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A77480	Satan the leader in chief to all who resist the reparation of Sion. As it was cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Febr. 28. 1643. By Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B468; Thomason E35_17; ESTC R209954	47,169	63

Pastors of Gods House when they stand too high in worldly pomp above the people their light in so great a distance vanisheth and scarce is visible to men so far below them Yet it would be carefully considered That the Lights of the House of God be not too much brought down and set too low to put them under a bushell to set them under the feet of the family were to mar their shineing and hinder the communication of their light Above all great care would be used that when the superfluity of Oil which did choke and extinguish rather then maintain the light of some Lamps shall be diverted unto better employment neverthelesse that no Candle of God in any part of this Land be permitted to languish much lesse to die for want of so much Oil as is requisite for a convenient subsistence But a word to wise men and half a word of this kinde to men so religious and zealous for the House of God is enough So much for the Impediments which Satan made to the reparation of Sion Now follows their Removall in the which are three things i. A Preface The Lord said unto Satan 2. A Paraphrase on the second verse The Mean whereby these Impediments were removed and that Opposition quasht Christs cursing of Satan or his prayer to the Father to rebuke and represse him 3. Two Reasons of this Rebuke 1. Jerusalems election then her great sufferings For shortnesse we shall onely give a brief Paraphrase of all the words together without long exposition And for Doctrine we shall touch but on some few Observations which for Use we shall remit to your own meditation As for the Preface The Lord said unto Satan How Spirits can speak Angels and devils communicate with God and one with another not by speeches for Language requires bodily instruments which these Spirits want but as they apprehend every object without senses so they expresse what they have apprehended without Language in a way above our humane nature which we do not understand However in this place and elsewhere oft where by way of Vision the communication of one Spirit with another is represented for our apprehension all is set done in speeches as the ordinary way wherein men communicate their thoughts one to another The Lord said unto Satan Christ the Lord. He who before was called an Angel is here named the Lord even Christ as we shewed before the Lord and Creator of all the Heir even as he is man of all for there is one God and one Lord the man Jesus 1 Cor. 8.6 to whom the Father hath given a Name above all names and hath set all things under his feet Principalities and Powers themselves to be his servants and he their Lord and God The matter of his speech is an Invocation of the Father to reprove Satan The Lord speaketh to the Lord The Lord speaketh to the Lord. Psal 110 1. the Son to the Father so the words of the Psalm are to be taken The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand And that of Genesis Gen. 19 24. The Lord rained down fire upon Sodom from the Lord. The Son leadeth to the Father as to the fountain of the Godhead and all divine Operations which importeth no diversity of Essence Substance or Matter in the Trinity but onely a distinction of Persons and an heavenly Order in these Persons as in Being so in Operation The Father being the first The Son the second The Spirit the third but all equally infinite in Glory Power Eternity and all divine Attributes in these there is no inequality no posteriority among them This now is to be believed from divers Scriptures but not to be thorowly understood till afterwards when we shall see God as we are seen of him The rebuking of Satan imports not onely a bitter and sharp reproof of his malice What is the rebuking of Satan to his confusion and shame but also a restraint and cohibition of his power by the mercifull and strong hand of the Father This is repeated because of Christ his zeal to Jerusalems welfare and his detestation of Satans wicked designes against her The first Reason of that Reproof is The Lords chusing of Jerusalem to be the place of his Worship The first Reason of the Rebuke and Habitation of his Church Satan had the rest of the earth for his service but not content herewith that one place which the Lords Election had reserved for his own little Flock the malice of that unreasonable spirit would not leave to God The other reason The second Reason That same one place that one poor people which God had chosen out of all the families of the earth to be his peculiar Treasure had been cast in the fiery furnace of heavie tribulation and was but lately drawn out of the fire that mercilesse spirit the devill nothing satisfied with all the miseries of Jerusalem went about to procure her utter destruction and burning