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A19873	Seven sermons on, the wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans saluation) betweene Christ and Sathan Delivered by the Reuerend Father in God, Doct. Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, lately deceased.; Wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans salvation) betweene Christ and Satan	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1627 (1627)	STC 630; ESTC S119227	63,833	118

venter most for the greatest bootie Secondly in regard of the present we are to note that in thirty yeeres the deuill did nothing to our Sauiour but now when he goes about to gird himselfe with our saluation according to Psal. 45. 3. then doth the deuill gird on his sword also that is as much to say as the better the worke is the more resistance it shall haue Ten repulses did the Israelites suffer before they could get possession of the promised Land of Canaan and as many did Dauid endure before he was inuested in the promised Kingdome Many lets came before the Temple was re-edified as is to be seene in Esdras and Nehemias Yea saith the deuill Hath God annoynted him with the oyle of gladnesse aboue his fellowes I will see if I can annoynt him with the oyle of sadnesse aboue his fellowes Hath he beene baptized of water and the holy Ghost I will prouide another Baptisme for him namely of fire Hath God sent downe the holy Ghost vpon him in likenesse of a Doue I will cause tribulation and a crowne of thornes to light vpon his head Hath a voyce come downe from Heauen saying This is my beloued Sonne I will prouide a voyce for him that shall ascend from the foote that shall say If thou be the Sonne of God come downe from the Crosse. VI. The sixt is the place the Lystes to wit the Wildernesse that so he might be alone and that there might be no fellow-worker with him in the matter of our saluation that he alone might haue the treading of the wine-presse Esay 63 3. So in the Transfiguration in the Mount he was found alone Luke 9 36. So in the garden in his great agonie he was in effect alone for his Disciples slept all the while Math. 26 40. that vnto him might be ascribed all the praise Secondly we will note here that there is no place priuiledged from temptations As there be some that thinke there be certaine places to bee exempt from Gods presence as was noted in the dreame of Iacob so the Monkes and Hermites thought that by auoyding company they should be free from temptations which is not so For although Christ were alone in the wildernesse and fasting too yet was he tempted we see And yet it is true that he that will liue well must shunne the company of the wicked Gen. 19 7. When the Angels had brought Lot and his family out of the doores they charged them not to tarry nor to stand still nor once to looke backe So after the Cocke had crowed and put Peter in minde of his fall he went out of the doores and weps bitterly Math. 26 75. his solitarinesse was a cause to make his repentance the more earnest and helped to increase his teares and company is commonly a hindrance to the receiuing of any good grace and to the exercising and confirming vs in any good purpose But as true it is that temptations are and may as well bee in the deserts as in publike places not onely in the valleyes but in the mountaines verse 8 and not onely in the countrey but euen in the holy Citie verse 5. yea and sometimes full and sometimes fasting yea in Paradise and in Heauen it selfe for thither doth the deuill come and accuse vs before God we are therefore alwayes to stand vpon our guard For in Luke 11 24. he is said to walke through drie places least happily some might bee escaped from him thither and though we could goe whether hee could not come we should not be free for we carry euer a Tempter about with vs. And when we pray to be deliuered from temptation it is not onely from the deuil but from our selues we carry fire within vs. Nazianzen and Basil were of that minde once that by change of the place a man might goe from temptation but afterward they recanted it affirming That it was impossible to auoyd temptation yea though he went out of the world except he left his heart behinde him also The end of the first Sermon THE SECOND SERMON Math. Chap. 4. verse 2. And when hee had fasted forty dayes and fortie nights he was afterward hungry NOW come we to the seuenth and last circumstance It may seeme strange that being about to present himselfe to the world as Prince Priest and Prophet that hee would make his progresse into the Wildernesse and begin with a Fast for this was cleane contrary to the course and fashion of the world which vseth when any great matter is in hand to make a Praeface or Praeludium with some great solemnity As when Salomon came first to his Crowne he went to the chiefe Citie and gathered a solemne Conuent So Christ should rather first haue gone to Ierusalem the holy City and there should haue bene some solemne banquet But Christ from his Baptisme began his calling and fasted fortie dayes and forty nights This his Fast by late Writers is called the entrance into his calling by the ancient Writers it is called the entrance into his conflict The manner of the Church hath alwayes beene that at the first institution or vndertaking of any great and weighty matter there hath beene extraordinary Fasting So Moses Deut. 9 9. when hee entred into his calling at the receiuing of the Law fasted forty dayes So Elias 1 Kings 19 ●8 at the restoring of the same Law did the like And so when they went about the re-edifying of the Temple as appeareth Esdras 8 49. So in the new Testament at the separation of Paul and Barnabas Acts 13 3. And as Ierome reporteth Saint Iohn would not vndertake to write the diuine worke of his Gospell vntill the whole Church by Fasting had recommended the same vnto God So likewise at the entrance into a Conflict for the obtaining of some Victory as Iehoshaphat did when he ouercame the Amorites 2 Chron. 20 3. So did Hester when shee went about the deliuerance of the Iewes as in Ester 4 ver 16. And Eusebius reporteth that when Peter was to enter disputation with Simon Magus there was Fasting throughout the whole Church generally Whether at the entrance into a Calling or to resist the diuell Saint Peters rule mentioned in his first chapter and fifth verse ought to take place we must vse Prayer and Fasting And as at all times we are to vse watchfulnesse carefulnesse so then especially when we looke that the diuell wil be most busie and the rather for that in some cases there is no dealing without Fasting as Marke 9 29. there is a kinde of diuell that will not bee cast out without Prayer and Fasting As for the number of daies wherein he fasted iust forty Curiosity may finde it selfe worke enough but it is dangerous to make Conclusions when no certainty appeareth Some say there is a correspondencie betweene these forty dayes and the fortie dayes wherein the world was destroyed by the Deluge But it is better to say As Moses fasted fortie dayes at the