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A85388	The tyranny of Satan, discovered by the teares of a converted sinner, in a sermon preached in Paules Church, on the 28 of August, 1642. By Thomas Gage, formerly a Romish Priest, for the space of 38 yeares, and now truly reconciled to the Church of England.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing G116; Thomason E119_20; ESTC R3263	28,403	44

there shalt thou be delivered saith the Lord Let my Conversion be a President to you of this truth and strengthen you that you may not despaire of Gods mercies For if I who have sucked my first milk of the Whore of Babylon of the most erroneous Popish doctrin who have worshiped creatures and Saints instead of my Creator who have been disloyall and treacherous to my King and Countrey who have beleeved a damnable doctrine of Purgatory derogating thereby from the infinite merits of the satisfaction of Christs Passion who have superstitiously offered up a sacrifice of the Masse for the quick dead as if the Sacrifice which Christ himselfe offered of his own body upon the Crosse were not a sufficient Sacrifice for a whole world yea and many more worlds if I who erroneously have beleeved that by my own works I might merit de condigno the glory of heaven as if any human or naturall works may work a thing supernaturall and merit a glory which required the meanes and satisfaction of Christ not as man only but as God and man If I who have been almost 40 years thus blinded who have so many years persecuted the chosen elect and Protestant people of the Lord who have so many years been frozen and void of all heat of the love of God who have so many years been in Babylon in confusion and slavery there have been delivered there have found the mercies of God like stars in a winter night shining most confortably into my cold and frozen soule O let none despaire of the mercies of God nor willingly fall into sin by my example least their comming out of Babylon be as hard to them as my conversion hath been to me But how great soever your miseries be trust in the Lord that as he prayed for Peter that his Faith might not faile as he hath pleaded for me before his ●…ernall Father So he may also be an Advocate and only Mediator between God and you when deepest you are in sin and according to mans judgement hardest to be brought out of it The last Point which is plainly to be observed in my text is a precept and cōmand of our Saviour to Peter contained in those words And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren This Peter did and this all they are bound to do who are truly converted from sin and from a wicked estate to the true knowledge of Gods Laws True it is Peter did fall and did most cowardly thrice deny his Master But after our Saviour looked upon him and with one look turned his heart then Peter went out and wept bitterly And he did not only weep and repent within himselfe but most zealously endeavoured to strengthen his Brethren as you may observe Acts 2. when having received the Holy Spirit himselfe he preached couragiously unto the Jews to convert them and strengthen them in the true Faith as you may read from the 14● to the 38 verse and forward where publickly he said unto them Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost O he was a true converted man and thought he must not be contented to be himselfe converted only but that he was bound to convert and strengthen others So did Saul who had been so great a Persecutor when he was truely converted presently he strived to do good to others as you may read Acts 9. 19 20. verses And when he had received meat he was strengthned Then was Saul certaine dayes with the Disciples that were at Damascus And strait way he preached Christ in the Synagogue that he is the Son of God And further in the 22 ver. But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus prouing that this is very Christ Behold how this converted Apostle is not satisfied with his own conversion but presently burneth with an inward zeale of communicating unto others that good which he had received from God by his Conversion Your Divines say that Bonum est diffusivum sui that which is truly good in it selfe is with a natu●all inclination to impart it selfe yea prodigally to pou●e it self out to others This doctrin also David teacheth us in his 51 Psal. where he repenteth himself for the Adultery which he had committed and having begged of God that he would create in him a clean heart and renew a right spirit within him Then saith he in the 13 verse will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee Lo how David doth not only repent himselfe and manifest his conversion by words of sorrow and bitter compunction but promiseth God that he will strengthen others by teaching them the ways of God that also they may come to be converted In the first Chapter of the Canticles ver. 4. You shall find