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A72164	The conquest of temptations, or Mans victory over Satan especially, the great assaults, at the agony of death, full of very strong and effectuall consolations, to sustaine and comfort the weakest heart, in the greatest conflicts which can befall a Christian in the vvhole course of of life, and approach of death / gathered by the holy and deuout labour of Iohn Gerard, doctor of diuinitie, and superintendent of Heldburge ; newly Englished by Rich. Bruch, minister of Gods word.	Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637.; Bruch, Richard, minister of Gods word.	1614 (1614)	STC 11767.5; ESTC S5215	71,686	143

The loue of this life The Tempted I Could wish that I might yet enioy a more lasting vse of this life and the profits thereof I could wish that I might possesse yet longer the blessings of God granted vnto me in this life The Comforter TAke héede that thou doe not make it manifest by the inordinate loue of this life that thou doest not truly loue the chiefest good Anselm de mensura crucis lit E. So doe we owe our whole heart to the loue of God that whatsoeuer is giuen thereof to another is withdrawne from God Hée loues God the lesse which loues any thing with him which he loues not for him Thy heart is a vessell but it is full of the loue of the world therefore there is no place for the true loue of God to enter powre out the loue of the world that the loue of God may enter What doth this present life so much delight thée which is wholly a dangerous and hard warfare What other thing is it to liue long then long to be tormented Cypria Serm. de mortal pag. 215. and long to sinne If in the house of thy dwelling the walles should shake for age the roofe aboue thée tremble the house being now wearied and fainting vnder the buildings that slide downe with age should threaten a ruine néere at hand wouldest thou not goe forth with all hast If while thou wert sayling a troublesome and stormie tempest the waues being raised vp by the force of the winde should fore-shew shipwracke to come wouldest thou not make toward the hauen with all hast Behold the world shakes and slides away and testifies the ruine of it selfe not now by the olde age but by the end of things and doest not thou giue God thankes doest thou not reioyce on thine owne behalfe that being taken away with a more timely end thou art saued from ruines shipwrackes and imminent plagues Ambros in ca● 8. ad Rom. Euen as the Sea stirred vp by contrarie stormes doth rise and maketh a tempest to those that saile so the world being stirred by the conspiracie of the treacherous doth trouble the mindes of the faithfull and the enemie deales so peruersely that wée are ignorant what wée should first shunne For if power doth cease to be against vs he stirres the mindes of priuate men If these be appeased hée blowes vp a combustion by those of our owne house And if this also be allayed by his cunning he makes discord betwéene brethren themselues so that the house being shaken at the foure corners one some part begins to fall wherefore with one consent Christians must flye hence For they ought to follow the example of the holy man Simeon which knowing that they doe here wage warre against treacherie required that hée might be let to depart in peace Surely this life appeares to be a pretious Nut outwardly but if it be opened with the knife of truth there will be found nothing in it but vanitie and emptinesse If there be any good in this life that is eminently nay incomparably better in that other That is in faith this in fight that in the time of peregrination this in the eternity of mansion that is in labour this is in rest that is in the way this in the Countrey August trac vlt. in Ioh. that is in the worke of action this in the reward of contemplation that declines from euill and doth good this hath none euill from which it may decline it hath great good which it may enioy that fights with the enemie this raignes without an enemie that is valiant in aduersity this feeles no aduersitie that bridles carnall lusts this spends the time in spirituall delights that is troubled with the care of ouercomming this is secure in the peace of victorie that is helped in tentations this without any tentation reioyceth in the helper himselfe that helpes the néedie this is there where it findes none néedie that forgiues other mens sinnes that her owne may be pardoned vnto her this neither suffers that which shée may forgiue nor doth that which she may require to be forgiuen vnto her That is scourged with euils least it should be lifted vp with prosperitie this in so great fulnesse of grace wants all euill that without any tentation of pride it may cleaue to the chiefest good That discernes good and euill this sées those things which are onely good Chuse therefore which is to be preferd before other Lay aside the inordinate desire of the fading life least thou léese the inheritance of the abiding So hold those things which are of this world that notwithstanding thou be not held by them Let the earthly substance be possest of thée but let it not possesse thée Let that which thou hast be vnder the dominion of thy minde least thy minde while it is ouercome with the loue of earthly be it selfe more possessed of the things themselues Cypria Serm. de morta Why doest thou not make hast to better things Now heauenly things succéede earthly and great things the small and eternall things the perishing XL. The separation from Wife Children and Kinsfolkes The Tempted I Must leaue my most sweet children I must leaue my most faithfull wife I must leaue my most pleasant kinsfolkes who shall prouide for my wife and children who will be their defender and Patrone The Comforter IT is God which calles himselfe the Father of Orphanes Psa 68.6 and the defender of widdowes commend them to his Patronage and defence God which is thy God Gen 17. will also be the GOD of thy seede Thy children are not thine onely but they are also Gods nay they are more Gods then thine seeing he hath bestowed more things vpon them canst thou therefore doubt of the fatherly care of God towards them The Prophet of the Lord doth testifie that he hath beene young and also olde Psa 37.25 yet neuer did he see the righteous forsaken or his seed to begge their bread Psa 112.2 The generation of the righteous shall be blessed at length God hath promised to thy children the heauenly treasures hée will not suffer them beléeue mée to perish for hunger Hée hath giuen them life he wil not deny them the maintenance of life he hath giuen thē a body that which he hath wonderfully framed he wil also kindely sustaine But take héede that thou be not so carefull for the bodily safety of thy wife and children that in the meane time thou neglect the care of thy soule Luk. 14.26 If any man come to me saith Christ and doth not hate his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brothers and Sisters yea and his owne soule he cannot be my Disciple Matth. 10.37 that he expoundeth else-where so He that loueth Father or Mother more then mee is not worthy of me and he that loueth sonne or daughter more then me is not worthie of me Behold God calles thée by

