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A85388	The tyranny of Satan, discovered by the teares of a converted sinner, in a sermon preached in Paules Church, on the 28 of August, 1642. By Thomas Gage, formerly a Romish Priest, for the space of 38 yeares, and now truly reconciled to the Church of England.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing G116; Thomason E119_20; ESTC R3263	28,403	44

Matth. 25. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels If this be a horrid thing to consider and which ought to make our haire stand upright and our flesh to tremble let not us laugh but feare and tremble to fall into Satans hands hearing out of the words of my Text that his only desire is to sever us from the elect and godly to prepare us for the finall sentence of Iudgment to make us ready for the curse of God and everlasting fire of hell For what can more plainly be understood by these words of our Saviour to Peter Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat What doth the Husbandman when he sifteth his wheat but with the help of the wind separate the chaffe from the good grane Even so the Devill striveth and endeavoureth to sift us as wheat which is as much as to say to separate us from the Elect and chosen people of the Lord from the good Laws of God from the good and wholesome Doctrine of the Church This was the only endeavour of Satan the night of the Passion of our Lord to sever and separate not only Peter but the rest of the disciples from the company of their master like chaffe from the true grane who said of himselfe that he was the grane that was to be buried in the earth that afterwards he might spring up again with great increase for all his Church O if every Christian soule would take this point to consideration how the Devill desireth and endeavoureth to sever us like chaffe fit for nothing but for the fire and for that dreadfull sentence of damnation Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire Doubtles we would feare to commit the sins which daily we commit doubtles we would tremble to yeeld to the power of such a tyrant doubtlesse we would take no rest in sin as we do if we did but consider that by it we are become dry chaffe separated from the heavenly grane our Saviour Christ severed from all those fruitfull granes and members of the Church who standing on the right hand shall through their fruitfull Faith at last be laid up in that storehouse of everlasting blisse and felicity when the sinner like chaffe already severed from the grane by the Devils endeavours expecteth nothing but death to burn for ever In the 12 Chap. of Judges and 6 ver. I have observed a pretty History for this purpose where the Scripture speaking of a battaile fought betwixt the Gileadites and the Ephraimites saith that the men of Gilead smote Ephraim and put the Ephraimites to flight towards the river of Jordan And the Gileadites tooke the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites And it was so that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said Let me go over that the man of Gilead said unto him Art thou an Ephraimite If he said Nay Then said they unto him say now Shibbobeth and he said Sibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce it right Then they tooke him and slew him at the passage of Jordan and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites fourty and two thousand Dearely Beloved two things I would wish you to note in this History of Holy Scripture The first that at the passages over Jordan these Ephraimites were examined who they were Secondly that because they could not say Shibboleth but insteed of it they said Sibboleth therefore they were slaine Shibboleth according to the true translation signisieth An eare of Corne And Sibboleth signifieth the chaffe or the straw that remaineth when the corne is separated from it So that we find that the sword killed all such as could not say Shibboleth or Eare of Corne but instead of it pronounced Sibboleth Straw or chaffe separated from the corne O Christian and devout Soule take out of this a lesson of morality and judge thy selfe a rebellious Ep●raimite always warring against thy God and Maker When thou sinnest what doest thou but rebell against thy Creator who at last will be too hard for thee But when When he shall meet thee at the passage over Jordan that is when as water thou shalt slide away Omnes morimur quasi aqua dilabimur we do all dye and like water slide and fall away O what a day will that be when thy Soule is to passe away from thy body When thy Soule is to passe over from this world to the other yet never seen O then shall meet thee the true Gileadite against whom thou hast rebelliously fought with the Sword of Iustice in his hand then shall begin thy tryall for thy life or death of thy Soule then shalt thou be commanded to say Shibboleth to say if truely thou beest an ear full of weighty and fruitfull grane of fruitfull Faith But if thou canst not