a few words easy in this sense but hard to be understood in any other where the Spouse speaking to her Beloved saith Draw me we will run after thee The King hath brought me into his Chamber we will be glad and rejoyce in thee we will remember thy love Me thinkes the Spouse should have said draw me I will run after thee The King hath brought me into his chamber I will be glad I will remember thy love If one be drawn why do many in the plurall number run If one be brought into the Kings chamber Why be many glad and rejoyce O dearely Beloved it is to teach us how we ought to be have our selves when we are truly converted The Spouso signifieth a soule wedded by Faith to God the true and heavenly Bridgroome The Chamber whereinto this foule is brought is the true Church Therfore if one Soule be drawn by God many must run after this one if one Soule be brought into the true Ancient and Apostolike Church many must be glad and rejoyce Why B●cause we must not be contented to be drawn alone from our iniquities we must not be contented to be brought alone into the Church we must also draw others we must make others also rejoyce by strengthning them by teaching them by converting them by our words works and good example This is the command and precept of our Saviour to Peter in the words of my text And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren This cōmand of Christ I that am this day converted brought into the Heavenly Bridgrooms chamber into his true Church must also obey O I must not be contented to be drawn alone I must be the cause that many may run after me This dearely Beloved I have begun to performe already having brought one from the snares of Popery strengthned one soule in the true Protestant Apostolik Religiō of this Kingdom This by the Grace of God both by preaching writing and printing I will endeavour all my life to performe by discovering and laying open to the world those Rocks and quicke sands of Popish doctrin whereupon so many soules do run and are dayly cast away by the ignorance of foolish and unskilfull Pilots O dearely beloved never were you in greater danger than at these times for in Ireland you see how the Papists threaten us with their erroneous doctrines here at home they secretly plot to bring in their superstitions therefore let me warne you this day to hoyse up your sailes and top masts and with the gale of that heavenly Spirit of that Divine blast save your soules from being splinted upon these Rocks of Popish superstition from being swallowed up with the quick sands of Antichristian doctrin O beloved abhor all your lives the chief and principall point of all Popery which is that false authority that Supremacy which the Papists give to the Pope above all the Church O never admit this erroneous doctrin nor ever thinke that Christ left Peter or any other to be Supream head and only head over the Church but this authority was given equally to all the Apostles as ye may gather out of Matth. 28. 3 last ver. where our Saviour equally and with equall authority sent all his Apostles to preach and teach saying Go ye therefore and teach all Nations And further he saith And loe I am with you alway even unto the end of the world Behold how Christ sendeth not only Peter but all his Apostles to preach and teach And saith he will bee not only with Peter but with all his Apostles inspiring spiritually and instructing them all and not Peter alone to rule and governe feed with spirituall food his flock If this be so dearly Beloved never beleeve that the authority which the Pope challengeth to himself over all the Church is due unto him who usurpeth his authority seeketh by it to encroach upon Kings and Princes Crowns as I shall in some other occasion more largely declare Fly therefore deare soules from this chief and most dangerous Rock of all Popery and having once discovered the dangers of this false doctrin abhor then all other erroneous doctrins of Rome which come from him that usurpeth Christs own power and challengeth it to himselfe alone O let my conversion be your strength and comfort O beleeve an experienced and skilfull Pilot who hath travailed almost over all the world and hath by experience of almost 40 yeares discovered all those rocks and quick sands of Popish errors of Antichristian doctrines and superstitions which threaten the losse and utter overthrow of your soules O that this day I may performe what Iesus said to Peter And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren O let my example dearely Beloued strengthen you all in the true Protestant Religion that so I may say with the spouse draw me and we will run that I being drawn this day unto the true Faith yee may all run more hastily and speedily to the same that I being brought this day into the Kings chamber that is into the true Church ye may all be glad and rejoyce finding in your soules a new greater strength to continue and dye in this ancient and Apostolike Church that so we may all meet and rejoyce together after this life in another chamber of our Heavenly Bridegroome in the triumphant Church of Heaven Amen FINIS

