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A13533	Christs victorie over the Dragon: or Satans downfall shewing the glorious conquests of our Saviour for his poore Church, against the greatest persecutors. In a plaine and pithy exposition of the twelfth chapter of S. Iohns Revelation. Delivered in sundry lectures by that late faithfull servant of God, Thomas Taylor Doctor in Divinitie, and pastor of Aldermanbury London. Perfected and finished a little before his death.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1633 (1633)	STC 23823; ESTC S118152	543,797	874

the world and therefore out of his implacable fury he turnes him to another device utterly to extirpate and root all the letters and characters of her honourable name and carry her quite away off the earth as with a mighty flood and current Where are three things 1. What are these floods of filthy waters which this huge Monster casteth after the woman 2. The spring whence they rise and slow out of his mouth 3. The issue and scope of them that she might be carryed away of the flood For the first By floods of water are meant in Scripture extreme perils and deepe dangers and trials whether inflicted by God or men or Satan Sometimes they are inflicted by God Psalm 42. 7. All thy floods and waves are gone over me Sometimes by men stirring up raging tumults against the Church when mighty enemies Princes and people rise in their power fury and unresistablenesse like a flood Esa. 59. 19. The enemy shall come like a flood Sometimes by the dragon himselfe as here the serpent casts out a flood after the woman Quest. Why are these great tryals compared to floods of waters Ans. 1. For the danger threatning destruction to the Church as the floods of water doe drowning 2. For abundance As many waters gather together into one to make a swift streame or flood so many enemies of all peoples and Countries even all the wicked of the world gather their forces and combine their wrath together against Christ and his Church to make a great and violēt flood and head to destroy her Rev. 17. 1. Antichrist is the great whore that sits on many waters and these waters are the multitudes nations and tongues all gathered under one head against Christ Verse 15. 3. For their depth these floods seeme as impassable as the deepe sea so as the godly are ready to sinke and can finde no footing Psal. 69. 2. I am come into the deepe waters The Israel of God is often even in the bottome of the sea Ionas was in the deepe waves and weedes And the Church hath often waters of affliction wrung out of a full cup that is a large portion of troubles Psal. 73. 10. 4. For the instance incessant restlesnesse of them for as the waves succeed one another and thrust on one another so doe grievous afflictions one deepe cals another Psalme 42. 7. and the end of one tryall is but the beginning of another 5. For the pride fiercenesse swelling and rushing of many waters for the fiercenesse and pride of enemies is compared to the swelling of waters Psalm 124. 5. then had the swelling waters gone over our soule For the second The spring or fountaine whence these floods flow is the dragons mouth The waters must needs bee filthy which issue from so foule a fountaine And shewes us more distinctly what the waters bee For there is a two fold flood of persecutions cast by the dragon after the woman The former was that bulke of persecutions with which the dragon had infinite wayes vexed the Church in her infancy cradle and even in her riper age such as warre exile fire sword and divers torments But all these darts and keene weapons hee threw out of his hands by which hee forced her into the wildernesse But now the woman is escaped his hands and is out of his reach Which some not well observing expound this flood of actuall persecution by sword and torments which stands not well with her hidden estate But the phrase more properly aimeth at a flood cast out of the serpents mouth and not out of his hands which the woman in the wildernesse hardly escapes Whereby I meane in generall whatsoever poysonfull thing is by Antichrist and his Champions who are the dragons mouth vented and spread abroad for the utter wasting of the true Church and Christian profession if it were possible More specially I take it the Spirit of God here aymeth at three things I. The flood of heresies and poysonfull errors the bitter waters of false doctrines against the foundation and all those troubled waters of Antichristian superstitions and traditions to drowne and oppresse the woman for ever For as the pure doctrine of the Gospell comming out of the mouth of Jesus Christ is that aqua Coel●stis or aqua vitae by which the woman is quickned and revived to eternall life So that heretical and poysoned doctrine comming out of the mouth of Antichrist is a bitter and cursed flood of water to drowne the woman if it were possible For as wee doe not exclude those most deadly heresies the vomit of the dragon after Constantine the Arrian heresie the Pelagian Nestorian Eutychian which vexed the Church almost three hundred yeares so doe we especially meane here those Monsters of opinions blasphemies and damnable doctrines against the whole Gospell vented and cast out of the mouth of Antichrist in all the ages of Antichrist till this day so directly bent to carry away the woman as none must buy and sell no nor breathe and live that will not receive and worship the Image and marke of the beast Rev. 13. 