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A93394	Satans temptation, and Gods preservation: or Satans policy and Gods mercy most lively and amply set forth in the discovery of the several temptations, desertions, troubles, and afflictions, that have accompanied the life of Robert Smith of Ludshelf, alias Litchfield, in the county of Southampton, gent. Wherein is discovered the method that Satan took in the several gradations thereof. With an accompt of the life of the author. Published for the benefit, comfort, and support, of any of Gods servants, that now are, or shall be, cast into such a deplorable condition.	Smith, Robert, fl. 1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4163; ESTC R231576	19,074	94

doth not Times and Seasons belong unto the Father Mar. 13.32 Was not murmuring Israel of old taxed with this fault They Limited the Holy one of Israel Psalm 78.41 Is it not then better in patience to possess ones Soul and with Devout Heart as well as Tongue to Pray Thy will be done Oh Lord and to Wait for the Lord as they that watch for the Morning Psalm 130.6.7 for with the Lord is Mercy and plenteous Redemption And to lay hold on the Covenant of Grace which although it be not with me as it should Yet I may say as David did in another case he hath made an Everlasting Covenant with me 2 Sam. 23.5 ordered in all things and sure I must confess Oh Sinner Satan Thy method is good and if any way is left for Thy Salvation it is by laying hold of his Covenant of Grace But VI. Suggestion Thou wantest Faith and Repentance the necessary qualifications of the Covenant and therefore that doth not belong to Thee Thou speakest much of Gods Covenant which indeed to them to whom it doth belong is full of Grace and Mercy Psalm 25.10 but it is to them that keep his Covenants Thou hast broken Covenant with him and Thou wantest Repentance to Repent Thee truly of the breach thereof and Faith to believe that upon that Repentance which Thou hast made that God hath forgiven Thee Jeremiah 31.34 and according to his Covenant will remember Thy Sins no more Thou that can'st not trust God for daily supplies do'st Thou think that Thou hast Faith And what if God hath made such enestimable Promises and made such a Feast of Fat things Isa 25.6 if Thou wantest a Hand to reach them unto Thee what art Thou the better Thou sayest Sinner Oh mine Enemy that I want Faith and indeed so I do for every Man may say with the Blessed Disciples Lord encrease our Faith And altho thou grantest the Premises yet thou deniest the conclusion but I hope I can say through Grace Lord I do believe help thou mine unbelief Joh. 9.38 There are some Divine Characters that are stampt upon true Faith It works by Love and it breaths by Hope It works by Love to God to Man If I find in my self such an enflamed Love that if my Saviour would accept me to Grace and Mercy I could be content to endure those Flames that were represented visibly by the Flames of an Oven to my Bodily Eye for the sake of my Blessed Lord And also if I find in my self an hearty Love to Man by which the Apostle saith 1 John 3.14 We may know our Transition from Death to Life because we Love the Brethren And if good works be an Evidence of true Faith what better work can there be then to Love our Brother And this was the signal badge of being Disciples of the Blessed Jesus Even Love to one another Joh. 13.35 If I Love those that are of a different Judgment for the good that is in them can'st thou Oh Satan deny this to be true Faith This is one of the Weapons by which thou art made to fly and by it Thou and the World art overcome 1 Joh. 5.4 'T is by this Faith Christ is brought into the Soul and in him all those God-Covenanting Promises which he hath made of being our God of puting his Fear in our Hearts of taking away the Heart of Stone and giving Hearts of Flesh c. These are links of that Golden Chain of Love wherewith God hath bound himself to his People and left it upon Record for their Comfort This is the River Psa 46.4 the Streams whereof shall make glad the City of our God But thou sayest Oh mine Enemy I want also Repentance 't is true beside our general Repentance we need daily Repentance for daily Sin he whose Body was washed by the Water of Repentance for former Sins Jo. 13.10 had need to wash his feet for continued Transgressions even in that Fountain opened to the House of David Zac. 13.1 and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem But how knowest thou oh Satan that I want that Repentance which God will accept 't is not such a degree of any Grace that is required so there is so much to make it true and saving If Confession if Contrition and Compunction of Soul accompanied with a sincere forsaking of Sin in Resolution may be judged Badges of the Divine Order of Penitents I hope with all Humility to pretend to be a little Member of that Heavenly Society And surely if all the forementioned Ingredients are necessary to make this Holy Oyntment of Repentance my condition hath afforded me much