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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00459	The Christian conflict and conquest set forth in a sermon at Pauls-crosse, upon Sunday the 19th of Iuly, 1635. By W.E.B.D. of St Mary Hall in Oxford	Evans, William, b. 1598 or 9.	1636 (1636)	STC 10595; ESTC S114790	45,067	78

by reading hearing meditating and hiding it in your hearts and applying it as occasion is offered to answere and to put off any evill temptations Thus Christ himselfe did doe Mat. 4. Thus he taught Iohn Ioh. 5. at the 39 verse and so doe we saying with Christ scrutamini scripturas search the scriptures let the word of God dwell in you plenteously in all wisdome Colos 3. 16. Lastly to make all sure and to furnish your selues with the compleate armour of God let us ioyne incessant prayer to all these praying alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance as the Apostle exhorteth v. 18. verè coelestis armatura est deprecatio quae Deo funditur saith Chrysostome De orando Deum Lib. 1. that is prayer unto God is the very armour of God indeed a heauenly armour for by this we call and get God all the hoste of heaven to be of our side to helpe us against temptations and to deliver us from evill By this Paul obtained helpe and grace against inward temptations the thorne in the flesh 2. Cor. 12. 7. 8. 9. By this Moses obtained helpe of God against outward tribulations the army of the Amalekites Exod. 17. 11. and this also is the way for us to obtaine helpe against the enemie yea and without this no victory When we haue provided all that we can and all is done except Moses hold up his hands Amaleck will prevaile Lift up holy hands unto God as the Apostle teacheth 1. Tim. 2. 8. Pray alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit pray with private prayer unto God and pray with publike prayer The prayer of one righteous man availeth much Iam. 5. 16. but the prayer of many righteous men availeth more vis unita fortior two are better then one a ioynt armie will doe more then two or three men Where two or three are gathered together there is Christ but where more there he is more gratiously Act. 2. 1. forsake not then the assembling of your selves together to common prayer as the manner of some is Heb. 10. 25. but come to the habitation of Gods house and the place where his honour dwelleth the Temple and their come not to heare a sermon only but to pray publike prayers for we must pray with all prayer and supplication with private and publike in the secret closet Mat. 6. 6. and in the publike Sanctuary Psal 150. 1. and we must doe this in the spirit too as the Apostle saith that is not out of fashion but of pure devotion not out of fained lips but with a true and syncere heart Heb. 10. 22. yea and we must watch hereunto with all perseverance without this the Devill will not away he is not cast out but by fasting and prayer yea and watching too Mat. 26. 41. watch therefore and pray that ye enter not into temptation or if ye doe enter that ye be not overcome but delivered from the evil thereof Mat. 6. 13. These be the severall pieces of the armour of God with these we must arme our selues fight if ever we will prevaile in this spirituall warfare It is not here as in the bodily warfare illic enim humanis viribus resistitur gladius opponitur gladio homo cum homine confligit vis vim ars artem excipit In the bodily warfare men doe commonly resist their adversaries with such weapons as their enemies doe impugne them withall but here alia est ratio 't is otherwise as Calvin notes upon the place In the spirituall warfare if we fight against Sathan and his complices with such weapons as they use in fighting against us then we are gone That is if we render evill for evill and rebuke for rebuke and give as good as they bring as the saying is then we are foyled by Sathan and his power For Quid interest inter provocantem provocatum Saith Tertullian that is what difference is there betweene him that doth provoke to evill and him that is provoked to evill by ill words or deeds Nisi quod ille prior in maleficio deprehenditur ille posterior But that one sinnes first and the other next And so both are foyled by Sathan causing them both to sinne We must not then fight with Sathan and his complices with such weapons as they bring rendring evill for evill or rebuke for rebuke But if we will fight to overcome we must not be overcome of evill but overcome evill with good Rom. 12. 21. That is if our enemies curse as they doe sometimes with bell booke and candle we must not curse againe but blesse If they persecute we must not persecute againe but pray for them and doe good to them that hurt us Mat. 5. 44. Against spirituall harmes we must use spirituall armes Against the works of darknes we must put on the armor of light that is vertues against vices As David being to fight with Goliah did cast from him the armour of Saul and tooke to him weapons farre unlike those that Goliah brought against him So must we when we goe out in the name of God against that uncircumcised Philistine we must cast from us carnall weapons and put on the armour of God even the grace of God his manifold graces as a compleate armour And namely and specially these graces here mentioned as the grace of truth and syncerity of religion the grace of righteousnesse and upright conversation the grace of preparation and purpose of heart to professe and practise according to the Gospell of peace the grace of faith in the promises of God in Christ the grace of hope and expectation of the promises beleeved the word of grace the grace of prayer and supplication to God both publike and private These graces are the armour of God and they are so called by way of comparison with corporall armour as that because they are given us of God for our defence against our spirituall enemies as that is against our corporall and are defensive and offensive both as other armours are and doe declare the bearers and wearers thereof to be the servants and souldiours of Christ as mens armour and coates shew to what Captaine they belong to and they are the meanes which we must use and whereby we must fight against our spirituall enemies as corporall armour is the meanes that we must use and fight in against our corporall enemies But herein as there is a paritie or liknesse so there is a great disparity or unlikenesse betwixt these and other corporall armour for that many times is not sufficient and therefore broken in pieces but this is alwayes sufficient so saith the Lord to this Apostle in another place my grace is sufficient for thee 2. Cor. 12. v. 9. Take then unto your selves this whole and sufficient armour of God these speciall graces here mentioned But here it may be enquired may not we also take the armour of men