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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05416	The bruising of the serpents head A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse September 9. 1621. By Roger Ley Maister of Arts, and minister of Gods word in Shoreditch.	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.	1622 (1622)	STC 15568; ESTC S103082	34,316	56

your fond deuises so to reape the fruite of your owne folly In the handling of these words I meane not to stand so much vpon possession of the body and of Christ the deliuerer but that the subiect may something sute with the eminence of this place and the full scope and latitude of the words rather shew a recouering of the soule a renewing of the world and a subduing of sinne by the Gospell For the consent of interpreters extend this saying to this as the full and perfect meaning expounding pounding it not merely of a bodily dispossession but of the whole proceeding of Christ in the strength of his Kingdome The words yeeld the same of necessity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all his armour the entering his palace and diuiding his spoiles cannot limit this victory to a bodily deliuerance alone Nos quondam arma eius regnique militiam in ●●s suum redegit saith S. Hilarie Christ hath taken vs who were once the Deuills armour and force of his Kingdome and brought vs vnder his owne power The whole world is the house of Belzebub so Erasmus And Caluin quicquid corporibus praestitit Christus ad animas referri voluit whatsoeuer Christ performed to the body he would haue the same referd vnto the soule It is plainly showne from the 24. Verse of this Chapter following the Text immediately He compareth the nation of the Iewes to a man possest as the Deuills house S. Mathew maketh it more plaine Christ did driue him out and clensed the house by his Gospell but because they entertained his words with scorne and neglected him the house was empty then commeth the vncleane spirit with seauen worse then himselfe who finding the house emptie swept and garnished he maketh it his habitation and the end thereof is worse then the beginning So dangerous a sinne is Apostacy and so truly did hee threaten that wicked generation being rebels against the truth for what decayed house or miserable ruine of any building can compare with those emptie Iewes that would not acknowledge their Lord And that which Esay the Prophet spake of the soule Cap. 53. verse 4. He tooke our infirmities and bare our sicknesses meaning sinne and the maladies of the mind S. Mathew chap. 8. verse 17. applieth to casting out of Deuills and curing of diseases For both are the worke of one Lord for one and the same end to make vs acknowledge him the onely redeemer As the battering of the walls of a Citty is but a preparatiue to handy strokes and the ouerthrow of the dwellers so the casting out of Satan from the body the case and outside of the soule is a signe of sauing power that cureth both soule and body and will expell the enemie from all his vsurped places Dauid reasoned from one good turne to another 1. Samuel 17.36 Thy seruant slue both the Lyon and the Beare and this vncircumcised Philistim shall be as one of them seeing he hath defied the armies of the liuing God Moreouer the Lord that deliuered me from the paw of the Lyon and the beare he will deliuer me out of the hand of this Philistim in like manner these words of Christ take occasion from the miracle to expresse his Soueraigne might in redeeming from the paw of hell and destruction Let vs therefore take the whole world for a haunted house We find it so Iob 1.7 I come saith he from going to and fro in the earth and from walking vp and downe in it The greatest strength of it his weapons and munition the greatest wit and policy of it if it be foolishnesse with God as the Apostle calls it it cannot but sauour of the wisdome of this Serpent 1. Cor. 3. If these places be the prime of our microcosme the head and glory of all our Iland they cannot but be assaulted And if the cry of vices be not vntrue the walking of some dangerous spirit may raise vp our suspition and complaint Whose puisance to shew whose dealing to discouer and to vncase his villanie that lurketh in our presence as in it selfe is profitable so more auailable when the power of heauen is showne that ouerthrowes it In the seeing of both we may doe as the world vsually doth take part with the stronger side To one we mustioyne no staying in the middest Christ saith so in the last of these verses He that is not with me is against me That God is strongger and his quarrell safer the beginning speaketh euidently Christ entreth into the strong mans Palace Ouercommeth him taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted and deuideth his spoiles I find then in this Text that which either is exprest or implyed in euery Sermon a Doctrine and a Vse the strength of our Sauiour affirmed and our obedient seruice enforced In the first of these a power of vsurpation and a power of iurisdiction In the vsurped power we find two parts the strong mans industry He is armed and keepeth his Palace and his security his goods are in peace The lawfull power hath two parts Christs victory But when a stronger then he shall come vppon him and ouercome him and his gaine he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted and deuideth his spoiles The next Verse is a reproofe of vnprofitable seruants which make no vse of this benefit Hee openeth in them two things a base negligence and a vaine confidence First the negligent stander by that is neither hot nor cold is cast out as distasted by his palate he that is not with me is against me Secondly his vaine hope Let him heape and build and frame his workes together all is to be blowne away with the breath of Gods displeasure hee that gathereth not with me scattereth Of these parts in order His industry when a strong man armed keepeth his Palace The beginning hauing dwelt longer vpon the sence of the words to free them from obscurity each part may be past ouer with better expedition These first words note vnto vs the power of our enemie called the strong Man and his diligence he is armed and keepeth his Palace Hard it is to match with one so well prouided Our Sauiour speaketh of him thus Now is the Prince of this world cast out Iohn 21.31 And to shew we might imagine something aboue the world and the reach of mortall powers because the greatest Potentate is but an arme of flesh he is called the God of the world 2. Cor. 4.4 In whom the God of this world hath blinded the eies of them that beleeue not Hee is called the Prince of the power of the aire Ephes 2.2 Sunt magnapars corum quae in imperijs geruntur fiunt saith Peucer In the busines of Kingdomes they haue a hand and a great stroke Insidiantur atrocius ijs qui ad gubernaculasedent saith the same Authour They assault them most dangerously who sit at the helme of gouernment and he addeth the reason that the disease hauing gotten and possest