THE TYRANNY OF SATAN Discovered by the teares of a Converted Sinner in a Sermon Preached in Paules Church on the 28 of August 1642. By THOMAS GAGE formerly a Romish Priest for the space of 38 yeares and now truly reconciled to the Church of England LONDON Printed by Tho. Badgor for Humphrey Mosley at the Prince's Armes in Pauls Church-yard M.DC.XLII To the Right Honorable ISAAC PENNINGTON Lord Major of the City of London together with the Right Worshipfull the Sheriffes and Aldermen of the same City SIRS MAy it please you Saul that great Persecutor of the new beginning Church of Christ that enemy who breathed out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord after he was cast down from his horse and his pride was quelled by the might and power of Christ he was by the Lords order committed to the care of Ananias Acts 9. 11. True it is Ananias answered the Lord that he was jealous and fearefull of Saul because he had heard by many how much evill he had done to the Saints at Jerusalem 13. v. But the Lord replyed no more unto him but that he should not feare nor mistrust him because he had turned his heart and made him a chosen vessell to beare his name before the Gentiles and Kings and children of Israel that he would teach him how great things he should suffer for his names sake Let it please your Honour and Worships to behold here my own case deciphered for if Saul persecuted the Church of Christ I my selfe have persecuted the same Church by opposing the doctrin of it by preaching and teaching contrary to it by procuring to seduce soules from it by writing against it But now it hath pleased that mighty and powerfull Lord against whom there is no resistance to cast me down upon the ground to quell my pride to lighten me round about with the beames and light of his mercies to make me know how hard a thing it is to kicke against the will calling of God and with trembling and feare to make me say Lord what wilt thou have me to do If Saul was sent to Damascus to Ananias a chiefe and zealous follower of Christ that by him he might be protected from the Jews and enemies of the Lord who doubtles hearing of his change and conversion would have cruelly torne and slaughtered him if they could have found him So I my selfe by a secret and inward order which I have found by God delivered to my Soule have judged it meet and fit to search out in this City some zealous Ananias some religious follower of Christs pure doctrin that I may be safely sheltered protected from the violent attēpts of the Lords enemies the Papists who I know will endeavour to do me all the mischief they can Therfore let it please your Honor and Wps. who are well known to be as Ananias in Damascus zealous and truly religious followers of Christs own doctrin and favorers of the pure Word of the Lord to cast your eyes upon me a new converted Saul to shelter and protect me from those that plot my mischief O when surest they are to hinder my perseverance in the truth by plotting and studying my destruction let them find me hovering under the wings of your protection O feare not nor say what Ananias said I have heard by many of this man how much evill he hath done to thy Saints but praise the work of the Lord in me who hath opened now my eyes who hath brought me now out of Babylon who hath made me confesse my sins and iniquities with a sorrowfull and contrite heart And as it pleased the Lord to shew Saul as soon as he was converted how great things he should suffer for his names sake even so be you confident as I my self am that this my calling conversion is purely meerly from above and from the Lord from whom I have receiv'd this testimony that he hath shewed me already how great things I must suffer for his names sake for I must for him suffer many injuries and calumniations from the Papists I must suffer the losse of all my kinred I must suffer the losse of that maintenance which I was wont to receive from them I must suffer want and poverty But for whom For the Lords sake for the teaching and preaching the precise rule of the Word of the Lord for abjuring all Popish errors for renouncing all supertitions for abhorring all idolatries Let these my sufferings serve to your Honor and Worships for a true testimony of my conversion let these my sufferings remove from you all feares and jealousies of my perseverance that thus with your favorable protectiō I may rejoyce in my calling I may freely teach the pure Word of the Lord I may oppose all Antichristian doctrin and by my example may draw many wandring soules to the true Faith Church of Christ And I shall alwayes pray to the Lord to keep your Honor and Worships in grace and that you may so rule govern this City by your