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A09462	Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1604 (1604)	STC 19747.7; ESTC S4051	89,009	206

are helpes whereby men being humbled for their sinnes before God obtaine peace and holinesse of life 2. Cor. 1. 9. We receiued sentence of death in our selues because we should not trust in our selues but in God which raiseth the dead Esa. 26. 16. Lord in trouble haue they visited thee they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them Hos. 5. 15. I will go and returne to my place till they acknowledge their fault and seeke me in their affliction they will seeke me diligently Psal. 78. 34. When he flue them they sought him and they returned and they sought God early Ierem. 31. 18. I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus Thou hast corrected me and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe conuert thou me and I shall be conuerted Heb. 12. 11. No chastisement for the present see●eth ioyous but grieuous but afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousnesse vnto them which are thereby exercised Psa. 30. 5. Weeping may abide at euening but ioy commeth in the morning Iohn 15. 2. Euery branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth ●●re fruite 1. pet 1. 6. Wherein ye reioyce though now for a season if need require ye are in heauinesse through many temptations 2. Cor. 1. 4. The God of all comfort which comforteth vs in all our tribulations that we may be able to comfort them which are in affliction by the comfort wherewith our selues are comforted of God Rom. 5. 3. We glory in afflictions knowing that affliction bringeth patience Heb. 2. 10. He did consecrate the Prince of their saluation through affliction We permit Chirurgians that they both bind vs lying diseased in our beds and seare vs with hot irons yea lanch and search our members with rasors and lastly we send them away vsually with friendly and kind speeches often with a golden fee for their thus handling vs. Shal we thē suffer so many things of a Chirurgian to cure a bodily disease and will we not giue God leaue to cure by afflictions the most festered diseases of our sicke soules Lidia What is to be gathered hence Paul By this we may gather that the afflictions of the godly are signes of their adoption Heb. 12. 6. Whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receiueth 7. If ye endure chastisement God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonne● And that they are to them the Kings high way to heauen Iames 1. 12. Blessed 〈◊〉 the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receiue the crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue 〈◊〉 2. Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction which i● but for a moment causeth vnto vs a farre more excellent and an eternall waight of glory 3 That God hath promised fauour mitigation of punishment his presence and deliuerance Philip. 1. 29. 1. Cor. 10. 13. God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted aboue measure but with temptation will giue deliuerance 2. Sam. 7. 14. Psal. 50. 15. Call vpon me in time of trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal. 121. 4. He that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleepe Esa. 43. 2. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the flouds that they do not ouerwhelme thee when thou walkest through the very fire thou shalt not burne neither shal the flame kindle vpon thee 3. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy sauiour 4 That in all troubles of the faithfull Christ is a companion 1. Pet. 4. 13. Reioyce that ye are partakers of the afflictions of Christ. 2 Cor. 4. 10. Euery where we beare about in our bodie the dying of Christ that the life of Iesus might also be made manifest in our bodies Col. 1. 21. 5 That the Angels are readie to defend such as feare God Psal. 34. 8. 2. Kings 6. 16. Feare not there are more with vs then against vs. Lidia But of all calamities the remembrance of death is fearful vnto me giue me I pray you some few preseruatiues against it Paul Against the feare of death note these preseruatiues First death it freeth the godly from the tyrannie of Satan sinne the world the flesh and eternall damnation yea frō infinite both perils and losses and doth place vs both safe and happie vnder the shadow as it were of Christs wings Secondly Christ by his death hath sanctified vnto vs both death and the graue 3 Christ is both in life and death gaine to the godly Phil. 1. 12. 4 Those consolations which the spirit of Christ doth suggest to the soules of the faithful do by many degrees surmount the dolors of death 5 The desire of that most bright and glorious beholding of God and the presence of those Saints which are departed before vs. 6 In stead of our bodies we shall be clothed with glory 2. Cor. 5. 1. 7 The sting of death namely sin is then so taken away as that that serpent can no more hurt vs. 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death where i● thy sting O graue where is thy victory Heb. 2. 15. That he might deliuer all them which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage 8 We should not so much thinke of our death as to take an exact account of our life For that man cannot die ill who hath liued well and he seldome dieth well that hath liued badly 9 The Angels they stand at our elbowes that so soone as a Saint departeth they may with al speed immediatly transport his soule into heauen Soules being once in heauen remain ther● till the last day of iudgement where they partly magnifie the name of God and partly do waite and pray for the consummation of the kingdom of glory and ful felicitie in body and soule Reu. 5. 8. And when he had taken the booke the foure beasts and the foure and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb hauing euery one harpes and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of the Saints 9. And they sang a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the seales thereof because thou wast killed and hast redeemed vs to God by thy bloud out of euery kinred and tong and people and nation Reuel 14. 2. I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes 3. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne and they cried with a loud voice saying How long Lord holy and true doest not thou iudge and auenge our bloud on them that dwel on the earth Lidia Yet for all this Satan in the time of temptation and at the houre of death wil go about to perswade me that these things do not belong vnto me what must I do then Paul Descend into your owne heart see whether you haue Gods spirit or no testifying vnto you that you are Gods child for as many as haue the spirit

