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mind_n	bear_v	flesh_n	spirit_n	1,868	5	6.0348	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81211	Ioy out-joyed: or, Joy in overcoming evil spirits and evil men, overcome by better joy: set forth in a sermon at Martins in the fields, to the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament, upon the day of their solemn rejoycing and praising God, for reducing the city of Chester by the forces of the Parliament, under the command of Sr William Brereton, February 19. 1645. / By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing C780; Thomason E323_3; ESTC R200591	20,183	35

the great day Secondly they are under a chaine of providence God lets them goe abroad but never without this chain He gives them scope and checks them as himself pleases Wicked men are led captive by Satan at his will 2 Tim. 2. 26. and Satan is led captive at the will of Jesus Christ He cannot act either by himself or by his instruments but as permitted and if Christ oppose both his power and the power of his instruments is stopt and broken Iohn the Apocalypt Rev. 20. 1 2. Saw an Angel Christ come down from Heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the dragon that old Serpent which is the Divel and Satan and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed for a little season Opinions and dispute● are very various about the precise time of Satans binding and loosing But we may hence conclude an illustrious proof for this point in generall That Satan is subject to the power of Christ He bindes him from deceiving the nations and he can binde him from troubling either persons or nations This magnifies the power of Christ he makes evil spirits subject This is a conquest beyond all those of the Roman Consuls or Caesars there was never any of them that brought the Divel home in chains Evil spirits were never dragged at their chariots of triumph Those conquerours were themselves captives to these spirits And while they procured liberty for the common-wealth they themselves were the servants of corruption and slaves to Satan for of whom or by what any maie is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage 2 Pet. 2. 19. Secondly This may encourage us in the greatest difficulties If spirits are subject to the power of Christ acted in the Saints then what is there in the world but may be subjected by this power There is no power greater then the power of spirits One spirit destroyed a mighty army in one night 2 King 19. 35. Can flesh and blood can gates of brasse and walls of stone stand out when spirits themselves must yeeld Every creature hath its strength in its spirits There are corporall spirits as well as spirituall spirits There are spirits of the body produced out of the matter being the finer purer and more sublimate parts of it spirits animall in the brain vitall in the heart and naturall in the liver these are the strength of our bodies And there are spirits in things without life These spirits are their strength also the spirit of wine is the strength of the wine so of any other liquour Spirits extracted are the strength of any substance contracted into a narrow room There is a spirit of a spirit The spirit of the minde Ephes 4. 23. Be renewed in the spirit of your minde This spirit of the minde is the strength of the minde To spend spirits is to spend strength and to get spirits is to get strength both of body and minde When the Prophet would shew that the horses of the Egyptians were weak he saith Their horses are flesh and not spirit Isa 31. 3. and the Apostle to shew how strong Devils are Ephes 6. 12. saith We wrestle not against grosse things flesh and blood but against principalities and powers against the rulers of the darknesse of this world against spirituall wickednes in high places Spirituall wickednes is wicked spirits and because they are spirits therefore they are powers In evil spirits there is power much more in good spirits and most of all in the best spirit the Holy Ghost ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you Act. 1. 8. wheresoever spirit is there is power The spirit of a man is of such strength that it is able to beare his infirmity our infirmities are our heaviest part Nothing calls for more strength then the bearing of our own infirmities or the infirmities of other men Yet while a man can hold up his spirit and maintain that he may beare and rejoyce in the heaviest burthen of his own outward infirmities A strong spirit strengthens the weakest and a weak spirit weakens the strongest body or minde The sum of all is this spirits are strong and evil spirits are stronger then all flesh yet these are subject to the power of Christ then never fear flesh and blood fire and sword when you heare spirits must submit When Christ would assure the Church that it should stand against all opposition he promises the gates of hell shall not prevail against it Matth 16. 18. that is the power of evil spirits shall not and if the gates of hell cannot surely gates of earth shall never prevail We may be confident if spirits cannot flesh and blood shall not doe us any hurt while Christ is with us This leads us to the second Observation It is matter of joy to bring spirits evil spirits into subjection The Disciples passion was not without reason when they rejoyced to see spirits stoop it is no small priviledge to make evil spirits stoop whether they be evil spirits tempting and troubling without or moving within us It is matter of joy to subdue any reall enemy but chiefly those First who are most for number Secondly those who are mightiest in strength Thirdly those who are highest in place Fourthly those who are subtillest in projecting Fifthly those who are most malicious and bloody in executing All these meet in evil spirits They are many mighty high subtile and malicious The Devil is a legion by name a Prince by his place A Goliah an Achit●phel A Doeg all joyn'd in one It is a glorious victory to overcome a temptation to sinne Every time we doe so we overcome a Devil The Apostle James encourages us Resist the Devil and he will flee from you that is he will be subject to you You drive away the Devil every time you stand it out in a temptation and stand fast It is a great victory to overcome the sinnefull corruptions that are in our own hearts To overcome passion and corruption within is like the overcoming of a temptation from without The evil spirit is vanquished in both The Sadduces denyed all spirits Act. 23. 8. and others have affirmed that good and evil spirits are onely good or evil motions within us I abominate the errour and yet there is a truth somewhat like it Good or evil motions within us are in a sense good or evil spirits For as that which is borne of the good spirit is spirit Joh. 3. So that which is borne of the evil spirit is spirit too Every evil motion in us is borne of the Devil who though he be not the immediate parent of all such motions yet he was the immediate parent of that corruption from whence such