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A15496	The anchor of faith Vpon which, a Christian may repose in all manner of temptations. Especially in that great and dangerous gulfe of desperation. Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and burthen of their sinne, and not resisting themselues by the hand of faith, vpon the promises and inuitations of Christ, haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues, to the vtter confusion both of body and soule for euer.; Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1628 (1628)	STC 25763.5; ESTC S102508	45,869	112

the law of his spirit which maketh vs to liue in him and hath set vs free from the right of sin and death in such sort that wee may no more feare sinne nor death by Iesus Christ who hath ouercome all for our wealth and hath reconciled vs eternally to his Father who as our deare Father from hence-forth will shew fauour vnto vs for the loue of Iesus Christ his deare Sonne and so will take from vs all our sinnes as though we had neuer committed them Euen so doth he promise saying Mich. 7.18 19. God is one God willing to shew vs grace mercy he wil turn to vs wil be fauourable he wil take away our iniquities cast our sinns into the depth of the sea And again it is said of Gods wōderfull mercies The Lord is full of compassiō mercy Psal 103.8.9.10 c long suffering of great goodnes He wil not alwaies be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for euer He hath not delt with vs after our sins nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities For look how high the heauen is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also towards them that feare him Looke how wide also the east is from the west so far hath he set our sins frō vs. Yea like as a father pittieth his own children euen so is the Lord merciful vnto them that feare him for he knoweth wherof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust c. Of the great mercies of God towards sinners read more in Psal 145.8.9 Places of holy Scriptures setting forth Gods great mercies and 147.8.10 in Ioel. 2.13 Math. 18.11 2. Cor. 1.3 Eph. 2.4 1. Tim. 1.13 vnto the 18. verse Surely these places are words of most rare and singuler comfort and they be certaine firme sure and vnchangeable spoken and pronounced by the eternall verity it selfe therefore not to be mistrusted or dispaired of But yet let vs take heed least that verse be verified in vs Stulti cum vitant vitia in contraria currunt Let vs not abuse Gods mercies making a cloake thereof to couer our sinnes Let vs not presume too far and say as in Ecclesiastic 5.6 The mercy of God is great he wil forgiue my manifold sins for mercy wrath commeth from him c. CHAP. 4 The fourth Chapter concerning the Remedies to be vsed against the fourth cause of Desperatiō arising of the doubts suggested by the Diuel vnto many men to bring them into dispayre of their saluation by meanes of the small number of those that shall be saued in comparison of the great nūber of the reprobate A catalogue or rehearsall of many thinges whereby the Diuell craftily tempteth men to sin and desperation GReat indeed is the power manifold meruailous are the polices deuices wiles subtilties assaults and suggestions wherewith and wherby that wylie Foxe that old bitten Dogge that subtle Sathan the Diuell dayly and hourely practiseth to entice allure and euen as it were to force multitudes of men heare on earth into one sinne or other wherunto he findeth and proueth them to be naturally inclined and last of all vpon one occasion or other into Desperation If he espieth a man to be rich How the diuel tempteth by riches and to haue worldly blessings through the gift of God then will he apply him earnestly by his prosperity to lull him asleepe in the forgetfulnesse of God in worldly Pleasures pleasant Vanities transitory delights comforts and solaces and by trusting in his riches to lift vp himselfe arrogantly aboue others to swell in pride and to contemne his brethren committing and that with great sawcinesse and boldnesse manie fond palpable and grosse errors and follies against Gods word euen as if hee should say Who is the Lord On the other side if a man be poore he laboureth therby to make him contemptible before the world How the diuel tempteth by pouerty to pinch and nip him with the want of many thinges necessary both for backe and belly that hee seeth before his face many others haue in great in aboundant measure he soliciteth him to steale Pro. 30.9 to take the name of God in vaine to seeke after gaine by vnhonest vnlawfull and vngodly meanes to murmure distrust blaspheme and despayre How the Diuell tempteth by friends Gen. 3.6 Iob. 2.9 Ester 5.14 If a man haue friends he will vse them as his instruments to tempt vnto some euill by their lewd and wicked counsaile as he did procure Euah to doe vnto Adam Iob his wife to Iob. Haman his Wife vnto Haman How the Diuell tempteth by enemies If thou hast enemies then will he prick thee foreward by their procedings and dealings against thee vnto vniust choller wicked anger and