to proceed by degrees in his temptations As first he cast into Cains mind an angry thought against his brother Abel after he preuailed and Caine had conceiued displeasure against his brother then ●he proceedeth to tempt him to murther and there he did not stay till he had brought him to vtter despaire So he dealt with Iudas first he put into Iudas mind this thought Iudas betray thy maister which though Iudas did receiue at the first yet after he letteth it ta●● place and then the Diuell proceedeth by d●grees with him till he had brought him to h●● purpose And it is the diuels subtiltie first 〈◊〉 get if it be but a talent in then he will thr●● in his foote yea his head and wind in hi● whole bodie Out of this subtile dealing of the Diuel● that he begins with lesser temptations an● proceeds by degrees it must teach vs to b● wise and to labour that we may stop the fir●● motions and inclinations to sin to resist th● very beginnings to euill For if Satan preuail● in them he will proceed to more forcibl● temptations The fourth and last point in the abode 〈◊〉 Christ in the wildernesse is in these word● He was afterward an hungrie that is when h● had by the diuine power and vertue of h●● Godhead fasted forty daies and forty night● he was at the last hungry And this Christ di● for our sakes for though Christ was the So● of God yet for our good he was content t● take our nature vpon him and became tru● man like vnto vs in all things excepting sin● and had not onely the will mind affection and conscience of man but also tooke vpon him the infirmities of humane nature so farre foorth as they be without sinne and therefore he was subiect to hunger and thirst The causes wherefore our Sauiour Christ was hungrie are these first that he might ●hew himself to be true man and that he had ●he infirmities of humane nature and so we see he would stop the mouthes of such as should say it was a small matter for him to last so long being the sonne of God But least we should doubt of his manhood he is here ●s we see touched with hunger a true infirmitie of mans nature Secondly he was thus hungrie that by this meanes he might cast vnto the diuell an ob●ect to worke on and giue him occasion to be more fierce in his assaults Then came to him the Tempter and said Here begins the first combat betweene the Diuel and Christ and in it we are to consider three especiall points First the diuels preparation Then came to him the Tempter and said Secondly the temptation it selfe in these words If thou be the Sonne of God commaund that these stones be made bread Thirdly the answer and repulse of Christ vers 4. In the preparation note first the author the Tempter secondly the time then thirdly the occasion of this temptation namely the hunger of Christ fourthly the diuels coming vnto Christ. The author is here intituled the Tempter s● 1. Thess. 3. 5. and the cause why he is so called is because it is his desire his studie and continuall practise to tempt men and to seeke as much as he can to draw men from God to his kingdome and to this purpose he sparet● no paines night and day assaulting and tempting men to bring them to destruction He goeth about as a roring Lion seeking whom he may deuoure Well then seeing we know it is the diuels study night and day to tempt vs it should teach vs all as we loue our soules to watch and pray continually least we be led into temptations and so be ouercome of Satan It is our dutie to seeke to be as vnlike the Diuell as possibly we can because he is the patterne of al euill Now we see it is the diuel● study to hinder men from the kingdome of heauen and so to bring them to hell then o● the contrary seeing he labours to draw me● from seruing of God we should quicken vp our selues in the seruice and worship of God and to be more careful to seeke the kingdom of God our selues and to draw others to the same We must beware that we be no meanes to draw any from embracing of true religion and from the seruice and worship of God for if we do we become euē diuels incarnate When Christ went vp to Ierusalem to performe the worke of mans redemption Peter he begins to disswade him from it and bids him fauour himselfe but Christ turneth him backe and saith Get thee behind me Satan 2. The second thing is the time when the Diuell sets vpon Christ Then namely when he perceiued Christ most weake and as he thought not able to resist him Herein appeareth the pollicie of Satan when he seeth Christ most weake the Diuell taketh occasion to lay his strongest assaults So then in the example of Christ we may see the exceeding pollicie of the Diuell in tempting of men namely he maketh choise of the fittest time to broach his temptations for he marketh prieth into men and women and when he findeth vs most weake and most vnable to resist him then is he the most strong in tempting vs especially at the houre of death and in the time of afflictiōs he bendeth the force of his temptations against vs. Oh then how should this admonish vs al to prepare our selues against the day of afflictiō and the pangs of death to be stedfast in the faith to make our calling and election sure that so we may neuer finally fall away and to intreate the Lord that then when we seeme to be most weake he would aide and strengthen vs by his holy spirit to resist Satan● assaults The third point in the diuels preparation i● the occasion wherby the diuel was especially moued to tempt Christ which was his hunger Such was Satans malice against the Lord Iesus that when he could find no sin in him then he takes aduantage of Christs infirmity and seeing him now hungry begins to tempt him to vnlawful means to satisfie his hunger Now then seeing the diuell takes occasion to tempt Christ euen from the infirmitie of his humane nature as he was man hence we learne whence the diuell hath the ground of all his temptations namely from our selues and from our own nature and we our selue● affoord him the matter of his temptations h● brings the fire and bloweth it but we affoord him the fewell to set it a work The diuell obserueth the nature of men their dispositions inclinations and behauiours and continually prieth into their dealings and like vnto a prudent Captain who besieging a citie marketh where it is most weake and of least resistance and there he bends all his forces and placeth his greatest ordinance Euen so the diuel watcheth vs and our behauiours to obserue vnto what sin we be most addicted and by nature most inclined