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A15496	The anchor of faith Vpon which, a Christian may repose in all manner of temptations. Especially in that great and dangerous gulfe of desperation. Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and burthen of their sinne, and not resisting themselues by the hand of faith, vpon the promises and inuitations of Christ, haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues, to the vtter confusion both of body and soule for euer.; Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1628 (1628)	STC 25763.5; ESTC S102508	45,869	112

Diuell with whereof S. Paul in the catalogue of a Christian Souldiars armor maketh rehersal is the word of God this is the Sword of the spirit whereby the suggestions and wicked temptations of Sathan are beaten backe propelled kept off euen as a man kéepeth backe his enemy at the poynt of his Sword With this kinde of Armour did our chiefe captaine Christ Iesus in his manhood here on earth resist and put backe al the Diuell his subtle and faulse temptations answering euery one of them with Scriptū est It is written whence we may learne by the like meanes Christ him selfe an example how to resist the Diuels temptations after his most excellent example to combate with the Diuell and to giue him the foyle whensoeuer by him or any his wicked instruments we shall be tempted to this Desperation or any other sinns whatsoeuer If we be tempted to sweare and blaspheme the holy name of God it is to be resisted with Sciptum est It is written Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine If to pollute and break the Lords Sabboth day through either labouring about our pleasures or profits answer It is written Remember that thou kepe holy c. If to murther shedding of blood by any forbiddē way or means or vpon any vnlawfull occasiō whatsoeuer answere It is written Thou shalt doe no murther If to steale and purloyne by any vnlawfull means directly or indirectly answere it is written Thou shalt not steale If we be tempted to vsury Exo. 22.25 Deu 23.19 Le. 25.39 Psal 15.5 let vs drawe out the Sword of the Spirit Thou shalt not giue to Vsury vnto thy brother Vsury of mony Vsury of meat or of any other thing If he moue vs to deceipt fraudulent dealing 1 Thes 4.5 Leu 25.14 let vs resist him with It is written Let no man oppress or deceaue his brother in bargaining for the Lord is a Iudge in such things If we be sollicited to disloyalty disobedience to Princes let vs striue against that with It is written Rom. 13.1 2 3 Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers c. Finally to be short to what kind of sin mischiefe or inconuenience so euer any of vs shall happen to be drawn The Scriptures doe minister store of swords against euery kinde of temptation inticed or inueigled let vs search the Scriptures we shal soone finde store of swordes of one kind or other to answer foyle and recoyle whatsoeuer this mortal enemy of ours can vse or obiect against vs here is armour enough to finde him occupied with The sixt kinde of spirituall Armour and heauenly furniture wherewith S. Paul or rather the holy Ghost by Saint Paul The sixt kinde of Christian Armour would haue vs complet and furnished against all the dangerous combats conflicts and wicked suggestions of this wicked and damned spirit thereby to auoid repell vanquish him vtterly is deuout hearty zealous Godly prayer Ouer besides S. Paul his instruction and most needfull exhortation in this case his our Lord Maister and Sauiour Christ Iesus hath commended vnto vs this kind of weapon when he taught to pray with this petition And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill Let vs then apply this Armor this kind of propulsatiue weapon and feruentlie and heartily vse it And firmely belieue that which Dauid the Prophet for our good incouragement hath written in Ps 145.19 God is nere to those which cal vpon him will fulfill the desire of them that feare him and deliuer thē Whensoeuer therefore we are tempted allured and drawne on by Sathan through couetousnesse to riches through ambition to honour through enuy to murther through cōcupisence to adultery through intemperance to gluttony or to be short through any other sinne to iniquity Let vs straight waies by prayer craue for power and strength from aboue to ouercome these temptations and especially the most dangerous suggestion of Despayre This kind of Armour is alwaies ready at hand so that Satan can no sooner attempt any thing against vs but this weapon is as soone ready if we heartily and zealously lay hold thereon to repell and vanquish al his practises against vs And therefore Pray pray pray CHAP. 2. The second Chapter concerning remedies and helps against ignorance the second cause of Desperation entreated of before in Chap. 4. COncerning the second cause of Desperation to wit ignorance Our Lord Iesus Christ who was nothing ignorant of the manifold mischiefes and of the manifest dangers that the Diuell leadeth silly men into as it were blindfolded through blinde ignorance and hee knowing that Ignorance is rather the mother of