diuelish reuenge If thou be carefull for thy family wife and children he will take hold vpon that occasiō to stuffe thy heart with too much desire of hauing How the Diuell tempteth by carefulnes and getting by right or by wrong and thereby through extreame couetousnes make thee to forgoe all godlines and piety How the Diuell tempteth by security and carelesnes On the other side if thou be careles that 's it that he can make vse of also for as S. Bernard saith Infert diabolus securitatē vt inferat etiam perditionem c. In heauē Angels became diuels In Paradise Adam and Euah fel into disobedience In the schoole of Christ Iudas became a traitor to his Lord Maister al this saith S. Bern. through security and retchlesnes to keepe themselues in that good state wherein they were once set Hast thou strength thereby will hee take occasion to embolden and harden thee to doe iniury and wrong and to set vpon thy weaker Hast thou health and a strong able body How the Diuell tempteth by strength by health ablenesse of body beauty by those will hee induce and entice thée to one kinde or other of lewdnes and dissolutnes Hast thou beauty that will he make an instrument for bawdry an inticemēt and an allurement to voluptuousnes wanton delights Hast thou honour and dignity in the world How the diuel tempteth by honour and dignity thereby will he blow the bellows of pride audacity and boldnesse to oppresse to crush and tread vnder foote thine inferiours Hast thou viuacity How the Diuell tempteth by quicknes of spirit sharpnes of wit quicknes of spirit and sharpenes of wit and learning these also will he striue to abuse wrest to serue his turne to excogitate inuent and deuise a thousand vanities yea all the rare and excellent guiftes of God which God doth bestow on any man this Diuell this arch-enemy of mankind will leaue no waies nor meanes vnattempted to procure man to abuse the same to a cleane contrary ende if it were possible to that for which they were bestowed How the diuel tempteth by

THE ANCHOR of FAITH Vpon which A Christian may Repose in all manner of Temptations Especially in that Great and Dangerous Gulfe of DESPERATION Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and Burthen of their Sinne and not resting themselues by the Hand of Faith vpon the Promises and Inuitations of CHRIST haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues to the vtter Confusion both of Body and Soule for euer PROV 18.14 The Body will beare his infirmitie but a Broken and wounded Spirit who can beare St. August in lib. de Vtilitate poenitentiae agendae Least wee should increase our sinnes by despayring the gate of Repentance is set open vnto vs. Least by presuming the day of our Death is concealed from vs. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson and are to bee sold at his Shop at Grayes-Inne new Gate in Holborne 1628. A PREFACE TO THE Christian Reader IT is a Wonder of the World a wonder to bee seriously marked and diligently considered of and a wonder being seriously marked and diligently considered of worthy to bee deepely wayed and inwardly to bee laid vp in m●n● hearts as a thing most necessary profitable and auaileable to Christian piety and euerlasting felicity both of soule and body The thing 〈◊〉 bee ●dred 〈◊〉 seriou● to be ●sidere● to see and to thinke of it how carefull watchfull diligent earnest and painfull almost all the world euery where is to auoyde to preuent to cure and to remedy all such troubles crosses griefes maladies infirmities and sicknesses as do or may befall the body And on the other side to see or finde so few watchfull carefull and painefull to auoid preuent cure or expel the most dangerous wounds of the Spirit the troubles of the conscience or desperation a mischiefe of all other mischiefes most needfull to be looked into 〈◊〉 se● thing 〈◊〉 bee ●dred ●nd se●sly to 〈◊〉 ●d of It is a wonder to see and consider how many there are in the World which either loath and are aff●aide of bodily sicknes or loue like health will send for and seeke run and ride after bodily Phisitions and enquire after the best the most expert most skilfull of them to learne by their direction and to bee aduised by their counsaile though it cost their purse full deare how to purge and auoide such corrupt humours as may breede though not presently bring forth noysome diseases and sicknesses how carefull and how scrupulous they are to keepe a temperate order and a dyet in eating and drinking and how moderate they will be in sleepe and all other bodily exercises And on the other side how few there bee in the World that will either abate their sleepe forgoe their pleasures abridge their dyets or seeke after the spirituall Phisition or prepare Phisicke to purge and expell those dangerous peccant humors of notorious and hainous sinnes which in time will both breede bring forth the most deadly disease of Desperation the very Peste of soule and body for euer It is a wonder to see The 〈◊〉 thing bee ●dred how many abhorre and are affraid of worldly pouerty and for the auoiding thereof and for the loue and liking of