15 17. For example Against the Scriptures Antichrist casteth out of his mouth that they are a dead letter a Nose of waxe a breeder of herefies of no more authority than Esops fables without the Churches authority this was godly spoken by Hermanus saith Hosius A Popish Doctor reasoning with M. Tindal boldly said Wee might better want Gods law than the Popes It was objected by Doctor Benet Chancellor of the Bishop of London that the heretikes did read certaine Chapters of the Evangelists in English which containe in them divers erroneous and damnable opinions and conclusions of heresie The like blasphemies he vomits out against Christ as 1 That he is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God of himselfe Rhemist on Ioh. 10. 3. Who though he be the Son of the Father yet is he God of himselfe Ioh. 5. 26. as the Father hath life in himselfe so also hath the Sonne The word therfore is another person from the Father but not another thing 2 That Christ did penance by fasting solitarinesse and conversing with beasts Rhemist on Mark 1. sect 6. An horrible blasphemie making Christ a sinner for no sinner need no repentance 3 That Christs death is neither the efficient cause nor formall cause of our justification Bellarm. in sundry places but wee are formally made just by a justice inherent in our selves Conc. Trid sess 6. can 10. Rhem on Rom. 2. sect 4. A blasphemous heresie contrary to Phil. 3. 9. not having mine owne righteousnesse 4 That by grace we may truly make satisfaction in some sort ex proprijs of our owne et ad aequalitatem to a full equality et per hoc justè et ex oondigno satisfacere Bellarm. de paenit l. 4. c. 7. A most horrible blasphemie that a man by his own proper workes can satisfie God fully according

wise Pilot in a calme standeth ready for a storme the souldiers who are out in the field because they know not when the enemy will set out on them lie night and day in their armour lest they bee surprized unawares and wee should account it a great folly while the enemy is laying on and wounding and slashing that wee should bee then to seeke our armour or to buckle it upon us 3. Bee wise to looke for one skirmish after another not for one assault or two but many one in the necke of another for as Iobs messengers overtooke one another and as one wave overtaketh another so may our assaults and therefore after raine wee must looke for showres many good men here are blame worthy both such as looke for no shaking as David Psalme 30. 6. who come too neare the curse of evill men noted Psalm 10. 5 6. who defie all enemies and say I shall never be moved or see danger as such also as after one trouble stand not in expectation of any other as foolish children having beene once taken up thinke they shall bee beaten no more that day doe what they will If the true Church be ever in combate then small is the comfort of an easie and peaceable life Are perpetuall warres in hand and yet dost thou neither strike a stroke nor beare any blowes is the whole life of a Christian a fight of faith what comfort can he have that never spent houre in the Lords cause or quarrell To such as will bee at rest I say 1. It is likely thou hast yeelded up thy selfe a slave to the devill and so the strong man having the hold all is at peace else shouldest thou finde him a Lyon not a Lambe 2. All is not such peace with thee as thou pretendest for thou art at warre with Iesus Christ and fightest earnestly for lusts voluptuousnesse idlenesse carnall security because the state of this life admitteth no lookers on but all fight on one side or other if thou art not with Christ thou art against him 3. The end of such as looke for no assaults is that the evill day commeth and taketh them as a fowle in an evill net Eccles. 9. 12. 1 Thess. 5. 3. 4. To such as be the Lords who have not beene so acquainted with combate I say the more is behinde Some Christians lives are like April weather full of showres and stormes as Iacobs some have a sound showre in the morning or beginning of conversion some have a sound dash about noone as Iob some carry faire till towards night and then a great storme commeth in the evening as Peter when hee was old was girt and led whether hee would not Iohn 21. 