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enemy_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	3,363	5	9.9017	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12708	A short treatise, very comfortable for all those Christians that be troubled and disquieted in theyr consciences with the sight of their owne infirmities wherein is shevved hovv such may in their owne selues finde whereby to assure them of their free election, effectuall vocation, and iustification.	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1580 (1580)	STC 23025; ESTC S102432	22,600	64

in the same verse But hée that beléeueth not is condemned already bycause he beléeueth not in the only begotten sonne of God Ioh. ● verse 18. But your argumente to proue that you haue not faith neyther yet the fruites bycause you find in your selfe the quite contrarie doubting sinnes and infirmities is not good for the antecedent may be true and granted that you do so doubt and that there is such sinnes and infirmities in you and yet that therefore you are forsaken and cast off of God to be denyed for that making whereof plaine vnto you you must vnderstand that the life of a Christian is a continuall warfare and that this warre is to be found euen in such as Paule was a man that had faith in greate measure and the fruites thereof as you haue heard out of the seauenth of the Romanes betwixt the inner man and the outwarde in so much that he setteth it downe Gala. 5. verse 17. for a certaine point of doctrine saying the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the fleshe and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye can not do the same things that ye would whereby we are taught that naturally we are all nothing but the old man nothing but flesh both body and soule and such we remayne by nature the children of wrath Ephes 2. poore captiues in prison Esa 61. sold vnder sinne Rom. 7. blind not able to discerne the things of God 1. Cor. 2. yea hauing the best thing that is in vs our wisedome a naturall and rebellious enemy to the will of God Rom. 8. and in this case the strong enemie Sathan kéepeth vs quietly in his subiection vntill Christ Iesus a stronger than he come dispossesse him Luke 11. who entring into possession first lightneth our darke hearts with vnderstanding and by hys spirite worketh faith in vs and be getteth vs anew and so we put on the new man and haue his spirite dwelling in vs Rom. 8. by which spirit we offer battell to the fleshe and séeke to put off the old man and to kill crucifie him with his lusts But thus the case stādeth with vs that we shall neuer quite be ridde of this old man we shall neuer fully haue kild and crucifyed the flesh vntill death come for he striketh the last blow of the battayle till then we are in the fielde and haue continually to skirmish Now the state and condition of the most faithfull man being thus and euery one hauing cause to say with Paule Rom. 7. I know that in my flesh there dwelleth no go●d thing yea we vnderstanding that the fruites of the fleshe be as the same Paule hath told vs adulterie fornication vncleannesse wantōnesse ydolatrie witchcraft hatered debate emulations wrath contentions seditions hereste● enui● murthers drunkennesse gluttony and such like what maruel is it if looking into the flesh that we carrie vp and downe with vs we sée and find therin doubting sinnes and infirmities and what strange thing is it then if Sathan our old antient enemie the more to discomforte his aduersarye the spirit but newly come into the field do cause his Lieutenant and Captayne generall of his battell the flesh to muster al his power and to make as great a shew of thē as he can possibly though many of his army in former skirmishes with the spirit haue bin sore wounded some in the head some in the arme and some one where and some another yet I warrant you the better and more to daunt his aduersary and his host he wil cause them vntil they be quite slayne to present thēselues in the field and how is it possible but that this Captaine pitching his tentes so nie vs but that we hauing eyes to sée withal should descrie espy his host with the greatnes and fiercenesse thereof in our selues he discomforted at the sight thereof especially as lōg as we are occupyed rather in cōsidering the force bent against vs than the strength of our own Captain Christ Iesus and his power ready present to help succour vs. I remember that it is written in the sixt of the last of the Kings whē the King of Aram sent horsses and Chareis a mighty host to take Eliza at Dothan and therwith had compassed the City where he was by night his mā in the morning séeing the host their strēgth and cōsidering only therof was afraide and said alas maister what shal we do but his maister rather cōsidering the host that was of his side he answered feare not for they that be with vs are mo thā they that be with them and the seruāts eyes being opened he perceyned it was so and then his feare was gone Euē so we as long as we are occupyed in beholding the army of the flesh old mā we can not but be discomforted but if our eyes were opened and we woulde be occupyed in beholding considering the strength force of the new man of the spirit which is o● our side we shuld be chéered againe but be it that the one and that the flesh and his host s●●me neuer so strōg and like to foyle the other and the other the spirit neuer ●o yong weake and like to be foyled yet the spirit once hauing entred the field and begon the battell doubt we not but that in the end he will ouercome the other his force for the one hath his strength and force but from Sathan a creature and the other from God the creator therefore sure in the end to be the conqueror Dauid in offering and entring the combat with great Goliah was iudged both of Saule and of his aduersarie farre too weake but yet in the end he slew Goliah 1. Sam. 17. for he was the Lordes Champion and the other but the Champiō of the Lords enimies the Philistins and therefore be it that the new man in thée be but comparable to little and yong Dauid and the olde man to strong and mightie Goliah yet Dauid offering the Combate let hym putte thee in hope of certayne victorie by hys fornier experience of mightyer conquests as Dauid did Saule saying thy seruant hathe already slaine both a Lyon Beare my meaning is in that thou hast heard and séene that the spirit hath subdued the flesh and his power in Manasses Mary Magdalene and snehe like ones doubt you not but that he shall ouercome thy fleshe neuer yet so brawned and inured to sin as it was in thē Yea but I heare thy flesh redy to teach thée to cast aside al these comfordes saying that thou hast not nor ●éel●st ●ot yet this ●●ttel offered or begon in thée and that therefore these things sal beside the wel Yet to beginne withal thus much is obtayned if this battell be begonne that then though looking into the flesh the fruits therof thereby neuer so much cause be giuen thée to be discoraged and discomfort●● that yet looking vppon