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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63676	The true relation of the bloody attempt by James Salowayes to cut his own throat in the compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 together with Satans attempt and overthrow, in a sermon preached upon the occasion in Wood-street-compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 / by R.F. ...	R. F.	1663 (1663)	Wing T2935; ESTC R39734	26,039	39

and heartily desired pardon I asked what might chiefly occasion that desperate act He told me Sabbath-breaking that he had the Sabbath day before by lewd Souldiers been perswaded to drink and play and in his excess they had deceived him of moneys and since that time he had been melancholly and bad motions were suggested to him I asked him in what manner his temptation was whether by appearance or some voyce uttering express words He told me again not by appearance but a voyce since he came into Prison spoke within him and told him He should be burned in prison and therefore better to make himself away with his knife I asked him if now he had not a great desire to live He told me yes that he might glorifie God I asked him if he had a comfortable experience of Gods Power over Satan and Mercy towards him in preventing the full execution of the act He told me looking more stedfastly upon me O yes yes my good God would not let me hold my knife but dropped it down I pressed him no more with questions but spoke some comfortable and assuring sentences of holy Writ unto him and ended in Prayer Whilst he continued there he did demonstrate his sorrow and desire to live to serve God in a stricter manner This is the plain and impartial relation of this bloody business which is worthy of reading and remembring The breach of the Sabbath did occaon it and on the Sabbath he endeavours to pay himself the wages of so bad a work With this be pleased to read the Sermon purposely preached to warn the Auditors and printed for no other end but the advantage of the Reader which is the desire of R. F. ERRATA Page 4 line 10. read praedi●ere l 11. for prodict c. praedict p. 6. l. 26. fo Ba l●d● Ba●ak p 8 l 15 Judamy r Judae●● p 10. l. 25. for templatio ● templatio p 13. l. 2 r let them have a double portion of honour p 18. l. 1● ● interiorem and exteriorem p. 26. l. 34. r. tecum ero I will be with thee Satans Attempt and Overthrow MAT. 4. ver 3. And when the Tempter came to him he said If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread THere is not mention of many actions of our Saviour Christ betwixt his Birth and his Baptism in those thirty years as if he had not been man●re for any publick matter or otherwise not called to them he lived privately only we read of his Father and his Mother though that Sex may seem to be exempted their yearly going to Jerusalem and himself very probably went along for certain he was there in the twelfth of his age where he stay'd behind them to the grief of his Parents and occasion of their search with sorrow and the third day as if he would so early intimate the time of his Resurrection was he found of them in a place and posture where they could not expect him He was in the Temple and that n●t with mean company but amidst the Doctors nor idle for he was hearing asking and answering Questions and not according to an ordinary rate but so that it filled all that heard him with admiration His Parents return not from Jerusalem till the holy Duties he ended those which attend not the accomplishment of holy Exercises depart without a blessing His Mother she is present love to the happy Childe and love to the holy Duty takes away the tediousness of the iourney Christ after his return contents himself with privacy and whilst so he is at quiet Satan is not so busie to assault him till he be ready for the conflict Christ stayes till he have power and when he hath ability stayes for authority runs not before he be called and knowing that he must finish his course with the Baptism of Blood he begins it with the Baptism of Water which no sooner done and God doth own him for his Son but Satan would tempt him to his service no sooner is he out of the Water then he is in the Wilderness where and when it was that the Tempter came unto him and said The words do plainly divide themselves into three parts 1. The Person tempting called here The Tempter 2. The Person tempted Him in the first verse Jesus 3. The manner of his tempting and that twofold 1. By approaching He came to him 2. By express words He said In the Person tempting there is three particulars 1. The time Forty dayes 2. The place The Wildernesse 3. The present want He was hungry The time was tedious forty dayes and very troublesome a continued series of temptations The place was sad and solitary the Wildernesse and wild beasts His present want is much he was hungry and in this hunger after forty dayes does the Tempter take his opportunity Then came unto him the Tempter c. The time forty dayes He which found our first Parents in P radise finds our Saviour ●ere in the Wilderness There he tempted them to eat the Fruit which was forbidden and here he tempts our Saviour when he hath not any thing to eat Then the Serpent tempted man by a subtil insinuation to eat that he may become as God Here he works and tempts by necessity that our Saviour would distrust God and by providing to eat would become as the worst of men God there bestowed his Image and an innocent estate upon Adam which he lost in eating And no sooner hath he owned the innocency of his Son in the likeness of a D●ve ●at 3. ulr and an express approbation but Satan tempts him by his diffidence to forfeit that title and part with his birth ●ight for a piece of bread These forty dayes we cannot think free from fiery onsets t●● Tempter would not loose any time to further his design 〈◊〉 he directs his greatest Ordnance against the weakest wall 〈◊〉 raiseth his strongest battery when and where he can expect the least resistance when forty dayes was done and when he was hungry Moses who received the Law Elias by whom the Law was restored and Christ by whom the Law was fulfilled had their fast of forty dayes In Moses his first fast the sight of the glory of God was like a consuming sire and the anger which he conceived if it did not satiate Exod. 24 1● yet did it not admir of any appetite to meat And when he goes up the second time as he was not mindful of it so there was no need of provisions if the vision of God did before fright him now it feasts him and if before he was possessed with anger now he is replenished with glory but in both he lives the life of faith and like one who rightly shadowed Christ it was his meat and drink t●●o the Lords work And we must confess though want did attend Elijah yet in his fastings no lesse then a miracle did feed him the Ravens they became his Purveyours and the

