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A09462	Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1604 (1604)	STC 19747.7; ESTC S4051	89,009	206

are helpes whereby men being humbled for their sinnes before God obtaine peace and holinesse of life 2. Cor. 1. 9. We receiued sentence of death in our selues because we should not trust in our selues but in God which raiseth the dead Esa. 26. 16. Lord in trouble haue they visited thee they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them Hos. 5. 15. I will go and returne to my place till they acknowledge their fault and seeke me in their affliction they will seeke me diligently Psal. 78. 34. When he flue them they sought him and they returned and they sought God early Ierem. 31. 18. I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus Thou hast corrected me and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe conuert thou me and I shall be conuerted Heb. 12. 11. No chastisement for the present see●eth ioyous but grieuous but afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousnesse vnto them which are thereby exercised Psa. 30. 5. Weeping may abide at euening but ioy commeth in the morning Iohn 15. 2. Euery branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth ●●re fruite 1. pet 1. 6. Wherein ye reioyce though now for a season if need require ye are in heauinesse through many temptations 2. Cor. 1. 4. The God of all comfort which comforteth vs in all our tribulations that we may be able to comfort them which are in affliction by the comfort wherewith our selues are comforted of God Rom. 5. 3. We glory in afflictions knowing that affliction bringeth patience Heb. 2. 10. He did consecrate the Prince of their saluation through affliction We permit Chirurgians that they both bind vs lying diseased in our beds and seare vs with hot irons yea lanch and search our members with rasors and lastly we send them away vsually with friendly and kind speeches often with a golden fee for their thus handling vs. Shal we thē suffer so many things of a Chirurgian to cure a bodily disease and will we not giue God leaue to cure by afflictions the most festered diseases of our sicke soules Lidia What is to be gathered hence Paul By this we may gather that the afflictions of the godly are signes of their adoption Heb. 12. 6. Whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receiueth 7. If ye endure chastisement God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonne● And that they are to them the Kings high way to heauen Iames 1. 12. Blessed 〈◊〉 the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receiue the crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue 〈◊〉 2. Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction which i● but for a moment causeth vnto vs a farre more excellent and an eternall waight of glory 3 That God hath promised fauour mitigation of punishment his presence and deliuerance Philip. 1. 29. 1. Cor. 10. 13. God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted aboue measure but with temptation will giue deliuerance 2. Sam. 7. 14. Psal. 50. 15. Call vpon me in time of trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal. 121. 4. He that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleepe Esa. 43. 2. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the flouds that they do not ouerwhelme thee when thou walkest through the very fire thou shalt not burne neither shal the flame kindle vpon thee 3. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy sauiour 4 That in all troubles of the faithfull Christ is a companion 1. Pet. 4. 13. Reioyce that ye are partakers of the afflictions of Christ. 2 Cor. 4. 10. Euery where we beare about in our bodie the dying of Christ that the life of Iesus might also be made manifest in our bodies Col. 1. 21. 5 That the Angels are readie to defend such as feare God Psal. 34. 8. 2. Kings 6. 16. Feare not there are more with vs then against vs. Lidia But of all calamities the remembrance of death is fearful vnto me giue me I pray you some few preseruatiues against it Paul Against the feare of death note these preseruatiues First death it freeth the godly from the tyrannie of Satan sinne the world the flesh and eternall damnation yea frō infinite both perils and losses and doth place vs both safe and happie vnder the shadow as it were of Christs wings Secondly Christ by his death hath sanctified vnto vs both death and the graue 3 Christ is both in life and death gaine to the godly Phil. 1. 12. 4 Those consolations which the spirit of Christ doth suggest to the soules of the faithful do by many degrees surmount the dolors of death 5 The desire of that most bright and glorious beholding of God and the presence of those Saints which are departed before vs. 6 In stead of our bodies we shall be clothed with glory 2. Cor. 5. 1. 7 The sting of death namely sin is then so taken away as that that serpent can no more hurt vs. 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death where i● thy sting O graue where is thy victory Heb. 2. 15. That he might deliuer all them which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage 8 We should not so much thinke of our death as to take an exact account of our life For that man cannot die ill who hath liued well and he seldome dieth well that hath liued badly 9 The Angels they stand at our elbowes that so soone as a Saint departeth they may with al speed immediatly transport his soule into heauen Soules being once in heauen remain ther● till the last day of iudgement where they partly magnifie the name of God and partly do waite and pray for the consummation of the kingdom of glory and ful felicitie in body and soule Reu. 5. 8. And when he had taken the booke the foure beasts and the foure and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb hauing euery one harpes and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of the Saints 9. And they sang a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the seales thereof because thou wast killed and hast redeemed vs to God by thy bloud out of euery kinred and tong and people and nation Reuel 14. 2. I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes 3. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne and they cried with a loud voice saying How long Lord holy and true doest not thou iudge and auenge our bloud on them that dwel on the earth Lidia Yet for all this Satan in the time of temptation and at the houre of death wil go about to perswade me that these things do not belong vnto me what must I do then Paul Descend into your owne heart see whether you haue Gods spirit or no testifying vnto you that you are Gods child for as many as haue the spirit

