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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03346	The peace of enmity A sermon preached in Paules Church the 12 day of February, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1639. By Augustine Hill, rector of Dengey in the county of Essex.	Hill, Augustine, d. 1660.	1640 (1640)	STC 13467; ESTC S104107	17,891	32

This is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the manifold wisedome of God that fetcheth about his purposes from a farre and by strange meanes effects his designements workes out his owne ends and our comforts by contrary instruments procures health by poison takes hony out of a weed water out of a Rock oile out of a stone good out of evill light out of darknes salvation out of enmity I will put enmity The next thing is the parties betwixt whom the litigation and contention is the Serpent and the woman two companions in evill confederates in rebellion now God sets them at variance It is a rule of Tacitus that society once throughly broken proves deadly and he gives the reason of it Quae apud concordes vincula charitatis Tacitus incitamenta irarum apud infensos sunt Those things which before coupled their friendship in a mutuall interchangeable familiarity are now occasions of greater detestation The text verefies it The serpent and the woman were as inward as might be in injustice they tooke sweet sowre counsell together had stricken their right hands together in a wrong fellowship now they are in an uproa●e and intestine insurrection The society that keepes not within the pale of obedience is nothing else but a partnership in conspiracy a disordered Order easily broken Concordia discors it begins in sedition and ends in contention and though wicked men symbolize in that which is naught yet God doth Commonly knap in sunder their staffe of bands bruise the heele or breake the head of their combination And though there be a day when Herod and Pilate be made friends Luke 23.12 and cleave together in their devices like the woman and the serpent against the first and second Adam Yet there shall be a time when they shall be separated each from other as farre as the East from the West Their affections as farre remote and distant as the Hyena and the dog the weake strings of their rotten society loosed and their bowes strongly bent in a mutuall opposition It is just with God to set them one against another who have set themselves against him and to make revolters from him their Captaine to mutinize among themselves Thus God threatned to set the Egyptians against the Egyptians as Cadmus his army bred of serpents teeth Isa 19.2 killed each other Capitall is this enmity betweene the serpent and the woman So that you may as soone bring the two poles of heaven together as these two to unity For it is enmity in the abstract and so it barres the subjects of any coalition Reconciliation may be made betweene enemies but never where enmity it selfe is setled as betwixt these two And being thus parted my discourse must likewise sever them Thee i. the Devill whose Creation or corruption it pleased God that Moses his pen should not exactly describe unto us et secretum suum sibi nec audemus hic aliquid coniicere quod ille curauit retinere As Saint Bernard well Bern. upon a better occasion Let the Lords secrets be with himselfe I will not have an eye to see where God hath not a finger to set downe And though I am ignorant of his nature yet will I strive not to be ignorant of his devises Revel 20.8 undoubtedly He it is whom the spirit of God cals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dragon the old Serpent which is the Devill and Satan A Father briefely describes him and his companions Aug. they are Spiritus nocendi cupidissimi a justitia penitus alieni superbia tumidi Jdem tract 100 in Ioh. invidentia lividi fallacia callidi And in another place the same Father tearms them both desertores forsakers of God and deceptores deceivers of us This is one of the Champions you may match him with that Goliah of the Philistines The other is a weake opponent but comes like David in the Name of the Lord. The woman mannesse or she-man according to the originall mans helper dimidium anime his better halfe his yoke-fellow his second selfe Yet Translators have heere rendered it Mulier à Mollitie from her nicenesse her tendernesse of constitution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 genus mulierum a Creature that delights in Ornaments Saint Chrysostome sayth keenely she was the Devills engine to undoe man Tim. 2.14 But Saint Paul more mildely she was of two earthen vessells the weaker and deceived in the transgression And his conclusion is sweet through bearing of children she shall be saved for she should at the last beare him that should both save her and all true beleevers Prov. 31. Mulierem fortem quis inveniet sayth the wise man who can finde a strong or a vertuous woman which a Father expounds to be an admiration Bern. not a dubitation For though Solomon knew the weakenesse of that sex yet he looked at the stability of Gods promise that the same hand should be an instrument of wounding and healing Et qui vicerat per foeminam Bern. vinceretur per ipsam He that had overcome by the woman should bee overcome by the woman though not by the same individuall person For divines note that Eve imagined her selfe to be the mother of the holy seed and therefore when she bare Cain she sayd Genes 4 1. acquisivi virum a Iehovah I have gotten a man of the Lord Others more punctually making eth a signe of the accusative case and not onely so Genes 4.2 but an emphaticall demonstrative equivalent to the Greeke Article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 render it Acquisivi virum Iehovah I have gotten that man that is the Lord but seeing her expectation frustrate she names her next sonne Abel vanity to shew how vaine her opinion was For it was not Eve but that handmaid which the Lord had appointed These are the two combatants Numb 22. that stand in my Text like the Angell in Balaams way with their swordes in their hands drawne one against the other the persons whom God sets at variance yet neither is this their enmity personall bounded to themselves or limited to their proprietaries but diffusing it selfe through the veines of their seed and like a Gangren running over the whole body of their posterity thy seed and her seed Immortall is the hatred and dissension of mortall men and enmity runnes in a continuall line The malice kindled among Ancestors is cherished by succeeding progeny Nati natorum et qui nascentur ab illis Children and childrens children will adde fuell to it and possesse the inflamed bloud of their parents To have Ionathan Sauls sonne to love David Sauls reputed enemy is as great a wonder as to have Saul himselfe among the prophets following generations commonly tread the steps of the former Chrys but especially endlesse are those quarrells ubi inimicitiae divina authoritate firmantur As in the text betweene the serpent and the woman and their seeds Thy seed Whose The Divels Surely we may say as the