18. and suppose thou escape till towards death shal not then the forces be redoubled assure thy selfe every souldier that standeth behinde in the reareward of this field shall be led forward to service To comfort such as know distresse and conflict being beset with evils both within them and without them yea be it thou findest the breaches and batteries which the enemie hath made in thy soule yet hold thy resolution to live and die in the service and quarrell of thy Lord and know 1. It is a note that thou art got out of Satans power and therefore hee throweth all his fiery darts against thee what neede hee fight with his friends who have yeelded themselves into his power no his assault is against the woman and her seed 2. There is somewhat worth keeping a Theefe would be loath to assault a man without a booty and the robbers care not to rifle an empty Chest this enemy plots not but against grace and where somewhat is to be gotten a man that hath much money will fight stoutly 3. Thy afflicted estate is no other condition than that of thy other brethren and sisters in the world nay if the greene tree could not escape the brunt how shall the drie Christ therefore saith to his Disciples Yee shall bee hated of all men for my sake 4. A valiant souldier hath cause to glory in his scarres and wounds which are signes of his faithfulnesse and fortitude Doe thou carry the reproaches of Christ as thy crowne and glory looke upon thy gashes and wounds in thy name and state as on the markes of Christ so did Paul and Moses who esteemed the rebukes of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Aegypt The world is ashamed at these markes as if they were a brand in the hand or an hole in the eare whereas indeed they are the markes of Christ not onely because the party is a member of his body but his suffering is a part of Christs suffering not meritorious as his but glorious as his were which he would not put off in his resurrection Christians must bee ashamed of doing evill and suffering for evill not of suffering for well doing 2 Pet. 2. 20. Now after wee have spoken of the battell wee come to consider the armies On the one side standeth Michael and his Angels and on the contrary side fight the dragon and his Angels In the former are three questions considerable Quest. 1. Who is this Michael Ans. 1. Christ himselfe for these Reasons 1. It is so expounded verse 10. Now is salvation in heaven and the strength and kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ hee that is there called Christ is here called Michael 2. This place is an allusion to Daniel 10. 13. 21. where by Michael must be meant Christ who is the Prince and Captaine of his Church against the devill and his host 3. The composition of the word of three Hebrew particles Mi-ca-el who is like or equall to the Lord now onely Christ thought it no robbery to be equall to God Phil. 2. 6. 4. We read no where in Scripture of this name but Christ himselfe must bee understood Iud. 9. Michael the Archangel was Christ himselfe that place alluding to Zach. 3. 2. where thé Prophet calleth him Iehovah that spake those words which name Iehovah is never given to any but God as other his titles are 5. The Prince and Generall of the Lords warre is the Sonne of God Ioshua 5. 14 and verse 5. hee is called lehovah and is described Revel 9. 11. Sitting on a white horse having eyes like a slaming fire his garment dyed with blood his name the word of God out of his mouth goeth a sharpe sword hee ruleth the Nations with a rod of iron and on his thigh is writ Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium This description belongeth to Christ onely not to man or Angell Quest. 2. Who are here the souldiers of his band called his Angels Ans. 1. Not onely those that are Angels by nature and office but also such persons and instruments as stand with them in the defence of Christian religion and in warre with the dragon both in Ecclesiasticall and politicall states as godly Princes and Rulers such as Constantine

will walke in the easie and broad way where is elbow-roome profits pleasures ●applause of the world and pleasing of a mans selfe 3 The worth of grace and salvation and the excellency of eternall life allows it not to be common to every idle hand It is as a precious commodity in the hands of a few as pearles and jewells are so much more advanced in price as they be harder to come by 4 The true Church is the parke of God empaled from the rest of the world or a garden enclosed Cant 4. 12. aparadice of God not the wast of the world a fold not the field If it be objected that the multitude of Abrahams seed are as the sands of the sea innumerable Gen. 15. 5. and who can number the dust of Jacob or the fourth part of Israel as Num 24 10. and that Sion shall abound with children and many shall come from the East and West and sit downe in the kingdome of God Mat. 8. 11. and that Iohn saw a multitude which none could number of all nations kindreds tribes and tongues that stood before the Lambe in white robes Rev. 7. 