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A19506	Three heavenly treatises, concerning Christ [brace] 1. His genealogie, 2. His baptisme, 3. His combat with Sathan : together vvith deuout meditations, for Christian consolation and instruction / by Mr. William Cowper ...	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1612 (1612)	STC 5936; ESTC S1075	105,109	365

Lord our God who hath opened vnto vs the mysterie of his will according to his good pleasure which hee had purposed in Christ. By whom wee haue redemption through his bloud the forgiuenes of sinnes according to his rich grace To him be praise and glory for euer Amen THE COMBAT OF CHRIST VVITH SATHAN Declaring a working power in our Redeemer answerable to his vocation MATHEVV 4. 1. 2. Then Iesus was led aside of the Spirit into the wildernes to be tempted of the diuell And when he had fasted forty dayes and forty nights he was afterward an hungry LONDON Printed for Iohn Budge 1612. A TREATISE OF Christ his Temptation WE are now come to the historie of Christ his tentation which being ioined with the former two whereof wee haue spoken makes vp vnto vs a complete doctrine of Christian comfort for in his Genealogie we haue seene what manner a man Christ Iesus is In his Baptisme wee haue learned how he is become ours and now in his temptation we see how hee beginnes to worke the worke of Sathans confusion and our Redemption Great ioy was there in the campe of Israel when they saw that Dauid ouercame Goliah cast him to the ground and cut off his head for he was a dreadfull enemie hee had reuiled the host of the liuing God and none of Saul his warriours durst encounter with him But greater ioy should be in our hearts when we see how our Dauid in this singular combate fights with spirituall Goliah hand to hand and ouercomes him who euer since the creation hath beene a shamelesse blasphemer of the euerliuing God and an spitefull enemie of all true Israelites In this first combat the Sonne of God casts him downe In the last combat which he fights with him on the crosse he bursts his head Sathan tempting the first Adam in Paradise ouercame him and so caried him away and his posteritie in a fearefull captiuitie and bondage but the second Adam suffering temptation by Sathan in the wildernes ouercomes him and by a more glorious victory then Abraham had ouer Chedarlaomer doth hee recouer his owne Lots from the power of this enemie In all we haue three points here to be treated of first the circumstances premitted Secondly the combat it selfe consisting of a three-fold assault made by Sathan with their seuerall repulses giuen by our Lord Thirdly the euent and issue thereof The circumstances premitted are sixe First the time which is declared to haue beene immediately after his Baptisme Secondly the place expressed to be the wildernes Thirdly the motion by which hee is caried thither to wit by the spirit Fourthly the person who is tempted namely Iesus full of the holy Ghost Fiftly the tempter named here the Diuell Last of all the occasion of the temptation which is said to be CHRIST his hunger after that hee had fasted fotty dayes As for the time it is noted to haue beene immediately after his baptisme hee had liued twenty nine yeares a priuate man and all that time wee reade not that Sathan tempted him but now when hee comes out in publike to doe the worke of a Redeemer for the glorie of God and good of his brethren hee is assaulted of Sathan with all his might Whereof it is euident how Sathan intends his greatest malice against them who are set vp into those high callings in the which greatest good may be done to the glorie of God and saluation of others So was it with Moses so long as he liued a priuate life he liued a peaceable life but when hee came forth to be a deliuerer of his brethren from their bondage in Egypt then was he persecuted by Pharao So also with Dauid in his priuate calling hee had quietnes but from the time that hee had once begunne to worke the deliuerance of Israel by the slaughter of Goliah and was annointed King by Samuel for the greater benefit of that people then did Sathan stirre vp Saul against him who hunted him like a Partrich through the fieldes and mountaines of Israel The like also may be seene in the Apostle S. Paul in Sosthenes and many others As trees on the toppes of hilles are obiect to euery winde so persons in a high calling if in a good conscience they labour to discharge it shall finde themselues on euery side compassed with temptations Neither is it so onely with those that are set vp in more eminent callings but with euery Christian also what malice Sathan practised against the head that same will he practise against the members So soone as our Lord was borne so soone was he persecuted by Herod so soone as he was baptised so soone was he tempted by Sathan thus as saith Chrysostome ab ipfis vitae initiis ad tentationes praeparam●r then we see that euen in the cradle our Lord began to beare the crosse and no sooner we are borne by regeneration to be his but so soone without further delay doth Sathan set vpon vs with all his might like a new Pharao pursuing Israel to see if hee can reduce vs to his former seruitude and bondage And this I marke for the comfort of weake and young Christians who after their conuersion finde themselues troubled with great temptations wherewith before they were not acquainted let them know that it is a cursed peace to be at peace with Sathan and giue thankes to God who now hath put them in an inimitie with him for thereby they may know they are none of his but are called to a fellowship and communion with Christ Diabolus enim non persequitur nisi bonos Sathan pursues none but good men such as hathcast off his yoke as for the wicked what needes hee to pursue them seeing hee possesses them yea so farre is he from tempting them that he vses them as his instruments to tempt others and therefore let vs not be discouraged but rather confirmed when wee finde our selues tempted by Sathan The second circumstance is of the place noted here to be the wildernes Wherin two things we obserue one in the person of the Aduersarie letting vs see how he is a restlesse tempter sparing no place not Paradise nor the wildernes in the Temple Vbique insidiatur homini euery where hee lyes in waite for vs neither can wee goe our way Wherein hee hath not his snares laid before vs multi laquei quacunque progredimur there be many snares wheresoeuer we goe our way on earth being like the way of Israel wherein lurkes many fiery Serpents to sting vs that hurts vs many time before wee can perceiue them none of all the children of God but they haue marked this in their own experience for where is the place wherein we haue not beene tempted yea wounded by this subtle serpent and almost slaine to the death if mercy and grace had not come in from God to succour vs The remedie is that we suspect this

