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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06063	The spirituall armour With which being furnished, a Christian may be able to stand fast in the euill day, and time of tryall; and to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Written by that godly and learned man, Paul Baine; sometime Preacher of Gods word at S. Andrewes in Cambridge.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1620 (1620)	STC 1647; ESTC S116770	71,493	320

one will make a conscience of vnlawfull gain he will feare them with poverty They shall not be able to liue so if they bee liberall he wil cast in this fear They may want themselues so if they defend an innocent helplesse person he will bid them looke what they doo they may draw an old house on their heads and he doth fill the eyes of the spirit with such disguised bug-beares The fift stratagem is to send-in som small forces or suborn som treacherous instruments which may betray all thus the divell will often fasten small sinnes on vs to bring vs on to greater suborne false brethren Now what is the vse of all this Vse but to stirre vs vp to looke about vs seeing wee haue so secret and so subtill an adversary instructed with a thousand arts to circumvent vs what need haue we to be innocent as Doues but wise as Serpents Now Quest if you will ask Hovv wee may bee k●pt safe Ans Learn to feare and suspect the euill one this is the Sentinell of the soule vvhich maketh discouery of the aduersary Bee watchfull c. Credulity is full of perill but vvise suspicion secureth from danger Secondly let vs keep vvithin our houlds keepe the threatning vvord vvithin thy hart the daily course of christian duty and they shall not bee able to hurt but aboue all things hould Christ and his vvisdome by faith for Pro. 8.12 hee dvvelleth with prudence he findeth out counsels the spirit of vvisdome is in him If vve had to deale vvith some crafty B●oaker vvee vvould ioine the vvisest head vvee could meet vvith against him but get Christ the wisdome of the father and no vvisedome shall bee able to hurt thee Fourthly pray with Dauid Achitophels stratagems in the time of peace vvere like the Oracles of God but what said Dauid Lord confound the wisedome of Achitophel 2. Vse This should teach vs thākfulnes to God who in his word doth make discouerie of such like stratagems If one discouer to vs any vvily device of an enemy we are glad nothing doth come to vs more welcome so nothing should more reioyce vs who are in our vvarfnre then to know what plots our enemies haue contriued against vs. Forewarned forearmed The reason followeth For we wrestle not against flesh and blood c. In which three things are to be considered 1. Who are the vvrestlers 2. The wrestling it selfe 3. The Antagonists that vvrestle with vs. But the vvordes are difficult therefore it may bee asked Quest 1 What it this wrestling Ans Ans 1. A speech borrowed from an earthly exercise to shadowe a spirituall course For vvrestling against one is the putting of a bodily force forth that I may cast down from his standing and lay along him against whom I vvrestle so the life of a Christian is the receiuing of a spirituall impression from the powers of darkenesse vvhich they make to this end that they may cast vs downe from the state of faith righteousnesse blessednesse to an vnbeleeuing vnrighteous cursed condition Secondly it may be asked Quest 2 how it is said vvee fight not against flesh and blood seeing the Apostle saith Hee fought vvith beasts at Ephesus c. that is sauage men of beastly quality seeing againe that men make vs no small exercise Answ Ans The meaning is not simply to exclude them but after a sort in this manner vvee haue not onely or principally flesh and blood The like speech is to bee found elsewhere God saith by Samuel they haue not cast thee off but me that is not thee only or principally 1. Samuel 8.7 Quest 3 Thirdly it may be asked how the Apostle can say that these do thus molest vs the powers of darknesse when Colos 1.13 wee are said to bee deliuered from them Iohn 16.11 The Prince of this world is sayd to bee cast forth and iudged Ans Ans We are deliuered from the raging power of them not power of tempting for exercise sake 2. Wee haue deliuerance and Satan is subdued in part for the Scripture speaketh of things begun and in dooing as done in some measure wee haue deliuerance but not perfect Wee see not all things subiect to Christ Heb. 2.8 and Rom. 16.20 Satan is not but shortly shall be troden down vnder our feet This serues in generall But the last part of the verse is difficult therfore requireth more particular examination For the summe therefore of it here is a description of the Diuell his Angels which are the assaylants of vs in the way of saluation Now they are described three waies 1. From the respect of power they haue in regard of this world and that particularly called principalities and powers generally call'd worldly gouernours which is expounded by way of correction gouernours of the darknesse of this world 2. They are described from their nature 1. Their essence spirits 2. Their quality wicked 3. From the place of them in high places or heauenly places The aire called by the name of heauen as the fowles of the ayre are called the fowles of heauen Now for the meaning wee must open the words Quest 1. What is the differēce betwixt these three words Ans Answ They do lay downe a difference of degrees in evill Angels which is plainely taught in Scripture 2. The exact difference is not comprehended by vs though the Lord hath reuealed it We say it is taught in the Scriptures that if any thing bee found out pertinent and sound it may be knowne to haue been reuealed by God 2. We say that these things though in Scripture not fully conceiued we may teach modesty and conscience of our infirmity when we come to the Scripture that so wee may seeke to haue our vnderstanding vnlocked 2. That we may banish the pride of being wise aboue that which is written when we cannot conceiue all things vvritten 3. That we may teach that the perspicuous knowledge of this doctrine of Angels is kept till we shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But yet with reuerence so farre as the word of God doth holde forth light wee may impart that wee conceiue First therefore you must knowe that there are two spirituall kingdomes in the world The one of light God Christ The other of Satan called also the power of darknesse Col. 1.13 Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darknesse Act. 26. Now as the kingdome of God is not in word but in power in righteousnesse peace and ioy So the kingdom of Satan is in power which especially stands in foure things In sinne which as a spiritual iudgement he doth execute In the curse Heb. 2.14 That hee might destroy through death him that had the power of death in inflicting euils apparantly euill in bodie soule goods and in giuing things good in thēselues yet bestowed in Gods fierce wrath And thus hee bestoweth through Gods iust iudgement the glory and riches of this world For when God wil let

