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A13530	Christs combate and conquest: or, The lyon of the tribe of Iudah vanquishing the roaring lyon, assaulting him in three most fierce and hellish temptations. Expounded, and now (at the request of sundry persons) published for the common good, by Tho. Taylor, preacher of the word of God, at Reeding in Barkeshire; Christs combate and conquest.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1618 (1618)	STC 23822; ESTC S105331	393,043	443

seemed to oppresse the Church in the cradle when wicked Cain slew righteous Abel so as all religion and true worship seemed to be destroyed in all Adams posterity hauing onely Cain left But shortly after God gaue Adam a Seth in whom the Church was restored and preserued and pure religion propagated In Henochs time how was the worship of God profaned when the sonnes of God married the daughters of men which was the cause of the flood but afterward it was restored by Noah and Sam and by him continued to Abraham Now the Church as it was in the Arke so was it like the Arke of Noah against which the waters had a time to increase and a time also of decreasing What a night of trouble was the Church in all the while it was in Egypt a stranger for 400. yeares especially when they were oppressed with burdens and had their infants drownd in the riuer but a change came God sent and saued a Moses by whom he will deliuer his people but so as they must be acquainted with this continuall enterchange in their estate they must be no sooner deliuered out of Egypt but bee chased into the bottome of the sea but there God makes them a way and no sooner out of the sea but into the wildernesse and from thence the good land takes them and in that good land they neuer rested in one estate but sometimes had the better of their enemies and sometime for sinne their enemies had the better of them as all the history of the Iudges witnesseth In the time of the Kings how was the Church troubled and wasted in the time of Ahab and Iezabel when all Gods Prophets were slaine and true religion was quite troden downe But what a sudden change was there euen when things were at the worst did the Lord bring a strange alteration by Elijah who slew all the Prophets of Baal and restored true religion How great misery suffred the Church in the time of Manassah and Ammon but how happily was it changed by the piety of good Iosiah in whom God made his people more happie then formerly miserable But who would haue thought but that the Church had been vtterly wasted in the seuentie yeares captiuity wherein it sate in the shadow of death Yet it was happily restored by Cyrus But when his godly decrees concerning the building of the Temple were hindred by Cambyses his sonne God stirred vp Darius who fauoured the Church and commaunded the continuance and perfection of the worke but not without many vicissitudes of stormes and calmes euen after their returne as appeareth in the bookes of Ezra and Nehemiah What a raging storme was that wherein our Lord and Head of the Church was put to death now the whole Church lay bleeding and dead with him But what a change was there the third day by his glorious resurrection In the Apostles dayes how was the Church wasted when Saul had letters from the high Priests to carrie bound to Ierusalem whosoeuer called on the Lord but when he that breathed out nothing but slaughter and threatning was once conuerted then the Church had for a while rest and peace Act. 9.31 After the Apostles what a continuall storme arose against Christians which lasted 300. yeares vnder the ten monsters of men those bloody men Nero Domitian Traian Antoninus Seuerus Maximinus Decius Valerianus Aurelianus Dioclesianus whose rage was such as a man could not set his foot in Rome but tread vpon the graues of Martyrs But after this night a faire sunne rose vp in the East Constantine the Great who chased before him that horrible darknesse and brought a blessed calme But this lasted not long but his second sonne Constantius farre short of his Fathers piety with all his strength set vp and maintained that Arrian-heresie which his good father had condemned in the Nicen Councell by which as bloody persecution sprung vp in the Church as euer was before which lasted almost 80. years vntill Constance the youngest sonne of Constantine set vp againe the Nicen faith in the Westerne part of the world as Italie Greece Africke Illiricum and banished the former poyson After this what a blacke darkenesse of Mahometisme possessed the Easterne part of the world vnder which it lies sunck at this day And as pitchy and palpable darkenesse of Antichrist and Poperie occupieth the Westerne part of the world But what a light did the Lord raise vp in the midst of Poperie his zealous seruant Luther since whome the light hath mightily preuailed to the blasting of Antichrist and the consuming of him vpon his nest Yet not this without a cloud● for To speake of our owne Church After the long darkenesse like that of Egypt had preuailed and couered for many hundred years the face of our countrey it pleased God that the light of the Gospell should peepe into our land in the dayes of King Henrie the eight but yet much clouded and opposed almost all his dayes In his sonne Edward the sixt Englands Iosiah it began to shine more brightly and a more thorough reformation was vndertaken But this sunne-shine lasted not long but in Queene Maries dayes the truth was againe cast into the fire and the bodies of Gods Saints pitilesly destroyed God in mercy for his elects sake shortened those dayes and raised vp our late Queene Elizabeth of blessed memorie in all posterities who was semper eadem in the maintenāce of the faith left Christ sitting in his kingdome and the truth triumphing ouer Poperie and Antichristian falshood which by Gods mercy we enioy vnder our gracious King This hath been the changeable estate of the Church from the beginning and eadem est ratio totius ac partium the same truth discouers it selfe in the particular members As for example Abraham now a poore man in Egypt presently enriched and made heire of the land of promise now reioycing in his Isaac and a while after stretching out his hand to kill his only sonne who also herein was a notable type of the Church now bound and presently loosed and raised vp after a sort from the dead Iacob was now afraid of Esau when he came in warlike manner to meet him with 400. men at his heeles but in a little season God lets him see a sudden change who had enclined his brothers heart to doe him no harme against his often former purposes to slay him Ioseph is now hated of his brethren after a season honoured of them now sold as a slaue to the Ismaelites afterward made a gouernour of Potiphar a Princes house now accused by his Mistresse and cast into prison but after fetched out by Pharaoh and made ruler of all his Princes and the whole land of Egypt Dauid sometimes cast downe and God hath forgotten him a while after so confident in God that he will not feare to walke in the vale of the shadow of death sometimes pursued by Saul as a traytor and rebell sometimes by Saul acknowledged his good