desperation as heretofore in the 4. Chap. of the causes of Desperation hath beene sufficiently prooued then of Deuotion as the Papists haue in this point ignorantly taught maintaind hath in his owne person with his owne mouth exhorted and admonished all men Io. 5.29 to Search the Scriptures which is a lesson in this case most necessary for all men to learne thereby to deliuer themselues out of the dangerous gulfe of Ignorance and so consequently out of many other sinnes and finally out of desperation where-into thousands through Ignorance haue bene implunged and drowned for euer Let vs therefore for the remedie and auoiding of finall Desperation Remedies against Ignorance wherevnto so many runne headlong through Ignorance little knowing and lesse regarding what they doe vntill it be too late receiue the word of God which as S. Iames saith is able to saue our soules with al readines like vnto the Noblemē of Berea search the Scriptures daily Act. 17.11 Let vs seeke after the knowledg of God in time And as the Prophet Esay said Esa 55 6. Seeke the Lord whiles he may be found cal vpon him whils he is neere The danger of wilfull Ignonorance And let vs be assured of this that al māner of Ignorance is perillous but wilful Ignorance of all other is most perilous For it is as a learned Writer hath affirmed a plain Prognostication A. D. in the plaine mans path to heauen a demonstratiue argument of eternall death It is a most horrible and fearefull thinge for a man to refuse instructions dispise counsaile harden their Hearts stoppe their eares and close vp their eyes against God this is the very vp shot of euerlasting ruine What the Ignorant must doe Let the ignorant therefore that stand in this dangerous estate repayre with al diligence and attentiuenesse vnto the learned Ministers dispencers of Gods most sacred word and at their mouths enquire the knowledge of Gods lawes This doth God himselfe commaund vs by the Prophet Malachie Malac 4. And when we feele our consciences wounded let vs after the example of the Godly faithfull and deuout people who after the hearing of Gods word preached came vnto Peter and the

Non tam scelus quod eom●isisti quam indulgentiae desperatio facit te penitus interire Not so much the si●● which thou hast done as thy despayr●● of forgiuenesse hath vtterly cast the● away Surely Iudas his despayre and distrust according to S. Augustine his opinion was a more grieuous sin them his treason in the betraying of his Maister Ier. super Psa 108. Wher-vnto agreeth S. Iero. Magis inquit offendit deum Iudas in ho● quod desperando scipsū suspendit quam in hoc quod d●ū tradidit Desperatio enim reddit hominem maledictum et protectione derindignum Iudas saith S. Ierome more offended God herein that in dispayre he hanged himselfe then in tha● hee betrayed his Lord and Maister Fo● Desperation maketh a man accursed 〈◊〉 vnworthy Gods protection And thu● likewise Cain his dispayring in God mercy after his murther committed was a more grieuous sinne then th● shedding of his brother Abell hi● blood For to adde Despayre to fo●mer sinnes is to drawe sinne afte● sinne as it were with Cart-ropes t● heape sinne vpon sinne to fulfill th● measure of iniquitie and so to pu●chase swift and most certaine damnat●on It is indeede the fashion and olde wont of Sathan When especially the Diuell beginneth to tempt to despayre to perswade man when hee hath once committed many haynous sinnes after his owne sinnes to despayre and so to commit the greater sinne after the lesser which is as if an vnlearned ignorant ond a murthering Physition should cause his Patient for the remedring of a little cold taken to drinke the iuyce of Hemlocke which by adding cold to cold is most sure to bring present death Or as if a man hauing an Ache in one of his fingers should cut off the whole hand to take away the Ache of a finger Note what kinde of phisick and surgery the Diuell practiseth Euen such like Phisicke and Surgery doth the Diuell practise to minister vnto lewde and wilfull sinnors when hee inticeth and draweth them after many precedent haynous sinnes through despayre of finding mercie and forgiuenesse to shorten their liues by killing and murthering them-selues by poysoning by stabbing by throat-cutting by drowning by Iudas-like hanging of themselues finally by casting off all vse of faith all vse of hope and so quite to despayre of Gods mercy then the which what can be a more dangerous course for any man to yeeld vnto What can be more foolish or contrary to all reason if a mans reason were not blinded and bewitched that hee could not see nor perceiue nor consider well of it then whiles a man is afraid of water presently to cast her selfe headlong into it The absurd de●lings of such as easily yeeld to desperation and so seeingly and wittingly to drowne himselfe or then whiles a man is afraid of fire presently to runne into it and to dispatch himselfe therein Or whiles a man is afraid of hell fire out of hand most desperately to plunge himselfe into the daungers thereof And yet such as these are the perswasions and temptations of the Diuell to a