say but Sibboleth that thou art fruitlesse that thou art a light straw a little chaffe separated from the true grane Christ Iesus then expect the wrath of God expect the the bloud of his sword of Iustice expect if he find thee among the wicked separated from the good that this thy being sifted this division and separation of thee from the just and righteous shall be a fore-running messenger of that finall sentence of damnation Depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire God forbid that in this Congregation there be any such chaffe any such dry straw separated from the fruitfull granes of the Church and fit only for the flames of Hel. I hope the Devill hath not so far prevailed with any But of my selfe with shame I may say that I have been that rebellious Ephraimite that have almost 40 years warred obstinatly against my Lord and Maker I am that wicked Ephraimite not able to pronounce since my first use of reason this word Shiboleth not able to say I had ever any fruitfull Faith or have ever been a f●uitful grane but have always pronounced Sibboleth have alwayes beene like bran sifted from the white flower like chaffe separated from the grane fit onely for the fire of Hell For what fruitfull Faith could be in me that instead of worshipping only my God and Lord have bowed my knee so often to worship for God a peece of bread according to that damnable doctrine of the Papists which now I abjure and renounce who teach that in their Communion is no substance of bread or wine but the true Reall and Physicall body and bloud of Christ A thing so against Scripture which teacheth that Christ since his glorious Ascension can be no more upon the earth much lesse in severall places and severall peeces of bread but that he must be in Heaven untill that last Iudgment day as ye shall find in the 3 Chap. of the Acts in the 20 21. vers. saying And hee shal sena Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heavens must receive untill the time of restitution of all things which God hath

glory of Angels appearing and one descending in a cloud Somtimes you shall see from under the Stage ascend a smoak of Fire and Brimstone and a Devill leap up in such a shape as may suffice to terrifie you At all this you laugh you hold it but a fable The King you see come out you respect not because you know he is none The other that is wounded and all bloudy you pity not because you know that bloud is not true but painted bloud The glory you see and the Angels in it do no way entice you to it because you know it is but fained The Fire and Brimstone and ugly sight of Devils that come upon the Stage do nothing terrifie you Why Because you know all is salfe that there is no Hell nor any true Devill but only a representation of it So that you sport and laugh at all Now then let us apply these words and this similitude of Clement Alexandrinus to those deafe sinners who as Paul saith Turn away their eares from the truth and are turned unto Fables These when they come to heare the word of the Lord will not heare it with their hearts but make a play sport of it When they heare the Preacher set forth the might and power of that King of Kings and Creator of all things who will glorifie his elect servants with everlasting blisse and happinesse Like Atheists they laugh at it and iudge of this eternall King as of a King in a play When they heare the Preacher teach how Iesus Christ was whipped reviled stroken smitten and crowned with thornes nayled with nailes pierced with a speare for their sins their hearts will not heare it they make sport of it they are not moved to love so loving a Saviour and Mediator who with the price of his own bloud made an aboundant and copious satisfaction for our sins When they heare the Preacher teach the glory of Heaven the Quires of Angels there that everlasting rest without any sob or teares without any cold hunger or thirst they will not heare it to beleeve they judge of it as of the glory in a play upon a Stage and like Epicureans eate drink and riot saying Post mortem nulla voluptas They think that their soules after death like Beasts shall be dissolved into the aire to nothing When they heare a Preacher bring out upon the Stage in the Pulpit and set before a great assembly the deepe pits of Hell the Legions of fierce and cruell Divels there the always burning fire and Brimstone the everlasting broiling there the horrid gnashing of teeth the paines and torments due to their sins if they turne not to God Alas they will not heare it with their heart they thinke it is but a Hell of a Play they are turned unto Fables they make a sport of all they make an Act or Play of God they think all fained they heare it with their corporall eares but with the cares of their soule they will not hearken unto it they make themselves the Actors of the fooles part in this sport and play which they make of God and Heaven Why Because the Devill hath made them deafe This is his chiefe way he knoweth though it be damb or blind yet by hearing the Word of the Lord with a well dis●●sed heart it may receive some seed of a fruitfull Faith as S. Paul taught the Romanes in the 10 Chap. and 17 Vers saying So then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God This is the Devils feare and therefore he shutteth up their eares that no maintenance that way no succour no reliefe may come unto the soule With this he maketh them groan under his yoke with this he maketh them slaves unto him In Deut. 15. 