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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

those which beléeue on his name This adoption comprehendeth all things which are necessarie for vs to euerlasting saluation for if we be the Sonnes of God then are we also borne of God Tertul. in apolo c. 17. For not the carnall generation but the spirituall regeneration makes the Sonnes of God If we are the Sonnes of God then haue we also God fauourable vnto vs. For doth not a Father take pittie of his Sonnes Psa 103.13 If we are the Sonnes of God then hath he also giuen vs his spirit for so saith the Apostle They which are lead by the spirit of God these are the Sons of God Rom. 8.14 15. for ye haue not receiued the spirit of bondage againe to feare but ye haue receiued the spirit of adoption in which we cry Abba Father And againe Gal. 4.6 Because you are Sonnes God hath sent the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts crying Abba Father To conclude Rom. 8.13 if we are the Sonnes of GOD then are we also heires heires of GOD and heires annexed with Iesus Christ for who is he that is truly a Son without an inheritance All these so pretious so copious and so various benefits are bestowed vpon vs in Christ Eph. 3.17 and through Christ which dwels in our harts and is borne in vs spiritually through faith which therefore the Scripture doth so often preach and commend vnto vs. Verily verily Ioh. 5.24 I say vnto you saith Christ he which heareth my word and beleeues on him that hath sent mee hath eternall life and comes not unto iudgement but hath past from death to life Hee that beleeueth in mee Ioh. 11.25 26. although he were dead yet shall he liue and euery one which liueth and beleeueth in me shall not dye for euer Ioh 7.36.39 Hee that beleeueth in me out of his belly shall flow Riuers of liuing water which our Sauiour speakes of the spirit which they receiue that beleeue on him Euery one that beleeueth in mee Ioh. 12.46 doth not abide in darknesse suppose it in the darknesse of ignorance in the darknesse of sinne in the darknesse of eternall death but by the light of faith hee is lead to the life of sauing knowledge to the light of true righteousnesse to the light of euerlasting life Nay the Apostle witnesseth plainely that all those things which are written in the Gospel of the sayings doings and sufferings of Christ are therefore written that by faith on his name wee may haue life Because God hath giuen vnto vs eternall life 1 Ioh. 5.11 12.13 and this life is in his Sonne Hee that hath the Sonne hath life from thence we know that we haue euerlasting life because wee beleeue on the name of the Sonne of God And not onely the Apostles and Euangelists but also all the Prophets giue testimonie to Christ That all that beleeue o● him Act. 10.43 receiue remission of sinnes through by name That therefore which Paul and Silas sometimes said to the keeper of the prison at Philippi the same say I to thée Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Act. 16.31 and thou shalt be saued VI. The false perswasion of Faith The Tempted BVt I haue heretofore perceiued that very many doe put on a vaine perswasion of Faith and deceiue themselues with a false boasting what if I should also be in the number of them from whence may I be assured that my saith is a true and sauing faith and not a vaine and dead Image of faith The Comforter TRy and examine thy selfe whether thou be in the faith try thine owne selfe 2 Cor. 13.5 doest thou not know thine owne selfe that Iesus Christ is in thée There want not firme and infallible instructions by which ●rue and sauing faith may be tried knowne and discerned from idle and vaine boast●ng of faith First then this is the nature of true faith that it purifies the heart Act. 15.9 and desires to purge it cleane from the dregs of sinns For s●●ing that faith doth carefully séeke and desire remission of sinnes surely he that truly beléeues shall féele a serious sorrow for the sinnes that he hath committed The Gospell is preached to the poore that is to say Matth. 11.6 Matth. 5.6 to those that are poore in spirit which hunger and thirst after righteousnesse which bring and offer to God a contrite heart and an humbled spirit Behold therefore the looking glasse of the Law and the deformitie of thy crimes will appeare Behold the shining face of Moses and it will appeare that for the workes of darknesse which thou hast followed thou canst not beare that light Behold thy selfe how grieuously the disease hath afflicted thée which is the iust punishment of thy sinnes the scourge of the reuenging God and the wages due to thy life which hath béene spent in sinnes He which sinnes against his Creator Eccl 38.5 fals into the hands of the Physitian We haue lost our health because wée haue offended our Creatour They which follow the flesh are scourged in the flesh They sigh in that in which they haue sinned The censure of the punishment is in that in which was the cause of shine By how many thoughts by how many words by how many déedes hast thou offended God How faint host thou béene aboue all things in the feare and loue of God How slacke in Prayers and other exercises of pietie How barren in good workes How oft hast thou followed the perswasion of Satan the seducing of the flesh the deceiuing of the world Those members which thou hast oftentimes giuen as weapons to iniquitie and vnrighteousnesse by the iust iudgement of GOD are now tormented with griefe and infirmitie Acknowledge this and grieue for if there be true and serious acknowledgement of sinne in thy heart immediately griefe of consciences and detestation of sinne will follow it God is earnestly angry with sinnes therefore out of the féeling of the wrath of God earnestly bewaile thy sinnes GOD doth seuerely punish sinnes therefore punish in thy selfe by iust griefe that which thou doest obserue that thou hast committed against God Psa 119.137 Acknowledge the iudgement of God to be iust and be thou humbled vnder his mighty hand Neither haue respect onely to thy outward faults but acknowledge the contagion of originall sin the fountaine of all euils Psa 90.9 that indéede is hidden but God placeth it in the light of his countenance through it all the powers of soule and body are so weakened that out of thy selfe and by thy selfe thou canst beginne no good much lesse performe it through it thou art made subiect vnto death and to all that troupe of calamities miseries and diseases which goes before death VII Griefe insufficient The Tempted I Acknowledge and feele that I am not only borne and conceiued in sinnes but that I haue offended God by diuers manifolde and great sinnes I feele this and I earnestly grieue but

