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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49240	The Christians combat: or, His true spiritual warfare wherein is laid down the nature, power, and cunning deceit of Satan, the great enemy of our salvation. With the means whereby every good Christian may withstand his dreadful assaults. By C. L. late preacher of Gods word in the City of London.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3144; ESTC R216615	19,118	53

the cause thereof is namely the love and favour of God to the faithful whose estate he ●span ● shall be endless and eternal As 〈◊〉 malice of Satan is inveterate so it is ●●o deadly not to be satisfied by taking a●●y our goods or good name or afflicting us ●ith sickness no nor by taking away our ●●●●es for nothing will satisfie him but de●●ruction of soul body we may read in scrip●ure that he is called a murtherer a man-slayer and our Savior telleth us that he hath bin so from the beginning You read in Peter that ●● is compared to a roaring Lion but in truth Satan is far more cruel then a roaring Lion who if we may give credit to Histories spareth those that fall down flat before him ●hereas if Satan get us at such advantage ●e would proudly trample us under foot and make us sure for ever rising and therefore 〈◊〉 we should look for any mercy at his hands the Holy Ghost calleth him the great red Dragon Rev. 12.3 which beast beareth such ●●tural malice to mankind that he devoureth ●hem not onely for hunger but also for sport or hatred in satisfying whereof he taketh great delight such a beast is our enemy who is so fleshly in blood and cruelty and so over-carried with malice and hatred that he estéemeth it his chief sport and pastime to destroy us as we may read in Matth. 4.2 that he ●ath the name of a tempter given him he is a tempter to tempt us to sin and not onely so but he is an accuser after that we have sinned requiring of God that he will execute his justice upon offenders who have des●rved punishment of this there née●s no further proof then his own t●stimony as we may read in Job 1.7 And as he is an accuser so he is also a slanderer thus wrongfully did he slander J●● that he served God for advantage b●cause he preserved and blessed all he had affirming that if he would take away his goods and afflict his body he would blaspheme him ●o his face Job 1.10 Neither is Satan onely a slanderer but he is also an executioner or hangman ready with all cruelty to inflict the punishment the which the Lord adjudgeth unto us as we may sée in the History of Job This shews us the extream malice of our enemy he is the father and author of all malice and envy who laboreth night and day to dishonor God and work our destruction Therefore let us oppose against Satans malice Christian resolution stedfastly purposing to continue our fight in resisti●g Satan to our lives ends how troublesome so●ver it séemeth to flesh and blood for what more honourable death is there then to die in fighting the Lords battels what death more profitable séeing by dying we shall overcome and obtain a final victory over all our enemies and receive the crown of Glory everlasting happiness promised to all those who fight valiantly in this Combat unto the end I might inlarge very much in shewing you the power and strength of Satan our great enemy First If you consider it in himself Secondly If we consider the great aid he hath in the world And thirdly If we consider our own flesh how frail that is and what a great help and advantage it is to Satan but I shall wave it at present and shall come to the description of the spiritual armour which the textencourageth every Christian to be armed withal 1. The Apostle St. Paul describeth the quality and as it were the metal of our armour in which respect he telleth us we must put on the armour of God which is spiritual and that our weapons we fight withal must not be carnal for our enemy is spiritual we wrestle against Principalities and Powers Neither is it enough that we put on one piece of the armour and like young souldiers leave off the rest for lightness we must not put on the Helmet of salvation and leave off the Brestplate of righteousness nor take unto us the girdle of Truth Shield of Faith and cast away from us the sword of the Spirit but we are to pu● on the whole armo●r of God like valiant souldiers who mean indéed to stand to it we are to arme our selves in all points in compleat armour of proof which will kéep us from fléeing and our enemies from overcoming And that we may be the rather stirred up with all care and diligence to provide and buckle fast to us the armour which he after describeth he sheweth the necessity thereof by describing the dangerousness of our enemies who being not flesh and blood but Principalities Powers Princes of darkness in this world and spiritual wickednesses which are in high places cannot possibly be resisted by our own strength and means and therefore for this cause he willeth us to take upon us the whole armour of God that we may be able to resist in the evil day that is the time of temptation which is therefore called the evil day partly because therein Satan tempteth us unto evil and partly because it is a time of trouble adversity and affliction when Satan sisteth us with his temptations and thus the evil day is taken in Psal 41.1 The Lord will deliver him in the evil day that is in the time of trouble and thus also it is used in Ephes 5.16 Redeeming the time because the dayes are evil that is full of troubles and afflictions or the time of adversity I shall now come to the particular parts of our Christian armour and shall first begin with the girdle of truth and shew you what we are to understand by it the word Girdle it self signifieth a broad strudded Belt used in wars in ancient times where with the joynts of the Breast plate and that armour which defended the belly and loins and thighs were cover●d and by this truth is resembled whereby some understand the truth of Religion and of the Doctrine which we profess others understand hereby truth and uprightness of heart or the integrity of a good conscience whereby we perform all duties belonging unto God and our neighbor in simplicity without all hypocrisie or dissimulation but I think we may take it in both senses séeing the Apostle doth set down u●●er these metaphorical words the chief vertues and graces wherewith we are to arm our selves against our spiritual enemies 1. First therefore here is required truth of our Religion we profess 2. And secondly th●t we profess it truely and with upright and simple hearts 1. For the first that our Religion must be grounded on Gods truth it is the foundation upon which all other duties to God or man are to be built for if they be not grounded on Gods tru●h but devised by mans brain they are but human traditions which the Lord will not accept neither is it to any purpose that we shew our selves earnest and forward in religion unless it be true and agréeable to Gods holy word 2. T is not