then by the law that when I would do good euill is present with me 22. For I delight in the law of God concerning the inner man Mal. 3. 17. I will spare them as a man spareth his son that reuerenceth him 7 When one sinne is forgiuen all the rest are remitted also for remission being giuen once without any prescription of time is giuen for euer Rom. 11. 29. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance Act. 10. 43. To him also giue all the Prophets witnesse that through his name all that beleeue in him shall receiue remission of sinnes 8 That grace and faith are not taken away by fals of infirmitie but thereby are declared and made manifest Rom. 5. 20. Moreouer the law entred thereupon that the offence should abound neuerthelesse where sin abounded there grace abounded much more 2. Cor. 12. 7. And lest I should be exalted out of measure c. there was giuen vnto me a pricke in the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet me 8. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me 9. He said My grace is sufficient for thee 9 That all the workes of God are by contrarie meanes 2. Cor. 12. 9. My power is made perfect through weaknesse Lidia By the blessing of God I will not forget to practise these soueraigne remedies if Satan at any time seeke to take away my faith and to cut off this hand by which I must apply or to blindfold this eye by which I may behold Christ sitting at Gods right hand as Stephen did Let me heare I pray you the third assault and what it concerneth Paul The third assault is concerning Sanctification Lid. What is this temptation Paul The temptation is a prouoking to sinne according as the disposition of euery man and as occasion shall offer it selfe 1. Chron. 21. 1. And Satan stood vp against Israel and prouoked Dauid to number Israel Ioh. 13. 2. And when supper was done the diuell had now put into the heart of Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne to betray him Lid. Let me not be ignorant of Satans enterprises How will he allure to sinne Paul In this temptation the diuell doth wonderfully diminish and extenuate those sins which men are about to commit partly by obiecting closely the mercie of God and partly by couering or hiding the punishment which is due for the sin Besides there are helpes to further the diuell in this his temptation as first the flesh which lusteth against the spirit sometimes by begetting euill motions and affections and sometimes by ouerwhelming and oppressing the good intents and motions Gal. 5. 17. For the flesh lufteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrarie one to another so that ye cannot do the same things that ye would 19. Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest which are adulterie fornication vncleanenesse wantonnesse 20. Idolatrie witchcraft hatred debate emulations wrath contentions seditions heresies 21. Enuie murthers drunkennesse gluttonie and such like whereof I tell you before as I also haue told you before that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God Iam. 1. 14. But euery man is tempted when he is drawne away by his owne concupiscence and is entised Secondly the world which bringeth men to disobedience through pleasure profite honour and euill examples Ephesians 2. 3. Among whom we also had our conuersation in time past in the lustes of the flesh in fulfilling the will of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath as well as others 1. Iohn 2. 16. For all that is in the world as the lusts of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world Lid. How may I resist this temptation Paul Resistance is made by the desire of the spirit which worketh good motions and affections in the faithfull and driueth foorth the euill Gal. 5. 22. But the fruite of the spirit is loue ioy peace long suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith 23. Meekenesse temperancie against such there is no law 24. For they that are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lusts thereof 26. Let vs not be desirous of vaine glorie prouoking one another enuying one another Lid. Giue me here some preseruariues that I may resist Paul The preseruatiues are these 1 To account no sinne light or small Gal. 5. 9. Alitle leauen doth leauen the whole lumpe Rom. 6. 23. For the wages of sinne is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Iesus Christ our Lord. 2 To auoide all occasions of sinne To these rather agreeth the Prouerb vsed of the Plague longè tardè citò that is aloofe slowly quickly 1. Thessal 5. 22. Abstaine from all appearance of euill Iud. v. 23. And other saue with feare pulling them out of the fire and hate euen the garment spotted by the flesh 3 To accustome thy selfe to subdue the lesser sinnes that at the last thou maist also ouercome the greater Rom. 13. 4. 4. To apply thy selfe to thy appointed calling and alway to be busily occupied about something in the same 5 To oppose the law the iudgements of God the last iudgement the glorious presence of God and such like against the rebellion and loosenesse of the flesh Pro. 28 14. Blessed is the man that feareth alway but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into euill Gen. 39. 9. There is no man greater in this house then I neither hath he kept any thing from me but onely thee because thou art his wife how then can I do this great wickednesse and so sinne against God Lid. But alas I see Satan foyles me in many sins instruct me I pray you with some rules against them Say I be angrie vnaduisedly or desire to reuenge wrongs done vnto me how may I remedie this my sinne Paul Against vniust anger or priuate desire of reuenge Here meditate 1. iniuries they happen vnto vs by the Lords appointment for our good 2. Sam. 16. 10. 2. God of his great goodnesse forgiueth vs farre more sinnes then it is possible for vs to forgiue men 3. It is the dutie of Christian loue to forgiue others 4. We must not desire to destroy them whom Christ hath redeemed by his precious bloud 5. We our selues are in daunger of the wrath of God if we suffer our wrath to burne against our brother Forgiue saith he and it shall be forgiuen 6. We know not the circumstances of the facts what the mind was and purpose of them against whom we swell Bridles or externall remedies are these 1. in this we shall imitate the clemencie of the Lord who for a very great season doth often tolerate the wicked Learne of me for I am humble and meeke 2. There must be a pausing and time of delay betwixt our anger and the execution of the same Atheno●●rus counselled Augustus that he being angrie