12. you shall find that God gave a Command of release saying And if thy Brother an Hebrew man or an Hebrew woman be sold unto thee and serve thee six years then in the seventh yeare thou shalt let him go free from thee And lower 16 17. v. God commanded thus And it shall be if he say unto thee I will not go away from thee because he loveth thee and thine house because he is well with thee Then shalt thou take an Aule and thrust it thorough his eare unto the doore and he shall be thy servant for ever In a morall and spirituall sense Learn here Deare Brethren how as God commanded a release for debts and for servants so doubtlesse he expecteth that thy Soule shall not be always under any other master but himself If therfore the Devill have been thy Master for some time thinke for a release think of releasing thy self from him do not say deare soule unto the Devill I will not go away from thee because I love thee because I am well with thee which if thou doest then will Satan make use of this Law of God for himselfe and for his own en●s then will he marke thee in the eares for a perpetuall slave with an Aule he will boare thine eares thorow and fasten them to a wall to that wall which thy iniquities have put between thee and God he will keep thee for his slave if ever he marke thee in thy eares he will take thy hearing from thee that thou mayest not heare any goodnesse nor make good use of any O what misery is a sinner in when he commeth to lose his hearing Abhorre from sin dearely beloved least ye fall thus into slavery under the tyranny of Satan if ye have not found your selves so far gone nor so far ensnared by the Devill as he doth ensnare others renounce him at his first assaults least he encroach upon the mouth of your heart and soule upon the eyes and eares of it making yee dumb deaf and blind O take example by me who have had experience of these 3 blows who have been flailed beaten and thrashed by this cruell enemy with one blow I have been left speechlesse and dumb almost 40 years I have not had a tongue till this day to confesse before God my iniquities my idolatries my superstitions my disloyalties to my King the Lords Annoynted O I have been blind wilfully blind and would not see my errors the errors of the Whore of Babylon True it is many years ago by reading Authors and the grounds of our true Protestant Religion I did see the light of it the truth of it the sincere pure and candid doctrine of it but yet with the eyes of my Soule I would not see it I was like a foule and ugly Monky who when he chanceth to see his foule shape his deformed feet in a pure and Cristall Looking-glasse rageth and flingeth at the glasse and teareth it in pieces because it representes unto him his own deformity Even so have I done dearely Beloved these many yeares When I read the pure and Christall doctrine of our Church which teacheth even what Christ taught Peter and his Disciples to acknowledge a Supremacy next

heavenly inspirations which God hath been pleased to send into my soule by my considered aberration from the true Church for which the waters of my teares and inward sobs from my heart have been also moved with the troubles of my soule So that I would many times full faine have stepped and entred into the true Church of England where all diseases of the soule are most surely healed But alas mine own impotency and weaknesse joyned with my long blindnesse hindred the execution of my good resolutions temporall respects and feares kept back my steps Many times I feared I should want a man and a friend as the cripple at Bethesda did to helpe me to encourage me and to further my good desires I feared the high Assembly of Parliament would rather mistrust him that so many years hath been an enemy to the State of this Kingdome than now in these times approve his penitency and contrition which might rather have seemed unto them a fained hypocrisie All these feares kept back for a time the forwardnesse of my will and heart Untill at last I resolved to disclose and discover unto Your Worship these troubles of my heart these diseases of my soule even the want of a man to help me God whom I sought too pleased with my request I found that assistance from you that I so earnestly desired for I found a man I found a friend I found a comforter I found an Advocate to plead for my pardon before that high Court now assembled For by Your meanes I have been quietly brought into the Church by Your meanes also I hope I shall be henceforth protected