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A78211	The strong man ejected by a stronger then he. In a sermon preached at Gloucester, the 15th of May, 1660. Being the day his Royal Majesty, King Charles the second, was proclaimed. Shewing, how the strong man Satan is cast out of the palace of the heart, and the Lord Christ possessed thereof. With some application to the present ejectment of the late usurper, Satans confederate, out of the royal palace, and the Lords Christ, King Charles the-second possessed thereof. By Wil. Bartholmevv, M.A. and Vicar of Campden in Gloucester-shire.	Bartholomew, William, vicar of Campden.	1660 (1660)	Wing B979; Thomason E1033_3; ESTC R208957	21,945	35

The Strong Man EJECTED BY A STRONGER THEN HE. In a SERMON Preached at Gloucester the 15th of May 1660. Being the day his Royal Majesty King CHARLES the Second was Proclaimed SHEWING How the Strong Man Satan is cast out of the Palace of the Heart and the Lord CHRIST Possessed thereof With some Application to the present Ejectment of the late Usurper Satans Confederate out of the Royal Palace and the Lords Christ King CHARLES the Second Possessed thereof By WIL. BARTHOLMEVV M. A. and Vicar of Campden in Gloucester-shire If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed Jo. 8.36 Duae sunt Urbes una Civitas Dei Hierusalem Altera civitas Diaboli Babylon Illam aedificat amor Dei-pertingens usq ad contemptum sui Hanc aedificat amor sui-pertingens usque ad contemptum Dei Aug. London Printed by W. Godbid for Richard Thrale at the Crosse-Keyes at St. Paul's Gate entring into Cheapside 1660. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE My very good Lady and Patronesse IULIAN Vicountesse CAMPDEN All encrease of Grace and Happiness MADAM WHen I Preached this slender Piece there was not the least thought in my mind of bringing it to the Press but since being beseiged with a strong force of Importunities Friends conquered me though they can never confute me of my Opinion touching the little worth so imperfect an embryon as this hath to go abroad in publick I was confident it would meet with Censures and therefore carefull it might finde some Sanctuary And no better then under your Honours protection where the unworthy Author and those that are dear to him have found so good shelter Be pleased therefore I beseech your Honour to let it come forth under your Patronage both as a pledge of my Duty and thankfulnesse for your many and great Favours conferred on me unworthy of the least And also that others seeing your Honours Name prefixed may be induced to read it over Some right you have to it also for the Argument sake It is a discourse of a Christians Liberty purchased by Jesus Christ from under Sin and Satans thraldome And to whom muy fitly can it be dedicated then to your selfe whom the Lord hath so conspicuously called to partake of that Liberty witnesse the lustre of your personal Sanctity your constancy in Private and Publick Devotions and your zealous endevour to plant Religion in the meanest of your Family that you and your House may unanimously serve the Lord. There is something likewise in this Sermon by way of Congratulation and Thankfulnesse to the great God of Heaven by whom Kings reign on Earth for that much longed for liberty restored unto us as Subjects by the most happy and miraculous Advent of our Dread Soveraign King CHARLES the Second to the Royal throne of his Ancestors And in this Liberty likewise as your Honour receiveth a large share so of Joy and Thankfulnesse you render unto God a liberal tribute And not your selfe onely but your Family and noble relations who have ever given abundant testimony of their Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty and to his Royal Father of Glorious memory do now proportionably rejoyce and blesse God for his happy and wonderful Restauration And all their Sufferings for their Fidelity to their Prince are remembred no more for joy that our Soveraigne Lord the KING is come in peace to his House Thus doth your Honours Piety and Loyalty both challenge an interest in this little mite heightned much in worth by your Honours acceptance of it The Blessing of God go along with it and make it effectuall to the building up of every one that reads it in Faith and Love And the good Lord continue and multiply the comfort of his Spirit in your Heart and your blessed hope to be partaker of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light Campden in Gloucester-shire Your Honours Chaplain to all Christian Duty and Service obliged WIL. BARTHOLMEVV THE STRONG MAN EJECTED BY A STRONGER then HE. St. Luke Chap. 11. Ver. 21 22. When a strong man armed keepeth his Palace his goods are in peace But when a stronger then he shall come upon him and overcome him he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted and divideth his spoiles AT the 14. verse we finde our Blessed Saviour casting out a dumb Devill In his own nature dumb as to any penitent confession of any sin he ever yet committed Howbeit here he is said to be dumb in regard of operation casting this Daemoniac into a disease that deprived him of his Speech and of his Sight too Blinde a Mat. 12.12 and Dumb saith Saint Matthew and of his Hearing also as some Interpreters suppose because we do not read that our Saviour saith as at other times Believest thou that I am able to do this Now The coherence and occasion of the words being as most actions fall under divers constructions the best we can say or do undergoes divers opinions and censures so doth this miracle of Christ The Common People and Illiterate Multitude stand amazed and wonder saying b Matth. 