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A04371	A spirituall trumpet exciting and preparing to the Christian warfare. Sounded first in the vtmost parts of the Lords campe, to one wing of the armie, now in the midst for the benefit of all. By William Iemmat, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at the Lechlade in Gloucester shire.	Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1624 (1624)	STC 14485; ESTC S100253	49,002	316

wee walke among these snares and thornes and rubs in our way we must get our feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace Eph. 6.15 Fiftly Prayer is the bond that ties all the other peeces together as there verse 18. Praying alwayes with all praier and supplication in the Spirit and watching therunto with all perseuerance Praier how it is helpfull Pray to espie a temptation when it commeth pray to bee able to vse the armour which God hath put vpon vs to be resolute and couragious for the truth to be deliuered from euill that wee may not enter into temptation or be left to our selues and Satans courtesie And when the battell goeth sore against vs crie aloud as Iehosaphat in the armie for aid and succour from God and say Lord rebuke Satan magnifie thy power in confounding him and strengthning mee and giue me grace to resist vnto bloud These are the maine weapons for resisting Two subsidiarie aids the deuill For the better managing whereof vse these two helps First keepe thy selfe in such a temper that thou maist alway enioy the benefit of a good and a pure conscience Dubbe it not with the filthinesse of any sinne let none be admitted willingly or wittingly nor continue vnrepented of for this would choake thy conscience when it should haue a voice to checke thee Yea labour on the contrary to fortifie and cheare it Hic murus aheneus esto Nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa vp with the sweet testimonie of vprightnesse and integritie So shall it be bold to speake for thee and answer Satan Marke also the motions and checks and recoilings of it and make a good vse of them because this tends to the application of the former weapons Secondly bee sure thou liuest indeed in the Communion of Saints As thou beleeuest it so make vse of it which is by ioyning thy forces with the rest of Gods people Pray for the brethren who endure the same skirmishes abroad in the world help them with thy counsell and experiences and be as readie also to take profit from them suffer the word of admonition yea craue it depend vpon their lips that they may feed thee descrie what policies of Satan thou hast met withall and wherein he is most happily repulsed Compare trials and conquests and counsels Ioyne all together and you shall all speed the better So did the Apostles and Disciples against the rage of the deuill in his instruments the chiefe Priests and their whole Councell Act. 4 23-31 And this be spoken of the second question Quest 3 Quest 3. In what manner should we resist the deuill or what are the conditions of sound resistance 1. Resist the deuill betimes Answ First resist him earely and timely and that both in respect of thy life and in respect of any one sin whereby hee would haue euill done or good left vndone 1. In the beginning of thy life 3. reas For the former Begin thy life with this holy combat and end it in the same Thy whole being on the face of the earth from thy birth-day to thy dying-day is a continuall warfare Thou art borne in a campe among souldiers and armour Thy Parents by their profession are of the traine band fighting vnder the conduct and colours of the Lord Iesus And canst thou expect immunitie expect it not no part of thy life is free from hazzards therefore let none be free from watchfulnes from resistance And the equity hereof stands vpon three other reasons First remember there is an old grudge betweene thee and Satan in this very respect He was enuious spightfull at the prosperitie of mankinde as soone as it began could not endure to see man so happy and himselfe so miserable laid about him how to strip our fathers and vs of all those robes of blessednesse wherewith God had cloathed vs and leaue vs naked to his owne condemnation and hee neuer ceased till he had effected his purpose And is not this a good argument to resist him timely What braue or generous spirit can put vp such an iniurie What no reuenge for so great an indignitie Ioh. 8.44 Shall Satan bee a man slayer from the beginning and wilt not thou be a deuill-slaier at least a resister of the deuill from thy beginning Did hee owe thee a spight when thou hadst done him no wrong and doest thou owe him no ill-will since he hath done thee the greatest wrong that can be Consider his forwardnesse to vndoe thee and be thou as forward to oppose him Secondly consider this that God hath scarce euer raised vp any notable instrument to repaire his decaied Church and defeat Satan of his malicious purposes but he hath presently bestirred himselfe to suppresse and hinder it and make it forcelesse Abel was a most faithfull and holy man very hopefull and likely to establish the pure worship of God in his familie and posteritie if he had liued therefore what should the deuill but cut him off quickly and shed his bloud by his owne brother Iehosua was willing and ready to doe much good for the Temple of the Lord at Ierusalem therefore what should Satan but stand at his right hand and resist him Paul Zech. 3.1 immediately vpon his conuersion set himselfe to preach the Gospell and plant Churches among the nations therefore what should Satan but set himselfe to stirre vp tumults and doe his best euery way to hinder him The Church 1 Thess 2.18 the Spouse of Christ is a woman Reuel 12.1 cloathed with the Sun that is in the robes of Christ the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4.2 and the moone vnder her feet that is disesteeming and trampling vpon all these vaine and transitorie things in the world and hath vpon her head a crowne of twelue starres that is professeth the doctrine of the twelue Apostles which shee accounts her crowne and glory This woman being married to Christ is often with childe by her husband to the subuersion of the kingdome of darknesse Now marke the disposition of the Prince of darknesse in this case vers 4. He still plaieth rex in the Church casteth downe a third part of the starres from heauen to earth that is many Preachers and Professors of the truth partly by erroneous doctrine and partly by a prophane course of life But especially if there be a childe to be ●orne who shall rule all nations with a rod of iron that is mightily subiect them to the obedience of the Gospell if so now hee vseth more than ordinary diligence to spoile the birth and deuoure the childe so saith the Spirit The dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be deliuered to deuoure her child as soone as it was borne Neuer doth there peepe a speciall beautifull plant in the garden of God but incontinently hee doth what he can to crop it away Therefore see herein his malice and learne by himselfe to resist him early

