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death_n	brethren_n	life_n	love_v	5,972	5	7.1555	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93394	Satans temptation, and Gods preservation: or Satans policy and Gods mercy most lively and amply set forth in the discovery of the several temptations, desertions, troubles, and afflictions, that have accompanied the life of Robert Smith of Ludshelf, alias Litchfield, in the county of Southampton, gent. Wherein is discovered the method that Satan took in the several gradations thereof. With an accompt of the life of the author. Published for the benefit, comfort, and support, of any of Gods servants, that now are, or shall be, cast into such a deplorable condition.	Smith, Robert, fl. 1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4163; ESTC R231576	19,074	94

doth not Times and Seasons belong unto the Father Mar. 13.32 Was not murmuring Israel of old taxed with this fault They Limited the Holy one of Israel Psalm 78.41 Is it not then better in patience to possess ones Soul and with Devout Heart as well as Tongue to Pray Thy will be done Oh Lord and to Wait for the Lord as they that watch for the Morning Psalm 130.6.7 for with the Lord is Mercy and plenteous Redemption And to lay hold on the Covenant of Grace which although it be not with me as it should Yet I may say as David did in another case he hath made an Everlasting Covenant with me 2 Sam. 23.5 ordered in all things and sure I must confess Oh Sinner Satan Thy method is good and if any way is left for Thy Salvation it is by laying hold of his Covenant of Grace But VI. Suggestion Thou wantest Faith and Repentance the necessary qualifications of the Covenant and therefore that doth not belong to Thee Thou speakest much of Gods Covenant which indeed to them to whom it doth belong is full of Grace and Mercy Psalm 25.10 but it is to them that keep his Covenants Thou hast broken Covenant with him and Thou wantest Repentance to Repent Thee truly of the breach thereof and Faith to believe that upon that Repentance which Thou hast made that God hath forgiven Thee Jeremiah 31.34 and according to his Covenant will remember Thy Sins no more Thou that can'st not trust God for daily supplies do'st Thou think that Thou hast Faith And what if God hath made such enestimable Promises and made such a Feast of Fat things Isa 25.6 if Thou wantest a Hand to reach them unto Thee what art Thou the better Thou sayest Sinner Oh mine Enemy that I want Faith and indeed so I do for every Man may say with the Blessed Disciples Lord encrease our Faith And altho thou grantest the Premises yet thou deniest the conclusion but I hope I can say through Grace Lord I do believe help thou mine unbelief Joh. 9.38 There are some Divine Characters that are stampt upon true Faith It works by Love and it breaths by Hope It works by Love to God to Man If I find in my self such an enflamed Love that if my Saviour would accept me to Grace and Mercy I could be content to endure those Flames that were represented visibly by the Flames of an Oven to my Bodily Eye for the sake of my Blessed Lord And also if I find in my self an hearty Love to Man by which the Apostle saith 1 John 3.14 We may know our Transition from Death to Life because we Love the Brethren And if good works be an Evidence of true Faith what better work can there be then to Love our Brother And this was the signal badge of being Disciples of the Blessed Jesus Even Love to one another Joh. 13.35 If I Love those that are of a different Judgment for the good that is in them can'st thou Oh Satan deny this to be true Faith This is one of the Weapons by which thou art made to fly and by it Thou and the World art overcome 1 Joh. 5.4 'T is by this Faith Christ is brought into the Soul and in him all those God-Covenanting Promises which he hath made of being our God of puting his Fear in our Hearts of taking away the Heart of Stone and giving Hearts of Flesh c. These are links of that Golden Chain of Love wherewith God hath bound himself to his People and left it upon Record for their Comfort This is the River Psa 46.4 the Streams whereof shall make glad the City of our God But thou sayest Oh mine Enemy I want also Repentance 't is true beside our general Repentance we need daily Repentance for daily Sin he whose Body was washed by the Water of Repentance for former Sins Jo. 13.10 had need to wash his feet for continued Transgressions even in that Fountain opened to the House of David Zac. 13.1 and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem But how knowest thou oh Satan that I want that Repentance which God will accept 't is not such a degree of any Grace that is required so there is so much to make it true and saving If Confession if Contrition and Compunction of Soul accompanied with a sincere forsaking of Sin in Resolution may be judged Badges of the Divine Order of Penitents I hope with all Humility to pretend to be a little Member of that Heavenly Society And surely if all the forementioned Ingredients are necessary to make this Holy Oyntment of Repentance my condition hath afforded me much opportunity of joyning in making the Composition But if I wanted Faith and Repentance to whom should I go but to the giver of both Phil. 1.29 To you it is given to believe And to them God granted Repentance unto Life Act. 11.18 Oh my Soul wait upon Thy God for from him and him alone cometh Thy help and Thy Salvation Psa 43.5 I cannot blame Thee Satan Oh Sinner to be careful of Thy Salvation Eternal Weal or Woe depends upon it and therefore if Thou wilt hearken to me I will tell Thee a way how to do it VII Suggestion The way to save Thy Soul is to destroy Thy Life This is the only way that is left and if Thou wilt do it I will shew Thee a way how Thou mayest accomplish Thy desired End This is strange Sinner Oh subtle Serpent that a thing of such contrariety and inconsistency should concur in Harmony and my designed Felicity Must I break the Divine Law of the Supream Legislator and become a Felo de se c. and promise my self impunity nay benefit thereby Certainly if ever thou wert Transformed into an Angel of Light 2 Cor. 11.14 't is now At this time we may truly say Satanas inter filios Dei for thou to pretend my Salvation in such a manner as intends my Souls Destruction and then to suggest to me such a way so ridiculous and fantastical in a thing not to be named without Laughter and Detestation Must my Mother be an instrument of my Consumption and Anihilation that was a means of my Conception and Production Can a Man enter into his Mothers Womb and be Born again Joh. 3.4 Had not thy Ridicularity been to others formerly known and now to my self it would scarcely have been believed as having no affinity with thy pretended Sagacity It must confess my long denied Rest and continued Conflict hath so weakened my understandings that I am not fully Master of my own Reason and therefore a fit subject for thy delusion and I am so strongly and violently Assaulted with thy restless Temptation forcing me as it were against my will to my Bodies destruction that had those ways at another time been by me used it certainly had attained its final