conscionable and upright actions before God and men that you may truly here be called zelotes of the Honour of the Lord and afterwards you may have your seats above in the triumphant City of Jerusalem Your Hon. and Wor. humble and faithfull servant in the things of God and Christ THOMAS GAGE To the Right Worshipfull Sir SAMUEL OWFIELD A Worthy Member of the House of COMMONS now assembled in PARLIAMENT SIR IF my boldnesse may reach so far upon your patience I shall briefly touch what Iohn in the fift chap. of his Gospell writeth of a poole which was in Ierusalem called Bethesda About this poole were wont to lye a great multitude of impotent folke blind lame and withered waiting for the moving of the water which was done by an Angel who went down at a certain time into the poole and troubled the water and then whosoever stepped in was cured of whatsoever disease he had But one lying there 38 years who in all this time could never be cured because being of himselfe impotent as he answered to our Saviour he had no man when the water was troubled to help him or to put him into the poole I will not stand to moralise this holy story unto you at large least you might justly say that I abuse to much your patience by confounding the stile of an Epistle which ought to be brief with the division parts and order of a Sermon Only I beg your patience so far as to peruse this my ensuing Sermon and in it you shall find an impotent man not only blind but deafe and dumbe and truelly beaten by Satan and by him expulsed out of the Church of Christ and as I may truly say lying in this misery neare 3● years The discourse of my ensuing Sermon will informe You that I my selfe have been this impotent man Many times my Conscience hath been moved and troubled from above with good and

glory of Angels appearing and one descending in a cloud Somtimes you shall see from under the Stage ascend a smoak of Fire and Brimstone and a Devill leap up in such a shape as may suffice to terrifie you At all this you laugh you hold it but a fable The King you see come out you respect not because you know he is none The other that is wounded and all bloudy you pity not because you know that bloud is not true but painted bloud The glory you see and the Angels in it do no way entice you to it because you know it is but fained The Fire and Brimstone and ugly sight of Devils that come upon the Stage do nothing terrifie you Why Because you know all is salfe that there is no Hell nor any true Devill but only a representation of it So that you sport and laugh at all Now then let us apply these words and this similitude of Clement Alexandrinus to those deafe sinners who as Paul saith Turn away their eares from the truth and are turned unto Fables These when they come to heare the word of the Lord will not heare it with their hearts but make a play sport of it When they heare the Preacher set forth the might and power of that King of Kings and Creator of all things who will glorifie his elect servants with everlasting blisse and happinesse Like Atheists they laugh at it and iudge of this eternall King as of a King in a play When they heare the Preacher teach how Iesus Christ was whipped reviled stroken smitten and crowned with thornes nayled with nailes pierced with a speare for their sins their hearts will not heare it they make sport of it they are not moved to love so loving a Saviour and Mediator who with the price of his own bloud made an aboundant and copious satisfaction for our sins When they heare the Preacher teach the glory of Heaven the Quires of Angels there that everlasting rest without any sob or teares without any cold hunger or thirst they will not heare it to beleeve they judge of it as of the glory in a play upon a Stage and like Epicureans eate drink and riot saying Post mortem nulla voluptas They think that their soules after death like Beasts shall be dissolved into the aire to nothing When they heare a Preacher bring out upon the Stage in the Pulpit and set before a great assembly the deepe pits of Hell the Legions of fierce and cruell Divels there the always burning fire and Brimstone the everlasting broiling there the horrid gnashing of teeth the paines and torments due to their sins if they turne not to God Alas they will not heare it with their heart they thinke it is but a Hell of a Play they are turned unto Fables they make a sport of all they make an Act or Play of God they think all fained they heare it with their corporall eares but with the cares of their soule they will not hearken unto it they make themselves the Actors of the fooles part in this sport and play which they make of God and Heaven Why Because the Devill hath made them deafe This is his chiefe way he knoweth though it be damb or blind yet by hearing the Word of the Lord with a well dis●●sed heart it may receive some seed of a fruitfull Faith as S. Paul taught the Romanes in the 10 Chap. and 17 Vers saying So then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God This is the Devils feare and therefore he shutteth up their eares that no maintenance that way no succour no reliefe may come unto the soule With this he maketh them groan under his yoke with this he maketh them slaves unto him In Deut. 15. 