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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53236	Blessed Paul's tryal and triumph in a sermon upon the death of Mrs. Elizabeth King / by John Oakes ...	Oakes, John, d. 1689?	1689 (1689)	Wing O18; ESTC R17578	25,131	33

Antichristian Crew These are the primo geniti diaboli and may be called the Devils Janizaries Of these we may say as Eliphaz doth of the wicked They stretch out their hand against God and strengthen Job 15. 25 26. themselves against the Almighty they run upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his Bucklers But as many and as mighty as all these be yet sooner or later they shall all be overcome and shall yield either to the Scepter of his Grace O blessed Conquest or else be broken in peices by a Rod of Iron But we are now speaking of such as fight a good fight that are come on to Gods side and are engaged for God and Christ against those principalities and powers and rulers of the 〈…〉 6. 12. darkness of this World. You have heard who the Combatants are 2. In the next place we may enquire when they were first listed and enroll'd into Christs Army and became ingaged in this Holy Warfare Why this was not from their first entrance into the World Alas no! we were all at first on the other side born Enemies to God and in condition of Servitude and Bondage to the Devil All by Nature in a state of Rebellion against God and Self-destroyers but we become and were made so by Grace The time of our first being Listed under Christs Banner takes its Date from our Conversion When we are brought to a hearty and sincere Closure with and Entertainment of Christ as our Lord and Saviour as offered to us in and by the Gospel which is that great instrument by the joyful sound of which Christ by his Ambassadors goes forth and invites and calls poor Sinners off from the Devils Camp and to yield themselves to him And when these outward Calls are accompanied by the efficacious workings of Gods Spirit then Sinners are made willing in the day of Christs power Christ and his Gospel where they come do 〈…〉 10. 3. not find sinners willing at the first motion to hearken to his Counsel nor quit their Arms nor submit to him but he makes them willing and from that time of their yielding to Christ they declare War against the World the Flesh and the Devil And these Enemies upon this grow more enraged than before which young Converts are not so well aware of many times drawing very uncomfortable and unwarrantable Conclusions against themselves thinking they are now worse than before because they find their enemies more busie and enraged than in time past But remember this the Devil and our Lust are ordinarily most destructive where they are lest disturbing Whilest the strong man armed keepeth his Palace 〈…〉 1. 21. his goods are at peace 3. Enquiry might be made what Enemies the Christian Soldier hath to encounter with these you know are commonly reduced to three Heads viz. the Devil the World and the Flesh First The Devil from whose Tyrannical dominion Believers are enabled to escape He is our old Adversary he is call'd a murtherer from the beginning Oh the many ways Joh. 8. 44. and stratagems by which he carries on his pernicious designs 2 Cor. 2. 1● against poor Souls both to retain and hold fast such as he hath taken in his snare by whom they are carried captive at his 2 Tim. 2. 2● will and that which is most sad by the consent of their own will too and also to reduce and bring back again such as have fled to Christ for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before them Heb. 6. 18. Against whom Christians are warned to keep their eye upon 1 Pet. 5. 8 9 Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour Whom resist stedfast in the faith Secondly The World Which not as made by God but as marr'd by Sin is an inveterate Enemy against the Christian which therefore we are caution'd against by no means to give entertainment to in our Affections Love not the 1 Joh. 2. 15. world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him This World is a Witch a Delilah what unspeakable detriment have Christians been exposed to when once by her Allurements they have been enticed to take a nap and lay their Heads in the Lap of the Profits Pleasures or Honours of this World What advantage hath Satan hereby taken to cut their Locks and abate their strength which many times hath scarce been recovered to their dying day Thirdly The flesh which though mentioned in the last place yet is not the least of those Enemies the Christian hath to encounter with but rather the worst and greatest For what could Satan or the World do without if it were not for the Flesh within By Flesh I mean not the Body but the remainders of the corrupt Nature that inward and unseen depravity which like a Leprosie hath over-spread us from head to foot that body of Sin the blessed Apostle complain'd of which warred against the law of his mind and brought him into captivity to the Law of sin which was in his Members This like a Rom. 7. 23 25. Traytor in a City or Castle is always ready upon every occasion to open the gates and let in the Enemies that lye in siege gainst it Fourthly We might further enquire what those Weapons are both Offensive and Defensive with which Believers must be armed to encounter with these Enemies and which upon their first listing themselves they are to put on and so to put on as never to put them off till they have gained a perfect Conquest To which I briefly answer you may find them summed up in one Chapter where you have the Christians Armory or Magazine to which the Soul upon its closure with Christ and first Ingagement must repair and with which he must furnish himself Never thinking to encounter these Enemies naked with success nor with any other Weapons which are not of this make You have them set down by the Apostle Ephes 6. from the 11th to the 18th verse of that Chapter where we are exhorted ver 11. Put on the whole Armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil This Counsel is repeated ver 13 the several pieces of this Spiritual Armour are set down in the following Verses viz. 14 15 16 17. The girdle of truth and the breast-plate of righteousness the feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace the Shield of Faith the Helmet of Salvation the Sword of the Spirit These things I cannot now open only observe the Title that is put upon them all they are stiled the Armour of God amongst other reasons for these two to note to us that they are all of Divine institution and of divine constitution All other Weapons which are of Humane make and invention as I might instance in many especially