12.13 This is or is not this the Son of David the Messias that shall deliver us and reigne over us But the learned Scribes and Pharisees A Scandal which the Scribes would fasten upon Christ made up of depraving they slander and disparage him how much better is it to be Holy then Witty He casteth out Devills say they through Beelzebub the Prince of Devils that Lord of Flies so called either from the abundance of Flies flocking to the Sacrifices offered to that Idol or from his aid implored against those Swarmes of Flies that did infest Ekron in Palestine their Country where this Idol was worshipped Or because Removed by him with three arguments when the Devil gave his responses to the Inchanters he appeared in the form of a great Fly This their calumny and aspersion our Saviour refuteth 1. From the evill consequent of dissention Every Kingdome divided against it self is brought to desolation Truth it is that upon compact one Devil may undo what another doth attempting by such politique combination in the same project to resieve the Body but to gain the Soul and to enlarge the Kingdome of Darknesse But for one Devill to oppose another to cast the Devils Kingdome out of the world and to set up the Kingdome of God c Ver. 20. which is Christs designe this Beelzebub will not do neither can such a designe be carried on by those that unite in one but amongst Enemies that are divided The second Argument our Saviour useth for refutation of their Blasphemous slander is ab exemplo pari from the like example d Ver. 19. If I by Beelzebub cast out Devils by whom do your Sons cast them out Your Sons i the Children of your own Nation those Exorcists born amongst you who cast out Devils e Acts 19.13 17. Matth. 7.22 in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ You do not say

they cast them out by Beelzebub why then are you partial Judges to passe contrary Sentence on the like fact To applaud them who cast out Devils by my power and to condemn me who am that Power A third Argument is taken from the effects pressed by a Military similitude The Devil is strong and compleatly armed and will not be cast out of his Possession but by a strength superior so that my dispossessing of Satan is an evidence that I do not use his power but that mine is greater than any he hath For even common experience sheweth that no man can come into a Strong mans house and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plunder his Houshold-stuffe unlesse he be stronger then he When a strong man armed c. Hitherto we have onely viewed the Casket The sence of the words History Mystery Calvin in loc saepe there is a Jewel in the Text not yet shewed you Besides the History whereunto we shall have occasion to look back anon there is a farther Mystery to be discovered in the words Christs bodily cures had usually a tendency to something Spiritual for the saving of the Soul This Blinde and Dumb man whom Satan possessed is a type of all men that lye under the Dominion of Sin f 2 Cor. 4.4 whose Eyes the God of this world hath blinded g Ephes 2.2 whose heart the Prince of the Aire keepeth in peaceable possession When a Strong man c. Untill a Stronger then he i Jesus Christ shall be pleased in mercy to visit any such miserable Vassal Then he ejects Satan pulls down the reign of sin takes possession of that poor captivated heart for his own habitation restores to God his Creature that was lost and to Man the Graces whereof he was despoiled But when a Stronger The division and parts c. Which words are divided as the World is two Kings over two great Families or Kingdomes divided both Christ and Belial the God that overcomes the world and the God of this evill world The King of Saints Jesus Christ and the King the Prince of the Power of Darknesse the Devil The order of the words invite me to speak first of the Prince of the Power of Darknesse wherein first we are to take notice of his Power he is a strong man Secondly his Armour he is a strong man armed Thirdly his possession he keepeth the Palace Fourthly the posture of his Subjects like the people of Laish all quiet and secure his goods are in peace When a Strong man armed c. Until secondly Jesus Christ the King of Saints comes ejects Satan and enters his Territories by force Who is described here first by his strength and valour He is stronger then Satan and cometh upon him Secondly his Victory He overcometh him Thirdly his most prudent management of that Victory 1. He disarms the enemie 2. Rescues his Captives out of the enemies hands and as David in the case of Ziglag so the Son of David recovers all the spoyles