transitory riches will with great carke and care rise vp early and late take their rest they will fare hardly and go clad full barely they will hazard both bodies and soules they will toyle and teare their flesh in vnmeasurable labours by land and sea bee the weather faire bee it foule per mare pauperiem fugientes per saxa per ignes And yet on the other side how few can abide any costes charges or paines to escape and remedie spirituall decayes to auoyde pouerty of conscience or in time before it be too late to beware that they be not plunged ere they be aware into the most deadly and diuelish gulph of Desperation as though saluation and peace of a godly conscience were a matter not worthy the talking of or labouring for It is a lamentable thing to behold how many in the world will vndertake and attempt any thing ●ing to ●men● bee it neuer so chargeable troublesome not sluggish nor sleepie not carelesse and slothfull but most earnest and watchfull most careful and painefull at euery assay by Prudence and prowesse by witte and by warinesse by counsaile and by cunning by learning and by labouring ambitiously to hunt gaine and gape after honor and vnfatigably seeke to attaine fame and highly account of it to be gazed on talked of with the eyes and tongues of all men And againe how few take any care at all or once endeauour themselues to auoyd shame confusion in the presence of the Almighty to become glorious in the sight of GOD and his Angels and to vse and exercise any of those good meanes and instruments ordained and appointed of God for the increase of Faith Hope and Charity and for the weakening and abandoning of all desperation and diffidence in Gods infinite mercies and infallible promises It is a lamentable thing to marke and consider how vigilant careful The secōd th● to bee ●mented and heedfull many of the wiser and circumspecter sort of men of this world will bee to escape and auoyd all the penalties paines and punishments prouided and set downe for offenders of mortall mens lawes how painefull they will be in Penall Statutes how skilfull in euery branch of the Ciuill Lawes least they should ignorantly incurre the dangers of imprisonment of losse of landes forfeytures of their goods or death it selfe Many haue greater care of mortal mens laws then of Gods lawes But the mighty God the only highest Law-giuer that Lord of Lordes and King of all Kings Let him ordeyne publish and proclaime his Lawes Statutes and Ordinances to be hearkned vnto obserued and kept and that vnder neuer so rigorous and Seuere conditions punishments and penalties How few men will search his Booke of Statutes and Lawes How few are affraid of his not temporary but euerlasting threatninges and punishments contained in his Lawes and how few men regard esteeme and thankfully embrace his couenant of reconciliation set forth in his most ioyfull and comfortable Gospell And yet most certaine it is that all these aforesaid things so much to bee wondred at and so greatly to bee lamented for so lightly looked on so smally regarded and so little thought on many such other of the like fraternity and order of disorders sins being delighted in and securely continued in without all care or indeauour to forsake them in time by repentance true returning to the Lord doe first breed or in gender and afterwards bring forth Desperation then the which all the Furies and Diuells in hell cannot lightly excogitate nor find out a greater torment or a more intolerable paine and that because that all other torments penalties and paines are but temporall and pursue men no further then bodily death but this endeth not with

sicknesses but that we haue time leasure and quietnesse to doe all such things as any of vs all trusted vnto at our last farewel with the world The diuell will bee most busie to hinder repentance at our last houre yet will that deadly enemy that mortall aduersary of ours Sathan the Diuell at the time aboue all other apply himselfe let vs looke for no other but what vile sinne we haue committed and delighted ●n all our life time that wil he lay to our ●harge and clogge our consciences with to bring vs into desperation with and ●y them he will put vs in minde ter●ifie vs with Gods seuere threatnings against sinne He will obiect against vs that saying of our Lord Christ Math. 19. that if we would haue entred into life we should haue kept his Commandements Math. 7. He wil tel vs that not he that saith Lord Lord but he that doth the wil of the father of heauen shall enter into the Kingdome of God He will put vs in mind that Not the hearers of the Law but the doers shal be iustified Rom. 2. Rom. 8. He wil threaten vs that because we haue liued according to the flesh we shall die He wil crack vs that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdom of God that neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Wātons 1. Cor. 6.9.10 nor Buggerers nor theeues nor the Couetous nor Drūkards not Railers nor Extortioners shal inherit the kingdome of God And that such as haue liued according to the works of the flesh which are repeated vp Gal. 5. shall not attaine to the kingdome of God 1. Cor. 5. Ier. 2. And that we must be presented before the iudgement seat of Christ and euery man receiue particularly according as he hath done in this life good or euill Apoca. 