down to ashes that so on the whole earth there should have been left none at all to serve the Lord But Christ remembring his Election and having compassion upon their former sufferings defendeth their Cause poureth shame on the malice of Satan restraineth his power chaseth him away that he may no longer retard the welfare of his people From the Preface The first Observation Christ his wonderful patience towards the very devill observe the great patience and long-suffering of Christ he holdeh his peace long and when he speaketh at last to Satan it is but to rebuke him This evil spirit had seduced and destroyed the souls well-neer of the whole world he standeth here before the Lord for to swallow up the small remnant Did not such horrible wickednesse require a present destruction from the Lords hand and not a reproof onely from his mouth Consider well the Lord his way of proceeding with all the wicked both men and devils There is a time appointed for their full destruction and till that day come the Lord holdeth his peace or if he break out in words or deeds against them it is but in a small degree of wrath in comparison of what is following Satan is reserved in chains till the last day where he is to be bound and cast in the lake One of these spirits could say unto Christ Matth. 8.29 Art thou come to torment us before the time When the wicked are most proud and insolent God laugheth at them for he secth their day is coming the day of their vengeance the yeer of recompences the morning the hour of their calamity All of us would consider the state of our soul the abominations which conscience telleth us we are guilty of think them not forgotten with God though he keep silence and permit us to go on in the ways of our own heart without trouble or if he reprove it is but by his Word Now and then in the publike Ministery

whereof the Father is the first the Son the second This Person alone is incarnate uniting in the fulnesse of time to his Divine Person the nature of Man The holy Ghost is the third and yet all three are equall in Glory in Eternitie and every Divine attribute Hold fast in thy minde these plain Catechetick Scripturall Notions of God Beware to make to thy self an Idoll in thy brain to frame a false erroneous and unwritten conception of the true God If thou worship the Trinity as three divers Gods thou becomest a Pagan abolishing by the multitude of Gods the Unity of the divine Nature If thou apprehend God so much one as not three Persons thou turnest Turk a Jew an old Arian and Macedonian Heretike and which is all these in one a Socinian a reall Atheist for it is Christs own Conclusion Who honoureth not the Son Ioh. 5 23. honoureth not the Father which hath sent him The neglect the contempt the denyall of any one Person reflecteth alike on all the three and the whole God-head A third Observation upon the Reproof if time did permit A fourth Observation would be the holy and gracious practice of Christ in his hotest zeal he bringeth no false 2 Pet 1.11 no railing accusation against the devill himself the farthest he goeth against this arch-enemy is to commit him to God to be rebuked Lyes calumnies railings agianst the devill are inexcusable and would not be countenanced It is a foolish policy and a profane zeal to advance the Cause of God by the arts of the devill Lying calumnies malicious bitternesse are hellish weapons a gracious hand must not take them up were it against their very author The Arsenall of God is not so unprovided of lawfull Arms his Quiver not so disfurnished of his own Arrows that we need go borrow from Askelon or Gath from hell it self these poysoned Darts dipped in the venome of Asps in the blood of that old Serpent the father of Lyes the great Calumniator from the beginning A fourth Observation A fifth Observation God rebuketh Satan before his finall destruction his children in this are heirs to their father After a little time death will put all the wicked in a full possession of their inheritance their souls first and after the Resurrection their bodies also shall be placed in these lakes of fire but before they are to be infeoffed and seized they are to have the earnest of their fathers portion they are to be rebuked of God their secret wickednesse is to be brought to light their well-covered villanies to be proclaimed on the house tops shame and confusion to be poured on their faces their malice and violence is to be restrained their pushing horns to be hammered off by the Carpenters Satan and they will bee coopt up within so narrow a circle and bee bound with so short a chain that all may understand they are rebuked of God Also it would be a comfortable consideration to meditate on the zeal of Christ for Sion A sixth Observation against all her enemies He speaketh here as a man in a passion repeating and ingeminating his angry words The Lord rebuke thee even the Lord rebuke thee The Lord proclaimeth the sounding of his Bowels before he got Flesh the tendernesse of his compassion