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A63676	The true relation of the bloody attempt by James Salowayes to cut his own throat in the compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 together with Satans attempt and overthrow, in a sermon preached upon the occasion in Wood-street-compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 / by R.F. ...	R. F.	1663 (1663)	Wing T2935; ESTC R39734	26,039	39

temptation behind him and having the fear of God before his eyes he fasted but answers for that sin in fasting which was committed by eating This Tempter like a cunning Broaker will not that his Customer shall want any Commodity his store-house must furnish at the le●st promise him what he most desireth he wants not his Factors and active Agents to drive on his design and bring the dece●●ful heart within his books if thou art low he hath a way to promise riches and wants not a Ballade to promote thee unto ●●no●r if poor he will tender thee a supply and though he can challenge nothing but torments as his due yet Omnia ha● dubitibi is as ready with him to offer as with our depraved natures to accept God tells thee Thou shalt have no other Gods if thou beest weary of thy subjection unto him Satan h●● a Serpent can ●●ll thee how to be exempted from thy obedience instead of thy submission to his Commands Eritis sic●t d●i you shall be as gods G●d sayes Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image but the Tempter tells thee of a greater liberty If God from ab●ve do not condescend to thy desires attend thy expectations if Moses st●y but in the Mount Satan hath his season in the Valley Vp let us make our selves Gods which shall go before us we know not what is become of Moses Exod. 32. let us make g●ds will go with us Thus Satan frames gods according to their minds and their minds according to their gods God sayes Exod. 5.2 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain but Satan can afford thee a release of this severity the Tempter wanteth not his Pharaohs Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice and what is his Name that I should reverence it He wants not his Rab●hakeh to belch out ugly language What is the Lord Isai 36.4 or what is this confidence whe●●in thou trustest This Tempter will suggest unto thee to take his Name in thy mouth so do those servants who draw near to God with their lips but their hearts are far from him and Satan hath other servants who have his Name to●●●ten in their mouths because it is to make up their vanity his Name is used not to call upon him for a blessing but is used in cursing such Oaths as the horridness thereof commands me to rebuke though modesty forbids me to mention madness of men nay monsters rather Was it Thomas his weakness that he must have his fingers in his Wounds and must it be the sinful wickedness of these wretches that they must have his Wounds in their mouths let them beware that Fountain which was opened for uncleanness may that upon their filthiness God sayes Swear not at all let your communication be yea yea and nay nay that is make not an use of Oathes in your discourse mingle not your conference with them swear not unless where and when controversies are to be decided and right to be evidenced and vindicated by your solemn Oaths but Satan will not have his gallants to be thus tongue-tyed their Tongues are their own who shall controul them yea and nay are syllables which serve not their turns such morsel of words will not fit their mouths tearing of his Heart renewing of his Wounds piercing of his Soul p●oph●●ing of his Majesty engaging of confusion calling dawn daman●●●n and it Gods Justice were ready to answer our desires and deserts confirming it are only such terms as do them service their curses must be like their clothes Alamode and east in the latest mold this temptation hath been too taking under which the Land mourneth every parish nay this place where I forbear to personate any but should I forbear to rebuke all the stones would speak doth grievously lye under this temptation the Lord reform them and cast out these Devils of drunkenness and swearing by fasting and by prayer for Hoc genus Damomi c. these kind of Devils is not otherwise to be ejected God commands thee to remember the Sabbath in keeping it holy but the Tempter will release thee from the severity of this Precept some he tempts them to so much superstition that they will not do good nor have good done on that day if Christ cure on that day the people murmure and that which is the perfection of the Gospel must be accounted the breach of the Law It is not lawfull to beal on the Sabbath-day nay such superstitious observers may be very well observed to be derived from the family of Salomon that Anglo Judamy who falling into a ditch on the Sabbath refused to 〈◊〉 taken out Sabbata nostra colo de ●●er ●re surgere nolo which occasioned the Christian that came by on the Sunday to answer him in his own kind Sabbata nostra quidem Sal●●on celibrabis ibidem Thus some will not heal others n●● be healed on the Sabbath so let the superstitious perish In our times we are more under the temptation of prophaness then superstitious observation God commands holy Duties and commends them Satan in●inuates what doth it avail to walk mournfully all the day long and what profit have ye that ye have served the Lord thus 〈◊〉 the Tempter God requires that yo● shall account his Sabbath a delight Satan tempts you to repu●e it a burden God requires that in it you will call for a blessing on your weeks-work Satan he tempts you to account this work a we●riness this service a hinderance When will the Sabbath be gone that we may set f●rth ●heat God would have you to observe it as a rest from your la●our from your sin Satan he tells you it is a ceasing from you lucre and in it tempts you to sin This is no● all God would have you to his Church the Devil would keep you in his Chappel because it is a day of rest from the labour of the body he must have it a rest from the service of the soul Thou shalt keep my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary A holy time the Sabbath Levit. 26.2 and a holy place the Sanctuary and holy duties reverence to be used Satan tempts thee against the time Every day is a Sabbath but never a day is kept holy against the place he wants not Factors of Jeroboam's family It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem to the publick place of worship behold nearer gods 1 King 12.28 and he set the one in Dan and the other in Bethel Why should we go to Gods place let God come to our place What Corah said of the persons Satan sayes of the places You take too much upon you seeing all the places are holy I speak not against private duties prayer in families but I would not have Martha to justle out Mary many cumbers and troubles and inventions to take place of the one thing which David desired of that better part which Mary chose

