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death_n	add_v	adulterer_n	adultery_n	42	3	9.9593	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17936	Tentations their nature, danger, cure. By Richard Capel. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. To which is added a briefe dispute, as touching restitution in the case of usury.; Tentations. Part 1-2	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1633 (1633)	STC 4595; ESTC S119212	168,622	502

her and put her off from that and so she fell perhaps she halted in adding to the Lords words for IEHOVAH had forbid them to eate it but hee did no where forbid them to touch it yet this shewes that therein she was strict and more strict than the words wil beare but for the theatning where God said yee shall dye she falters and hath it thus least yee dye and for certaine when we doe not keep to the threatning wee shall not hold our selves to the commandement it goes with us as it did with our first fathers a want of holding the threatning fast did cast them downe and if we be short there and doe not oppose the threatning wee cannot stand as soone as ever Satan is at us to yeeld to our lust say no it is forbidden by God let it be to Adultery answer it is written thou shalt not commit adultery then adde to the prohibition the commination Adulterers and Fornicators God will judge I must not I am forbidden I dare not yeeld if I do I shall dye the death I shall damne and so Satan hath his answer The last generall Rule wee propose is to aske helpe of other men and the directions which come in here to bee set downe are these 1. Never to let any man know what the matter is if by any meanes we can have comfort from GOD acquaint no man with it if we can get him to doe the cure in ordinary matters see what the use of ordinary prayer will doe in cases extraordinary stretch our strength to the most that our prayers may bee strong and long let us wing them with faith and with a fast that they must up to the bosome of the father to say I have prayed and can finde no ease and therefore I will make use of a friend is well enough but I have prayed fasted and waited too as long as ever I can and yet it will not come then we must but til then till we have tried the utmost I could wish men to secret their tentations from the world God will not take himselfe to be wel used for us to goe to others when wee may have it for the comming at his hands with comfort and encouragement A father loves not a child shold run to neighbours for physick when hee may have it of him besides it is sweetest when we have it immediately from the hands of God our father when a child is sick the same cordiall or sweet meat sent by a servant is not so accepted when father or mother brings it and gives it with their owne hands we see many must have mother give it else they will not take it so it is with us it cannot but be best welcome when God doth give us our comforts with his owne hands and tell us good tydings of peace and mercy with his owne mouth and then againe we do not conceive how it wil wound out hearts that we have let any man know our state and case when wee are to come to our selves againe if so be then wee finde and conceive that all might have beene well and the cure done betwixt God and our selves without the knowledge of any man the trouble that way many times wounds more than ever the tentation did and some have even wished them dead and fairely buried to whom in times of their heavinesse they have broken their mindes and therefore the counsell I give is first to try all meanes to use all patience to watch to pray to fast to waite and if God at any time will come in with comfort let him doe all and have all the praise we hiding our grifes from all the world in great inward sorrowes wee are too apt to open our selves more than needs therefore this counsell is in season 2. See whether we can cure our selves as thus what would I say to or think of another should he come to me with my sore complaint the same say wee to our selves and see what that will do 3. When all will not doe and we finde that GOD doth look straying yet and wee can hold no longer then wee must know that GOD doth call us to vent and open our griefe to some one or other now the griefe must be opened God doth call us to a free discovery of our selves to another and without wee doe breake open the matter the end is not like to be good So Iames Confesse your sinnes one to another and pray one for another and there shall bee an healing and in this case without this mutuall and reciprocall confession there shall not be an healing I know God could make all well without this but he will not there is a naturall reason why we find ease by this venting because it doth open the sore and make it as it were runne and so there comes some ease but the spirituall cause is it which carries it and it is because God will have acommunion of Saints amongst us he will not have us straying one to another and hee knowes that by curing another we cure our selves upon that it is that the pain of the foule in this case doth not nor shall not stake till we have acquainted one or other with our case so wee see that tho the party to whom we confesse say no more to us than wee knew before yet the very venting brings some ease Satan I know cannot abide this for few ever open all but there is a remedy and his tentation is at an end and therefore hee urgeth hard upon the point to hinder us by all meanes from telling any body What saith he it will all the Country over hee will tell his friend and that friend another friend and out it will and thou art either shamed or undone for ever Indeed when God doth not call us to this it is dangerous to tell our veriest friend for though he be our friend yet commonly we are not his confident friend but he bath some other and hee must know it under benedicite and then he is sick til his friend knowes it too who is commonly some third man and so there is great danger that it will abroad wherefore if wee can doe up our matters by telling God alone let no man know but now when wee have tried and it will not be then say God hath called mee to out with it and out with it I must and will live by faith that God will make them keepe my counsell or if they doe not yet shame mee no shames I will follow God and confesse I will what ever comes of it and here we must know that when we find a great disposition in us to keep it from all the world that then Satan meanes us some great danger and therefore hee will fill our heads with a thousand proclamations of shames and dangers and all to make us keepe all close to our owne undoing and ruine say then I know by this that great hurt comes

