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A49761	An history of angells being a theologicall treatise of our communion and warre with them : handled on the 6th chapter of the Ephesians, the 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 verses / by Henry Lawrence ...; Of our communion and warre with angels	Lawrence, Henry, 1600-1664.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1649 (1649)	Wing L660; ESTC R12895	135,420	210

is Prov. 15.25 that is not onely their workes in designe as before but their workes in issue and effect God may permit some designes to come to issue they may build houses and get possessions but they shal be destroyed it is a thing of no assurance like a building on the sand either their foundations shall faile them or from heaven the Lord shall thunder upon them as Hanna sayes in her song 1. Sam. 2.10 which is a proper way of destroying and pulling downe proud men and things which lift up their head to heaven but saith hee in the same vers Hee will establish the border of the widdow that is a widdow which being desolate and afflicted trusts in God as it is elsewhere widdowes who of all other lye exposed enough to injury that have no great projects of their owne no limits or borders but of Gods making and little power to defend themselves and theirs from assaults and ruine God will establish them sayes hee the Lord will be their keeper and then they need not feare there is no fence so good as what is of Gods making hee hath bounded the sea by an invisible bound his word but no bounds are like it so if hee make a hedge about any about his house and his wayes nothing shal be able to touch him and this leades mee to the other part that blessed part which of all other graces is the foundation the corner stone to happines and blessednes and that is humility when God would bring his Sonne into the world he brought him in the most himble posture his condition his spirit and his worke were all of a lowe and humble edition and whereas it may be said that this was for our sakes and part of his sufferings for sin not so onely but especially and particularly that as of all other things so of this grace also hee might be to us the great instance and patterne and therefore himself sayes Learne of mee for I am meeke and lowly of heart and yee shall finde rest that which all the world seekes after but none finde but such as are in that condition so Phil. 2.5.6 Let this minde be in you which was also in Christ Iesus who being in the forme of God thought it not robbery to be equall with God but made himself of no reputation and tooke upon him the forme of a servant That is whither ever his worke or condition leade him into what ever abasement into what ever lownesse thither his minde easily carried him therefore saith hee Let this minde be in you It may be you shall not be lead into such extremities into such lownes for hee dranke deepe yet the Saints are laid low often how ever let the minde be in you have a ready minde a minde prepared there is nothing fits so for all kinds of worke and communion for doing and suffering as such a minde for want of which either wee are not lead into opportunities of glorifying God or wee loose them and soyle them and make nothing of them Besides this then which wee cannot frame a greater argument how is this frame commended to us by God who best knowes what is best for us and what best pleaseth him Hee tells you that hee giveth grace to the humble Iam. 4.6 That hee will dwell with the humble even as in heaven Isa. 57.15 where hee will display his beames for comfort and joy that hee may revive their spirit and make them live the truth is men are seldome empty enough for Gods filling nor humble enough for his revivings which is the reason why wee have no more of this heavenly influence but are faine to spin our joyes out of our owne bowells as the spider doth her webbe and with contracted and bowed shoulders to beare our burthens which a little influence from God would make exceeding light hee tells you all the ill hee sends is but to humble you and hee is forced to do it that hee may doe you good Deut. 8.16 hee tells you that if you will be pleased with any of his workes with newes from heaven you must be humble The humble shall see this and be glad Psal. 69.32 that is what God workes in the earth if you be not humble you shall not live to see it or have eyes to see it and the humble shall heare thereof and be glad Psal. 34.2 great things are done and no notice taken of them because men are not humble The way to take in the comforts and the joyes from the workes God doth or the Saints doe in the world is to be humble for proud men minde themselves to much to consider God or others not to multiply more places would you be great in any respect Prov. 15.33 Before honour is humility and Prov. 22.4 By humility and the feare of the Lord is riches and honour and life If God have destin'd you for these things that is the gate you must enter at would you be great in the kingdome of heaven take it in what capacity you will Math. 18.4 Whosover shall humble himself as a little childe the same is greatest in the Kingdome of heaven But you will say how comes the Divell into this charge first as hee comes into all sinnes especially such as are great and crying what ever drawes much from God or what ever God drawes from much that is of the Divell but so is pride as you have heard Another way by which wee shall intitle the Divell to this march of pride is contention Prov. 13.10 Onely by pride cometh contention the meaning is by pride alone that is pride alone is sufficient of it self without any other reason to cause the greatest contentions for instance men are not apt to fall into quarrells and contentions unlesse distempered by drinke or that they have their passions stirred up by injury or are distempered or provoked some way or other but pride alone makes men quarrelsome and contentious to the utmost and therefore Psal. 10.2 the wicked in his pride doth persecute the poore the poore middles not with him hurts him not but hee is proud that is enough and having advantage over him being on the higher ground hee pursuis it So what mighty reproaches and revilings Moab and the children of Ammon layd upon the people of God by which meanes they contended with them appeares Zeph. 2.8 Now this God gives meerly to their pride and therefore when in the 9. verse hee threatens the cruellest desolations to them he ads ver 10. this shall they have for their pride their pride was enough to intitle them to all that injury and to all that punishment It was pride that caused contention amongst the Apostles their disputations and their strife who should be the greatest Marc. 9.34 that pride was the disease appeares because humility was the remedy ver 36.37 Also Math. 18.1.2.3 where Christ tells them that except they be humble as little children they shall neither be first nor second they shall

