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A09463	The combat betvveene Christ and the Diuell displayed: or A commentarie vpon the temptations of Christ: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins; Satans sophistrie answered by our Saviour Christ	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Pierson, Thomas, ca. 1570-1633.	1606 (1606)	STC 19748; ESTC S115736	100,567	72

when they endeuour to do good he moues them to be proud they are no sooner conuerted to the Lord but he hath some Elymas to turne them backe to the world and though they stand against that assault yet he will pursue them still by troubles without and terrours within by raging foes and flattering friends so as in regard of Satan aduantaged by their flesh and his world they shall find this to bee true while their flesh is vpon them they shal be sorrowfull and while their soules be in them they shall mourne Satan is a mightie prince and a wilie serpent and if either force or fraud may worke them woe no child of God shall escape his hands he spared not the greene tree what then will he do to the dry But is there no remedy to man for all this woe that comes by Satan Yes blessed be our God who hath not left vs for a praie vnto his teeth but to shew the exceeding riches of his grace and loue to the world hath giuen his onlie begotten sonne to be our prince and our deliuerer who in no sort tooke the Angels but the seede of Abraham and because they were partakers of flesh and bloud he himself took part with them that hee might destroy through death him that had the power of death that is the diuel For the euidence and application of which deliuerance he hath ordained in his church an holy ministery whereby naturall men are brought from darknesse vnto light and from the power of Satan to himselfe and his owne children doe grow vp into Christ their head and be edified in their most holie faith through which they are kept by the power of God vnto saluation Yet we must so conceiue of this deliuerance that as Israel being brought out of Egypt was not presently setled in the land of Canaan but for the space of forty yeares was exercised with sundry temptations in a barren and drie wildernesse where they met with fierie serpents and were encountred with many and strong enemies who sought to debarre them from the promised land so the children of God though redeemed by Christ are not presently translated from the bondage of corruption to the full inheritance of perfect glory in the heauens but must passe through this vale of teares and in the wildernesse of this world meete with that crooked serpent the Diuell who will seeke to stinge their soules to death and also stirre vp many an Amelec to entrap them in the way that either through disobedience or vnbeliefe they may be depriued of their heauenly Canaan True it is this match is farre vnequall for flesh and bloud to fight against spirituall powers yet heere is comfort that we haue him for our Captaine who in his deepest humility spoiled our strongest aduersary and is now crowned with glorie and honour being highlie exalted far aboue all might and domination at his fathers right hand where he must reigne till he hath put all his enemies vnder his feet yea till he hath troden Satan vnder the feete of all his members only this he requireth that we should bee valiant and quit our selues like men in the power of his might knowing that the battel is the Lords and so the victory sure before we strike a stroke Now for the manner of our fight a matter indeed of great moment because a smooth stone out of Dauids sling wil foile to the ground great Goliah wee haue in this combate between Christ and the Diuell so pregnant direction set before vs that vnlesse wee doe wilfully shut our eies against the light in this behalfe wee cannot be ignorant of our duty whatsoeuer was written aforetime was written for our learning and therefore the recording of this combate is as much from Christ to euery Christian as the speach of Gideon to his souldiers looke on me and doe likewise euen as Idoe soe do ye for Christ left himselfe an example that we should follow his steps though not in his miraculous fast yet in his couragious fight against sinne The view heereof hath formerly beene presented to your Honors by Master Robert Hill bachelor of Diuinity vnder this title Satans Sophistrie answered by our Sauior Christ. And now at the intreaty of M. Perkins executors I have published it againe yet vnder a new title and more large almost by one third part Mine endeuour hath beene that this poore Orphane might imitate his brethren who were the messengers of loue vnto our Church while their happy father liued among vs. What is wanting heerein or may deserue a iust reproofe I willingly take to my self me me adsum qui feci- c What I haue beene able to doe I humbly commend to the church of God vnder your Honourable protection If heerein I seeme presumptuous because I am vnknowen vnto you I humbly craue this fauourable construction that I chose rather by presuming to wrong my selfe then to alienate this booke from your Honours who had right heereto by former dedication When your Honourable imployments in time past required your wisedome and courage for the iust defence of our Soueraignes right I make no question but as well the messengers of victory ouer rebels as the counsellers of peace were alwaies welcome to your Honour why then should I doubt whether this ensuing display being as wel a counseller of peace with God as an Herauld of triumph through Christ ouer Satan the Arch-enemy of our soules will be gratefull vnto you who haue learned long since that whosoeuer will keepe a good conscience towards God or man must endure manie a conflict with Satan Now that God of peace who is able to doe exceeding abundantly aboue all that wee can aske or thinke graunt vnto your Honours according to the riches of his mercy so to fight the good fight of faith on earth that you may receiue the crowne of glorie in heauen Cambridge Emmanuel Colledge 25. of Iune 1606. Your Honours in the Lord to be commanded THO. PIERSON TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sir WILLIAM RVSSELL Lord Russell Baron of Thornhaugh yoonger sonne to that most Christian and Honourable Earle FRAVNCIS Earle of Bedford with the vertuous Lady his wife Grace and Peace RIGHT Honorable as Iohn the Baptist was in one desert so our Sauiour Christ he was in an other but as these two differed in their being in the world so did they not accord in their being in the wildernesse Iohn was with some men Christ with none Iohn was with wilde men Christ with wild beasts Iohn was preaching Christ praying Iohn was baptizing Christ fighting Iohn was feeding Christ fasting Iohn was encountring with Diuels incarnate Christ did encounter with the Prince of those Diuels From Iohn preaching in the desert learne wee diligence in our callings from Christ tempted in the desert see we troubles at our calling Many are the troubles of the

crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him It is commanded by God practised by Christ yeelded to by the Saints assigned by Gods prouidence and good for vs ech way We are Gods trees we shall groe better by pruning Gods pomander smell better by rubbing Gods spice he more profitable by bruising and Gods conduits we are the better by running Let vs suffer afflictions they are momentany in respect of time fauors if we respect Gods loue and a meanes to bring vs to the kingdome of God If they did consume vs we might wish them an end but they doe purge vs let vs be content They are Gods fan we are Gods wheat they are Gods boulter we are Gods meale they are Gods flame we are Gods bush they are Gods cords we are Gods sacrifice they are Gods fornace we are Gods gold The wheat will not be good without the fan nor the meale without the boulter nor the bush without the flame nor the sacrifice without the cords nor the gold without the fornace they are trials not punishments if we be sonnes punishments not trials if we be slaues Let vs then beare them they will haue an end ioy will follow they shew vs our weekenesse they moue vs to pray they shew we are in the path way to heauen and make vs contemne this present world By them we learne to repent vs of sinne past to take heed of sinne present and to foresee sinne to come By them we receiue Gods spirit are like to Christ are acquainted with Godspower haue ioy in deliuerance know benefit of prosterity made more hardy to suffer and haue cause to practise many excellent vertues They cause vs as one saith to seeke out Gods promise the promise to seeke faith faith to seeke praier and praier to finde God Seeke and yee shall finde call and he will answer waite and he will come I am to write an Epistle I must not be long Iobs messengers came not so fast on him but Iobs afflictions may come as fast vpon vs. Hath Dauid slain a Beare he shall encounter with a Lion hath he killed a Lion he must fight with Goliah hath he subdued Goliah he must make a rode vpon the Philistims are the Philistims conquered Saul wil assault him Remember Dauids troubles and feresee what may be our troubles The more righteous we are the more manifold are our troubles and he better we are the better we may indure them But as our troubles are many so are our deliuerances many God will deliuer vs out of all He that deliuered Noah from the floud Lot from Sodome Iacob from Esau Ioseph from Potiphar Moses from Pharaoh Israel from Egypt Dauid from Saul Eliah from Achab Elisha from the Syrians Naaman from his leprosie Hezechiah from the plague the three children from the fire Daniel from the Lions Ioseph from Herod the Apostles from the Iewes and Christ from the Diuell he euen he will either deliuer vs from trouble or comfort vs in trouble or mitigate troubles when they come vpon vs. He he hath promised to doe it and he that hath promised is able to do it And this he doth sometimes by no meanes sometimes by small meanes sometimes by ordinary meanes sometimes by extraordinarie sometimes contrarie to all meanes By no meanes be cured a creeple at Bethesda by small meanes he fed fiue thousand in the desert by ordinary meanes he was brought from the pinnacle by meanes extraordinary he was prouided for in hunger and contrarie to all meanes were the three children preserued in the fornace of fire I haue good cause to thinke of Gods gracious deliuerance being my selfe deliuered from a great trouble Since the time I was vnkindly dismissed from my poore charge where I would haue continued if malice had not hindred me I haue liued in an end of this City dangerously in respect of the sicknesse poorely in regard of maintenance and painfully in respect of my ministerie yet till this time hath the Lord deliuered me and as Paul said he will deliuer me if that he see it be best for me Let man therefore comfort himselfe in the Lord after two daies he will reuiue vs and the third day he will raise vs vp againe Heauiensse may endure for a night but ioy will come in the morning Doubtlesse there is a reward for the righteous verily God retaineth not his wrath for euer Could he ouercome the world and can he not ouercome many troubles in the world Yea let one plague follow another as one quaile sings to another yet as the viper leaped on Paules hand and forthwith leaped off againe so one trouble shall leape vpon the righteous and anon leap off againe though he fall he shall rise againe the righteous shall not be forsaken for euer if he hath deliuered vs from the guilt of our sinnes he will deliuer vs from the punishment of our sinnes Let vs then therefore be patient in trouble constant in hope rooted in loue let vs waite and he will come call and he will heare beleeue and he will performe repent vs of our euill committed against him and he will repent of his euils intended against vs. He is ouer vs by his prouidence about vs by his Angels in vs by his spirit with vs by his word vnder vs by his power and vpon vs by his Sonne In him is our helpe from him is our comfort by him is our victory and for him is our trouble In thee haue I trusted saith a king who euer was confounded that trusted in the Lord said a friend and as Elkanah was to Hannah in stead of many sons so God is to his in stead of many comforters Of other comforters we may say as Iob did of his frinds Silly comforters are you all They will leaue vs as mice doe a ruinous house but the Lord like Ruthe to Naomi will neuer leaue vs nor forsake vs Especially in the houre of death which is in remembrance bitter to great men in that houre of death he will be with vs and command his Angels to take charge of our soules the earth to be as a bed for our bodies that so the one may goe into glory the other reserued in hope of like glorie and be made one day like vnto the glorious body of Christ Iesus Thus right Honorable you haue seene the righteous in affliction as Israel was in Babylon and that the Lord like Zorobabel is ready to deliuer them Though in troubles Christs seemes as in the ship to sleepe yet in deliuerance he awakes as a man out of sleepe and as a Giant refreshed with wine He will rebuke