against all slanderers who will whet their tongues against me and seeke to trouble me and grudge at my good as the Jews excepted against the Cripple and impotent man who was cured by our Saviour I shall always be ready to render due thankes to God and next to You for Your blessed help towards my Conversion and first fruits of my Vocation which in this humble Work of mine I have endeavoured to make knowne to the World remitting my further expressions to better occasions And in the meane time praying to God that he will be pleased with his powerfull hand to supply to You and Yours what my heart can wish but never will be able to perform according to the full measure of so glorious a Worke which truely next to God the beginner and Author of all goodnesse by Your meanes hath been accomplished Your Worships humble and ever obliged servant in Christ THOMAS GAGE The Tyranny of Satan discovered by the teares of a converted Sinner In a Sermon Preached in Pauls Church on the 28 of August 1642. LUKE 22. 31 32. And the Lord said Simon Simon Behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat But I have prayed for thee that thy Faith faile not And when thou art Converted strengthen thy Brethren DEarely Beloved These words I have chosen to declare unto you this day as most fit to lay open before your eyes my own most wretched estate wherein I have continued almost 40 years the tyranny of Satan over my miserable and afflicted soule as also by the sight of so hideous a sinner as I have been and by the knowledge of the slavery wherein a sinner groanes under the power of the Devill to terrifie you all that here are present from yeelding to his crafty and subtile assaults And secondly to cherish and comfort all those that find themselvs seduced by this mortall enemy of all man kind with the mercies of a most loving and mercifull Father above who not desiring the eternall death and destruction of a sinner but rather that he may turne from his wickednesse and live when poorest we are and most in want then doth he shew and discover unto us the riches of his mercy for his great love wherewith he loveth us as Paul witnesseth in the 2 to the Ephes. 3 4. ver. When most dejected and comfortlesse we are then doth he comfort us and shew himselfe a God of Comfort as also Paul doth teach us in the 2 Cor. 4. Who finally when he seeth us most in darknesse and in the night of sinne than doth he dissolve those mists of blindnesse and ignorance from the eyes of our understanding an● shineth into our inward hearts with the rayes and light of his Grace and mercy Blessed and praised be thy name O Heavenly Father that hast vouchsafed this day to lighten me in the horrid darknesse of my sins that hast visited me in my Aegyptian slavery and hast brought me out of that thraldome of Popery into a land of Milke and Hony abounding with the sweetnes of thy Grace and Mercies Continue O Lord these thy favours towards me so that I may by my Conversion be an example to all sinners to forsake their wickednesse by laying open unto them this day two principall and essentiall points to wit the danger and horridnesse of sin and thy unspeakable mercies that thus I may perform what thou commandedst Peter and that my selfe being converted I may strengthen my Brethren calling them from sin and strongly settling them in the true ancient and Apostolique Faith Dearely Beloved The first point which is to be observed in the words of my Text is the tyranny which the Devill practizeth over a Christian soule contained in those words of Christ our Saviour spoken to Peter Behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat The desire of Satan is not any way to do us good but all the mischiefe he can As soon as he hath got us into his claws he produceth as far as lyeth in his power Sentence of damnation against us he prepareth us and putteth us in readinesse for the fire of hell The first preparation which hee maketh for our soules to burne everlastaingly is the same which shall happen unto every damned and cursed soule at the day of the last and dreadfull Iudgment when the Angels shall separate the wicked from the good as Christ our Saviour foretold us by S. Matthew in the 13 chap. in the Parable of the seed in the 41 ver. saying The Son of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his Kingdome all things that offend and them which do iniquity As a so in the same Chap. of Mat●h we reade in the Parable of the net cast into the Sea and gathering of every kind which when it was full they drew to shore and sate downe and gathered the good into vessels but cast the bad away So saith our Saviour verse 49 shall it be at the end of the world The Angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from the just and shall cast them into the furnace of fire Behold how the nearest preparation for the fire of hell is the separation of the wicked from the just And after this followeth immediatly that dreadfull sentence of damnation which ye shall find in