to back it the Almighty power of God and Satan cannot stand before this breath of the Lords nostrils we deceive o●r selves if we thinke that Reason is of any force that Inconveniences will hold against Satan to say shame will follow danger will come I shall but create trouble to my selfe should I kil or whore or steale Satan will come within us for all these hee will set such a glosse on the matter that wee shall thinke wee have greater reason to sin the sinne than we can show to the contrary Reason was never appointed or sanctified to this use dispute but with Satan and hee will so befoole us that we shall think we cannot live no nor scarce goe to heaven neither except wee sin some sins for a time or so Beware then of going that way to worke wee have a better course that is to runne to the Word the Word will doe it it is written will pack him away but what if he come againe and againe with the selfe-same tentation as Satan both may and doth why the same places of the word will doe the deed againe Satan is not afraid of big lookes and words circles and holy water are but toyes to him but it is the word of GOD which makes him avoid Christ wee see did not pray hee could have prai'd I hope none the like but onely the word is his defence being thus to grapple and enter into duell with the divell I speake not that prayer is not of great use I have set downe my mind of that already but that with our prayer must be joyned the word and the word will doe it and of these two if both by strictnes of time cannot be used bee we sure to make use of the Word of God the words and experience of Luther are just to our purpose when saith he the motions of the flesh doe rage the onely remedy is to take to us the sword of the Spirit that is the word of salvation and to fight against them which if wee doe let us not doubt but we shall obtaine the victory although so long as the battell endureth wee feele quite the contrary but set the Word out of sight and there is no help nor counsell remaining of this that I say I my selfe have good experience I have suffered many great passions and the same also very great and vehement but so soone as I ●aid hold of any place of Scripture and staid my selfe upon it as upon my chiefe Anchor-hold strait-wayes my tentation did vanish away which without the word it had beene impossible for me to endure any little space and much lesse to overcome them Thus Luther A brave speech and fitting the Author of it Learne of him to have our Bible at command and Satan dares not stay I speake not as though we were to turne the Text of Scripture into a charme as though to repeate a place by rote and in a heartlesse manner would prove a bug-beare to Satan No no Satan hath gotten much amongst the superstitious and ignorant by that conceit but the Word must bee held out by faith it was not so much Scanderbegs sword as his arme that held it which gave him such victories it is the hand of faith and of the spirit by which the word of God is held out which doth the deed wherefore we see what reason we have sith wee have such an adversary who is though not simply every where yet in every place where we be hee is or some of his Angels are great reason I say there is that we should bee expert in the word of righteousnesse to have places at our fingers ends ready to draw out as occasions shall require that we may have a fit a pat place to meet with the severall impulsions of the flesh and objections of the divell there is neither sin or tentation neither inward corruption nor outward motion but the word hath a soveraigne remedy for it to be fitted in a peculiar sort to the nature of the disease it is not for nothing that we are commanded to search the Scriptures and as Chrysostome often notes as men doe in Mynes for gold and the rather because here is all gold and no drosse and as there is an art in mining for gold so there is an holy skill to finde out golden places fit for our present purpose and thus a godly wise Christian say hee bee often in the fire yet he is like the burning bush never consumed and why because one place or other of the word comes in to his succour the particulars that wee are to follow are three 1. We must have ready the precept and statute of God forbidding the sinne to which we are solicited as say it be to Sabbath breaking then say it is written thou shalt keepe holy the Sabbath day or to murther ones selfe or some other say it is written thou shalt not kill or to uncleannesse urge the place avoid Satan it is written thou shalt not commit adultery and so thou shalt not steale and the like in the speciall branches of every Commandement 2. Wee must have at hand the promise too that in case we consent and obey not and refuse the divels offer wee shall have comfort here and heaven hereafter The divell will come with his hands full of glorious proffers but we must out of the Word set against him the faire and certaine and goodly promises of the Word as there is no sinne but we shall finde one promise or other made in plain termes to us if we resist it resist the divell and GOD will draw neere to you hee offers the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them God offers the kingdome of heaven and the glory of it 3. The threatning that if we yeeld we endāger al that we do subject our selves to the curse of God say we doe beleeve the Commandement yet except wee doe beleeve the threatning and doe set the commination against the tentation wee are not like nor sure to hold here Eve lost her selfe in whose losse we all lose our selves the commandement shee did hold that shee was not to eate of the for bidden fruit but now for the threatning that in the day shee did eate thereof she should dye the death there she came short and so yeelded that shee was quick and strict in the precept it is plaine by the words of the Text for whereas it is in the charge of the Lord of the tree of knowledge of good and evill Thou shalt not eate of it Eve having occasion to urge this divine prohibition doth not onely say that God said Ye shall not eate of it but to shew her pious minde to the mandat of the Lord she saith more and addeth yee shall not touch it which words wee finde not in the letter of that law but when it came to the commination ye shall dye the death Satan was too hard for