haue done to offend him through his grace is the matter of my griefe but what I haue done against thee to the hinderance of thy kingdome I allow it and reioyce in it wishing from my heart I were able to doe more for the destruction of thy kingdome both in my selfe and others Sathan enemy to prayer VVHen the Apostles were going to pray then the Pythonisse perturbed them and no maruell that Sathan who interrupts not men in other actions interrupt them in Prayer for as hearing of the word preached is the mother so Prayer is the nourisher of all Christian vertues in vs. A preachers comfort LYdia conuerted entertained the Apostles into her house and the Iaylor who before straited them with iron bands being conuerted ministred to their necessities such as get grace by the Gospell will not faile to giue comfort to the instruments by whom they receiued it It may content a Preacher that hee shall want comfort of none but those of whom GOD wants his glorie where the Lord gets not his part what maruell thou get not thine After great comfort looke for temptation TWo sundry times was Christ proclaimed the Son of God by an audible voice from heauen first when hee was baptised at Iorden and then immediately was he tempted in the wildernes Secondly when hee was transfigured on the Mountaine and then shortly after was hee troubled in the garden As Elias after he had gotten a double portion got forty dayes fasting so Gods children when they receiue double comfort are to prepare themselues for double temptation How the wicked runne post vnto hell AS they who run post change their horses when one is weary they mount vpon an other so the wicked when they are weary of one sinne fall to an other weary of one beastly affection they make hast in their madnes to mount vpon another as if riding vpon one were not sufficient to bring them soone enough thether Their miserable end BVt if they were wise they would draw the bridle consider their course and thinke vpon their end they thinke not in their life that sinne is terrible they feare and abhorre nothing but death but how farre they are deceiued the end shall declare then shall their sinnes in such sort terrifie them that to be quit of the sight of sinne they shall seeke death but shall not finde it there will be their last and desperate voice Oh that the hils mountaines would fall vpon vs and smother vs Against sinfull lusts ABraham was content for the loue of the Lord to slay and sacrifice his sonne with his owne hands and the Lord accepted his will for a deede and a cleare declaratour of his loue Now said he I know thou louest me But alas O my soule wherein wilt thou shew thy loue to the Lord thy God if thou be not content to forgoe a vnlawfull pleasure for the Lords sake and to slay the life not of thy lawfull sonne but of thy vnlawfull affection If thou doe it not how shall the Lord say of thee as hee said of Abraham Now I know thou louest me The patience of God should not be abused LEt men remember that suppose the mercy of GOD be euerlasting yet his Patience is limited it is called a long patience and long suffering but neuer a euerlasting patience happy therefore is he who before the time of Gods long patience be finished gets within the compasse of his enduring mercy Pride AS Pride was the first sin powred into our nature so it is last in departing for pride is such a sinne as rises of the ashes of other sinnes The loue of Christ. IT is not a great thing to loue that which is seene whether truely good or apparant onely but to loue him whom yet wee haue not seene 1 Pet. 1. is the worke of a great Faith yet great reason there is why wee should doe so what visible thing should be loued comparable to him that made it and the more should we loue him that for loue of vs he became like vs but so that hee is the fairest among the children of men When he was transfigured his face shined like the Sunne but now the brightnes of his face far surmounts the glory of the sunne among all the creatures none in beauty comparable to him Alas that we long not more then wee doe to see him A soule stretching out her wings to the Lord. O My soule what hast thou to doe here in this earth thou camest from aboue Shall these visible things snare thee and detaine thee from the inuisible God from whom thou came Except it be to fight for a time the Lords battels that thou mayst be crowned and so leade so many as thou mayst captiues vp vnto him that so thou mayst follow the Lord who ascended on high for thy sake led captiuitie captiue Circumspection needfull EVah looking where God forbad her Dinah wandring Dauid intermitting spirituall exercises became a ready pray to the enemie the corrupt nature of man not kept with a narrow circumspection is easily carried into captiuitie but not so easily recouered The euill may be contracted in one day which in many dayes can not be amended O my soule therefore learne to walke the more circumspectly An awe-band for the heart AS the Lord is omnipotent so is hee omnipresent hee is secret in his wayes and when hee goes by vs wee see him not Iob 9. 12 but goe where we will he is alway with vs to see vs when wee see not him no more then Gehazi when he tooke the bribes of Naaman saw the spirit of Eliah that went with him Oh that we could remember this that what euer we doe we are vnder the eye of God that so with Henoch wee may walke with God in all that we doe seeking to please him and be approued of him The desire of a godly soule VVHen the Lord came to the graue of Lazarus hee wept and cryed with a loud voice Lazarus come forth and as he commanded so was it done Oh Lord that thou wouldst come with the like affection to me and visit this graue and monument of my corruptible body wherein my soule is imprisoned yea buryed after a sort that it can not mount vp to walke after thee Cry vpon mee Lord with thy powerfull voyce that I may come out let me notlye any longer in this graue command them to loose my bonds that euen while I am in the body I may goe out of the body and follow thee Three rankes of sinnes OVr sinnes may be reduced to three rankes 1 Defections 2 Transgressions 3 Rebellions by the first wee faile in doing the good wee should doe by the second we passe our bounds and doe the euill wee should not by the third men comming to the deepe of sinne fall into the contempt of God and at length to rebellion of the first and second wee are guilty The Lord deliuer vs that we fall not into the third A precept