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A09463	The combat betvveene Christ and the Diuell displayed: or A commentarie vpon the temptations of Christ: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins; Satans sophistrie answered by our Saviour Christ	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Pierson, Thomas, ca. 1570-1633.	1606 (1606)	STC 19748; ESTC S115736	100,567	72

the waues and winds of troubles and persecution and they shall flie before him as Sysera did before Debora and the Philistims before Ionathan and his seruant And as Christ asking the woman of her accuser she answered There was none so in the end aske a Christian of his troubles and he will say There are none He is a buckler for our left hand and a sword in our right he is an helmet on our head and harnesse for our body We shall looke vpon troubles as Israel did on the Egyptians as the Iewes did on Goliah and as the Grecians did on Hector to triumph ouer them and as the Angell said to Ioseph They are dead that sought the childs life so the Spirit shall say to the afflicted They are dead that did seek your life A day of deliuerance a yeere of Iubile will come and then Ioseph shall be out of prison Iacob out of seruitude and Iob shall lie no more in the dust of the earth Let vs comfort our selues with these words I haue exceeded an Epistle especially to such a small bocke If the wals seeme too great for this city abundans cautela non no cet It is vsuall for students not onely to present their owne labours but also other mens to great personages especially such Workes wherein they haue beene either Translators or ouerseers It were infinit to instance this point I am bolde to doe the like to your Honour at this time This Copie it was brought vnto my hand I haue conferred it with another I haue persued it at the Presse I heard diuers of the Sermons I haue added nothing of mine owne and I desire that of those many baskets full of most delicate diet which this worthy man hath now left behind him there may not so much as any one be lost If any such come vnto my hand surely they shall not be lost By his life had I much comfort and I will seeke to honour him after he is dead I was twenty yeeres acquainted with him I at his request made the first fruits of his labours to speake English And now I am bold to present this his posthume to your patronage Your honorable Nephew his vertuous Lady your worthy sister haue heeretofore accepted the labours of this man If it shall please your good Honor to do the like this Preface of mine shall remaine as a perpetuall testimony of my duty to you and the booke following as fully armed against all such aduersaries as shall speake against it The God of heauen who hath made you honorable in your most honorable Progenitors make you thrice honorable in your future successors that the memoriall of the righteous may be euerlasting when as the name of the wicked shall rot London Saint Martins in the fields Ian. 12. 1604. Your Honours at commandement ROBERT HILL Fellow of S. Iohns Coll. in Cambridge A GENERALL VIEW OF the strange Combate betweene our Sauiour CHRIST and Satan The Description of this Combate betweene Christ and Satan conteineth A Preface or Preparation consisting of Christs going forth to the place of combate Vers. 1. Christs abode and conuersing in that place Vers. 2. The Combat it selfe consisting of three great conflicts First tending to bring Christ to vnbeliefe and it consisteth of Satans preparation thereto Vers. 3. The temptation in selfe Vers. 3. Christes repulse thereof Vers. 4. Second tending to bring Christ to presumption conteining Satans preparation Vers. 5. The assault or temptation Vers. 6. Christs repulse and answer Vers. 7. Third tending to bring Christ to idolatry conteining Satans preparation Vers. 8. The assault or temptation Vers. 9. Christs repulse and answer Vers. 10. An happie issue and euent thereof consisting of Satans departing from Christ Vers. 11. The Angels ministring vnto Christ Vers. 11. Resist the Diuell and he will flee Draw neere to God and he will draw neere to you Iam. 4. 7. 8. The true grace of faith enables vs to both for 1. Pet. 5. 9. Whom resist stedfast in the faith Heb. 10. 22. Let vs draw neere with a true heart in assurance of faith THE COMBATE BETWEENE CHRIST and the DIVELL expounded MAT. 4. 1. Then was Iesus led aside of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Diuell THE eleuen first verses of this chapter do conteine a briefe description of Christes tēptations wherof I haue chosen to intreat hauing formerly handled the doctrine of Conscience because all that endeuour either to get or keepe a good conscience are most of all subiect to temptations Now here we haue the speciall temptations of the Diuell wherewith he assaulted our Sauiour Christ and in Christs example the best way to auoid the same This description consisteth of three distinct parts First A Preface or preparation to a Combate betweene Christ and the Diuell vers 1. 2. Secondly The combate or conflict it selfe vers 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Thirdly The issue or euent of this combate vers 11. I. Part. The Preparation to the combate hath two parts First Christs going foorth to that place where the combate was to be fought vers 1. Secondly his abode conuersing in that place vers 2. 1. Christs going forth to the place is set out by sundry circumstances of the Euangelists as The time when he went The authour of his going The maner how he went furnished the place whither he went And the end wherefore I. Circumstance The time when Christ went foorth to be tempted is noted in this word Then what time this was we shall see in the end of the former chapter where is set downe the baptisme of our Sauiour Christ by Iohn in the riuer Iordan as also the great honour and maiesty wherewith he was there renowmed for it pleased Christ for speciall end and purpose to be baptized not as we are to put off sinne for he had none but to be ordained a Mediatour for vs that putting on our sin he might beare the burden thereof in our steed Againe in his baptisme he was distinctly proclaimed The doctour of his Church for immediately thereupon The Holy ghost descended vpon him like a doue and a voice came from heauen saying This is my welbeloued sonne in whom I am well pleased Now so soone as Christ was thus solemnly inaugurated into his office and proclaimed from heauen to be the sole Doctor and Prophet of Gods Church euen then immediately without any delay was he driuen forth as Marke saith chapt 1. 12. The vse In that Christ is no sooner baptized but he is presently tempted we learne that all those who are truely baptized into Christ must make account to be tempted and prepare for a combat with the Diuell euen through the whole course of their liues for if Satan durst be so bolde as to encounter with Christ Iesus the head of the Church after his baptisme then doubtlesse he will not spare any

