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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14176	The combate betwixt Christ and the deuill Foure sermons vpon the temptations of Christ in the wildrenes by Sathan, wherein are to be sene the subtle sleightes that the tempter vseth agaynst the children of God, and the meanes that God hath appointed to resiste him, sanctified to our vse in the example of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. By Iohn Vdall preacher of the word of God, at Kyngston vpon Thames.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592.	1588 (1588)	STC 24492; ESTC S113942	68,913	157

THE COMBATE betwixt CHRIST and the Deuill Foure Sermons vpon the temptations of Christ in the wildernes by Sathan wherein are to be sene the subtile sleightes that the tempter vseth agaynst the children of God and the meanes that God hath appointed to resiste him sanctified to our vse in the example of our Sauiour IESVS CHRIST By Iohn Vdall Preacher of the word of God at Kyngston vpon Thames IAMES 1. 2. 3. 4. ¶ My Brethren count it exceeding ioye when ye fall into diuers temptations knowing that the triall of your faith bringeth forth pacience let pacience haue her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entier lacking nothing AT LONDON Printed by Robert Walde-graue for Thomas Man and William Brome TO THE RIGHT honorable HENRY Earle of Huntyngdon Lord Hastings c. Of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight and Lord President of the Counsell established in the North-partes 1. V. VVisheth increase of all spirituall graces and true honor in this world and that endlesse glory that lasteth for euer WHEN I consider with my selfe right honorable that inestimable crowne of immortall glorie which it hath pleased God the father in his sonne Iesus Christ to lay vp in store for those whom of his mercy and free fauour he elected vnto him selfe before the foundations of the vvorld and with all those many tribulations and afflictions by which his heauenly vvisedome hath appointed them to enter into the same I see as in a glasse before myne eyes the cause that moued our Sauiour Christ to say that straite is the way vvhich leadeth to life and fevv there by that finde it and the blessed Apostle Paule to set downe there is a law in my members rebelling against the law of my minde and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne for as the glorious maiestie of that heauenly ioy doth rauish the minde of euery man to wishe that hee might be partaker of the same so on the other side the consideration of afflictions and present calamities that all those who will liue godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer doth not onely terrifie many from taking in hand the profession of Religion but greatly vexeth and greeueth euen the deare children of God and maketh such a cōtradictiō betwixt the flesh the spirite that they seeme in such wise to be distracted as though they were deuided into two parts The one striuing with mayne and might to go toward hell the other labouring by all the force that it is able to goe towardes God But those that euer meane to take that course which alone leadeth to the kingdome of heauen must not onely seeke out of the word of God to know what he would haue them to do and carefully to put the same in practise but also they must make their accompt to haue infinite and continuall Crosses euen for the same so that vnlesse they be thus resolued that in respect of Iesus Christ they accompt all things vile and therfore for the professing and bearing witnes vnto his truth are contented to abide all extremities that Satan the world or their owne flesh can rayse vp against thē it is vnpossible that euer they should continue vnto the ende that they might be saued For God in his wisedome hath sene it most meete that they who shall reigne with his sonne Iesus Christ shall also be conformed vnto the similitude of his sufferinges to drinke of the cup that he did drinke of and to be Baptised with his Baptisme Now Satā who is a sworne enemy to mankinde and seeketh as a roaring Lion whom hee may deuour taketh occasion by this decree of God to driue man into all extremities inward and outward to the end that he may winne him vnto himselfe in leauing the course of godlynesse and giuing himselfe ouer to commit all iniquities and that with greedinesse and so much the rather because hee findeth our corrupt nature conuenient matter to worke vpon which in it selfe is altogether euill so that excepting onely those whō it pleaseth God of his mere mercy in Iesus Christ to regenerate by the knowledge of his word and working of his holy spirite all the posteritie of Adam is vtterly seduced by Satan to be instrumentes of enlarging his kingdome and encreasing their owne condemnation And those whom the Lord hath reclaymed from the seruice of sinne vnto the obedience of his Gospell haue euer bene and to the end of the world shalbe so tempted of Sathā so hōted at abhorred and abused of the world and so enticed by their owne flesh to retire vnto the league and amitie of the world agayne that they seeme to be of all men most miserable but this is their onely comfort and in deede the ioye that passeth all the pleasures of the world that their trouble is but for a tyme God will release them and wipe all teares from their eyes that as they are afflicted with Christ so shall they be glorified and reigne with him that the Lord maketh a glorious accompt euen of the death of his Saintes and reserueth their teares in a bottle yea hee accompteth all the troubles of his childrē to be his owne because in deede they suffer for his sake but they shall not lacke their reward yea such a reward as is ten thousand times exceedyng the measure of their sorrow for the troubles of this life are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shalbe reueled But yet we haue great neede to be comforted and stayed least we should be wearied and faynt in our myndes for so much as no correction for the tyme is ioyous but tedyous sharpe and greeuous able to make vs fall downe vnder the burthen of the same vnlesse it please the Lord to teach vs how and to giue vs might to support and susteyne it which is no where els learned neither any other meanes giuen then onely the worde of God whiche the Lord hath giuen vnto vs for that purpose Now for so much as an experience both of the subtiltie of our enemie in our afflictions and also of the meanes how to beate him backe is to be seene in those temptations of our Sauiour Christ in the wildernesse because I hauing in my ordinary course Preached vppon the same and diuers who receiued present comfort thereby beyng desirous to haue the continuall vse of the doctrine deliuered out of them desiring me to pen the same I condiscended vnto their desire and as neare as I could remember haue set them downe as they were spoken sauyng onely that in some particular applications I haue had regarde in writtyng vnto those to whose handes they may come as in speaking I respect myne Auditorie And I am bolde to make choyse of your honor to whō I may dedicate the same partly for that I might shewe some token of thankefulnesse vnto the same