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enemy_n	david_n	day_n	saul_n	1,144	5	9.5833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85774	Christ tempted: the divel conquered. Or, A short and plain exposition on a part of the fourth chapter St. Matthew's Gospel. Together with two sermons preached before the University at Oxford, some years since. By John Gumbleden, B.D. and chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Leicester.	Gumbleden, John, 1598 or 9-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing G2232; Thomason E912_11; ESTC R207548	83,000	98

their ministry in the production of his omnipotent works in the beginning for that cause the creation of Angels is concealed there and the ministry of Angels for a time suspended here For that cause that our Creator might not be robbed of his glory by a misconstruction of the one nor our Redeemer robbed of his by a misinterpretation of the other But now when the Temptation was fully ended and the Conquest on our Saviour's part fully obtained there being not the least ground at all left why any creature should presume to engross any part of the honour of that victory as due unto themselves now those glorious Spirits were commanded to do him service again as they had done before and commanded they obey Behold Angels came and ministred unto him Angels ministred unto him Ministred not onely food and sustenance unto him if they did that after his long-fasting as was done by the hand of an Angel to r 1 Kings 19.5 6. Elias in the like case but no doubt they also ministred comfort unto him and there was cause for it because as man he was then in most need of comfort even when he was but newly escaped from the snares and temptations of Satan and cause there was for Angels then men were not fit to do it to minister comfort unto him as at another time one of that heavenly host did when being in a great agony an Angel most opportunely appeared unto him from ſ Luke 22.43 Heaven strengthning him Nay I see no cause why I may not also safely affirm that part of this Angelical service and ministry was spent at that time in congratulating his late and happy victory and in singing an Eucharistical 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a song of praise and thanksgiving to his Father for delivering his Son from the Temptations of Satan When the Israelites had escaped out of the hands of Pharaoh and the Egyptians there was joy and thanksgiving for that Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord and t Exod. 15.1 said c. At another time when they were delivered from the Tyranny of Ja●in King of Canaan and Sisera the Captain of his Host Judg. 4. there was joy and thanksgiving for that Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Ali●●am on that day saying Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of u Judg. 5.1 2 c. Israel When David after the death of his son Absalon was delivered from the hands of all his enemies round about him there was also joy and thanksgiving for that And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of all his enemies and cut of the hands of w 2 Sam. 22.1 c. Saul And can we think that our Saviour was delivered out of the hands of Satan a far more potent Adversary then either Saul or Sisera or Jabin or Pharaoh or all can we conceive I say that this was done without an Eucharistical song of praise and thanksgiving unto God Surely no it was not and who were so fit to do it as Angels that holy and heavenly Quire who in multitudes together magnified the Father for the birth of his Son saying Glory be to God on x Luke 2.13 high All heavenly Hallelu-jah's being most properly set to their melodious voice which is Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his y Isa 6.3 glory And John in his vision heard the Angels about the Throne cry out with a loud voice saying Worthy is the Lamb to receive honour and glory and a Rev. 5.11 12. praise Lo the work of praise and thanksgiving all and all at other times performed by the holy Angels Therefore David putting them in mind not of their duty which they always remember but of the constant and continual delight they have in praising God which they never forget saith O praise the Lord ye Angels of b Psal 103.10 his which they continually do and then in particular did when h●re praising God for Satans overthrow and our Saviour's victory they came and ministred unto him They ministred unto him And therein they did but that for which they were Created even to be ministring Spirits to be God's messengers from Heaven to Fa●th and again from Earth to Heaven between him and his Church before his Son's Incarnation afterwards between him and his Son the head presupposeth the body also whole he was here on Earth and now our Saviour being bodily absent and the Angels having no more to do for him on Earth in this matter as touching his own Person Ministring Spirits they still are and shall be between God and his * Angels minister unto Saints Saints so long as they shall remain here even to the worlds end as it hath been ever even from the beginning surely so it is and that it is so the Apostle plainly proves saying They are all ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of c Heb. 1.14 salvation Lo the Angels work is to minister as here they did to our Saviour and still do to us Lo they themselves are the Sons of God by d Job 38.7 creation and 't is most proper for such to take care of and diligently watch over those that are his sons by grace and adoption which that their ministry may never cease they carefully do and will do and that both while they live when they die and also after they are dead While we live the holy Angels are appointed to protect and defend us both from corporal and spiritual dangers The Angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him and delivereth c Psal 34.7 them When we die they shall carry our souls as they did the soul of Lazarus into Abrahams bosome into f Luke 16.22 heavens and at the last day when the general resurrection shall come though our bodies have long before been resolved into their first principles the son of man shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his Elect from the four winds from one end of Heaven to g Matth. 24.31 another So sacred are even their very ashes unto him and the dead in Christ in the faith of Christ shall rise h Thes 4.16 first that they first may be glorified both in soul and body before the reprobates be in both eternally punished Lo God never forgets his Church those that shall be heirs of salvation God never forgets them not in their life not in their death no nor after death neither and therefore the holy Angels shall never forget their office which is to minister for the spiritual and eternal good of all those that shall be saved and that they shall never cease to minister unto us an argument it is in that they here came and ministred unto our Saviour