9. To all these and like places I answer That wee must consider the Beleevers 1 Simply in respect of themselves and the Church in respect of the severall parts and thus they are an innumerable multitude 2 Comparatively in respect of unbeleevers infidells hypocrites and reprobates so they are few and as an handfull to a whole floore a remnant to a whole piece a sparke to a great flame a drop to a whole streame Therefore multitudes are no marke of the true Church as Papists teach but of Satans Synagogue neither the rule of our way which is straighter then that the multitude walke in 2 Be not offended with the fewnesse of the godly compared with heapes of wicked men The true Church is as a little wheat in an huge heape of chaffe as a little gold in a mountaine of clay or drosse a gleaning after the harvest a few berries after the vintage And thus as it hath beene it wil be till the GOD of heaven have cast the god of the world into his owne place Neither bee offended that wee teach them to be few but rather quarrell with Christ and the Scripture from whom wee so speake For wee stint not this number to a definite company as some fondly say we do this is their Arithmeticke neither ours nor the Scriptures But a few there are and as our text saith But a remnant Why wrangle they not with the Scripture that speakes but of one of a City and two of a tribe as it was then it may be againe But let such stretch the way of heaven as wide as they can yet will it bee too strait for carnall men and carelesse men be they never so just and civill 3. Let us strive earnestly to be of this little flocke and remnant and joyne rather with a few godly then a multitude of sinners Walk in the way of good mē and though thy company be small it shall be good and suppose this sect be every where blasphemed in court in country in markets and meetings in pulpits and tavernes yet one day thou shalt wish thy selfe of this small number and be most unhappie that thou hast sorted with thy company which thou hast chosen and now canst have no better 4. If the true members of the Church bee so few never bee daunted at the great shoales and number of Atheists Epicures Libertines hypocrites scorners blasphemers worldings not at the overspreading of Popery and Idolatry Wee must not measure the Church by our senses though few appeare yet there is a remnant God will have seven thousand reserved whom Elias cannot see Rom. 1. 1. 5. A few there be who in heart and soule cleave to us the benefit of whose prayers we enjoy 5. If so few shall bee saved praise God that any beleeve and that ever it was thy lott to bee brought to the faith seeing the Apostasie to Antichrist is so generall this is as great a mercy to thee as in the great deluge one Noah to bee saved or in a raging fire in a City one house or one person to bee saved Which keepe the Commandements of God Here is the first of the properties by which the small remnant is described where 1. What it is to keepe the Commandements 2. How the godly keepe them The keeping is either Legall or Euangelicall Legall is the perfect and personall observation of the whole Law in the whole man in all things at all times Matth. 19. 17. If thou wilt enter into life keepe the Commandements Thus onely Christ since the fall kept the Commandements and wee shall in heaven This is not here meant Euangelicall is that acceptable obedience to the Law which the Gospell injoyneth upon Beleevers To understand this know 1. That the Gospell being not to abolish but to establish the Law is not satisfied unlesse the Beleever bring such a perfect and absolute obedience as the Law requireth Onely this being impossible to the infirmity of flesh it is satisfied that wee bring it not in our owne person as the Law requires but in the person of our surety made by God our righteousnesse 2. And because the grace of the Gospell allowes us not to be carelesse or idle in the work of the Lord it enjoynes on every Beleever a conscionable and constant indeavor of keeping all the Cōmandements of God even in our owne persons in way of gratitude and thankfulnesse 3. And lest the godly should bee discouraged by the sense of their owne imperfections and failings in performance seeing themselves at best but unprofitable servants for their incouragement quickning the Gospel calleth that indeavour and strife in obedience being chearfull and sincere A keeping of the Commandements because it is accepted of God as perfect the person being in Christ in whom all defect and imperfection is covered But how doe the godly keepe the Commandements In just conditions and in sure and safe coffers The conditions are foure They keepe them 1. Vndiminished God hath betrusted them with his whole law and they set all the law of God before them and have respect to all the Commandements they be no Papists to strike out the second Commandement or any other They know the Commandements are linked and chained together as a band of ten clauses breake one and the whole band is forfeited 2. Vnmingled not blending the Lords sweet wine with puddle water of humane fancies This remnant care not for the additions traditions and commandements of men but hold them close to the Commandements of God They pollute not themselves with the abominations of Popery superstition and Idolatry but shut their eares against the determinations of Churches Councels Fathers Popes contrary to Gods commandements yea ifan Angell should bring any other doctrine they would pronounce him accursed 3. Vnviolate defending propagating maintaining