12. you shall find that God gave a Command of release saying And if thy Brother an Hebrew man or an Hebrew woman be sold unto thee and serve thee six years then in the seventh yeare thou shalt let him go free from thee And lower 16 17. v. God commanded thus And it shall be if he say unto thee I will not go away from thee because he loveth thee and thine house because he is well with thee Then shalt thou take an Aule and thrust it thorough his eare unto the doore and he shall be thy servant for ever In a morall and spirituall sense Learn here Deare Brethren how as God commanded a release for debts and for servants so doubtlesse he expecteth that thy Soule shall not be always under any other master but himself If therfore the Devill have been thy Master for some time thinke for a release think of releasing thy self from him do not say deare soule unto the Devill I will not go away from thee because I love thee because I am well with thee which if thou doest then will Satan make use of this Law of God for himselfe and for his own en●s then will he marke thee in the eares for a perpetuall slave with an Aule he will boare thine eares thorow and fasten them to a wall to that wall which thy iniquities have put between thee and God he will keep thee for his slave if ever he marke thee in thy eares he will take thy hearing from thee that thou mayest not heare any goodnesse nor make good use of any O what misery is a sinner in when he commeth to lose his hearing Abhorre from sin dearely beloved least ye fall thus into slavery under the tyranny of Satan if ye have not found your selves so far gone nor so far ensnared by the Devill as he doth ensnare others renounce him at his first assaults least he encroach upon the mouth of your heart and soule upon the eyes and eares of it making yee dumb deaf and blind O take example by me who have had experience of these 3 blows who have been flailed beaten and thrashed by this cruell enemy with one blow I have been left speechlesse and dumb almost 40 years I have not had a tongue till this day to confesse before God my iniquities my idolatries my superstitions my disloyalties to my King the Lords Annoynted O I have been blind wilfully blind and would not see my errors the errors of the Whore of Babylon True it is many years ago by reading Authors and the grounds of our true Protestant Religion I did see the light of it the truth of it the sincere pure and candid doctrine of it but yet with the eyes of my Soule I would not see it I was like a foule and ugly Monky who when he chanceth to see his foule shape his deformed feet in a pure and Cristall Looking-glasse rageth and flingeth at the glasse and teareth it in pieces because it representes unto him his own deformity Even so have I done dearely Beloved these many yeares When I read the pure and Christall doctrine of our Church which teacheth even what Christ taught Peter and his Disciples to acknowledge a Supremacy next

my kinred and dearest friends Awake awake my soule and like Abraham leave now thy flesh and bloud that thou mayst become rich and great in the sight of thy Lord Away all feares away all humane and temporall respects away to much love of worldly pelse O Lord I for thy sake I hate and leave this day that meanes which hither to from Papists I have received O Lord I know they threaten my destruction but into thy hands do I this day commend my spirit O let that be safe I though here my body be mangled and torne into thousand pieces do thou protect me and I will feare no enemies do thou continue thy mercies to me and I with David will sing and teach them for ever Now dearely Beloved I have disclosed unto you the miseries of a wretched sinner the cruelty and unsatiable tyranny of Satan over those that he sifts away from the fruitfull granes of Christ's Church I have discovered unto you the heavy blows he giveth them and have made my self a President of so miserable and wretched an estate Now give eare I beseech you to the second poi●t of my Text where Christ having told Peter how Satan desired to have him that he might sift him as wheat Christ comforted him presently saying But I have prayed for thee that thy faith faile not For to teach us that though we be never so tyrannized by Satan never so abused and beaten never so dumb so blind and so deafe Yet the mercies of God are able to relieve us And God himselfe would not be mercifull and omnipotent if any miseries of ours how great soever should prevaile or exceed the power of his mercies Nay when by sin we are most wretched and most forlorn then doth God shew most the power of his sweet and comfortable mercies and forgetteth not 40 only but a 1000 yeares ill spent in sin and iniquity as David teacheth us Psalm 90. 