opportunity of joyning in making the Composition But if I wanted Faith and Repentance to whom should I go but to the giver of both Phil. 1.29 To you it is given to believe And to them God granted Repentance unto Life Act. 11.18 Oh my Soul wait upon Thy God for from him and him alone cometh Thy help and Thy Salvation Psa 43.5 I cannot blame Thee Satan Oh Sinner to be careful of Thy Salvation Eternal Weal or Woe depends upon it and therefore if Thou wilt hearken to me I will tell Thee a way how to do it VII Suggestion The way to save Thy Soul is to destroy Thy Life This is the only way that is left and if Thou wilt do it I will shew Thee a way how Thou mayest accomplish Thy desired End This is strange Sinner Oh subtle Serpent that a thing of such contrariety and inconsistency should concur in Harmony and my designed Felicity Must I break the Divine Law of the Supream Legislator and become a Felo de se c. and promise my self impunity nay benefit thereby Certainly if ever thou wert Transformed into an Angel of Light 2 Cor. 11.14 't is now At this time we may truly say Satanas inter filios Dei for thou to pretend my Salvation in such a manner as intends my Souls Destruction and then to suggest to me such a way so ridiculous and fantastical in a thing not to be named without Laughter and Detestation Must my Mother be an instrument of my Consumption and Anihilation that was a means of my Conception and Production Can a Man enter into his Mothers Womb and be Born again Joh. 3.4 Had not thy Ridicularity been to others formerly known and now to my self it would scarcely have been believed as having no affinity with thy pretended Sagacity It must confess my long denied Rest and continued Conflict hath so weakened my understandings that I am not fully Master of my own Reason and therefore a fit subject for thy delusion and I am so strongly and violently Assaulted with thy restless Temptation forcing me as it were against my will to my Bodies destruction that had those ways at another time been by me used it certainly had attained its final

accomplishment But loe here the goodness of God was seen in my Preservation who is able to keep us all by his Almighty Power 1 Pet. 15. Through Faith unto Salvation and will not suffer us to be Tempted above measure 1 Comin 10.13 But will with the Temptation make a way for our escape But will not thou oh Satan for all this be quiet Hast thou been all this while raising thy Batteries and keeping me thine Enemy waking with the Roaring Canons of Terrors and amazement and art thou now resolved upon the Storming of my weakned Garrison Well come on and if by the Power of the Almighty I hold out now Rom. 8.37 I shall be more then Conquerour If I have him for my Captain whom thy audacity was so great as to Tempt to the casting himself from the Pinacle of the Temple Matth. 4.5 6. Hebrews 2.18 He is able to succour them that are Tempted and tho in my self as weak as David yet being strengthned by him who is all strength and Mighty to Save Isa 63.1 I shall be able to Encounter and overcome thee that art the Goliah of my Soul And though thy last Darts are terrible and thou a cunning Archer and hast wounded me sore Yet my Bow hath abode in strength Genesis 49.13 being made strong by the Mighty God of Jacob. Christian Reader I Have by these imperfect Delineaments given thee a Survey of my Pilgrimage into the Wilderness and Red Sea of Affliction Give me leave now to give thee with as much brevity as may be my approaches to the Land of Canaan About the end of February towards the beginning of the Spring began the Spring of my Comfort Being tired with the too frequented Prison of my Chamber from May preceeding I had a desire to go to the Fire in the Kitchen of my Brothers House and seeing the Blessed Bible which were it the Talmud among the Jews and Alcoran amongst the Turks would be used with more Veneration I Read therein and those things in my fore-past Conflict and Desertion which were full of Obscurity and Darkness now began to afford Comfort and Support Therefore let not the Atheist and Antiscripturist doubt of its verity by my experiment Nor the Disconsolate fear of its affording matter of Consolation in the time of the greatest Agonies And continuing so for some time and Reading over those Scriptural Councels that I had formerly perused and remembring those Grave Advices given me by sundry Eminent Divines and Friends the beams of Divine Light and Love began to shine And the Sun of Righteousness to appear with healing in his Wings Mal. 4.2 And as my inward Man began to be Revived my outward Man began to be Refreshed and using those things which are by Sacred appointment ordained for Comfort and Refreshment by me formerly rejected I arrived to that degree of Comfort that hath by the Mercy of God chearfully supported me above this Twenty Years Totally freed from the dregs of that bitter Cup And through the goodness of my Blessed Preserver I hope for the continuance of the Peace and Tranquility which I at this present enjoy both in Soul and Body For although I cannot but acknowledge my multiplied Transgressions and that which is great matter of Humiliation That I have not rendred according to the Mercy received 2 Chron. 