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death_n	apostle_n	sin_n	sting_n	5,518	5	11.9612	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73324	The Christian souldier his combat, conquest, and crowne. Agaynst the three arch-enemies of mankind. The world, the flesh and the devill.	Turges, Edward.	1639 (1639)	STC 24331.5; ESTC S125562	82,048	309

whosoever he is that he is the very Picture of death he is in a spirituall lethargy dead in sinnes and trespasses yet sees it Ephes 2. 1. not feeles it not he sees not the hand writing upon the wall which made Belshazers knees Dan. 55. knock one against another hee sees not the hand writing in the scripture that the wages Rom. 6. 23 of sinne is death and thus it is with the drunkard he takes much pleasure in his Cups but if he did but consider that there was mors in olla death in the pot he would not take off his cups so roundly what is this more then to live in pleasure and wantonnesse to bee lovers of pleasures more then 2 Tim. 3. 4 lovers of God how sweete a name too do they give their pleasures sweete pleasures for my part I do wonder what they do or can sweeten can they sweeten death here or can they sweeten death hereafter can they sweeten the paynes of hell Solomon had as much pleasure as the world could afford hee had costly houses fayre Vineyands gardens Orchards hee had much cattel and much coyne hee had also men servants and mayde servants hee had men singers and women singers what his eyes delighted in hee witheld not from them but what was the issue of all this goodly pleasure hee looked on all his workes that his hand had wrought and that this was also vanity and vexation of spirit and there was no profit under the sunne Set Eccles 2. 11 then thy cheefest delight and pleasure in God at whose Right hand are pleasures and fulnesse of pleasures for ever Ps 16. 11. more Now I will shew thee the second impediment or hinderance in the way to salvation and that is golden Profit this it quid non mortalia pectora cogit is which draweth away many from the consideration of goodnesse their owne happinesse how many are there that like the foole in the Gospell sing Requiems to their soules and why because they have goods layd up for many yeares his goods were the ground of all his mirth his profit was the cause of all his pleasure but God made him a foole upon Record for Luk. 12. 19. his labour Thou foole this night shall thy soule bee taken from thee c. yet strange it Per mar● per terras currit mercator ad Indos is to see what suing what running what riding what sayling what swimming and all to get a little profit which is no sooner had but presently betakes it selfe to it's wings and flyeth away but Prov. 23. 5. this is not to use the world as though they used it not not to 1 Cor. 7. have the conversation witbout covetousnesse not to have the 1 Pet. 1. 15 conversation in heaven from whence there is expectation of a Saviour Object I but sayth the carnall Philip. 3. 20. minded man if I should pray and follow this heavenly calling so much I should soone become a beggar Answer To stop this fond and fooish Objection and plea for advantage of sinne let him first tell me what advantage sinne hath at any time procured hee that winneth the whole world and looseth his owne soule hath but a poore Math. 16. 26. bargayne of it cannot a man live unlesse hee spend his whole life in carking and caring for the things of this world cannot a man have time for God and his calling too Religion must bee the unum the one thing of this life but not the unicum the only thing of this life to doe that and nothing else a man may serve God in Carking care forbidden the performance of his calling no man is forbidden to follow his calling but hee is desired to give God a place with it There is a great difference betwixt the Church bell and the market bell the market bell ringes but once yet at the sound of it what running is there to the market by troupes happy is hee that gets thither first but for the Church that may ring Peale after peale one Peale after another yet much a do to get a man to the Church and if his body bee rung into the Chureh yet a thousaud to one but his mind is gonne a wollgathering after the things of the world the very Math. 6. 21 desires of his heart are upon the world the world is his treasure and there his heart is Phil. 3. 8. also but it is otherwise with a child of God all things with None but Christ None but Christ is the Godly mans note him are but dung and drosse in comparison of Christ Jesus hee lives in this world but not according to this world hee lives in the flesh but not according to the lusts of the flesh hee so useth the Creature that hee alwayes hath an eye on the Creator but let thy conversation bee in heaven from Philip. 1. 23. whence thou expectest a Saviour first in thy meditations on God and heavenly things secondly in thy affections desiring to bee dissolved and to bee with Christ which is best of Act. 23. 1. all Thirdly in thy practise living in a good conscience toward God and towards men though thy hand bee upon the Helme yet let thy eye bee upon the starres thy heart being thus planted in heaven thy hands thy head thy foote will become the happy instruments of Gods glory and all that is within thee praise his holy name This Enemy the world being thus layd open and discovered The Christian Soldier in battle agaynst the world stand ready armed and take unto thee the sword of the spirit which is the word of God take this I say into thy hand and strike with it If the world seeke to allure thee to pleasure hit him home with that saying of Solomon hee that loveth Pleasures shall bee a poore man Prov. 21. 17. and 1 Tim. 5. 6 agayne with the Apostle hee that liveth in pleasure is dead while hee liveth and at hin agayne with that of Job My delight must be in the Almighty Rom. 6. that the wages of sinne is death and therefore thou must not thou mayst not thou darest not doe this great trespasse and so sinne agaynst God but if the world shall still persist to tempt thee reach him with Gods promises which hee hath made to these that take pleasure in him that hee that delights in him he will give him his hearts desire Psalm 37. 4. If the world come upon thee agayne with profits and riches tell him that the treasures Prov 10. 2 of wickednesse profit not but Righteousnesse delivereth Esay 44. 9. from death Prov. 10. 2. and agayne that delectable things Math. 6. 26 shall not profit Esay 44. 9. and what were it for thee to winne the whole world and to loose thy owne soule But if for all this the world shal stil assault thee at him boldly tel him that Godlinesse