3 4. saying Thou turnest man to destruction Again thou sayest Come again ye child en of men for a thousand yeares in thy sight are but as yesterday Behold though a man be turned to destruction though a soule be quite lost utterly defaced and spoyled Yet Come again ye children of men Let but these destroyed and forlorne soul●s turne again unto the Lord and a thousand years ill spent in sinnes and iniquities shall bee pardoned so easily that they shall seeme but as one day ill spent for God is mercifull and will make the least that may bee made of our sinnes if from our hearts wee turn unto him Nay when most we offend him then chiefly doth he strive with his mercies to allure us unto him By the greatnesse of his mercies he striveth to shew himselfe our God and Saviour as I have observed in that answer which he sent unto John in the 11 of Mat. where John sent two of his Disciples to know of him if he were the Messias and Saviour of the world whom they expected To which message our Saviour made no other answer but that of the 5 verse saying The blind receive their sight and the lame walke the lepers are cleansed and the deaf heare the dead are raised up and the poore have the Gospel preached unto them The only way to know that Christ is a Saviour is by seeing his works of mercy either Spirituall or Corporall for by the blind which he corporally and spiritually cureth by the leprous soules and bodies which he cleanseth by the deaf to whom he restoreth corporall and spirituall hearing by the dead in soule and body whom he raiseth up he is sufficiently known to be a true Messias a true Saviour a most loving and mercifull Father And much more by using these mercies when least we deserve them when furthest we are from him when most grievously we offend him for then it is that he striveth with the power of his mercy to prevaile against the power of Satan In the 12 Chap. of Matth. 14. 15 verses this may casily be observed where it is said Then the Pharisees went out and held a Councell against him how they might destroy him Behold here wretched sinners the instruments of the Devill united and confederate against our Saviour What doth he unto them Doth he destroy them Doth he poure down fiery darts upon them No What then doth he Read forward the 15. verse and ye shall see what he doth And when Jesus knew it he withdrew himselfe from thence and great multitudes followed him and he healed them all When most they strive against him to offend him then both he cure and heale their infirmities for to reach us that he is so mercifull a Father that he holdeth it a disparagement to his great goodnesse that our wickednesse should be greater than his mercies that when most we offend him than doth he most mercifully cure and heale the lepers and diseases of our afflicted soules So in the 32 of Exodus you shall find the mercies of God striving with the wickednesse of men for whilest the Israelites withdraw themselves from God at the foot of the mountain worshiping a golden Calf●… God on the top of the mountaine is ordering a Law for them to bring them to righteousnesse and to the port of true Salvation In the 9 Chap. of the Acts there also ye shall find a strong encounter between the malice of a wicked finner and the kindne●…e and mercy of God for whilest Saul breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord goeth to the high Priest and desireth of him letters to Damascus to the Synagogues that if he sound any followers of Christ men or women he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem Then at that very time strives God with his mercies for the upper hand as you may read in the 3 verse And suddainely there shined round about him a light from heaven And Gods mercies prevailing against Sauls stubbornes from a wicked sinner from a wicked Persecutor he was made an Apostle and a chosen vessell to beare the name of the Lord before the Gentiles the Kings and the Children of Israel O how doth the Prophet Hosea in the 2 Chap. of his Prophecies in the 13 and 14 ver. teach the truth of this doctrin saying And I will visite upon her the dayes of Baal●m wherein she burnt incense to them and she decked her self with her carrings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and forgate me saith the Lord Behold here a Harlot a soule most abommable given to idolatry burning incense before her Idols following her pleasures the vanities of the world decking and trimming up her selfe to entice and allure her gallants following her gallants and lovers and quite forgetting her Lord and God But what will God do now with this lewd harlot with this abominable soule Will he d●stroy her Will he shew the strength and power of his justice against her O no! Heare what followeth in the 14 verse Therfore Behold