deuill Another marke is If it be for God for his sake for his glory which was impeached by this enemie and which we desire to recouer to him againe True enmitie as it commeth from God so it goeth to God and leadeth vs to him therefore to hate this euill one because wee wil reuenge our Lords cause and quarrell The most hate the deuill after their fashion but why only because hee would draw them into hell with himselfe and if it were not for those endlesse torments they would neuer stand vpon hating the deuill For we see that when they can put those torments out of minde by iollitie and securitie they will bee as busie as Bees in doing the deuils worke and cast off all the faithfull seruice of God it may be scoffe at it it may be persecute it So doe not they that hate him indeed They consider him as one that hath dishonoured God and would still dishonour him and doth daily in many and they would haue God honoured by many but especially by themselues And therefore he that hindreth shall be the obiect of their indignation and derestation A true naturall subiect indeed goeth to warre for the safetie of the King and his kingdome others for other respects so here The third marke is If due resistance bee made vpon him By vnlawfull things conceiue here what things are lawfull according to the counsell Resist the deuill and he will flie from you Euery one will resist him whom hee hates will stand against him vse all possible violence and repell him to his vttermost power So if thou hate the deuill and take him for thine enemie thou wilt resist him and vse him as an enemie And it is a slim barred when the parties agree in the maine matter of the contention Yet so doe carnall persons They say they hate and defie the deuill with all their heart and yet they yeeld him that which he mainly striueth for namely sinne and disobedience against God The beginning of resistance vpon the deuill The beginning of this resistance is by vnfained repentance when a man mourneth for his sinnes and grieueth that hee hath so long serued the deuill hee hates and loathes himselfe in this respect and seeth hee had perished for euer if hee had gone on in the old trade of sinne And those who feele not this godly remorse and sorrow neuer yet knew indeed what the enmitie in our Text meaneth By nature a man is only what the deuill made him and of himselfe he will so continue Therefore hee must feele a perfect change and hate and denie himselfe and so doing he begins to vex that hellish aduersarie who is troubled with nothing but the conuersion of sinners and the companions thereof with the meanes and effects The continuing and following of it Afterward he is resisted by a carefull and watchfull course of life while a man dissolueth his workes by mortification and endeauoureth after full holinesse and laboureth to keepe off his temptations by the armour of God And this wee haue limited by certaine conditions and markes in the treatise on Iam. 4.7 whereby much labour is now saued and this discourse becommeth short which otherwise should be large They therefore that ordinarily fall into the same sinnes and make little conscience of their waies They also that know in their own hearts that they commit sin securely without watchfulnesse to the contrary it is not against the purpose of their soule they doe it freely they humble not themselues for it as an hainous matter but entertaine it willingly and hold it peaceably with ease and quietnes of conscience All these and all that faile habitually in any of the conditions of right resistance doe not hate the deuill in truth but counterfeit an enmity which at last they shall see was deceiptfull and shall rue the time that they framed to themselues so childish an hatred against so manfull an enemie Fourthly if thou hatest the deuill indeed thou wilt auoide the places of his walke For so doe men with them whom they hate They will keepe aloofe off and not willingly come neare those places where such vse to haunt The places which the deuill doth most vse vnto are the dry places of the world Luke 11.24 as the Scripture speaks that is such as wherein is no moisture or refreshment for the soule but ignorance and profanenesse raigneth and a man shall rather be hindred than furthered in godlinesse As for example blinde parishes where is no vision ale-houses play-houses smoke-houses and all vngodly meetings Here the deuill hath a kinde of right and speciall power ouer the sonnes of men as in that instance of Tertullian In meo eam inueni Lib. de spectac c. 26. Eiusmodi daemoniis penetrabiles fiunt I tooke her vpon my owne ground so answered the deuill to the Exorcist which adiured and asked him why he inuaded a Christian woman being at a Play It is true hee compasseth the earth to and fro comes euen where the immortall seed of the word is sowen to steale it away and enters into the holiest closets where the heartiest praiers are preferred vnto God And in none of these may wee bee secure But in places of lewd resort and in the companionship of euill men he is specially present as the King and chiefe man speaking and scoffing and working by his instruments what himselfe would if hee had flesh to appeare in Enmity in the heart against this wicked one will either keepe the feet altogether out of such places which is best and safest or soone carry the feet from them which is the next point of wisdome So doth the blessed man Psal 1.1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsell of the vngodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornefull Which maketh strōgly against them that mingle themselues with such society and securely frequent such places or liue contentedly in such parishes This is amity not enmity Howsoeuer it is too much familiaritie and an ill signe that the heart is at too much league with the deuill A good heart would keepe further off him The fift marke is an earnest begging of strength from God against the deuill together with a faithfull depending vpon him for such strength as a man wil make all the friends hee can to disappoint and annoy one whom he hates he will call in company and not trust his owne only prouision and rather get too many on his side than want helpe so heere A speciall peece of our Christian armour is praier as the Apostle reckoneth Ephes 6.18 Praying alwaies with all praier and supplication in the Spirit c. We had need craue wisdome to espie temptations when they come and grace to repell them and power to reiect the pleasures of sinne or other wages of vnrighteousnesse whatsoeuer And that God would maintaine in vs this godly enmitie and keepe it for euer in the purpose of our heart to hate that