and divideth them amongst them But when a stronger then he c. To all which particulars I shall likely speak something whilst I insist on these two Propositions Sum'd up in 2. propositions whereunto we are to hold us at this time First That all unconverted ones living in a state of habitual sin and actual disobedience against God they are in bondage under Sathan Led captive by him according to his Will When a strong man armed c. Secondly When Jesus Christ is pleased in mercy to visit any such poor captives He ejects Satan pulls down the Reign and Dominion of Sin takes possession of their hearts for his own habitation and restores unto them the graces whereof they were despoyled But when a stronger 1. Proposition All men unconverted are in Bondage under Satan 1 Cor. 6.11 Ephes 2.2 c. I will begin with the First All unconverted c. Such were some of you saith St. Paul to the Corinthians such were the Ephesians Walking according to the Prince of the power of the Air the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience amongst whom saith the Apostle we had our conversation in times past Titus 3.3 We our selves saith he had our conversation in times past foolish disobedient serving divers Lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy haters and hating one another Deeds of Darknesse all which sins while men live under them we need no other evidence that they are under the Dominion of the Prince of the power Darkness for his Children ye are saith our Saviour whose works ye do and his Servants ye are saith the Apostle to whom ye obey Rom. 6.16 A hard cruel Bondage because they are under A very hard and cruel hondage 1. A strong man Prov. 21.16 Mr. Mede in loc Prov. 21.16 First Because he that deteins them is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a strong man a Goliah-Gyant The man that wanders out of the way of Wisdom shall remain in the Congregation of the Dead In caetu Gigantium in the house of Gyants that 's the proper signification and so was Hell called by the Jews before the Captivity saith a learned Critick the assembly of Gyants of those Gyants and mighty men who in the old world rebelled against God and of those apostate Gyants who fell from God and of Angels became Devils Who since their fall have lost their spiritual Love but retain their natural power All which power in them how great soever is now become the power of Darkness Triumphing in all the ungodly drowned in Ignorance disobedience and unbeleif which the Apostle calls Darkness militant combating with the godly Ephes 5.8 For we wrastle not saith he with flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesse against wicked Spirits in ability transcending the power of flesh and blood Mighty Gyants in whose sight we are but as Grashoppers and as easily destroyed by them Job 40.41 Behemoth and Leviathan names say some signifying the Devil the King of the Children of Pride and all the powers of the earth cannot match him A roaring Lyon who would devour all But thanks be given to the Lyon of the tribe of Judah Jesus Christ who for those few Lambs sake that are of his fold the Church hath chained that roaring Lyon the Devil and none become a prey unto him but such as yeild to his Temptations and by their wilful disobedience come within his chain such he holds fast in the cords of their sins and they are Captives to this Strong man Whose miserable captivity is so much the more hard and cruel 2. Armed having armes Secondly In that he is armed as well as strong A Strong man armed being furnished with armes first of his own secondly from our selves thirdly from the Law First I from himself He himself is a Magazine of temptations having his Quiver full of poysoned Arrows or Darts as the Apostle calls

promises made unto us yea and Amen in Christ fetcheth vertue from his blood our Antidote to repell that poyson and to quench those fiery darts which otherwise would drink up our spirits Receive Christ Jesus into your hearts by Faith set open the everlasting doors and let the King of Glory come into his Palace then let Satans temptations fly like Darts and Arrowes so thick as they may seem to darken the Sun we shall fight in the shade even under the shadow of the wings of the Sun of righteousnesse we shall be safe under his Feathers his faithfulnesse and truth shall be our Shield and Buckler But secondly besides the darts of his temptations 2. Subduing our corruptions he is furnished with armour from our own sins and lusts True but Christs conquest is over Sin as well as Satan he hath delivered us from the punishment of sin by his death and from the power of sin by his Grace Yet all this still upon the condition of the new Covenant to wit a lively Faith in Christ Jesus manifested by Repentance from dead works and a care to live righteously This is not a cause meriting Christs victory but a condition a qualification necessarily required in all that shall partake of his victory which if by us performed then our sins shall never be our ruine Not our sins past he hath cast them all into the depths of the Sea he will blot them out of his remembrance which is in