not goe to heaven at all ver 3. Except yee become as litle children yee shall not enter into the Kingdome of heaven and if there be any preeminency pride obstructs the way to it It is humility that opens the doore ver 4. Whoso ever shall humble himself as a little childe the same is the greatest in the Kingdome of God it is not hee that puts for place shall have it but hee that stayes till hee be called But it were well if our contentions ended with others if that were the bounds of them doe wee not contend with our selves our conditions and with God every day Let a mans condition be never so good never so incompassed with mercies pride alone raiseth a contention picks a quarrell that is that alone is sufficient to do it if there were nothing els Why are wee not contented why are wee not well when wee have enough or to much do you know what makes the contention it is pride yee have food and rayment yee have not the least part of mercies yee have not the greatest part of afflictions what is the matter why doe yee contend why doe you walke heavily and dejectedly it is pride pride onely or pride alone can do it can set you as fiercely upon your condition and upon God as upon your brother or your neighbour yea when there is no cause at all It s a glasse that extenuates goods and multiplyes ills and which is more then any glasse can do findes them where they are not at all this as I told you of lust is a most boundlesse thing and will send you to impossibilities for satisfaction for let no man thinke it lyes in the power of his condition to make him happy pride will outrunne it faster then it can possibly flow in upon him and which is more pride multiplyes with the flowing in as fire increaseth by fewell consider therefore when you contend with your condition when you are not satisfied with your estate it might possibly have bene greater or larger or fairer or in a word otherwise nay when you doe not walke cheerfully and thankfully and contentedly in what you have for that failing is of the same roote and spring then you contend with God you murmure against God and this a love from pride properly and onely from pride for the judge of all the world cannot but doe justly God cannot hurt you cannot injure or provoke you as another may all your contentions with your conditions and so with God are onely from pride now I beseech you who is the great Authour and fomenter of contention but the Divell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the calumniatour one that breeds ill blood that doth calumniate and accuse night and day hee doth not onely accuse us to God but God to us hee accused God to Evah hee told her they should be as Gods knowing good and evill this temptation tooke now hee intimated that God made that restraint out of envy because hee would have none so great and so happy as himself and therefore there was not so much love in giving you liberty to eate of the other trees as there was envy and ill will in restrayning you from this For God knoweth c. And hee accused Iob to God doth Iob serve God for nought A great part of his traynes are spent in sowing dissentions in making breaches in multiplying wrath where it is conceived in boyling it up to revenge and then effecting it and therefore there is nothing hee traines up his more in then in contentions and wayes of revenging themselves to the utmost the power of effecting which is ordinarily the reward his sworne vassalls get for the slaving and alienation of their soules and bodies to conclude hee is the true king over all the children of pride Iob 41.34 to whom it may be said as to Pilate concerning Christ Behold your King For pride was properly the Divells sin 1. Tim. 3.6 It is called the condemnation of the Divell that is that for which the Divell is condemned Not a novice least being lifted up with pride hee fall into the condemnation of the Divell This therefore was his sin and this he multiplyed and derived presently hee fastened it upon Adam to wish to be as God knowing good and evill and although some other sinnes in respect of the constitution and temper may beare the title of the master sin that doth not hinder but that in a true sence it may be saide that pride is the master sin in all it is the utmost roote in originall sin that which lieth deepest in the ground and can must hardly be reached what are afflictions generally for but to hide pride from man nay temptations are let out upon us and sometimes corruptions that wee may not be lifted up so it was to Paul what ever his temptations were the end of all was that hee might not be proud and lifted up with his revelations this therefore is the proper sin of the Divell and hath so great a root in us of his laying in at first and of his fostering ever since wee should watch him especially in as that which hath all the evills in it wee have formerly named and is of all other things most opposite and contrary to our peace and comfort Another martch of the Divells eminent in it self and most dangerous and ensnaring to others is that wee call worldlines wee know the Divel is called the God of this world and they that will be rich that is they that set their hearts upon it that propose this to themselves they will be rich they will abound they will that is what ever it cost them though they breake never so many hedges for it though they tread never so many unjust or weary steps they fall into temptation and a snare The Divell hath them in his snares and leades them whither hee will whither hee hath a minde to leade them 1. Tim. 6.9 Other sins have their aggravations but this is the most earthly of all other and in some respects the most unworthy a man And therefore the seate of this lust is ordinarily the basest spirits there it hath its rise and growth and in order to effects it is the root of all evill that is aswell as other vices it is extreamely fertill of ill whether you consider the evill of sin or the evill of punishment for sin this love of riches what will it not constraine men to they will breake all the commandements in a round for the satisfying of those lusts what frauds deceits perjuryes cruelties murthers hatreds have bene exercised for the nourishing of this lust nay what other sins of lust and uncleannesse of the lowest and basest kinde People often subject their bodies and soules to the satisfying of this affection And for the evill of punishment the Apostle saith heere that they pierce themselves thorough with many sorrowes that is they have a carefull and sorrowfull life of it contrary to that good Solomon