a man thriue in sinne the Diuell vvill serue him in prosperous successe aboue that his heart can desire This is his proper power in regarde of the wicked Now in respect of the godly he hath a power to exercise them with sundry tentations Secondly you must sette downe that in this kingdome of euill Angels there are some in order before others that is granted of all More particularly there is one vniuersall commander of the rest and Prince as it were of the whole world therefore the Scripture speaketh singularly of him calling him the Diuell with an eminency aboue his Angels Satan the Prince of this world as our Sauiour doth often call him in Iohn 2. There are Princes or principall spirits in Nations and Countries vnder him Thus the Scripture teacheth Dan. 10.13 The Prince of Persia where he speaketh of an Angel hauing power in that countrey hauing power to worke so in the sonnes of disobedience that the matter of the Church was hindered And these are principally vnder the Prince of the whole world Thirdly it may bee probably conceiued that in Countries there are of inferiour authority vnder them and they are powers For in earthly kingdomes when these two words are ioyned the one doth signifie principall gouernours the other second ones or subdelegate vnder them So that the first word may note the Prince of the whole world and such as are principall ouer nations vnder him The second such as are in authority vnder them to execute Gods spiritual iudgement of sinne and curse and haue power of tempting the Saints Now the third word doth comprehend both the former as the generall doth the kindes vnder it For both the Princes of this world Princes nationall and powers inferior to them all are worldly gouernours Now hee openeth the foundation of this their power lest they should bee thought gouernours such as are the sons of the most high and haue receiued magistracie for the good of men hee saith they be rulers in the world by reason of the darknesse in it or by the world I mean the darknesse of sinne all kinde of curses and spirituall temptations The second thing they are described from is their nature First they are spirituall that is intelligences that cannot be seene with eye subtle and powerfull 2. For their qualitie wicked such as haue at least eminently in them al wickednes The third thing is the place the doctrine of which you may remember in these three conclusions First they are cast out of heauen which was their first habitation Iude 6. Secondly the place appointed to them all and where som are reserued to the last day is hell or the deep 2. Pet. 2.4 For if God spared not the Angels c. Luke 8.31 And they besought him that hee would not commaund them to goe out into the deepe that is into hell For these guilty persons are imprisoned before execution Thirdly that Gods iust disposition is such that for executing his spiritual iudgments curses on the wicked trying with temptations his owne children some of them are in the earth Apoca. 12.12 For the Diuell is come downe in great rage Iob 1. The Diuel compasseth the earth Some are in the ayre as in this place to hinder the sauing hearing of Gods word and in the story of Iob they stirred vp tempests Now then the summe of these wordes may more largely in this maner be vnfolded You haue good reason to put on the armour of God for all of vs who haue receiued to beleeue haue through faith our hearts purified to obedience what is our life but a continuall conflict wrestle and who are those that encounter vs Not flesh blood for then wee needed not armour of such high proofe forged by God himselfe But those that striue with vs are such as if you looke at their authority they haue a kingdome amongst men the Prince of the whole world vnder him national Princes these haue principalities and secondarie powers vnder them These principalities and powers these all of them are great gouernours in the world doe all of them resist vs yet I wold not haue you take them such as haue a magistracy ouer the outward man for the good of them as worldly Princes vvho are therefore called gods But the regency they haue amongst men is by reason of darkenesse Gods spirituall iudgements curses which God vvill haue executed and temptations wherwith God will haue his children exercised gouernours of the darkenes of this world Againe for their nature they are not weake flesh but spirit and therefore subtle mighty to spread their wickednesse wherewith they are replenished Finally they are such to whom cast out of heauen though the deepe hell belongeth yet the Lord by his iust dispensation that his iudgements may bee executed on the wicked and his children tryed doth let them bee in the earth and houer ouer our heads in the ayre in great abundance prying into vs and so hauing the vantage of the place against vs. First then wee see heere that no man whatsoeuer his worthinesse is or graces but is encountred by Satan Our parents were set-on in state of innocency Christ He desired to winnow the Apostles for of all other he is the most opposite to such as vvho vvill still be busiest vvhere he hath least to doo And no marvell for the Saints haue received Gods presse-mony and bound themselves by sacrament to fight against him Againe the Saints are passed by the povver of God out of his kingdome and therefore hee doth spite them as not of his family as dogs vse to bark and bite not those of the house they are in but strangers and the Saints finally haue the goulden graces of God vvhich are the treasure hee vvould robbe from them Theeues break not into poore cottages but houses vvhich are fullest of treasure so Satan vvil offer to break into those hearts vvhich God hath silld vvith his spirituall treasure there is booty for his malice to prey vpon This therefore must bee laid down that All the faithfull finde spirituall enmity agai●st them for though somtime hee goe away for a season Luke 4.13 though there be olde men aswell as yong yet this hindreth not but that it may bee affirmed of all that they haue their enemies still begirting them and assailing them vvhen they hope for advantage by it Vse 1 Which doth refute the vaine iudgement of the world which savoureth not the things of God for wheras this is the estate of all Saints they count them either foolish or humorous troubled with they knowe not what or think that they are some notorious sinners if they bee in their mindes molested Secondly it must teach all of vs who are weak in grace of small growth not to wonder if we be troubled for if the green wood escape not what shall vvee dry in comparison bee exempted Thirdly we must bee admonished though of never such proceeding not to lay aside our armour seeing