32.25 Yet this is matter of Rejoycing to have a Conscience void of Offence Act. 24.16 towards God and Man And therefore Praise the Lord oh my Soul and forget not all his benefits who hath doth and will I hope Deliver me from the Power of Sin and Satan Col. 1.13 and preserve me safe unto the Everlasting Kingdom of his dear Son And therefore Allelujah Salvation Dominion and Power be given to him that sits upon the Throne Rev. 5.13 and to the Lamb for evermore And now Christian Reader having given thee a true and Impartial account of this my doleful Conflict and of my Birth and course of Life precedent thereunto Give me leave for a conclusion that God may have the Glory of all to give thee a short Narrative of my Life subsequent and of my Estate and Condition to this present day Being by the Providence of Almighty God restored to my Health and Understanding I reassumed the Study of those things wherein I formerly took delight both in Law Equity and Clerkship for altho Doctrina stultis spernitur and the practise of Law hath little Reputation of Honesty amongst the Vulgar yet I doubt not but that the true Profession of the Gospel may be accompanied with the use of our Common Law It being designed to strengthren Religion and not to weaken or undermine it And although some ill Men are not by just Men to be justified yet the Piety Justice and Ingenuity of many others are not to be denied but rather by all good Men to be immitated and commended After some use of Country business in drawing things of the lowest Nature and as my knowledge of Things and Persons and theirs of me increased I came to the drawing of things of a Superiour account as Leases Mortgages Deeds Conveyances Settlements c. and of any or most Instruments that are now in use And also in managing of Causes both in Law or Equity wherein I have had as good success as any Man proportionable to that obscure place and little Imployment I had undertaken my Humour not leading me much that way and now my declension of Years not permiting much Travel and my Condition desiring rather a Home conveying Employ though not a total rejection of any other When I had spent about Six Years in practising as a Solicitor in the Court of Common Pleas as in others and having made proof thereof by a Certificate from an Ingenious Gentleman and an Attorney of that Court I was by him recommended for my fitness to the chief Prothonotary to be Sworn Attorney of the said Court who having a Knowledge of one of those Worthy Gentlemen and of his Family under whom I was bred and having Examined me in his Office by the Rules of Practise and by Reading one of the Records of the Court and by enquiring into my Education and Breeding he told me that if my self and the Gentleman that Certified for me came in our Formalities to the Treasury next Morning he would recommend me to the Judges of that Court for Approbation which Judges then were Lord chief Justice Vaughan Justice Windham Justice Archer and Justice Wild which being come Mr. Robinson after made Sir Thomas Robinson the Prothonotary moved them in my concern and Mr. Justice Wild withdrew and Examined me Read my Certificate Written with my own Hand in the Hand of the Court who approving of me ordered my being Sworn which was accordingly done in the said Court in Westminster-Hall and afterwards Enrolled And having performed all things Requisite and usual I have ever since more or less continued in the

was and yet Thou Nourished'st up Thy self with hopes and made Scriptural Arguments Thy Refuge But even in that Thou art also deceived For what hope hath the Hypocrite Job 27.8 Thou chargest me with delusions but no one a greater deluder then Thy self and that to Thy self but now Thou art under my domination 't will not be long before I make Thee know that all Thy pretensions are but vain I must confess Oh subtle Serpent thy Darts are Fierce and Fiery Sinner and were not my Soul and Body through Divine protection Impregnable I might sit down in horror and amazement But surely things are not as thou makest them What God may permit thee to do hereafter is as well unknown to thee as me and had'st thou any power of me thou art not so great a Friend to Mankind but thy Rage would be by me and many others sufficiently known I must confess thou pursuest me with Visions of the Night and I am so troubled I cannot Sleep Job 20.8 and in my unquiet Slumbers Suggests strange things to my Fancy sometimes by Elevations as tho I wanted nothing but wings to Fly sometimes by Depressions as though my Body was the Basis and Foundation upon which some ponderous Superstructure stood sometimes as tho something lay as heavy upon my Breast of no less weight then Ledd and by its suddain departure Suggesting as though I had been Companion with some ugly Vulture and by many various misrepresentations