some sort to make them as if they had never been And for those present remainders of sin he will abate their strength by the power of his grace convert our Members to be weapons of righteousnesse unto God and bring us daily to a more intimate communion with himself in knowledge love and obedience Yet thirdly 3. Paying the debt the Law requires of us There is another parcel of armour Satan makes not a little use of the Law He drawes up a charge against us as debtors to the whole Law by us violated and broken and therefore exposed to the wrath of God which is even a consuming fire But ever blessed be our Redeemer and surety Jesus Christ he hath paid the whole debt the debt of universal and exact obedience which we did owe to the Law as a Covenant of works that he hath paid It behoveth us saith he of himselfe to fulfill all righteousnesse The debt of malediction and wrath which the Law inflicteth as a curse that he hath paid being made a curse for us and having done so much he hath wrung the evidences out of Satans hands so that now there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus The Law being satisfied the deluge of Gods wrath is abated and dryed up and the Father looking on Beleevers through his Son in the midst of Wrath remembers Mercy For is his wrath a Fire the water that flowed out of his side hath quenched it Is it a Cup he hath drank it the potion killed him but cured us Is it a Wine-presse he hath trodden the Wine-presse of his Fathers wrath alone and none of the people were with him Is the severe Justice thereof to be satisfied he hath done it without the impeachment of an iota Is it a debt he hath paid the utmost farthing And to establish the hearts of Beleevers and penitent sinners in this truth that they may have strong consolation it was not without a Mysterie that the Lord sent an Angel to roule away the Stone from the Sepulchre of Christ what needs an Angel he was God as well as Man If stones cleave asunder at his Passion they would remove at his Resurrection True but an Officer an Angel is sent to testifie the debt is paid the Law is satisfied the Prison door is opened and the Prisoner may come forth Let not Satan now boast of his armour his own policy our Sins or the Laws claim Christ hath taken away all his armour wherein he trusted and divideth his spoiles The last Improvement of this great conquest and victory And divideth his spoyles 4. Dividing the spoyls which is spoken in regard of Whereof we have have a good comment in the 4. Chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians and the 8. verse He hath led Captivity captive and given gifts unto men He hath led Captivity captive 1. Persons is either taken actively or passively actively he that did lead his people his Elect captive to wit the Devil him Christ hath led captive and p Epist Jud. v. 6. reserved him in everlasting chaines under Darknesse unto the Judgement of the great Day Passively he hath led Captivity captive i those that were led captive by Satan the Lord Jesus hath turned their captivity and brought them under his Government to march under his Banner to fight his Battles and to receive his pay Thus then he divides his spoyles disposeth of Satan as his Prisoner of Satans Vassals for his own Free-men so many of them as renounce Satan and come under him for protection Again 2. Gifts and Graces as he divideth his spoyles i he hath given gifts unto men even to the rebellious if they will lay down their weapons of Rebellion take up the gauntlet in his quarrel and go into the field against Sin and Satan Look what we have lost by Adams fall who was foyled by Satan and by our own wilfull disobedience is all restored to us by Christs victory Particularly the Image of God perfect Liberty the Celestial Paradice withall the inexhausted treasures of Grace and Glory conteined in them First 1. The Image of God The Image of God that rich spoyl that best robe Christ hath put upon us so that if you ask a Beleever whose Image and superscription he bears Gods q Col. 3.10 Eph. 4.24 being renewed by Christ in Knowledge in Righteousnesse and Holinesse after the Image of him that created him Secondly 2. Perfect liberty perfect Liberty For if the Son make you Free then are you Free indeed Free from Sin and Free from Death from the terror of the one and from the torment of the other Only abuse not your Liberty saith the Apostle it is a freedome from sin but a freedome to service that having your Heart set at liberty you may the more cheerfully run the wayes of Gods commandements Thirdly 3. The celestial paradise the Celestial Paradise r Col. 1.13 he hath delivered us out of the Power of Darknesse and translated us into the Kingdome of his dear Son a Kingdome of Grace in possession s Ver. 20. the Kingdome of God is come upon you and of t Luk. 22.23 glory in reversion These are the rich spoyles our most puissant conquerour divides amongst his Soldiers I appoint unto you a Kingdome as my Father hath appointed me And having brought your Meditations hither here I shall endeavour to lodge them with some short Application and the shorter it will be because so much