towards the Church before his Incarnation Certainly the sympathie of his heart and his fellow feeling with us in all our afflictions is not now diminished but rather if possible increased after his experimentall knowledge on the earth in his own person of these evils which Satan and wicked men inflict upon the godly From the Reasons which the Lord useth for Satans reproof A seventh we may behold the Devill his end and intention in molesting of Joshua the thing he seeketh is the overthrow of Jerusalem Satan driveth most at the eversion of the publike Phil. 2 21. Therefore the preservation of the publike ought to go neerest our heart Many seek their own things and not those of Jesus Christ They minde themselves much more then either Church or State This self-wisedom is foolish for if the Ship wherein thou sailest be drowned what will become of thy Goods if the house wherein thou art locked be burnt how shall thy life be saved From the first Reason the choosing of Jerusalem observe An eighth That Election is a principall ground of comfort against all Satans tentations True the difference is wide betwixt a nationall and personall Election betwixt the choice of Jerusalem or any other place to be the seat and habitation of the Church and betwixt the Election of persons to grace and glory This I may not stand to cleer onely strive to make our personall Election sure for upon the grounded assurance thereof we come to a glorious confidence that no creature neither Satan nor the World nor conscience nor any other shall ever be able to confound us Rom 8.33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed One of the sweetest private fruits of such a dayes exercise is to get our calling and our Election sealed Verily a penitent soul who throughly hath mourned for sin and fled to Christ for mercy who hath gotten of his spirit for a reall and sincere beginning of a through Sanctification and amendment in every thing which either within or without hath been amisse A soul this farre proceeded in Grace useth to receive the stamp of the Spirit The inward unction and witnesse that they are the Sons of God Elect and called who shall be glorified Rom 8.17 2 Pet. 1.11 after they have suffered a while to such an entrance useth to be ministred aboundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of Christ From the last Reason take but some few brief notes An ninth Jerusalem the Church of God and Joshua the chief Member of it for the time were like a Stick half burnt in the fire of the Babylonish Captivitie Out of that fire they were pulled in Gods mercy to be preserved against all the malicious assaults of Satan and his instruments From hence you see the best beloved people of God by the Devill and wicked men may be brought exceeding low and so neer to utter destruction as a stick burning in the fire is to Ashes So it was with Israel in Egypt in Babel and oft elsewhere We therefore in our most desperate cases must not despair Exod 3 2. Isai 43 2. Dan. 3.25 The burning Bush will not be consumed God hath promised to be with us in fire and water One like the Son of man walketh in the fiery Furnace with the three Children When to the eye of the World our condition is most desperate when sence maketh us cry out Lam. 3.48 ●3 My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord They have cut of my life in the dungeon and cast a stone upon me yet

chopping upon the slippery and half dead heart You see in this place he dealeth no otherwise with the very devil but be perswaded there is a time coming for a more severe reckoning The seventh of Ezekiel is often to be read by a secure people the sixth verse An end is come the end is come it watcheth for thee behold it is come the morning is come upn thee the time is come the day of trouble is neer and not the sounding of the mountains In that one verse the coming of the day of vengeance is five or six times proclaimed Happy are these who make use of the day of their mercifull Visitation The Lord hath been wonderfully good to us the War hath taken away the estates of many thousands the Sword hath bereaved many of their lives we are yet safe but can we tell how long manage well this happy day of grace humble your soul before the Lord make peace with him without further delay mourn for your known faults set your selves to amend the evil of your doings that you may be spared in the fearfull day of the Lords wrath when the sword of the field the famine and pestilence of the City may make havock of people without number Blessed are they who after so many warnings from the mouth of God in his Word from the hand of God in his Works have learned at last to be wise for their own great good Upon the Reproof The second Observation Christs rebuking of the devill will bring us to a victory over all our enemies observe first The onely way to remove all impediments and oppositions to the reparation of a Church and State is Christ his intercession with the Father against the devill That which hindered Jeshua and