to my Sense in Slumber though I bless God not to my sight any ways to affright me thou hast accosted me not by Words to be demonstrated but as Truth to be believed Besides those ridiculous Fancies not by words decently to be Expressed and not without abhorrence to be Remembred How much of this may be imputed to a Natural and by this Conflict acquired Melancholy I leave to the Learned to decide But surely a great deal of it was not from Natural Indisposition but from Satannical Delusion And it may be my Memory and understanding being continued to me by Gods Preservation was in order to make it known for the support of others by Publication But is not this boasting of my Captivity and false Suggestion of thy having possession of me the effects of thy Pride oh fallen Angel Could'st thou of old not enter into the Carcass of a Swine Matth. 5.12 without the leave of our Blessed Lord and hast thou Power of thy self to enter into my Body which is the Temple of the Holy Ghost 1 Corrin 6.19 Shall that Body which ought to be presented a Living Sacrifice to God by Dedication become a place for thy Reception Shall that Body which ought only to bow to God in Divine Worship by Prostration and Adoration be subject to thy Devotion when thou wilt for a Habitation Shall that Body whom by the Merits of the Blessed Jesus at the Resurrection hopes to meet with Glorification be the subject of thy debased Vilification surely No And doubtless hadst thou such an uncontrouled Power as thou hast by pretension the direful effects thereof not only to my Body but the whole World would be known by its Destruction thou being not unfitly termed as of old a Destroyer Rev. 9.11 But what talkest Thou so much Satan oh Sinner of thy Body V. Suggestion Thou art unworthy of any Creature Comforts and therefore Sinful to Eat Thy Bread or to use any outward means for Thy Recovery Thou thinkest and hopest Man that this is but Melancholy and Thy Friends seek Thy Cure and tell Thee Thou must be chearful and use such means as God hath ordained but Thy Sins have been such that the least Mercy doth not belong to Thee Hast Thou the Face to consume Gods benefits and to speak of Recovery If God had ordained it it would have been long e're this using such means as Thou hast done I must confess Oh Satan Sinner thou art in words not a Lyar in this whatever thou art in intention Gen. 32.10 for I may say with Jacob I am not worthy of the least of all thy Mercies We are not worthy of a Crumb that falls from thy Table oh Lord If Worthiness of Receipt is to be judged according to the Worthiness of Merit there is none but one that is Worthy even the Lamb Slain from the Foundation of the World Rev. 5.4 If our Receipts of Mercy depended upon our Merit we might starve in the midst of all that plentiful Provision that God hath provided for the Souls and Bodies of his Sanctified ones Hath not he that is the great House-Keeper of Heaven and Earth said Go Eat thy Bread with Joy and Drink thy Wine with a Merry Heart Eccl. 9.7 Did not the Primitive Christians Eat their Bread with gladness and singleness of Heart Act. 2.4.7 Praising God Doth Christianity exclude all Earthly Felicity Doth it become the Servants of the most high to have always their Countenances sad Is not their Work good and their Wages proportionable Are not they bidden to Rejoyce always and again I say Rejoyce Phil. 4.4 5. but so as to let their moderation be known to all Men Is not this thy old wont if thou canst not Tempt Men to be Luxurious then to be too Parcimonious and between these two Rocks to make Shipwrack of their Faith 1 Tim. 1.19 Was it not a Wise Request made by a Wise Man back't with strong Reason Give me neither Poverty nor Riches Proverbs 30.8 9. Is not there a Golden mediocrity in these things free from thy exception surely Yes But are not outward means to be sought for Recovery Hath God made that Profession of no use Eccles 38.1 Col. 4.14 to which he hath affixed the Title of Honour and Beloved 'T is true Asa is branded with seeking to the Physitians 2 Chron. 16.12 and not unto the Lord but if he had sought unto the Lord by the Physitians would any Man thought him blame-worthy Was not Hezekiah bid to take a Lump of Figgs Isa 36.21 when Diseased and apply to his Sore 'T is true the sence of my condition makes me forget to Eat my Bread and I have so great an apprehension of my unworthiness and demerits that my Friends cannot perswade me to take my appointed Food without force Job 23.12 but shall the greatness of my Sins and unworthiness or the long use of ineffectual means make me give over Must not I wait all the days of my Life until my change come Job 14.14 Shall not those that wait on the Lord renew their strength And are not they proclaimed Blessed that wait for him Isa 40.31 The Vision is for an appointed time Hab. 2.3 but in the end it will Speak Shall I that am but Dust and Ashes Limit him that is Controuler and Governour of the whole World Doth not the time of my Recovery depend upon him who is the Lord of time And