Christ who by their oathes and wicked practices crucify the Lord of life againe Math 24. 25. These are the nobility or rather ignobolity of this great Princes Court subordinate unto these are many infernall Officers all children of disobedience too many have advanced Ephes 2. 3. his diabolicall throne in their hearts two shall be in a bed two in the feild two at the mill there 's halfe in half for the Devill one taken the Luke 8. 15. other forsaken Matth. 16. The seede of Gods sacred word fell upon foure sorts of ground and but one of them good that 's great oddes three to one three for that infernall Cur one for Gods kingdome The Devil hath too many Servants three to be tyed up in sheaves and burnt with fire unquencheable one to be gathered into Gods granary Luke 8. again there was tenne Lepers cleansed nine of them clave to their ingratefull Mr. one onely returned thankfully to his heavenly preserver here 's nine to one Luke 17. 15. Nay Solomon found not one in a thousand nay there was not found in all Jerusalem one man that executed Judgement and sought the truth Jerem. 5. 1. there was once but eight persons in all the world yet there was one that set up the Devils throne in that smal company Gen. 7. Nay the whole world lyeth in wickednes Joh 5. 19. So potent so great so large a jurisdiction hath this blacke prince of the aire this prince of the world and darknesse Ephe. 8. Lastly as the Devill is a roaring Lyon a Murtherer a Prince So he is also an accuser of the faithfull Rev 12. 10. The Devil an accuser of the faith full he spares no time from accusing for sinne but that which hee employeth in temptation to sinne or inflicting punishment on the sinne committed he is the first mover to sinne and the first accuser for sinne he busieth himselfe only in preferring bils of inditement against sinne to the Judge of heaven and earth who will not suffer it to go unpunishe how like an Informer doth he lye sculking and prying into the closest of mans heart that he might be able to lay that sinne to his charge which he himselfe tempted unto thus dealt he with our first parents and this is his dealing with all the world at this time thus did he accuse Job unto God Doth Job serve God for nought Job 2. There is none that can be free from his most unjust accusations Is it so then Is the Devill a roaring Lyon Doth he compasse the earth seeking whom he may devoure well for all that he is but can is eaten a ligatus a dogg tyed up in a chayne latrare potest mor dere non potest well may he barke bite I am sure he cannot All the world was indeede cowd out by his power till Christ first broke his head in the wildernesse but now the meanest Christian through Christ that helpes him is able to make a jest of him Phil. 4. 13 and hell too One of the sages of Greece said that it was better to have an army of sheepe with a Lyon for their Captaine then a Company of Lyons with a sheep for their leader what though thou art a filly sheepe thou hast the Lyon of the of Judah for thy Commander it is he that hath broken both the head of his power and policy at once I am sure he cannot hurt thee Is the Devill a Murtherer doth he by sinne seeke to take away thy life spirituall doth he by Scandalous defamatory reports go about to deprive thee of thy life morall doth he by some malicious plot or other labour to put out thy life naturall feare him not what though he kill thy body he shall not kill thy Math. 10. 28. Soule the Lord of life will deliver thee and blessed shalt thou bee when men speak al manner of evill of thee for his name sake Math. 8. 7. Is the Devill a Prince of the ayre God of Heaven is above him hath he a large power what though it be so it is for all that limited hath he many sworne slaves attendant on him doth he rule in the children of disobedience both he and they are at Gods command and when they have dominered to the height then will that King of Kings and Lord of Lords by his unlimited power clap them up in Everlasting chaynes of darkenesse Jud. 7. Lastly is the Devill an accusar of the faithful what though God is the God of truth he is a lyar Job 8. 44. cannot the children of God come to stand before the Lord but he must stand perking up amongst them ready to upbraide them Job 1. 6. Doth he never rest from Gods elbow to give information and to file up bills of accusation what of all this Christ sitteth at the right hand of God interceding for thee cancelling those hand writings of sinne and Sathan who then shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect Marke 16 15. it is God that justifieth Rom. 8. 33. and for this accuser Col. 2. 14 Psalm 68. 8. pr●jectus est he is cast out by the bloud of the Lambe Rev. 12 11. Death and the Devill are now swallowed up into victory 1 Cor. 15. captivity is now led captive that Leviathan who maketh the deepe to boyle Death Sinne and the Devill conquered by Christ like a pot hath now an b●oke cast in his nose and his jawes are pearced with the angle Job 40 21. Christs humanity was the bait which he nibled at many a time in the wildernesse and Isid Hispal Sent. lib. 1. elsewhere but not perceiving the hooke little thinking of his Divinity was catcht in the conclusion nay Christ did not leave him so but chaced him downe to those chambers of death the grave they are not now any longer prisons but dormitoryes sweete places of repose for the Saynts departed thus by the death of C●rist the last Enemy is destroyed too thou art not now captive to death the sting is taken out the death of Saynts 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thes 3. 14. Phil. 3. 11. Gen. 5. 24. Phil. 1. 23. is called a sleepe a change that of Enoch was a translation that of Eli●h an assumption S. Paul called it a dissolution every thing altereth its property where Christ sanctifyeth hee by the bitternesse of his death hath sweetned the extremity of ours the life gave himselfe to death where as men are usually buryed after they are dead Christ after his death layd death in the grave and hell in hell the lake was buried in the lake now h●ll where is thy victory thankes bee given to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 57. I have now shewed thee what the Devill is how ravenous for his prey how cruell in his intendments how potent in mischeife and how false in his accusations what neede hast thou then to stand upon thy guard doe but guird