stands not in words but in sense 4. To establish the false doctrine of free-will they furnish themselues with that place in Ier. 17.7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is But what doe they else but imitate the deuill in cutting off that part of the text which makes against them for in the next verse it followeth The heart of man is deceitfull aboue all things who can know it shewing that man in himselfe is vtterly destitute of all grace 5. For the Iesuiticall tricke of equiuocation or mentall reseruation they haue Scripture and Example Ioh. 1.21 they asked Iohn if he were a Prophet he said No whereas he was one for Zachary called him the Prophet of the Highest and Christ said that there was not a greater Prophet then Iohn therefore Iohn equiuocated Answ. Whatsoeuer was the true meaning of the question that Iohn answered plainely vnto If they meant to aske him if he were that singular Prophet whom they fancied to come together with their Messiah he truely answered no. If he were any of the auncient Prophets who were long before Christ he truely answered in that sense no. If he were a Prophet by his proper office he truely answered no. For howsoeuer he was by grace and power a Prophet beeing sent of God to reprooue and conuert sinners yet by ordinarie office he was no Prophet neither did he prophesie But what is this to those mentall reseruations Are you a Priest Garnet No saith he meaning not a Priest of Apollo or Iupiter Were not you in England at such a time No not as the Sunne in the firmament or as a King in a Kingdome A strange madnesse that men professing knowledge zeale should so dally with lies and oaths which tricks of theirs were they iustifiable and sound we should haue little vse of Magistracy or tribunalls especially where matters are determined by mens oathes he were a verie blocke that would suffer any thing to be fastened vpon him The murderer might sweare he neuer slew man namely with the iaw-bone of an asse as Sampson did The drunkard might sweare hee drunke neuer a droppe if he can inwardly conceiue of water or aqua ●oelesti● or the Poets nectar or what he can faigne The adultr●●●e might sweare she was neuer tou●ht if she can inwardly conceiue of any creature as of a Bull or a Swanne as the Poets faigne of Pas●ph●e and Laeda And were is lawfull to dally with God and mens consciences after this manner we could pay them home in their owne kind for suppose a man were in their Inquisition and were asked if the Pope were Supreame ouer all Kings if a man were disposed to equiuocate be might say and sweare yea reseruing his secret meaning not by right but onely in his owne proud and ambitious desire and thus delude them II. In matters of practise you shall haue no sinner but he hath a Scripture reached to him to lie safe vnder in the holding of his sinne but robbed and turned out of the right sense The Atheist that cares for no Scripture yet hath one text for himselfe Eccl. 7.18 B●e not iust ouermuch nor ouerwise and so he hath enough to cast off all care of knowledge and conscience The image-munger hath a text to let nothing be lost he hath a good vse for his images if they cannot serue to worship they may serue for ornament The swearer hath a text in Ieremie Thou shalt sweare in truth righteousnesse and iudgement therefore he will sweare so long as he sweareth nothing but that which is true The Sabbath-breaker hath his text The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath The murderer and adulterer thinke themselues safe seeing they finde Dauid in both these sinnes and yet commended of God The drunkard hath his lesson Drinke no longer water but a little wine for thy stomacke and often infirmities sake The couetous person knows that he that prouides not for his family is worse then an Infidell which through many mens wickednesse is a ground of much couetousnesse The lazie Protestant hath his text We are saued by grace and iustified by the blood of Christ freely what can his workes doe what need they The idle person hath his text Care not for to morrowe let the morrowe care for it selfe The vsurer hath his plaine place Matth. 25.27 that I might haue receiued my owne with vsurie The theefe hath the theefe on the crosse repenting at the last The carnall Gospeller cares not what sinne he venture on because where sinne hath abounded there grace hath abounded much more The carelesse Libertine is predestinated to life or death doe what he can and doe not what he list he cannot change Gods decree and so he will doe what he list The obdurate and hardned sinner saith At what time soeuer a sinner repents God will put all his sinnes out of his remembrance and therefore he will not repent till he be dying Lastly the vniust person he hath his rule in the vniust steward who was commended by Christ who was indeed commended for his prouidence not for his iniustice In all these thou mayest hold this for a good rule It is the deuills diuinitie to confirme thy selfe in any sinne by whatsoeuer thou hearest or readest in Gods Booke all which in Gods meaning is direct and the onely preseruatiue against all sinne NOw we are to consider this comfortable Scripture in the holy vse of it not as we haue it wrested and mangled by Sathan but as we finde it set downe by the holy Ghost Psalm 91.11 For hee shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee in all thy waies They shall beare thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone In which words the godly are secured and assured of safetie in danger not onely because the Lord himselfe is become their refuge and protection as in the words going before but in that to his owne fatherly care and prouidence he hath added a guard of Angels to whose care also he hath committed the godly Wherein for explication we will note these particulars 1. What is the ministerie of the Angels namely to be the godly mans keepers 2. Who sealeth their commission He hath giuen them charge 3. The limitation of it In all thy wayes 4. The manner they shall beare thee vp in their hands 5. The end least thou dash thy foot against a stone Which is a borrowed speach taken from mothers or nurses who lead or carrie their tender children in their hands that they stumble and fall not to hurt or endanger themselues The word Angell is a name not of nature for so they be spirits but of office ministring Spirits to God to Iesus Christ and to Gods elect His Angels that is the good and elect Angels called his 1. By creation for they had not beeing of themselues 2. By more immediate ministerie they assist him and stand before his face whereas