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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90696	Two sermons preached in the Tovver. The former, on Sunday the 30. day of Ianuary. 1641. The later, on Sunday the 24. day of April. 1642. By the Bishop of Bath and Wells.	Piers, William, 1580-1670.; W. D.	1642 (1642)	Wing P2211; Thomason E155_21; ESTC R23322	31,288	88

those now who misunderstanding this text and other Scriptures of the like nature affirme that as simple and ignorant men did heretofore without any learning or premeditation at all preach and expound the mysteries of God by the power of Gods Spirit so simple and ignorant men may do the like now and why because the power of Gods Spirit is the same still that it was and bloweth where it listeth and therefore may be perfected as well in their weaknesse now as it was in the weaknesse of others in former times but this is no good plea and therefore they that put the spirit to this now deceives themselves and tempt the power of Gods blessed Spirit for there is a great deale of difference in the times God gave the gifts of illumination and of knowledge to simple and ignorant men by inspiration extraordinary and miraculously in the infancy of the Gospel and it was fit for those times for the reason before mentioned but now in a fetled Church such miracles are ceased and God gives divine knowledge and understanding unto men by labour industry and study but God doth still make perfect the power of his grace in the weaknesse of simple and unlearned by bestowing upon them the spirit of regeneration and sanctification and therfore the most simple and illiterate man alive may beleeve as well and as much as the greatest Clerk in the world and he that weareth the linnen frock may be as holy as he that is brought up in scarlet feedeth delicatly and the mayd servant that is behind the mill yea the beggar that imbraceth the dunghill may bee as rich in faith and in grace as he that sitteth in a throne of glory Fifthly the power of Gods grace is made perfect in the weaknesse of temptations And to apply the medicine to the malady this was the Apostles case God suffers his children to come many times in their temptations ad ripam unto the very brinke of dispaire and perdition and then the power of his grace helps them for God is faithfull and will not suffer us to bee tempted above our ability but when the temptation is at the highest then he will make a way for us to escape 1 Cor. 10. God permits Satan to tempt us and his temptations are the soarest of all but he will not suffer him to overcome us latrare potest mordere non potest saith Saint Augustine Hee thinkes by his temptations to breake us and to take us and hold us captive at his will but indeed hee takes himselfe in his owne Gins The more weight is laid upon an Arch the stronger it is and the winds which shake the trees makes them faster at the rootes Satans temptations like bellowes blow and kindle that holy fire that is within our breasts even the power of Gods grace let us not then be afraid of temptations For qui hortatur ut pugnemus adjuvat aut vincamus saith Saint Ambroose He that incourageth us to incounter with temptations doth and will helpe us by his grace to overcome them Et habebimus victoriam in eo quae nunquam victus est and we shall be more then conquerours through him who for our sakes was tempted and overcome that we in him might overcom also when we are tempted The arrowes which are often shot against a rock are so blunted that afterwards they can do little or no harme at all now Christ hath so blunted all the arrowes and darts of Satans temptations by his resistance that though they hit us yet they cannot hurt us Sixthly the power of Gods grace is made perfect in the weaknesse of our humiliation for our sinnes when a man is ashamed to lift up so much as his eies to heaven when a man humbles himselfe and afflicts his soule with weeping and mourning for his sinnes when a man denies himselfe and believes in his heart and confesseth that he is the greatest sinner in the world when a man judgeth himselfe not onely unworthy of the least of all Gods mercies but also most worthy of all the paines and torments in hell for offending God when a man loathes himselfe in his owne sight for the sinnes which he hath committed when a man abhorres himselfe and repents in dust and ashes Yea when a man brings himselfe downe so low that the shadow of death rests upon his eye lids and his speech whispers out of the dust as it is Esay 29.4 then doth the power of Gods grace begin to be made perfect in him then doth God come nigh to him to dwell with him and to save him for he that is on high will dwell with him that is of an humble and contrite spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the spirit of the contrite to heale his sin-broken heart and to bind up his wounds of sorrow Esay 57.18 Psal 143.3 And then what consolation in Christ what peace of conscience what joy in the holy Ghost doth the power of Gods grace presently produce in his soule which none can understand but hee that feeles and none can feele but the child of God the truely penitent sinner Peccator de peccato dolet de dolore gaudet saith Saint Augustine the penitent sinner sorroweth for his sinnes and rejoyceth in his repentance unam fudi lachrimam unam inveni consolationem I shed one teare for my sinnes and I found thereupon one comfort decem fudi lachrymas decem inveni consolationes I shed ten teares for my sinnes I found as many comforts for the same quantumcunque fuit pondus lachrymarum tantus fuit numerus consolationum and as the weight of my teares increased for my sinnes so the number of Gods comforts increased in my soule according to the saying of the Psalmist In the multitude of the sorrowes even of the sorrowes for my sinnes which I had in my heart thy comforts have rejoyced my soule Psal 94.19 Lastly the power of Gods grace is made perfect in the weaknesse of sicknesse and of all manner of sufferings unto which the weake nature of man is subject And first in the weaknesse of sicknesse When Iacob was sicke in his bed unto death and ready to give up the Ghost and when his eyes were dimme with age that hee could not see yet then did hee foresee and foretell what should befall the twelve tribes of Israel in the last daies what high and mysterious prophecies did he then deliver in the several blessings of his twelve Sons and with whatstrength of words you may reade in the 29. of Genesis When Iob was smitten with sore boyls from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head when he sate down among the ashes and scraped himselfe with a potsheard when his skin was black and broken and his bones were burnt with heate when he could not swallow his spittle and when he took his flesh in his teeth when the poisoned arrowes of the Almighty dranke up his spirits and his reines