man whose barking conscience continually pangeth and plagueth him for his sinnes Such as these are the fruites of the most monstrous sinne of dispayring of Gods mercy and grace May not he be accounted worse then madd * Marke this O man least thou yeeld to Desperation before thou be awa●e what great inco●● niences thou yeeldest vnto that is so foreward and ready to yéeld vnto and to follow after the Diuells whistle alluring and entising vnto desperation seeing it is no meanes to diminish but to encrease sinne and the rewards of sinne seeing that it is no reliefe but an euerlasting burthen and griefe of the soule seeing that it is not a deliuery of the soule but a certaine destruction of the soule seeing it is not a redemption but an vndoubted condemnation of soule and body for euer And finally seeing that it changeth temporall griefe into eternall griefe and the panges of conscience into the paines of hell for euer And thus is verified that saying of S. Bernard Desperatio auget peccatum Saint Bernard his opinion concerning the 〈◊〉 ●nes of desperation Desperatio maior est omnibus peccatis Desparatio peior est omni peccato Desperation encreaseth sin Desperation is greater then al other sinnes Desperation is worse then all other sinnes This is a thousand times worse then the dangerous rocke Scilla against which so many poore Marriners haue dashed their shippes Scilla and Charybdis not so dangerous as desperation to the great losse both of Shippes goodes and liues or then that no lesse dangerous gulfe Charybdis which haue deuoured vp so many passengers For at this vnfortunate and deadly rocke of Desperation many thousan●s of poore soules ouercharged with the burthen of their iniquities and turmoyled in their consciences with the waues of fearefull thoughts and troublesome conceites by the blustring blastes and surgie stormes of Gods vengeance threatned against sinners both haue and dayly doe make dangerous and fearefull ship-wracke This is a worse dungeon for both soules and bodies of poore desperate sinners then was the Denne of Lyons into the which the Rulers Officers Dan. 6.17 and Gouernours of King Darius caused Daniell to be cast and closed vppe Dan 3.19 Yea and this is seauen times worse then the seauen times heated burning Ouen or Furnace into the which that proud Idolatrous King Nabuchadnezzer commanded Sidrach Misach and Abednago the true seruants and worshippers of the onely true and euerliuing God to be cast in This is that incurable remedilesse and desperate sore wound and maladie which the Prophets of God Ieremy and Micheas Ier. 3. Mic. 1. in their dayes complained of among their people This is that great stop let that hindereth and resisteth Gods holy grace from flowing and entring into the soules of sinfull men This is the Axe that heweth and choppeth a sunder the chaines wherewith God in his great mercy and mercifull kindnesse would drawe the hearts of sinners vnto himselfe by Repentance whereof speaketh the Prophet Ozeas Oze 11. Trust in the Lord and doe good saith the holy Ghost by the Prophet Dauid Psal 37.3 where hee placeth and setteth Trust in GOD in the first place and doing good in the second trusting in GOD goeth before as the Mistris and doing good followeth attendeth on as the Hand-maide For as it is said Spes alit agricolas were it not for Hope the Husbandmans heart would burst Hope nourisheth his heart Euen so Despayre and diffidence or distrust in GOD is a Step-mother to well doing and draweth backe from doing good according to the saying of a learned Writer vpon the said 37. Psal Desperatio diffidentia abstrahit ab omni studio honi nam cogitat omnia fieri frustra Musculus in Ps 37.3 ita namque ex spe et fiducia promanant mortaliū conatus vt ex ipsis conatibus

rest of the Apostles saying Men brethren Act. 2. what shall we do Euen thus I say let vs come vnto Gods Ministers Counsell f●r the ignorant very necessary and confesse acknowledge our great blindnes and ignorance and say vnto them Help vs instruct vs teach vs set vs in the way guid vs in the paths of the knowledge of God and of our saluation What the true Ministers of gods word are for surely they are the Phisitions and Surgions of our soules so that if w● repayre vnto them they shall giue vs t● drinke of the holesome waters of knowledge to quench our thirst of Ignorance they are the dispencers of the manifolde graces of God the Lords Stewards to giue each one of vs our portions in due time We haue not Christ alwaies amongst vs as appertayning to his bodely presence but as himselfe saith we haue the Poore alwaies amongst vs euen so also we haue not Christ himselfe that body I meane which sitteth at the right hand of God the father alwaies with vs but yet our Lord Christ ascending vp on high gaue vnto men among other giftes this gift also if we could rightly cōsider of it of no smal value euē Pastors Doctors that is the Ministers of the Gospell of Christ that might instruct informe and teach vs in the way of life that might declare vnto vs the secret counsailes hiden misteries of God How the true ministers of Gods word are to be accounted