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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84341	Good nevves for all Christian souldiers. Or The way to overcome the devill by the bloud of the lambe. As it was delivered in a sermon / by John Eachard, pastour of Darsham in Suffolke. Published according to order.	Eachard, John, 17th cent.	1645 (1645)	Wing E48; Thomason E271_6; ESTC R212214	40,704	48

thing And thus wee give God the glory of his holinesse and overcome the Devill and sight and reason that we are made holy in the holy bloud of the Lambe and of the holy Catholick Church For should the bloud of Adam make us unholy and should not the bloud of the Lamb make us holy when God saith we are holy and tels us how he hath made us holy for Jesus that he might sanctifie the people with his own bloud suffered without the gate Heb. 13. 12. Thus by our word of testimony of the bloud of the Lambe God hath the glory of his holinesse the Devill and reason are redargued and overcome and our soules comforted by beleeving Reason 2 A second Reason Why because by the word of our testimony of the bloud of the Lamb we give glory to the wisdome of God and give him the glory of his wisdome for whereas 't is the practise of the Devill to tempt men to blaspheme God by counting him unwise as to count preaching of the Gospel foolishnesse and the bringing Infants to holy Baptisme a foolish thing as an Anabaptist said and by counting him unwise in his providence as all doe that are discontented with their estates Now the word of our testimony of the bloud of the Lamb perswadeth us to beleeve that God is wisest and best knoweth how to save Infants by Baptisme as 1 Pet. 3. 21. and therefore commandeth them to be brought to him as all true Churches have done And he knoweth by his wisedome to save them that beleeve by preaching the Gospel which the world calls foolishnesse Also this faith perswadeth us to beleeve God is wisest and best knoweth what estate is best for us that so against the Devill sense and reason we wholly resigne our selves unto his wise providence and in that respect to be thankfull in all estates as Rev. 1. 5. As thus the faithfull say in all estates health or sicknesse wealth or povertie Vnto him that hath loved us and washed us from our sinnes in his owne bloud c. he glory and wisdome And thus Job overcame the Devill that would have had Job charge God foolishly as if he had been unwise in his providence No The Lord hath given health wealth and children and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the Name of the Lord As if he should say Blessed be his wisdome I am his let him deale with me according to his wisdome Many men would have cryed out I am undone I shall starve have I served God for this I le serve him no more I le goe serve the Queene of Heaven as the Jewes said Jer. 44. 17. No but he says the Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken blessed be the Name of the Lord He is wisest blessed be his wisdome I le serve him still though he kill me yet will I trust in him Job 13. 15. So when we see and feele sinne rebelling in us and see our houses burnt and all we have taken away and our bodies sick and sore then to give glory to the wisdome of God that God hath throwne on Christ the iniquities of us all the sinnes I see and feele and weep for and mortifie Christ hath borne them all in his own body on the tree he is wise enough to let sinne remaine in me to my feeling and yet by the bloud of the Lambe to make me without fault before his throne Thus the Devill and sense and reason are overcome and all the glory given to Gods wisdome Reason 3 A third Reason Why we overcome him by the word of our testimony of the bloud of the Lamb because wee give God thereby the glory of his truth for this is the practise of Satan to make men count God a lyer as to Eve that shee should not die at all and all that beleeve not make him a lyer because he beleveeth not the testimony that God hath given of his Sonne namely that the bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sinne but he that beleeveth this hath sealed that God is true Joh. 3. 33. he hath set to his seale that the bloud of the Lamb hath made him cleane from all sinne for what maketh a man beleeve but that they judge him faithfull and true Faith then in this bloud is the acknowledging of Gods truth which is an high honour given to God for he maketh a great reckoning and account of this truth Thus faith in the bloud of the Lamb gets victory over the Devill when he perswades men not to beleeve but maketh God false but faith in the word of our testimony of the bloud of the Lamb testifieth that the seed of the woman hath broke the Serpents head and so the Devill and infidelitie are overcome Reason 4 A fourth Reason Why for this faith gives glory to God in acknowledging his Almightie power for this is the practise of Satan to perswade men against the power of God that it was impossible as he perswaded Cain his sinnes were greater then could be forgiven him Many of the promises of God to his children are of things which seeme impossible yet faith gives assent thereunto and testifieth that God is Almightie as Abraham when he heard that he should have a sonne by Sarah when shee was barren and when it ceased to be with her after the manner of women here was a battell of faith against sight and reason and above ●ope yet he beleeved under hope and gave glory unto God that he which had promised was able to do it and got victory So it is against sight and reason that the justified should have sin dwelling in them as long as they live and rebelling and yet the blood of the Lamb should take away their sins before the Throne of God this cannot be said Bildad against Job 25. For how should a man be clean that is born of a woman and therefore reproved of God for it Job 42. 7. but faith in the word of our testimony in Christs blood teacheth us to believe the Almighty power of the blood of the Lamb that it is able to do it against sight and reason and perswasion of the Devill and gives glory to the Lamb that his blood was able to do it that promised that the new covenant was sealed in his blood i. that our sins and iniquities should be remembred no more and thus the Devill and reason are overcome Reason 5 A fifth Reason why we overcome him by the word of our testimony in that blood because so we give glory to the mercy of God which is the proper object of Faith For when Satan perswades a poor sinner that there is no mercy for him but anger and wrath by our testimony of the blood of the Lamb wee are perswaded that God is rich yea infinitely abundant in mercie and therefore believeth the pardon of his sins from the rich price of Christs blood that was more worth then all the world for while men are perswaded by