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A15496	The anchor of faith Vpon which, a Christian may repose in all manner of temptations. Especially in that great and dangerous gulfe of desperation. Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and burthen of their sinne, and not resisting themselues by the hand of faith, vpon the promises and inuitations of Christ, haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues, to the vtter confusion both of body and soule for euer.; Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1628 (1628)	STC 25763.5; ESTC S102508	45,869	112

Desperation is the great seruitude or bondage or sinne with which whosoeuer is clogged hee becommeth thereby the seruant of sinne Iohn 8.34 And the wofull and hurtfull effects of sinnes are the procurements of Gods curses and plagues vpon bodyes The woful ●urtfull effects of sinne soules lands children stocke croppe and euery thing else that a man hath or goeth about at home or abroade in town or in field in Citty or in Contry by land or by water Deu. 28. Leu. 26. Sin hardeneth the heart Heb. 3.13 It fighteth against the soule 1. Pet. 2.11 It gnaweth tormenteth the conscience 1. Sa. 25.31 And bringeth men into the most damnable gulfe of Desperation wherein multitudes of Worldlinges Matcheuillians Epicures impious Atheists are dayly implunged and irreuocably drowned for euer CHAP. 6 THe Fourth cause of Desperation do many gather to themselues vpon the wordes of Christ in Mat. 7.13 The fourth cause of Desperation Strait is the gate narrow is the way that leadeth vnto life few there be that find it And againe out of Mat. 20.16 Many are called but few are chosen And againe out of Luk. 13.24 Striue to enter in at the straite gate for many I say vnto you will seeke to enter in shal not be able All which places doe plainly teach that few shall be saued for in bidding to striue to enter in Christ giueth vs to vnderstand that it is no easie matter but a matter that requireth great strife paines and earnest diligence against the World the Flesh and the Diuell Vpon these considerations The feare and doubt of many many begin to feare and to tremble to stagger and no doubt whether they may thinke themselues to be in the number of those few that shall be saued yea or no and so are drawne into dispayre whiles that they finde this present euil world against them with all the baytes snares nettes and lets pleasures and profits thereof to catch them The great and manifold aduersa●es of mans saluation all which the diuel vseth as meanes to Desperation fetter them and intangle them whiles they finde their own flesh their owne corrupted nature against them their reason poysoned their wils and affections blinded their naturall wisdome concupiscences and lusts ministring strength to Satans temptations taking part against them daily and howerly ready to betray them into his hands whiles that they see and perceiue euen legions of Diuells euen all the Diuells in hell against them with all their crafty heades maruailous strength infinite wiles cunning deuises déep slights and tryed temptations lying in ambush against their poore soules who séeth not the thousands are caried headlong to destuction through the temptations of either the world the flesh or the diuell And thus are we poore wretches in a most pittiful case assaulted and betraied on euery side CHAP. 7 THe fift cause of Desperation ariseth from the manifold crosses afflictions of this present life The fifth cause of desperation for from hence it is that some men being daily feretted followed on euen almost pressed down with temporall afflictions and troubles Sundry kinds of crosses and afflictions as penury pouerty hunger nakednes sicknes of body troubles of mind vnquiet suggestions of the flesh temptations of the Diuel persecutiōs imprisonments losse of friends losse of goods losse of good name and fame a wicked crooked froward mate in matrimony disobedient vntoward children vnkind vnthankfull friends vnderserued malice enuy hatred of froward neighbours many other such like crosses as daily in one sort or other befal men When they once feele themselues touched and tryed herewith Ier. 20. anon they take occasion hereby to cry out and lementably to houle and curse the day wherein they were borne Ier. 15. to call that an vnhappy houre wherein their mothers brought them forth Iob. 3. to wish they had dyed in their birth that they had perished so soone as they came out of their mothers wombe that some hill might fall vpon them ouerwhelme them that so they might shortly bee rid out of their paines Yea they will not be perswaded that these thinges are sent of God for the most part to such as he loueth but rather to such as he hateth and that neuer a louing father wil handle his children so as they are handled Now the Diuell most subtilly lying in wayte for his aduantoge taketh hold on this their weakenesse and striueth by little little by such occasiōs as these to worke vtter desperation in them and by these meanes oftentimes forceth some to sodaine wretched and desperate ends CHAP. 8 THe sixt cause of Desperation is long custome of sin The sixt cause of Desperation whereby a man yeeldeth and submitteth himselfe as an obedient ready bon●-slaue to the Diuell little respecting if not vtterly contemning both God and his word whose dull conscience through giuing himselfe ouer to impurity filthines of life is waxed hard in iniquity and corrupt waies and as it were burned with a hot iron so that he is now past all sense féeling of sinn Long custome groweth into a second nature this long costome groweth as it were into a second nature in processe of time which to expell is a matter of great difficulty This is it which the Prophet Ierim meant where he affirmed that it is as hard a thing for such to doe any good that haue bin continually inured with doeing of euil as it is to wash a Blackamoore or Aethiopian skinne white or to chang the spots of a Leopard And therefore according to our English adage as that which is bred in the bone will neuer lightly out of the flesh so an old wont or custome of any vice be it of lying swearing gaming drinking whooring or any other such like will seldome or neuer be remedied whereby it oftentimes commeth to passe that in the end the Diuel by this meanes hauing laid a foundation so fitting his purpose to worke on bringeth his old customers to dispaire CHAP. 1. The first Chapter concerning the Remedies against the temptations assaults of Satan being the first speciall cause of Desperation before intreated of in Ch. 3 TO méete with the dangerous and manifould temptations of Satan that great enemy of mankind wherewith hee continually after other sinnes first committed laboureth to bring vs into the deepe gulph of desperation It shall not be amisse nay rather it shall be our best course and remedie to learne practise that most sure safe and excellent counsaile which the holy ghost giueth by those two worthy Apostles of our Sauiour Christ Eph 6. Iam. 4. Saint Paul S. Iam s their counsel against the temptat●●ns ass●ults of Sath n. S. Paul and S. Iames wherof S. Paul saith Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stād against the assaults of the Diuel S. Iam. saith Resist