fountaine of truth that they either fal into error themselues or be lesse able to discerne and confute it in others And hence come dissentions and errors into the schooles of the Prophets which cannot be auoided while men leaue the text of scripture addict themselues so much to the writings of men for thereby hee can more cunningly conuey strange conceits into mens minds and therfore euery one that would maintain the truth in purity and syncerity must labour painfully in the text Secondly Gods ministers must heereby be admonished to be carefull in alleadging any text of Scripture that the same be fit and pertinent for to wrest the same from the proper meaning of the holy Ghost to serue their owne conceit is the practise of Satan which euery seruant of God must be farre from and therefore must not do it hand ouer head Which also may serue for a good aduertisement to those that vse to heape vp manifold allegations of Scriptures in the doctrine of a sermon for as in many words there cannot want iniquity as Salomō saith so in affected multiplicity of quotations can the abuse of Scripture bee hardly escaped If we deliuer but a mans testimony honesty will compell vs as neere as we can to keepe both his words and his meaning much more should conscience moue vs in alledging the testimony of the Lord to haue carefull respect to the euidence of truth and therfore that sparing course is very commendable whereby in quoting of Scripture men make sure to keepe themselues to the Lords true meaning lest by deprauing his word they become followers of Satan And thus much for the maner of Satans allegation The true and proper meaning of that text is now briefly to be discussed The ninety-one Psalme from whence it is alledged is a most heauenly part of scripture penned for the comfort of Gods people in the time of some grieuous plague or sickenesse and it containes a notable preseruatiue against the plague and by consequent against any iudgement of God to wit true affiance and confidence in the Lord that is the ground of all comfortable safety thereto among many other is this gratious promise made of the protection of Gods holy Angels which the Diuell doth heere alledge who shall be as carefull for the safety of Gods children in common calamities of famine plague pestilence c. as the nurce is ouer her tender child to hold it in her hands and beare it vp in her armes lest it should fall and hurt it selfe alwaies prouided that the child of God keepe himselfe in his waies that is in obedience to Gods commandements and in the duties of his lawfull calling It is true indeed that iudgement begins at the house of God and the righteous are taken away from the euill to come yea many times the same outward iudgement lights vpon the good that doeth vpon the bad yet this taketh not from Gods child the comfort of this protection in common calamities for all promises of temporall blessings must be vnderstood with the exception of the crosse as heere Gods Angels shall guard his children in time of plague famine and pestilence vnlesse it please God heerewith to chasten them for some sinne past or to preuent some sin or greater euill to come or to make triall of their faith and patience in which cases also the child of God doth greatly differ from the wicked for through the fruition of Gods loue in Christ the euill of the punishment is taken away and the outward smart thereof sanctified to the greater good of his soule but out of this case their protection is certaine see Exod. 12. 23. Psal. 105. 16. 17. Ezek. 9. 4. 6. The vse The consideration of this gratious protection of Gods Angels ouer such as keepe themselues in their waies must moue euery one to labour to know and practise the duties of his calling both generall of Christianity and particular for the state of his life in all good conscience so doing let come what will in all dangers hee shall haue safety for Gods angels pitch their tents about him they are as watchfull ouer him as a nurce ouer her child but if wee forsake our waies wee lose the comfort of their protection expose our selues to all Gods iudgements VERSE 7. Iesus said vnto him Againe it is written Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God HEere is the third generall point in this conflict to wit Christs answer and repulse made to Satans assault taken as the Diuels temptation was from a text of scripture for hee saith Againe it is written where yet hee meaneth not to oppose scripture to scripture but to confute the abuse of scripture by scripture after this sort as if he had said to Satan It is true indeed that God hath made many worthy promises of aid and protection to his children in his word yet they shal not be performed to those that presume to tempt God as thou wouldest haue me to do From this dealing of Christ with Satan we may obserue that the scriptures of God are sufficient in themselues truely to interpret and expound themselues The Diuel alledging scripture did wrest it from the true sense this our Sauiour Christ sheweth by alledging another text out of Moses which being applied to the place which the Diuel abused doth shew the true meaning thereof So Ezra expoūding the law vnto the Iews read distinctly in the law of God and as the words do signifie gaue the sense by scripture and caused the people to vnderstand much more then at this day may the scriptures be thought sufficient for the expounding of themselues sith to the Canon there of since Ezra his time there is added the whole new Testament by the hand of God wherein the deepe things of God are plainelie reuealed The Church of Rome cannot away with this that Scripture should be sufficient to expound it selfe And therefore against it they reason thus That which must expound Scripture must haue iudiciall power to determine of the sense thereof but the scriptures haue no such ludiciall power for they are but a dumb letter and therfore no sufficient iudge to determine of their owne sense and meaning Answ. The Scriptures haue iudiciall power to determine of their owne true sense and meaning for they speake euidently to all that are inlightned by Gods spirit and therby made able to know what the Scripture saith wee know a man may speake to his friend not only by word of mouth but also by letter and thereby expresse his meaning sufficiently euen so though God speake not now vnto his Church by created voice yet by his written word he speakes sufficiently for the cleare manifestation of his will and pleasure concerning them and therefore it is a shamefull slander and blasphemy against the Scriptures to call them an inkie letter and dumbe iudge And let them shew if the Scripture be not where is that speaking iudge