death take héede thou doe not so loue thy wife and children that therefore thou refuse to follow God calling thée with a readie heart The loue of the heauenly Father must be preferred before the loue of children Ambro. in cap. 12. p. 111. Bern. Serm. 26. in Cant. Col. 569. August Epist 6. ad Vid. the loue of our Bridegroome Christ must be set before the loue of wife the benefit must not more be loued then the benefactour What shall I speake of kinsmen if thou leauest those that are deare thou shalt receiue them héereafter more déere For wée doe hope on a most faithfull promise that when we goe out of this life whence being to depart we haue not lost but sent before some of ours that are departed we shall come to that life where by how much they shall be better knowne of vs so much they shall be dearer vnto vs and without the feare of any dissension amiable If thy kinsmen be déere vnto thée let Christ be déerer which is thy brother If it be a pleasant thing to be here conuersant with thy kinsmen Heb. 12.22 let it be more pleasant vnto thee that thou commest to the mount Sion ●er 23. and Citie of the liuing God the heauenly Hierusalem and to the company of innumerable Angels and to the congregation of the first borne which are written in heauen and to God the iudge of all and to the spirits of iust and perfect men XLI The stopping vp of the eares in Death The Tempted I Feare lest that my eares waxing deafe in the agony of death I shall be destituted of all consolation of heart and too much vexed with the terrours of Satan The Comforter THe inward comfort of the spirit is of greater force then all outward consolations Rom. 8.16 The holy spirit giues testimonie to our spirit that wee are the sonnes of God the same spirit doth raise vp our spirit when wee beginne to wrastle with death and to be troubled in heart for he is the true and greatest comforter Ioh. 15.26 When thine eyes waxe dimme in death the holy Ghost will giue vnto thée the true illumination of the heart when thine eares waxe deafe in death he will giue vnto thée the quickening consolation of the soule Where mans consolation shall cease there Gods consalation will begin Behold the examples of the Martyrs how prompt and ready they were to the most exquisite punishments the whéeles séemed to them Roses the sparkes of fire spirituall bracelets the yron chaines golden crownes the torments ornaments the two edged swords beames of the heauenly light who hath wrought this in their hearts who hath comforted them in sorrowes but the holy Ghost His consolation is of greater force then the accusation of the whole world yea of the prince of the world What Doest thou thinke that the holy Ghost doth onely lift vp our hearts in the course of this life and doth idlely rest in the agony of death Dost thou thinke that the habitation of the holy Ghost is destroyed Gal. 2.20 when the tabernacle of the body is destroyed Ephes 3.2 Christ liues in thée and dwels by faith in thy heart grace is powred out in his lips in the fragrancy of this grace hee will make glad thine heart Psal 45 9. although thine hearing perish his spéech will ●ierce to thine heart although the dores of thine eares be shut Esa 61.1 The spirit of the Lord is vpon him the Lord hath annointed him to preach the Gospell to the afflicted hée hath sent him to binde vp the broken in heart to preach fréedome to the captiues and opening of prison to those that are bound Esa 50 4. The Lord hath giuen vnto him a learned tongue that hee may know to comfort sustaine the afflicted in a seasonable time Cleane to him with firme confidence of thy heart commend thy selfe to him with godly prayers hee will comfort thée in the seasonable time he will raise vp thine heart with the word of the Gospell when the arrowes of death are fastened in it hee will binde vp thy heart when the wounds of death are inflicted on it hée will preach deliuerance to thy heart when thou art led captiue of death as it were a pray he will preach opening to thy heart when thou art thrust into the prison of death XLII The apparant in vtilitie of Redemption IF Christ hath redeemed vs from death why must I as yet dye How shall death be ouercome by Christ when hee shewes his daily prayes as it were the trophees of his victory The Comforter EVen as Christ hath saued his people from their sinnes Mat 11.21 not that sinne may no more dwell in their flesh séeing in this life they remayne solde vnder sinne but that he may not condemne them for euerlasting as being regenerate and beléeuing so also hee hath redéemed vs from death Rom. 8.10 not that we should not any more be subiect to temporall death séeing that our body is dead or subiect vnto death for sinne but that wee might be frée from the bands of eternall death The death of the soule is the true death from this Christ hath redéemed vs sustaining the punishment for vs. Swéet Iesus hath also made temporal death it selfe swéet vnto vs that it is death in name alone but in very déed sléep nay the end of death and the beginning of true life Those that are truly godly doe dye daily 1 Cor. 15.24 by reason of those continuall calamities by which they are oppressed in this life therefore their death is the end of death but by the gate of death they passe to a quiet and eternall life Ose 13.14 therefore their death is the beginning of true life The death of Christ is the poyson of our death although therefore this poyson hath not altogether kild our death for it doth as yet moue it selfe and fastens his dart in our héele yet this poyson is gone to the heart of death it will come to passe therefore 1 Cor. 15.26 that at length by the force thereof it dye death is that last enemie whom Iesus Christ at length in the last day shall vtterly destroy Luk. 11.22 and comming vpon this strong armed man with greater strength shall take away powerfully from him all his pray Death must be beheld with spirituall eyes and it will appeare that his wrath is but vaine without strength as being captiuated and ouercome of Christ It layes snares for the life of the godly and behold it brings them to the true life It attempts to kill their soule and body with his darts and behold the soule being trée and without hurt of all wound of death the body alone is wounded which same also in the time to come shall bee snatcht out of the Iawes of death It endeauours to deliuer the godly to eternall death and behold it deliuers them to eternall life LXIII The horrour of the