a half heart is no heart Aut totum honora aut totum abjice God loves not a sleepy service N. 〈◊〉 z. Awake thou that sleepest and call upon thy God God loves not an unmannerly service he is not proud he delights that thou shouldst walk with him but let not condiscension lift up thy heart for he requires thou shouldst walk humbly with him M●● God would not have his Spouse to be gaw●y ga●ish and painted but he loves to have her decent not in a new ●a●hion but in a Matron-like and ancient order He that will have her glorious within will not have her sluttish without 〈◊〉 ●6 14 She shall be brought to the King in a rayment of needle-work not masked as to externals but one part of decency joyned and woven with another How dreadful is thy dwelling-place O God how carefully must we enter thy presence Chamber How must we long to hear thy Will imparted to us How must we fear to impart our wants unto thee If our Petition be rude how can we expect a gracious reference How shall not we deport our selves with reverence when we have to deal with a holy God in a holy place on a holy day to do a holy duty knowing that i● these duties the Tempter comes unto us c. God sayes Honour thy Father and thy Mother but 〈◊〉 Tempter ran from the mouth of Christ quote Scripture and acquit thee from this obligation Mary in the mouth of her Son is no more then Woman and that not with obedience but objurgation What have I to do with thee Jo. 2.4 What say we to this bait doth he who teacheth this Commandment disdain his Mother The giver of the Precept is he a president for the breach Let Reverend Bishop Hall answer this Objection Bish Hall In all bodily actions his stile was Mother in spiritual and heavenly Woman she was the Mother of his flesh his Deity was eternal that part which he took from her shall observe her she must observe that nature which was above her as that nature made him a Son and Man so that nature made her both a Woman and a Mother God as thy heavenly Father calls for fear the King as Pater patriae calls for honour Fear God and bonour the King the Conjunction couples them Whom God hath put together let no man put asunder The spiritual Fathers so sayes Saint Paul Vos genui in Evangelio I have begotten you in the Gospel claim an honour let them have a double portion of the spirit of your honour Thy natural Father calls or obedience Can the Mother forget her affection Shall the Child forget his duty Can the Parent forget his care Shall the Child not crave a blessing Blesseme even me also my Father And now am I come to that great temptation which hath been and is too common in our bloody dayes God sayes Thou shalt do no murder Thou shalt not shed the blood of thy brother under the Gospel who might not eat the blood of the beast under the Law The Tempter comes yea hath God said so and hath no small store of provocations and pretences to the breach of this Commandement The first and most unfortunate quarrel was the Tempters when in Paradise he prevailed with our first Parents to rebel against God this quarrel from the mouth of God that sharp-edged sword did produce no lesse then death Morte morieris in this Duel Man being instigated by the Tempter lost the field and in this rebellion was the whole posterity tainted and without the satisfaction of that blessed and powerful second Adam wholly and finally destroyed and as if t●ls had not been a too sufficient witness of his malice against man The Tempter starteth another quarell betwixt two brothers when there was none to rescue Here was the first ●nhappy field wherein Cain spills the blood of his brother Abel provoked by this grand murderer because his brothers sacrifice was better accepted he cannot rest till the innocent blood of his brother be sacrificed to his malice Cain made himself drunk with revenge and now that deadly draught doth so distract him that he proceedeth to dispair and now his guilt as clamorous as the act makes him cry out My sin is greater then can be pardoned passing from the ●in against a finite creature to sinne against the inexhausted mercy of an infinite and eternal Majesty Thus hell tempting him ●o this hainous act bequeaths its horror to him which whatsoever way he looks still stands before him And still this Tempter as if blood were his business continueth his course he hath now charactered Cain in the chequered colours red and black blood and despaire his next piece must be to set a difference betwixt Jacob and Esau these struggling in the womb must not be quiet in the world That the Devil therefore may become a perfect dueller he without doubt appoints the place in Cain the field now the time in Esau The day of mourning for his Father to be the day of murdering his Brother which purposed and heart-murder being prevented by a great providence as if the Tempter were ingaged to prosecute in the defence of his servant Esau he sowes a dissent betwixt the children of Jacob and patches a conspiracy amongst the brethren to kill Joseph still more blood what pretence can this furious fiend have for his acting horrid enemy how coul●st thou design a duel betwixt God and man the Potter and the ●lay How durst thou attempt this affront against the Maker of mankind How canst thou glos●e or any way excuse the lifting up Cains hand against his brother Esaus heart against Jacob and all the brethrens voices against Joseph 〈◊〉 thou ●●●st out rebellion and interlines reasons thou bl●●●●● out di●obedience towards God and settest down advan●● into man Eat says God and thou shalt die Eat saies S●● and thou shalt be as Gods which do not die Thou blot●●● murder and writest in Cains neare a copy of discretion justice and of policy There 's none stands in comperition with the onely Abel what obstruction to the acceptance of my offering why dost thou not remove him and then thy tender will be received Besotted Cain couldst thou be tempted to believe that the blood in the field smelled sweeter then the fruit of the ground Thou blottest out murder in Esau and tells him it is justice Has not Jacob supplanted thee in thy birth right and in thy blessing what 's thy life unto thee if he lives he will again dissemble is it not justice to stop his breath who stole thy blessing how can it be counted murd nor revenge or construed cruelty to put a period to his dayes who hath supplanted thee in thy enjoyments Thou blo●test out murder in the false brethren and though in Letters of blood thou writest Reason great cause why Joseph should be slain first he is a tel●ale Gen. 37. he pries into our actions and gives an