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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14176	The combate betwixt Christ and the deuill Foure sermons vpon the temptations of Christ in the wildrenes by Sathan, wherein are to be sene the subtle sleightes that the tempter vseth agaynst the children of God, and the meanes that God hath appointed to resiste him, sanctified to our vse in the example of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. By Iohn Vdall preacher of the word of God, at Kyngston vpon Thames.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592.	1588 (1588)	STC 24492; ESTC S113942	68,913	157

cradle of securitie in such maner but learne that for so much as our life is a continuall warrefare and man is borne to trauaile as the birde to flye and Sathā is a sworne enemy to our peace and well fare that we assure our selues so long as we tarie in this body of clay we shalbe sure that the end of one trouble must be the begynning of an other and surely the due consideration of this bringeth greate case vnto him that weyeth it a right For what is the cause that wee see so many in triall and tribulation either impatient or counting it vntollerable vtterly to relent but onely this that they haue promised vnto them selues peace and safetie dreame of an heauen vpō earth and hoping to liue as they would wish who beyng disappointed of their purpose and falling into such a sodden sorrow which they neuer thought vppon doe most lamentably increase vnto themselues their owne woe If then we will profite aright by this doctrine wee must rather looke for the worse then the best and thē shall no estate too much moue vs but in euery condition whether of prosperitie or aduersitie we shall set our hand to the plough not lookyng backe and so shalbe founde meete for the kyngdome of God Agayne it ministreth vnto vs a doctrine of exceeding cōfort for though troubles come one in the necke of an other yet is not our whole life one onely trouble without intermission Wherein appeareth the exceedyng loue of our good and gracious God who knowing our weakenesse pitieng our estate hath in his vnspeakable wisedome so tempered the afflictions of his seruauntes that yet in the midst of the same he geueth exceedyng comfort For he knoweth well inough that if our warrefar should be one euer in like maner without intermission or alteration we should fainte long before we come to the goale Therfore it hath pleased his gracious Maiestie to make them many and diuers and to make them short that we might haue experience of his presence in our deliueraūce and so be hartened on to encounter agayne with the more valour knowing that the enemy being heretofore beaten backe will agayn be more easilie ouerthrowne whē he seeth y ● victorer set vpon him a freshe And also haue dayly proofe of the present hand of God to assiste vs agaynst that huge and harmefull aduersarie He tooke him vp c. Now it remaineth that we consider the place where this was done to wit the holy Citie meaning Hierusalē so called not in respect that it was a place of it selfe more holy then other places nay it was thē a place of greatest corruption but for that it had the sacrifices publicke seruice of God in it and for that there was wont to be great holynesse whē the Israelites truely feared God We must not take this place as though hee caried him thether in deede but as I said before in motion labouring to suggeste such persuasiōs into his mynde now in that the holy ghost meaning Ierusalem calleth it the holy Citie he doth no doubt geue vs there by to vnderstand what was the subtiltie of Sathan herein to weete to assayle him w t this temptation in such a place as might seeme to bee most voyde of Sathans presence thereby labouring the more cūningly to deceiue Wherein we may learne a lesson most needefull to be obserued to wit that Sathan such is his subtiltie when he goeth about to seduce any that maketh a conscience of sinne knoweth in any measure how GOD is to be serued and hath a care to put the same in practise hee will not attempt his purpose in the name of sin but sleely vnder y e coulour of a good thing for we see here that he bringeth Christ Jesus vnto Jerusalem where he might seeme to be most voyde of any molestatiō there goeth about to moleste him for in deede he wilbe sure to be in those places and prying into those exercises that of themselues be most excellent As for example if he can not persuade with thee to leaue of or neuer enterprise the hearing of the word of God because thou knowest it must bee heard if hee can neither make thy profite keepe thee at home nor thy pleasures cause thee to be imployed els where yet will he seeke to deceaue thee when thou commest there for either hee will labour to put into thy mynde the consideration of such a busines that thou hast at home or such a thyng that thou hast left vndone or to make thee heauie and fall on sleepe or els if hee can not preuayle that way hee will put other motions into thy minde which of themselues are very good and godly to this ende that he may steale thy hart from attending vnto the doctrine in hād And this is a marueilous subtiltie for who would thinke that it were Sathan that putteth good cogitations into a mans mynde But it is most certaine that if he can preuayle no other way yet will hee haue thee imployed in an other matter lesse needefull for thee at that instāt to the end that he may make thee sinne agaynst GOD in not listening vnto him when he speaketh vnto thee and that he may depriue thee of the benefite of that doctrine then deliuered I speake not all this while of those whose myndes hee doth carie away by the wandring of the eye by beholdyng this man and that man yea often the disquietnesse of some where at thou art greatly greeued doth hee also vse as a meane to drawe thy hart from the thyng in hand The same course he taketh euen in the holy action of prayer howe hard a thyng is it for a man to pray zealously feelingly and attentiuely either he will make thee heauy and therfore he will say thou art vnfit to prayer so let it passe for that tyme or thou feelest not the remorse of conscience for sinne which heretofore thou hast or which thou shouldest therefore he will bid thee take heede thou prayest not least y u offend god in thy prayer Or if by neither of these meanes hee can dissuade thee from that holy exercise yet will he come stealing on thee to take away thy hart from that which thou speakest so make it vnprofitable vnto thee So that the true child of God doth know for to the rest these thinges are parables how difficulte and hard a thing it is to offer vnto the Lord this sacrifice in such maner that it may be a sweete smelling sauour in his nostrels And when I consider the horrible estate whereunto euen in the eyes of mā Sathan hath brought the world it maketh me quayle for feare and maruaile how the Lord in his iustice can abide such prophaning of his name and abusing of his most holy word as is euery where to be founde For though we be gone from the Papistes in this pointe that we