Widows last Cake was sustenance to him and a store-house to her self and though the threats of Jezabel makes the Prophets life as a burden to him yet whilst he is sleeping 1 K●rg 1● ● the Keeper of Israel slumbers not his Angel awaketh him gives him command to arise gives him meat to enable him to that command and in the strength of that to accomplish his journey to Mount Horeb. In that Mount where Moses saw God shall God find Eliah and Moses and Eliah and Christ the three great Easters shall be seen in Mount Tabor in his Transfiguration yet must we consider a difference in their condition Moses was both times on the Mount talking with God but Christ is in the Valley nay in the Wilderness tempted of the Devil Moses was on the Mount receiving Gods Commands and the Tables of stone but Christ is in the Wilderness receiving Satans demands that the stones may become bread for his table Eli●ah was in the Wilderness under the Juniper tree and though he was hungry and thirsty his soul fainting within yet could he sleep but Christ is in the Wilderness where his temptation doth not admit or an intermission but the increase of necessity doth strengthen the assault Then came the Tempter In remembrance of this fast the holy practice of his dearest Spouse may aptly be approved the like time of forty dayes being by her sequestred to abstinence a fast it was for admiration not for imitation and this commends unto our use the moral not the miracle wherein we are to abstain a tanto though not a toto by abatement but not by ablation of meat And very seasonably hath the Church appointed this Fast Fassionem predic●●e a● Resucre●ti●nem preparare to humble us in the sense of his 〈◊〉 st●ring and so pr●diet us the Passion Christ R●s●●●●●●●●st Ch●y●●●u●● Ex●l●● ● and that his rising may be our only Festival Agree●ble with this is the continue practice of the Eastern Church who solemnly observed this Fast for six weeks before the Resurrection And an ingenious Pen observeth that this forty dayes is attended with Christs forty hours or thereabouts remaining in the Sepulchre his forty dayes conversing with his Disciples betwixt his Ruing and Ascension all which dayes like Jonah's errand of forty dayes proclaims unto us a sitting down in s●ck●loath and turning to our God by true repentance that we may expend o●r dayes according to this happy president in prayer and in fasting Noltut tentari Christus usquedum ●ejunasset 〈◊〉 ●●d Christ would not be tempted before he had fasted not that he should have offended without that preparation but to teach others the best preparative and preservative against temptation for seeing that Adam's innocent estate could not exempt him from the Serpents cunning nor Christs entire and untainted Piety could not priviledge him from the Tempter it is our parts to arm against so feirce assaults and in our f●lness and fasting plenty and want to be upon a good guard when the Tempter shall come unto us As this temptation was for forty dayes and forty n●g●●s 〈◊〉 this lose and powerful assault is likely to be at the expiration Achitophe●'s advise to Absalon was 2 Sam. 17.2 I will come upon him whilst he is weary and weak banded 'T is the pollicy here of this Tempter I will fall upon him when this fast hath produced hunger skin for skin what will he not do for his life And this was his con●ition he was hungry That Christ had the passions and affections of a man none which are more then brutish will deny joy and sorrow fear and want hunger here and thirst at his Passion and that Satan is sedulous and subtle in baiting his books with what is most taking and tendering such supply as is most sut●●le to the tempteds necessity is as easie to affirm Christ is hungry what will he not do to procure meat Jacob rather then his Sons and himself shall starve will send them into Egypt to buy Corn and though hardly perswaded parts from his Benjamin rather then their lives shall part from them for want of bread David when he was hungry entred into the House of God eat of the Shew-bread which was only for the Priest Christ on the Sabbath pluckt the ears of Corn where was the proprieties Matth 12. besides the prophanation of the day yet for all this blameless necessity legitimates that act which otherwise was sin●●l and want was the warrant for this work And why may not his present hunger engage him to a miracle for his maintenance He that for pleasuring of others manifesting of his glory John 2. and augmenting faith in others turned water into wine and at a Wedding when we presume there was not much want Why may not he in the Wilderness when he is hungry for refreshment for evidencing his power confounding Satan turn stones into bread He that had compassion on the multitude that came from far and had not to eat hath he no pity on himself who had fasted far beyond their time in the desert This Tempter could answer God concerning J●b Doth J●b serve God f●r nought And hath God less care of his Son then of his servant Job 1 must Christ serve him for nought Did Christ say to his Disciples when he sent them out without scrip or pur●e did you lack any thing and doth God send f●rts his Son into t●e Desert amongst Wolves and wild be●sts and hath nothing Quare adduxisti was the peoples against Moses O blessed Jesu how much rather hadst thou suffer want then thy Fathers wrath death then thy Fathers displeasure famish then offend thy God or need of that great work thou hadst in hand Adam eats and sins bidden by Satan and forbidden by God to eat but thou fasts and sins not though bidden by Satan to eat yet forbidden by God Thou wast not here without power to command bread but thou art with●●… purpose to distrust thy Father thou wast not without power●●… do a miracle b t without will to gratifie Satan and do it a●●… pleasure What God was pleased to say to the Jews Christ thought meet in effect to say unto Satan If I were hungry I will not tell thee though thou usurps it Psa● 50. yet the World is mine and the fulness thereof I will offer thanksgiving and pay my vows to the most High bread is not that only which I depend upon that Providence which hath kept me forty dayes will not let me perish man live●h not by bread only there is another Ma●m which it left for relief and that is the Word of God that is the childrens bread O seed us with these crums and we shall not perish And is this nothing unto us that pas● by Yes it is see and c●rs●●er how answerable Christs obedience is to our offence Adam cast behind him the Commandment of God and having the Apple before his eyes he eat Christ he casts the