of thet might arme vs with the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God to encounter resist our deadly enemy the Diuel therwith Let vs ioyfully receiue them for who so receiueth them as they ought to be receiueth also with thē him that sent them whose Messengers they are Let vs heare them for they bring vnto vs the word of life Let vs giue credit vnto the Lords Ministers Glory vnto the Lord himselfe that hath giuen in his great loue this blessing vnto vs to haue his messengers and Ambassadours abiding among vs to declare and make known vnto vs by them what his own good will and pleasure is in all thinges to the auoiding of this blind ignorance the very mother of Desperation and so consequently of eternall Damnation with the Author thereof and his cursed Angels for euer CHAP. 3 Of the great seruitude bondage of sins and of the remedies thereof COncerning the great seruitude and bondage of sin being the third before noted cause of Desperation for the helpes and remedies thereof this haue I briefly to say that what though we haue bin seruants vnto sinne and haue bene pressed and surpressed with the bondage thereof so that we must néedes confesse vnlesse we should proue our selues lyars and thrt there were no truth in vs that we through our often doing of those thinges which we should not haue done on the other side through our leauing off those things vndon which we should haue done haue most iustly deserued Gods threatned curses and plagues to light on our bodies our soules our children our stockes our croppes euery thing else we goe about put our hands vnto What though our sinnes fight against our soules and gnaw our consciences and be ready euen out of hand to lead vs into the most dangerous state of Desperation Examples tending to the strengthning of our faith hope and patience against desperation What though wee haue contended fallen out with our brethrā as did Paul and Barnabas who were so hot in contententiō one against another that they forsooke one an others company in high displeasure and heat of their stomacks the one taking with him Luke the other Iohn What though wee haue yeelded vnto practised and followed Oppression Extortion polling pilling and wresting that wee can by hooke or crooke from our brethren Luke 19 2 So did Zaoheus yet notwithstanding after his repentance his forsaking ceasing from bad getting his restitution and almes giuing receaued that most chearefull and comfortable saying of Chiist This day is saluation entred into thine house Luk. 19 9 What though we haue bin théeues robbers stealers of our neighbours goods so was the théefe that was crucified with Christ and yet vpon eis humble contrite and sorrowfull confession of his sinnes he heard this most sweete word from Christ This day shalt thou be with mee in Paradise What though we haue murthered and sh●d the blood or caused the bloud to be shed of some of our brethren so did Dauid to Vrias and yet vpon his zealous inward true vnfained sorrowfulnes repentance hee was not taken away in his sinne but found pardon And so did the Iewes which put to death the Lord of life 〈◊〉 Manasses was an Idolater he def●●● th● Temple of God hee with stood 〈◊〉 beat downe the truth 2 K●●● hee set vp Ido●●●ry he was a coniurer a Southsa●●● 〈◊〉 shed aboundance of Innocent 〈◊〉 so that the streets flowed therewith he committed more abhominations thē the Cananites or Amorites whō for their filthines the Lord cut off out of the land of the liuing he sacrificed his sonnes and daughters to Diuells and yet vpon his true returning to the Lord from the bottom of his heart he found fauour and mercy If our sinnes then 2. Chr. 33. or the sins of any one of vs were as grieuous as euer were the sins of Manasses yet vpon our true and vnfained returne to the Lord shall we despayre of his mercy shall we or may we or daie we thinke that the mercy and power of the Lord is shortened or that God is not the s●●●e God he was Is he not as ready to pardon forgiue sinnes the sinnes of a m●● repenting returning faithfully c●●ling vpon him as euer he was the sinnes of Manasses All these examples and many more are written for our learning comfort strengthning of our faith hope and patience that we should in no wise despayre vpon our true repentance neither for the multitude nor grieuousnesse of our sinnes And likewise also it is written for the brusing as it were euen for the breaking of the backe of all damnable Desperation and to hold the hearts and to restore the fainting and dull spirites of all such as the seruitude and bondage of sinne this our third cause of Desperation doth vexe and presse downe It is I say written that the Sonne of man is come to saue mens liues Luk. 9.56 And he himselfe hath said I am come to call not the iust but sinners Math. 10. Math. 20 Ioh. 3. Wherfore Christ came into this world And againe Iesus Christ is come to giue his life a redemptiō for many Also God the father hath not sent his Son to iudge the World but to the end the world may be saued by him Now what is it to saue not to iudge but to deliuer from death and damnation wherein we lay in