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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05416	The bruising of the serpents head A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse September 9. 1621. By Roger Ley Maister of Arts, and minister of Gods word in Shoreditch.	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.	1622 (1622)	STC 15568; ESTC S103082	34,316	56

in vsing the meanes which God hath appointed whereby they denie themselues and adding to their labour constant prayer and inuocation they take vpon them an easie yoake and a light burden of their Sauiour the stronger man Repentance vndoeth the knot which tied the soule in this captiuity prayer renounceth all power in him that prayeth euen as among men he that asketh helpe of another and maketh daily supplication doth shew how little his owne ability can performe and how ill the matter goeth with him Thus sorrow for sinne repentance prayer and stedfast endeauour ioyned may worke a cure vnder God and that be done vnder the sasegard of the Almighty that none of himselfe can compasse Prayer and fasting was able to expell the deuill which the Disciples could not cast out Let this consideration correct their mistaking who hope to conquer and shake of their sinnes not vsing religious meanes and exercises No hope to preuaile in such combates without a full repentance with an absolute resignation of the soule into the Sauiours hand See heere the power of a poore captiue in himselfe fastened in the nets of his owne weauing entangled in the labarinth of his folly no way to saue himselfe His goods are in Peace Secondly the words yeeld vs this Doctrine Satan fighteth not against himselfe to disaduantage or disgrace his gouernment but keepeth close together and tieth his instruments in a strong confederacy that their vniting may make him more inuincible The words import so much His goods are in Peace Sometimes it must needs be otherwise with Christ and his Gospell for when vngodlines doth glue and cling together either among his owne or others hee commeth often with stir and diuision and renteth all in peeces for a time Heere then we find the case variable sometimes wickednes findeth great disagreement as experience teacheth sometimes great league and fellowship as both experience and this Text doe manifest so it is in the gouernment of Christ sometimes diuision and stir sometimes peace and vnion we may vse Solomons saying in this cause Eccles 9.2 All things come alike to all Therefore in such variety of times and accidents it is an vncertaine and groundlesse affirmation to make peace an infallible signe of the Church The Papists say and in some sort truly Iohn 10.16 we are all called members of one body vnder one head Christ Rom. 12. And by our Sauiour One Shepheard and one sheepfold therefore diuersity of opinion doth argue a false profession True indeede in the true members of Christs elected congregation but in the outward fellowship and face of an visible multitude not euer true where many are among vs that are not of vs the Apostle saith In that one sheepfold where Christ was Shepheard was not one Iudas found who had warre and treason in his heart and turned against his Master yet could the chiefe Priests and Pharisees and Pylate agree well enough in murdering him without traitors among themselues Outward peace to keepe conformity with others is not in the power of any but this approcheth neerest to the truth the true members of Christ are peacable and full of charitie and being linked vnder one head by faith doe accord among themselues but God setteth neere them enemies that loue not peace euen of their owne to be as thornes in their sides and to raise them from temporall securitie Harding complaines that before Luther came the people were vnanimes in dome of one minde in the house but since how many diuisions haue happened Concerning their spirituall consent in superstition I will vse the phrase of the Text The strong man armed kept his Palace and his goods were in peace Sarcerius an expositor maketh it a particular instance Qualia tempora fuerunt sub Papatu Of this sort were the Popish times May we speake of outward peace and temporall and not find these accusers faulty Christianity will haue this peace kept with Alients as an argument of the minde bent to vnitie that we may be mercifull as our heauenly Father is mercifull and kind to all that the glory of a quiet and peacable minde may shine forth to confound the censures of each ill willervnto Sion If by this kind of coniecturing or rather demonstration an equall iudge may giue sentence see whose fingers haue beene oftnest in treasons whose practises haue beene massacres who they are that stirre euery cole to fire the states of the world and to raise combustion This kind of peace as it hath beene hardly seene towards vs but when necessity made them quiet and God by prouidence tied their hands confounded their deuises so hath it beene a stranger among them that talke of peace To reuiue their vnquietnes by relation or shew their dissentions out of stories would sooner want time then matter Or to obserue distractions in the head the choosing of one Pope against another and the Church at the same time vnder more heads then one Whatsoeuer the sheepe were surely then there was not one shepheard The bones they haue cast among Princes that out of their dissentions they might bring their owne ends about cannot be vnknowne to him that knoweth any thing From whence we iustly may collect the head set vp for vnity did plot disagreement he was not here what he did professe neither led the members by a Christian-like direction If to set iarres and prey vpon the flocke be no good signe of a true shepheard this note of vnity is a poore signification for them Bell. prefat in lib. de Summo Pontifice Bellarmine doth plainly confesse that this state hath beene so shaken with enemies and bad liues of the Popes as also with grieuous Schisme that for the glory of it it stands not by it selfe but strangely supported by diuine preseruation manifested in their infirmity Indeed it often happeneth by a Syncretismus as the ancients cald it that in bred hatred and dissention weareth out by an enemie abroad so policy which the children of this world haue maketh states and humors otherwise differing among them to accord lest their walls which beganne to shake should fall downe quite if they kept not close together To this cause they haue a second helpe to mussle mens mouths and fetter their consciences that in some places none may dispute the Scripture which perhaps would raise stirre enough may not be read they will keepe peace though by taking away Gods weapon A guilty conscience is betrayed in this when all aduentures of triall in these conflicts are so debard and like it is if they had giuen so much liberty to their owne as we haue giuen both them and ours their remainder had beene grieuously impouerished and brought to a smaller quantity by this time As for our writings that turne the word of God speaking more generally into particular application they are affraid at their lookes neither can indure they should come to a publique view Then which argument fetchd from their depth of their