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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05416	The bruising of the serpents head A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse September 9. 1621. By Roger Ley Maister of Arts, and minister of Gods word in Shoreditch.	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.	1622 (1622)	STC 15568; ESTC S103082	34,316	56

in the battell And when the children of God stood before his presence Satan was among them Iob. 1. But they suppose he cannot come thither any more since Christ ascended vpin person and to that purpose alledge the place Luke 19.18 I saw Satan as lightening fall from heauen and Reu. 12.9 Michael expeld the Dragon from thence with his Angels their place was no more found in heauen the old Serpent that deceiueth the world was cast out into the earth and his Angels with him and therefore S. Paul calleth him Prince of the power of the Aire because his ruling is confined within that space he can goe no higher These are a vouched with great probability But sure it is Christ shooke his Kingdome in the earth being borne and sent into the world to destroy his workes that the people which sate in darkenesse before might see great light and they be deliuered which sate in the region and shaddow of death As light which shines from heauen is diffused nothing in nature hauing a power to spread it selfe more suddenly illustrating the whole Hemisphere or halfe at once so did this Sonne of righteousnesse as was sayd Psal 19. Nothing was hid from the heat thereof but beyond the regions of Iury his Apostles carried it farre and wide into many Nations This was the stronger hand of this Conquerour that by a people scorned as for superstition by others and then torne by the Romanes being the weaker side he gaue lawes vnto the mighty and cast him out of the world then strongly possest and kept as his owne house in sinne and ignorance The Oracles were put downe after his incarnation where the deuill had long time giuen aduise and answeres Augustus Caesar inquiring at Delphes who should succeede him in the Empire had this for an answere Peucerus de Oraculis pag. 251. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. An Hebrew childe King of the Gods hath commanded me to leaue this house and returne to hell therefore henceforth forsake our Altars And hee is bound for a thousand yeares Reuel 20. Which we may take from the rising of Constantine vntill the raigne of Otoman or howsoeuer in that space Christ did greatly confound his Kingdome and set vp his owne The successe we haue seene our Sauiours victory to open it more fully note the person called the stronger Man and the meanes vsed to subdue him Christ is God equall with the Father his strength is in the World and beyond it euery way infinite God is Almighty this attribute is prefixed before other Articles in the beginning of the Creed for in whō wil any beleeue but one able and potent least his confidence deceiue him Might then maketh way to all beleefe and beleefe to all performances for Faith ouercommeth the world saith S. Iohn He is called the Lord of Hosts 1. Iohn 5.4 all power being his army Let men muster plot and labour neuer so much this power commandeth them and theirs the strength of this huge World is to him but as an arrow in the hand of a Gyant aimed and shot forth by his owne direction The spirituall powers are to minister and serue in their stations ready to attend and execute his precepts And if one Angell made such a slaughter in Senacheribs army in one night what was the power of him that sent him Diuine strength as it animateth faith so is it the ground of all religion Men are made to reuerence it and the end of all actions is to acknowledge and nothing is more distasted by the Almighty God then to see arrogant presumption or negligent obseruance admire strength any other way Weake creatures liue by it and the name of a creature hath it ingrauen as the proper stampe To vse the Prophets words shall the strong man glory in his strength or the wise man in his wisdome or the rich man in his wealth or any man in any thing seeing the earth is weake and the inhabitants therein hee beareth vp the Pillars of it Is any good expected Hope for it hence Is any enioyed Giue glory to the founder all is receiued from this fulnes Psalme 68. ver 34. Ascribe yee strength vnto God his excellencie is ouer Issrael and his strength is the Clouds Euery good thing is but a gift and giuing can onely make it prosper greatest hopes doe sometimes breake in the middest because the receiuers of fruit respect not the Tree whence they fall They looke at their owne beginnings and at their owne ends and their courses in the proceeding attend their owne desires And though this strength might say vnto the foole deale not so madly and to the vngodly set not vp your horne though promotion come neither from the East nor the West nor from the South a dull desire cannot look so high as heauen neither acknowledgeth any ruler but one who leadeth by common sense Hee will sleepe at a Sermon that can wake at the discourse of a commodity or a mishap can keepe from sleeping And sleight the strict aduise of Scripture when the words of a great man in politique respect make him double diligent Generally inbusinesse of moment though liuing being and moouing be from God who will not more cheerefully rely vpon friends and strong helpers then on Gods furtherance and promised assistance By this strength vnlikely matters haue come to passe most vsually great imaginations haue beene dissolued with a blast dying hopes haue beene reuiued from the graue all which proclaime an vnconquered and inscrutable power of the Lord in working not acknowledged by rash censurers but easily discerned by the iudgement of truth Euen when vngodlinesse is grownelofty it either falleth of it selfe or by the push of a like aduersary is cast vnder foot all strength we see wearing out and this force of Diuine power breaking downe the gate that will not open that howsoeuer the beginnings goe at last the stronger man will ouercome From hence let euery prosuming enemie bee danted though fortified in his wickednes Let euery wearied seruant be encouraged to passe euen through the valley of the shaddow of death and feare no euill Iob had complained and his vncomfortable friends made him sometimes bitter at last the Lord did challenge him to answere and cald him hither Iob 38.4 Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the Earth when I shut vp the Sea with doores Hast thou commanded the morning since thy daies and caused the day spring to know his place Nabuchodonosor in the height of his arrogance boasted of his great Palace and building but for his labour had an ill reward he was made fellow with the beasts of the field Dan. 4.25 Till he knew the most High ruled in the Kingdome of men and gaue it to whom he would S. Peter seeing Christ vnder the burthen of our sinnes laying a side his honour and ready to be apprehended went out of the way to helpe him and wounded one of the high Priests seruants