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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55567	A sanctuary for the tempted: being a discourse on Christ's friendly admonition to Peter Wherein the fall and rising of Peter, is at large considered: the craft, potency, and malice of Satan (that arch-enemy of our salvation) discovered: his various wiles. stratagems and machinations invalidated: several choice and excellent Gospel-truths handled, and cleared (from the calumnies and objections of gainsayers.) ... Delivered in sundry sermons, at first; and now, published for the benefit of God's church in general. To which is added, four sermons, preach'd upon sacramental occasions. By Thomas Powel, preacher of the Gospel, and one, whom Satan hath winnowed.	Powell, Thomas.	1679 (1679)	Wing P3075; ESTC R30536	152,491	435

Capel in his Book of Temptations tells us That we are to Pray for three things ●…st Strength to Conquer Satan Secondly Wisdom that we may not be ignorant of his Wiles 3dly Long-Suffering that we may hold out with him * By this it was that Luther stir'd up Melancthon † Maximilian the Emperour was so delighted with that Sentence of Paul Si Deus nobiscum If God be with us who shall be against us that he caused it to be Written upon the Walls in most Rooms of his Palace ‖ The Devil is a Beaten Enemy he knows no March but Running away Certus enim promisit Apollo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost. * Demosthenes being asked What was the First Precept of Eloquence Answered To Pronounce well Being asked What was the Secoud answered the like And so the Third in like manner Sure I am the Precepts of Religion the First Second Third are Humility † Humility was the First Lesson taught to Adam after his Fall 2 Cor. 12. v. 7. Dust thou art and to Dust thou shalt return ‖ Quam firma sit fides nostra ostendit Tentatio Gerhard † VVhen Grapes come to be pressed then is discerned what is in them † Nemo vires suas in pace cognoscit si enim Bella desunt virtutum experimenta no prodeunt Improvidus est miles qui fortem se in pace gloriatur Greg. Mor. l. 23. c. 18. ‖ Tentatio etiam purgat Ad pestiferū amoris proprii mundani humorem extrahendum multis granis Aloes Medicus Christus utitur Gerhard Meditat. 11. pag. 171. * Schola crucis Schola lucis Cypr. Serm. 4. De Immort † Qui tribulantur sacras Literas melius intelligunt sed Securi eas legunt sicut Ovidii carmen * Worldly Felicity is but a Painted Felicity ‖ Cogita devota anima salvandi difficultatem facile excuties omnem Securitatem Gerhard † As Incense can send up no Smoak or sweet Perfume till it come into the Fire So the Prayers of the Saints do never Ascend so forcibly as in their Fiery Tryals * Oratio sine malis est sicut avis sine alis Praver until Affliction stings is like a Bird without VVings † Deus irascitur cum non irascitur Bern. ‖ Medicina non p●…a castiga●… non dam●…tio Aug. * Our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will be our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 † Grace in its Exercise appears Glorious ‖ Per angusta ad augusta per Spinas ad Rosas per motum ad quietem per crucem ad coelum contendamus * Majora certamina majora sequuntur praemia Tertul ad Scapulam Mr. Isaac Ambroses VVar with the Devil Book 1. Pag. 2. Sect. 2. Esq Polhil's Treatise of Faith ‖ The Devil strikes at Faith i. e. Saving Faith and in striking at that he strikes at all the rest But to say He strikes at Historical Faith is not so proper because that doth not comprehend the Main that Satan designes the Ruin of though in striking at Saving Faith he doth also strike at Temporal For the Devil would hinder such a Faith as his own if he could † No such irreconcilable Enemies as Faith the Devil 1 Ioh. 1. 3. Rom. 5. 1. † The Doctrine of the Trinity of the Creation of the World of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ of the Resurrection of the Body and of the Re-uniting of Soul and Body are quarreled with by Humane Reason See more of this in Pag. 219. USE Second Of Exhortation BRANCH 1. BRANCH II. Non progredi est regredi * The Promises are made to True Faith be it Small or Great Hierom upon the Beatitudes observes there the Promises that are made to Weak Grace ‖ Unbelief is a God-Affronting Sin Mr. Danson's Vindication of himself against Ives Pag. 62. † His Intercession is a Permanent Importunity ‖ Sermen 13. on Heb. 7. 25. Pag. 152. To grant Apostacy would make Election Changeable Mr. Buckly in his Gospel-Covenant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost. * De Bono Persever ‖ Haec Perseverantia dicitur esse continua Fidei professio fructuum Fidei demonstratio quoniam Electi sem●…er retinent Fidem aliquos Fidei fructus Semper sunt instar ●…oris Plantatae ad rivos aquarum Psal. 1. v. 3. Semper ma●… Jehovae sustentantur Psal. 37. v. 24. Sunt similes mon●… Sionis qui non dimovetur † Theolog. Didact Scholast Pag. 766. Cap. 29. De Conservatione Electorum * Christ. Theolog. Pag. 184. Cap. 32. De Sanctorum Perseverantiâ † Institut Lib. 2. Chap. 5. Sect. 3. ‖ Sicut impossibile est massam â pasta separare c. Melancthon in Epistol●m ad Rom. Cap. 8. Pag. 170. † B. Usher's Body of Divinity * The Shaking of the Olive Tree Pag. 38●… 1 Ioh. 3. 3. A Practical Commentary on Jude By Tho. Manton D. D. Pag. 57 c. Doctor Jacomb on Romans pag. 83. Mr. Cases Mount Pisgah Part 1. Pag. 39. c. * O felix Culpa quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem ‖ Arminiaus On Iude Pag. 55. † Vide Leigh on the Promises Pag. 236. * That is the most Barren Heart shall abound with Grace ‖ The greatest Inducement that I know of whereby to perswade Sinners to get into Christ is 1. The Misery that they are in by being out of him 2. The Happiness they would be in were they in him * What were the Old World the better for Hearing of an Ark when they would not get into it So what are we the better for Hearing of Christ if we will not get into him † Restituet eum Deus qui antea morti vicinus fuit longiore vita donabit Mollerus * Valentinian the Emperour did decree Capitali sententiae subjugandum That he who was openly Convicted of this ●…me of Slander should Die for it And Pope Gregory did decree That such a Person should be Excommunicated † The Soul is the Princely Part crowned with Reason It is Dei insignita imagine It carries in it some Faint Idea or Resemblance of the Trinity Bern. ‖ By Nature there is a very Chaos upon the Understanding * Memory is in a great part the Understanding knowing Things as they are past Therefore Austin and others following him make Three Powers or Faculties in the Rational Part of a Man His Understanding his Will and Memory which they call the Created Trinity ‖ The Will is the Primum Mobile the great Wheel in the Soul that moves all the Affections † Cesset voluntas propria infernum non ●…rit * The Mariners Compass being struck with Thunder causeth the Point of the Needle to stand wrong Man's Nature being Corrupted causeth the Will to point wrong It is strongly bent and inclin'd to that which is Evil. † Abnegare seipsum dictur qui abnegat volunt●…tem suam Brug ‖ The Affections are treated of severally by the Philosopher the Physitian the Orator and the