20 2. Pet. 2. euery man shal receiue according to his works and that God spared not the Angels when they sinned 1 P●● 4. if the iust shall scarce be saued where shal the wicked man and sinner appeare When all these a great deale more describing setting forth vnto vs the rigor of Gods seuere iustice the reckoning wherevnto we shal be called shal be put into our minds on our death-beds that damned Sathan which all the daies of our liues before laboured to make vs careles negligent of the knowledge or consideration of any of these things that so he might make vs the more boldly blindly to run headlong into sinne shall charge vs with this and much more like stuffe appealing to our owne consciences for witnes heereof and so heervppon plant in our hearts déepe Desperation Alas in what case shall our poore soules then stand Would a man then for a thousand worlds and all the profits and pleasures thereof be brought to such a quandary O thou therefore that readest or hearest this damnable and miserable state that silly soules may be implunged into for the better auoyding of these perills read and read againe meditate ponder and put in practise the direction aduice and counsell in the beginning of this present sixt Chapter And take this lesson of Ioseph of Arimathia The example of Ioseph of Arimathia most worthy to be imitated that like as hee in his life time had made a ready Sepulcre in the midst of his Garden which was the place of his pleasure as all Gardens of great men most commonly are euen so thou in the midst of these thinges wherein thou takest thy greatest felicity and delight remember yet thy graue and what one day thou knowest not how soone shall become of thy poore soule afterward of thy soule and body for euer The vse custome of he Egyptians Remember and learne likewise at the Egiptians who perceiuing the mindfulnes of death to be a good helpe to bridle their euill actions vsed to bring a Picture or Image resembling death into their great and sollemne Feasts which fearefull and vgly sight trembling and shaking they tooke to bee a speciall occasion to keepe the beholders in sobriety by the remembrance of their end The notable imm●●a●●e example of ●ing Ezechi●s which they must all come vnto sooner or later And finally learne at the good king Ezechias when thou shalt be by any occasion put in remembrance of death be affraid of Gods threatning sorrow a little before hand least thou bee constrained to sorrow howle and cry remedilesse alwayes afterwards for according to the old saying Ecclesiast 7.40 Qui ante non cauebit post dolebit he that wil not beware before shall afterward bee sorrye he that in all his doings remembreth the end shal neuer lightly do amisse The which wise remembrance of our endes he vouchsafe to plant in our hearts who hath full dearely bought vs Iesus Christ the righteous to whom with his and our heauenly father and the holy spirit three persons and one eternall maiesty of God-head all worthy glory honour and praise be worthily attributed for euer and euer Amen CHAP. 7 The seauenth Chapter containing the Generall Preseruatiue against the despaire or doubting of Gods mercy arising vppon any cause whatsoeuer FOr as much as it is a thing manifestly to be proued by holy Scriptures that a man indued with true faith it selfe may not withstanding now and then be troubled and assaulted with motions of doubtings wauering yea and of despairing therefore for the bridling suppressing and ouercomming of these assaults it shall be good to put in practise these fiue things especially First we are to thinke and consider thus much The first preseruatiue against Despaire that as not to murther not to steale not to commit adultery and all the rest of the Decalogue or ten Commandements are the Commandements of God and we are carefull and striue with our selues that we should not breake any of thē least that in breaking any of them wee should so highly offend God that he would therefore power downe vpon vs his heauy wrath and in his indignation seuerely punish vs as by many examples we see he hath done to others in the like offences So also it is Gods commandement as well as any of the others are 1 Iohn 3.23 That wee beleeue in the name of his son Iesus Christ and therefore we must thinke we offend against God as grieuously or rather far more grieuously in violating and breaking this Commandement by incredulity doubting wauering and despairing as if we should shed mans blood commit whordome theft periury or any other such like notorious sinne O what a hainous sinne must it needs be to cast no doubtes nor dispaire in the helpe of a mortall man in the time of neede and yet to mistrust and despaire of the like in God As for example wee can settle our hearts to beleeue in our mortall fathers if wee stand in neede of meat drinke or clothes An example that many men put more