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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04886	No power but of God, and yet a power in every creature, or, A word in season, to all men not void of grace, or deprived of reason wherein is held forth that the Almighty God is not wanting to us in impowering of us, but we are wanting to him, in not improving our talent for him ... / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing P4238A; ESTC R187132	119,586	280

13. First Watch what comes in Secondly Watch what goes out 1. Watch what comes in You shall find thoughts arising one after another in your hearts call them all to ●…n account saying Who art thou for if thou art for Christ give me the word thou shalt freely passe if thou art not for Christ and hast not his word Stand ●…f thou comest up one step further I 'le fire at thee 2. Watch what goes out Take heed to thy words let them be such as may administer grace to the hearers remember what S. James saith Jam. 3. 5. 6. The tongue ●●s a little member and boasteth great things be●…old how great a matter a little fire kindleth and ●…he Tongue is a fire a world of iniquity it defileth ●…he whole body setteth on fire the whole course ●…f nature c. Wherefore watch what goes ●…ut remember the Lord thy God hath ●…et a double pale to rule that little mem●…er Again as he tempts Parliament and Army ●…o he tempts Magistrates and Ministry high ●…nd low rich and poor old and young ●…e hath his temptations suitable to all con●…itions He will tempt you when you ar●… praying hearing reading meditating eating drinking waking and sleeping he improves all opportunities he takes all advantages for he lies in wait to deceive and winnow you as Christ told Peter He is a great traveller he roves up and down the earth as he told the Lord in the book of Job He is a great Philosopher he is acquainted with all natures he hath his Logick and his Rhetorick as perfect as the Heathen Philosophers or the National Ministers nay he outstrips them for he often deceives them You know he was too subtle for the first Adam he engaged him and overcame him and gave Adam and all us in him the fall Again he imployes all his policie improves all his subtilty to foile the second Adam as he did the first Mat. 3. 4 5 6 7 c. Note these two things 1. The Devil suits his temptation to our Lord Christs present condition Christ had been fasting forty dayes why saith the Devil Command that these stones be made bread The Lord answers him from Scripture and tels him Deut. 8. 3. it is written Man shall 〈◊〉 live by bread alone but by every word that p●●ceedeth out of the mouth of God The Devil seeing there is no dealing with Christ unle●● he could bring Scripture he hastens and prepares his next temptation as you may see Mat. 4. 5 6. he intreats Christ to cast himself down from the pinacle of the Temple and endeavours to ground his temptation upon Scripture and cites Psal 91. 11. For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways The Devil cites this Psalm and this verse to Christ but mark his policie he leaves out somewhat most considerable in that 11. verse and addes somewhat that was not in that verse as you may see if you compare Mat. 4. 6. with Psal 91. 11. Again this subtile Serpent will bring pride into our hearts under the name of decencie and neatnesse and covetousnesse under the name of good husbandry nay he wil clothe drunkennesse with the garment of good-fellowship and gluttony with the robe of hospitality nay he will hide frowardnesse under the name of zeale he will promise you peace and bring you into trouble he ●●ll promise you honour and bring you into dishonour both with God and man he will promise us liberty and bring us into bondage In a word to adde no more he will promise us life as he did our first parents and bring us to death The wage●… of sinne is death 2. O Christians consider that we have a deceitful heart within us a map of misery which is more destructive to us then all the wiles of Sathan it is desperately wicked saith Jeremy in his 17. chap. v. 9. The heart is deceitfull above all things and desperately wick●● who can know it There is a magazine of filthinesse within us in thine and mine heart we have seen much of it and there is a thousand times more then we have seen Who can know it There is nothing called sin in the Word of God but thou and I may find in more or lesse taking up its lodging in our hearts it doth mischief us more then Satan for he can but tempt but our deceitful hearts do yield it will make us believe that it is plodding for our good when it is contriving our ruine it will cheat us in our obediences to God it will tell us we have done well when we have done ill in a word the Heart is the sole troubler of the times see Eccles 9. 3. The hearts of the sonn●… of men are full of madnesse for evil and madne●● are in their hearts Now there are three thing by which a mad man may be known 1. Mischievousnesse to himselfe and others 2. Unsensiblenesse they feele not th●… smart 3. Wilfulnesse there is no perswading of them First now O Christian deal impartially dost not thou find that thou hast mischiefed thy self and others many a time and yet thou wouldst be ready to spet in the face of him that should say thou art mad Again in the next place hast not thou been insensible at the present what misery thou hast brought upon thy self And then Thirdly for wilfulnesse There are characters of wilfulness to be seen in those that do look on themselves as the chiefest Saints and yet they would take it as a rash expression if one tell them that there is madnesse in their hearts 3. Consider O Christians there is not only a Devil without thee and a deceitful heart within thee but also there be all thy carnal Acquaintance before thee which do claim an interest in thee wherefore they will not forsake thee but lie perswading of thee to run with them to the same excess of riot and if thou begin to refuse to comply with them they will say You begin too soon to be precise What a young Saint lose the best of your time the flower of your age what wither your body with griefe for a few petty sins what spoil your selfe with studying and poring upon books what run into corners to weep and pray when thou mightest be singing and dancing eating drinking with the rest of thy friends what must you be so precise shall no body be saved but you and a few such as you b●● what is become of our forefathers think you which made no such ado I hope you will not say but they be saved c. Wilt thou see now O man what is the cause that the sonnes and daughters of men are multiplying their iniquities committing sinne●… with greedinesse why herein lies the cause there is a devil without thee and a deceitful heart within thee and there be all thy carnal acquaintance before thee all pretending love unto thee and they all bending together and improving all opportunities to cheat delude