Zerubbabel to build the Temple to fortifie Jerusalem was that active spirit which moved and stirred up all the malignant instruments that appeared against them The Jews till this time were never able to overcome their enemies but behold so soon as Christ taketh the work in hand so soon as he rebuketh and restraineth Satan the principall enemy incontinent all the inferiour instruments on earth all these malignant men and women did fail and succumb they were no more able to trouble Gods people in their work This is the ground of our hope and comfort The opposers of the Reformation of our Church in the midst of so huge difficulties as this day on all sides beset us how shall our Sion be gotten builded when we look to the opposers their strength is exceeding great a mighty faction of declared Papists a great number of Episcopall Clergie and people openly joyning with Papists against us and both avowedly supported by Soveraign Authority Also a multitude of Sects Anabaptists Antinomians Separatists and others pushed on by a deluded conscience to oppose with all their skill with all their might all solid Reformation beside all the former a great number in all ranks and estates profane and loose persons exceeding unwilling to behold the setling of any Order which may controll them with any power in their wonted licentiousnesse Concerning the walls of Jerusalem The opposers of the Reformation of our State the establishing of Justice and Peace in the Civill State with what insuperable difficulties this work is compassed wofull experience doth teach A mighty faction of lawlesse men who have drawn away partly by perswasion and partly by force a great part of the people the greatest part of the Nobles and Soveraign Authority it self this faction of it self very potent is also supported with the help that forraign friends are able to afford and which is more then all yet named and more terrible then all flesh and blood we have to do with Principalities and Powers who act and guide with all the craft and force they are able our humane adversaries And which is yet the greatest strength of all the grievous sins of the Land which provoke the Lord God to be on the side of our enemies men and devils to strengthen their arm against us The sight of these mountains of Impediments would discourage the stoutest heart Our Comfort against both if above them all we did not see our mercifull high Priest intreating the Father for the remission of our sins for the rebuking of Satan with all vehemency the favour we know the Son hath with the Father will make him obtain all his desires Surely when these are obtained when the sins of the Land are remitted and Satan restrained all other impediments will soon be removed when the soul is separate from the body the members languish and cannor more stir when Christ hath confounded Satan men his instruments will quickly either be perswaded or forced to reason It is in vain to deal with men so long as a malignant spirit prevaileth over them The streams will run till the fountain be stopped Our first and main labour would be with Christ to restrain Satan for he is the life that vegetates he the spirit that stirres up all our opposites both in Church and State Observe againe how Christ in his debate with Satan A third observation Ioh. 8.50 Ioh. 10 30. 1 Ioh. 5.7 hath recourse to the Father that he would rebuke him The Sonne honoureth the Father he seeketh not his owne glory but the honour of the Father The Father and the Son are one for all these three that witnesse in Heaven the Father the Son and the Spirit are one true God Yet this is the order of the Divine Persons that the Father is the first the Sonne and the Spirit are both from him The Sonne from Eternity begotten of him The Spirit from Eternity proceeding from him and from the Sonne So long as the vaile of Flesh covereth the eyes of our Soule we must not enquire too curiously in this unsearchable Mystery 1 Kings 19.13 Elias wrapped his face in his Mantle when the Lord passed by him God will not be gazed upon he dischargeth it expresly under the pain of death Exod. 19.21 The malapart and Irreverent boldnesse of sundry Divines subjecting to the foul feet of their idle speculations the deepest and most unaccessible Mysteries of the holy Trinitie is justly plagued with evident and foolish errour Their eyes who will gaze on the Sun in the noon day cannot but be dazled and if that madnesse continue blindnes and excaecation inavoidable will follow Faith here if any where is the Mother of modestie The companion of simplicitie and reverence it setteth us limits at the foot of the Mountain in a farre distance Exod. 19.23 which we must not break through When we do behold with the most open face 1 Cor. 13.12 the Godhead we must be looking on our Glasse the eye must never wander from the Spectacles of the Word Onely what we see of God let it be holden fast against all contradiction Worship the Father the Son and the Spirit one true God three truely distinct Persons