall and spirituall hearing by the dead in soule and body whom he raiseth up he is sufficiently known to be a true Messias a true Saviour a most loving and mercifull Father And much more by using these mercies when least we deserve them when furthest we are from him when most grievously we offend him for then it is that he striveth with the power of his mercy to prevaile against the power of Satan In the 12 Chap. of Matth. 14. 15 verses this may casily be observed where it is said Then the Pharisees went out and held a Councell against him how they might destroy him Behold here wretched sinners the instruments of the Devill united and confederate against our Saviour What doth he unto them Doth he destroy them Doth he poure down fiery darts upon them No What then doth he Read forward the 15. verse and ye shall see what he doth And when Jesus knew it he withdrew himselfe from thence and great multitudes followed him and he healed them all When most they strive against him to offend him then both he cure and heale their infirmities for to reach us that he is so mercifull a Father that he holdeth it a disparagement to his great goodnesse that our wickednesse should be greater than his mercies that when most we offend him than doth he most mercifully cure and heale the lepers and diseases of our afflicted soules So in the 32 of Exodus you shall find the mercies of God striving with the wickednesse of men for whilest the Israelites withdraw themselves from God at the foot of the mountain worshiping a golden Calf●… God on the top of the mountaine is ordering a Law for them to bring them to righteousnesse and to the port of true Salvation In the 9 Chap. of the Acts there also ye shall find a strong encounter between the malice of a wicked finner and the kindne●…e and mercy of God for whilest Saul breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord goeth to the high Priest and desireth of him letters to Damascus to the Synagogues that if he sound any followers of Christ men or women he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem Then at that very time strives God with his mercies for the upper hand as you may read in the 3 verse And suddainely there shined round about him a light from heaven And Gods mercies prevailing against Sauls stubbornes from a wicked sinner from a wicked Persecutor he was made an Apostle and a chosen vessell to beare the name of the Lord before the Gentiles the Kings and the Children of Israel O how doth the Prophet Hosea in the 2 Chap. of his Prophecies in the 13 and 14 ver. teach the truth of this doctrin saying And I will visite upon her the dayes of Baal●m wherein she burnt incense to them and she decked her self with her carrings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and forgate me saith the Lord Behold here a Harlot a soule most abommable given to idolatry burning incense before her Idols following her pleasures the vanities of the world decking and trimming up her selfe to entice and allure her gallants following her gallants and lovers and quite forgetting her Lord and God But what will God do now with this lewd harlot with this abominable soule Will he d●stroy her Will he shew the strength and power of his justice against her O no! Heare what followeth in the 14 verse Therfore Behold