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conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	shipwreck_n	6,868	5	12.4968	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

cause of all sin and euerie where still we see hee laboureth to perswade vs that God is an vnkinde God that so we may burst forth into those termes This good did I get at Gods hand 2. Ki. 6. 33. to wit hunger To this doth he tempt Christ vers 3. And as to desperation so sometimes to the contrarie presumption as vers 6. Cast thy selfe downe c. by bringing vs to haue a base conceit of God defaming him as if he were a God of cloutes not to be reckned of as if he were a man to wait vpon vs and to take vs vp as oft as we list to throw our selues down that we may say in our harts as they that were frozen in their dregs did Sophon 1. 12 He neither dooth good nor hurt it is all one to serue him and not to serue him Hee tells vs as verse 9. that hee will giue vs all this if wee will fall downe and worship him as though he were verie liberall in rewards as though God were vnkinde or vngratefull not once regarding vs for all our seruice but suffers vs euen to starue Which brought men to that passe as to say Malach. 3. 14. that It is but in vaine to serue God what gaine is in his seruice If he cannot preuaile this way against vs then he will trie another way for when seeing that this temptation succeeded not the diuell left Christ he departed not for altogether but went to come againe as appeareth in the fourth of Luke verse 13. he departed for a time Christ was too cunning for him in disputing he meant therefore to take another course for as Iames noteth chapt 1. vers 14. there bee two sorts of temptations one by inticement as a Serpent another by violence as a Lyon if he cannot preuaile as a Serpent he wil play the Lyon Hee had also another hower at Christ in the garden the hower of darknesse Luc. 22. 53. there he brused his heele III. Thirdly we are to consider the leader He was led by the spirite In which wee are to note fiue things not making any question but that it was the good Spirite for so it appeareth in Luke 4. 1. First that the state of a man regenerate by Baptisme is not a standing still Matt. 20. 6. He found others standing idle in the market place and he said to them Why stand ye idle all day We must not only haue a mortifying and reuiuing but a quickening and stirring spirite 1. Corin. 15. 45. which will mooue vs and cause vs to proceede wee must not lye still like lumpes of flesh laying all vppon Christs shoulders Phil. 3. 16. wee must walke forwards for the kingdom of God consists not in words but in power 1. Corint 4. 19. Secondly as there must bee a stirring so this stirring must not be such as when a man is left to his owne voluntarie or naturall motion we must goe according as we are lead For hauing giuen our selues to God we are no longer to be at our owne disposition or direction whereas before our calling we were Gentiles and were carried into errours 1. Cor. 12. 2. wee wandred vp down as masterles or carelesse or else gaue heede to the doctrine of diuels 1. Tim. 1. 4. or else led with diuers lusts 2. Tim. 3. 6. But now beeing become the children of God we must be led by the spirite of God for so manie as be the sonnes of God are led therby Ro. 8. 14. We must not be led by the spirite whence the Reuelation came Matth. 16. 22. from whence reuelations of flesh and blood doo arise but by the spirite from whence the voyce came This is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased It came not by the spirite that ministreth wise counsell but by that which came downe vpon them Thirdly the manner of leading is described to be such a kind of leading as when a shippe is loosed from the shoare as Luke chapter 8. verse 22. it is called launching forth so in the eighteenth chapter of the Acts the 31. verse Paule is said to haue sailed foorth The holy Ghost driuing vs is compared to a gale of wind Ioh. 3. 8. which teacheth vs that as whē the wind bloweth we must be readie to hoyse vp sayle so must we make vs readie to be led by the spirit Our hope is compared to an anchor Hebr. 6. 19. which must be haled vp to vs and our faith to the saile wee are to beare as great a sayle as we can Wee must also looke to the closenes of the vessell which is our conscience for if wee haue not a good conscience wee may make shipwracke of faith religion and all 1. Timoth 1. 19. And thus are wee to proceede in our iourney towardes our Countrey the spirituall Ierusalem as it were sea-faring men Actes 20. 22. Now behold I goe bound in spirite to Ierusalem to which iourney the loue of Christ must constrayne vs. 2. Corinth 5. 14 Fourthlie that hee was led to bee tempted His temptation therefore came not by chance nor as Iob chapter 5. vers 6. speaketh out of the dust or out of the earth nor from the deuill for hee had no power without leaue not onely ouer Iobs person Iob. 1. 12. but not so much as ouer his goods verse 14. He had no power of himselfe so much as ouer the hogs of the Gergashites who were prophane men Matth. 8. 31. Hence gather wee thys comfort that the Holie Ghost is not a stander by as a straunger when wee are tempted Tanquam otiosus spectator but hee leades vs by the hand and standes by as a faythfull Assistant Esay chapter 4. vearse 13. Hee makes an issue out of all our temptations and will not suffer vs to bee tempted aboue our strength 1. Corinth chapt 10. vers 13. And hee turneth the worke of sinne and of the diuel too vnto our good Ro. 8. 28. So that all these shall make vs more warie after to resist them and hell by fearing it shall be an occasion vnto vs to auoyd that might bring vs to it and so they shall all be fellow-helpers to our saluation So that temptations whether they be as the fathers call them rods to chasten vs for sinne committed or to trie and sift vs Mat. 3. 12. and so to take away the chaffe the fanne is in the holie Ghosts hand or whether they bee sent to buffet vs against the pricke of the flesh 2. Cor. 12. 17. or whether they bee as matters seruing for our experience not onely for our selues that we may know our owne strength Rom. 5. 3. and to work patience in vs but to the diuell also that so his mouth may be stopped as in Iob. 2. 3. Hast thou marked my seruant Iob how vpright he is and that in all the world there is not such a one Howsoeuer they be the Diuell hath not the rodde or chayne in his hands but the holy Ghost to order them