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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03346	The peace of enmity A sermon preached in Paules Church the 12 day of February, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1639. By Augustine Hill, rector of Dengey in the county of Essex.	Hill, Augustine, d. 1660.	1640 (1640)	STC 13467; ESTC S104107	17,891	32

by Christ so that his sollicitations are not so prevalent as they were before Heb. 4.15 because Christ was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sinne and so is able to succour them that are tempted In summe venit vidit vicit he came from heaven he saw the earth he overcame the Devill he spoyled Principalities and Powers Colos 2.15 Hebr. 2.14 Psal 68.18 He hath destroyed death and him that had the Power of death that it the Devill When he ascended on high he led captivitie captive that is the captivity of the Devill as Chrysost expounds it then was my text fully accomplished and the serpents head was broken Now if we aske the ground of Christs quarrell with the serpent and the occasion of this victory We must know the cause was ours the serpent had broken our head first therefore Christ undertooke for us and brake the serpents head The conquest is ours communicated to us now and to be consummate when we come to heaven The comfort is ours that our Captaine hath conquered our enemy and we need not feare to encounter with a broken staffe a Debilitated opponent And the thankfulnesse must be ours to sing every day some song of thankesgiving unto him that hath taken us out of the fanges and throat of destruction Luke 1.75 And this must be remembred that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies must serve him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of our life And now I come to the last part of my text which is like the sting in the tayle of the Scorpion Thou shalt bruise his heele The hurt our Saviour received did principally light on him on the Crosse touching which if sence be Iudge more then his heele was bruised and his heele more then bruised but faith will testifie that but his heele was but bruised For he saw no corruption he delivered himselfe from death he revived his dead ashes built againe his destroyed Temple within three dayes and on the fourtieth after caryed it up with him into heaven and crowned it with immortality So that the phrase is elegant being a resemblance of the humane nature of Christ of a passible quality and condition and an intimation of his divine sustaining his weake manhood to endure those sufferings to digest those bitter pilles and to make them medicinall to himselfe and his Greg. Ni Naturae nostrae integumento caelata fuit divinitas ut instar Piscium cum escâ carnis simul attraheretur hamus divinitatis Christ like a skillfull fisher did cover and hide his Godhead with the worme of his humane nature now the Devill thinking to swallow the worme of his humanity captus est hamo divinitatis was caught with the hooke of his divinity and so in bruising Christs heele his owne head was broken Or like a cunning wrastler Christ did set out the heele of his humanity for his adversary to strike at and with the hand of his divinity cast him downe yea broke his head Nor is this applyed onely to that one passion of Christ but extended to all his sufferings which shall be for ever accomplished in his militant members For he is the head the Church is his body beleevers the severall parts of it he must needs then be sensible of of their sufferings and their damages and hurts redound to him Acts 9.4 Aug. in Psal 30. Saul Saul why persecutest thou me non ait quid sanctos meos quid servos meos sed quid me persequeris hoc est membra mea Caput pro membris clamabat et membra in se caput transsigurabat He saith not why persecutest thou my Saints my servants but me my members The head cryed for the members and did transfigure them as it were into it selfe So that his heele may be said to be bruised when his children are tempted by satan or afflicted by his malicious seed Two things naturally arise from hence A tolleration of the Serpents malice A limitation of his might For the first God doth suffer the Serpent to exercise his malice on the members of Christ here below to bruise their heeles and that either for their tryall as to Saint Peter Luke 22.31 2 Cor. 12. or for their humiliation as to Saint Paul or for some other end which himselfe best knoweth I am sure all things shall worke together for their good Aug. etiam peccata even their sinnes either ad poenitentiam or ad cautelam to make them repent of sinne past or take heed of sinne for the future and the bruising of their heeles shall be the saving of their soules yet bruised they must be Conteritur quidem serpentis caput Bern. sed facile est experiri calcaneo insidiantem Christ hath taken us out of the divels clawes notwithstanding wee are not yet out of the reach of his chaine Modico adhuc tempore sinitur malignari A little while he is suffered to bruise our heele Rom. 16.20 but the God of peace shall bruise Satan under our feet shortly And as God suffers the divell himselfe to tempt them so doth he his Impes to afflict them here righteous Abel is slaine by cursed Cain Ioseph sold by his wicked brethren the Children of Israel in bondage under Pharaoh Iohn Baptist beheaded for a daunce Revel 14.15 here then is the patience of the Saints Let us then be contented to have our heeles bruised It is happinesse enough to get the blessing though with Iacob we be sent halting to our graves Therefore let every one resolve with himselfe Totum licet saeculum pereat nihil moror dum patientiam lucrifaciam Tertul. Let the whole world perish I care not so I may gaine patience For the second God doth not suffer the Devill to wreake his malice and to powre out the full viols of his spight on them but sets him his boundes which he cannot passe he must but bruise their heele his malice is limited his power is restreined he can goe no further then the permitting hand of heaven will give him leave Aug. Job 1. Job 2. Math. 8. Ne oviculam unam hee could not touch one of Iobs sheepe till he had his commission nor his body till it was renewed nor enter into the heard of Swine without Christs sufferance muchlesse can hee goe beyond his licence in touching the soules of the Elect by temptations I confesse his malice is boundlesse endlesse inexorable as the grave or hell never satisfied But God puts his hooke in his nostrils bounds him with a huc usque hither shalt thou goe and no further here shalt thou stay the proud waves of thy malice thou shalt but bruise his heele As Achilles being dipt in the Stygian lake had his body so impenetrable that no part of it could be endangered but his heele so the faithfull being washed in the precious blood of Christ have such a strong munition for their soules that their vitall parts cannot be endamaged their heeles may be touched but their head and heart are sure enough Saint Bernard sweetly to this purpose Est quidem Leo rugiens sed gratias ago Leoni de tribu Inda rugire iste potest Bern in Psal qui habitat ser 13. ferire non potest The Devill is a roaring Lyon but I give thanks to him that is the Lyon of the tribe of Iudah he may roare but he cannot devoure And Saint Augustine Aug. de Temp. ser 197. Latrare potest sollicitare potest sed mordere non potest nisi volentem He may sollicite us to sinne he may barke at us but he cannot bite us unlesse we give him leave to fasten So much doe wee owe to our blessed Saviour Finally as God shortens the divels hornes so hee doth his hands his instruments that they can goe no further to the dammage of his then he permits them And God is faithfull 1 Cor. 10.13 who will not suffer his to be tempted above that they are able And when hee hath chastened them enough he will throw the rod into the fire here is the comfort of the Saints that God will hedge about his Church with his providence and enclose it in a maze of his mercies that the gates of hell shall never be able to prevaile against it Therefore be comforted ye weake hands be confirmed ye feeble knees cheere up ye drooping spirits doubtlesse we have a strong City Isaiah 26.1 Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarkes And let this be our consolation that Christ hath overcome the world and greater is he that is with us then he that is with the world Now to him that is the greatest of all to God the Father God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost be given all due honour praise service and thankfulnesse now and for ever Amen FJNJS