Christ that doth Christ doe It is Christ which pronounceth the remission of sinnes vnto thée the Minister doth onely lend his voice to Christ If any doubting would insinuate it selfe into thy hart therof attend to the words of Christ speaking to the Apostles their Successors He that heareth you heareth me Luk. 10.16 Matth. 10.20 Ioh. 1.23 It is not you that speak but the spirit of my Father Attend to the words of the Baptist I am the voice of a cryer There is another which doth preach and cry by me the Ministerie is mine but the force and benefit of the Ministerie dependes of another Attend to the words of the Apostle For Christ that is in the name and place of Christ we are Embassadours 2 Cor. 3.20 God as it were exhorting by vs we beséech you for Christ be you reconciled vnto GOD. He therfore which contemnes 1 Thes 4.8 contemnes not man but God which hath giuen his holy spirit into vs. Beleeue therefore that euen at this day Christ saith to thée that which heeretofore hee hath saide to the man sicke of the Palsie Matth. 9.2 Luc. 7.48 and to the woman-sinner Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee Because there is no difference betwéene that and this which the Minister vtters for this is not pronounced of man and that of Christ When therefore thou hearest the Minister pronounce vnto thée the remission of sinnes doe not thinke that thou hearest the voice of the Minister but the voice of Christ XIIII The want of the euidence of the promises of the word The Tempted I Confesse that there is great and notable consolation offered vnto mee in the Ministerie of the word as yet notwithstanding my faith wauers neither doth it so firmely embrace the promise of the Gospell that it excludes all temptation for my flesh whispers vnto mee that the promises are onely words which thou perceiuest with thine eares but thou doest not as yet see the good promises subiect to thine eyes The Comforter INdéed they are words but the words of the most true and euerliuing God They are words indéed Ioh. 6.69 but the words of Spirit and life They are words indéed but more firme and durable then this heauen which thou beholdest then this earth whereon thou standest Luk. 21.33 Heauen and Earth shall passe away but my words shall not passe away saith the truth Esa 40.8 The word of our Lord God abides for euer saith the Prophet Hée which foldeth himselfe in this word hée which embraceth it with true faith the same may be saued for euer Neither hath God onely set forth vnto thée his word but to his word he hath added Sacraments Augustin tract 80. in Iohan. which are as it were the visible word visible signes of the inuisible grace and seales of the promises of God instituted for the confirmation and nourishment of thy faith By Baptisme thou art receiued into the couenant of the grace of God thou art made a Sonne and heire of GOD thou art washed by the bloud of Christ from thy sinnes thou are regenerated and renued by the holy Ghost and as I may speake in a word art made truly partaker of al heauenly goods For Christ attributes to Baptisme that it is a meane of regeneration Ioh. 3.3 Vnlesse a man be borne againe of water and of the spirit hee shall not enter into the Kingdome of heauen Therefore he which is borne againe of the water of Baptisme and the spirit is written an heire of eternall life because it is a meanes of saluation Hee that shall beleeue and be baptized shall be saued Mar. 16.16 The Apostles doe attribute to baptisme Tit. 3.6 that it is the lauacre of regeneration and renouation in the holy Ghost when we are baptized into the remission of sinnes Mar. 1.4 Let euery one of you be baptized saith Peter Act. 2.38 in the name of Iesus into the remission of sinnes and you shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost Baptisme doth saue vs 1 Pet. 3.12 saith he in another place which is not the putting off of the filth of the flesh but the request of a good conscience or a couenant to Godwards through the resurrection of Iesus Christ Be thou baptized Act. 22.16 and wash away thy sinnes saith Ananias As many of you as are baptized haue put on Christ Gal. 3.27 and by faith ye are the sonnes of God saith Paul For Christ sanctifieth his Church Ephe. 5.27 clensing it in the Lauer of water in his word Out of all which thou mayest firmely conclude that baptisme is the price of redemption to the captiues Basill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tom 1. part 446. Cyril Hierosolym in praefat Catech. the forgiuing of debts the death of sinne regeneration the bright cloathing of the soule a seale that cannot be infringed the chariot to Heauen the procurer of the kingdome the frée gift of adoption Illumination or Baptisme is the brightnesse of soules the change of life the request of the conscience vnto God the help of our weaknesse Illumination is the putting off of the flesh the following of the spirit Nazian orat in S. Bap. p. 615. the communion of the word Illumination is the restitution of the Image the deluge of sin the participation of light the loosing of darkenesse Illumination is the Waggon or Chariot vnto God the peregrination with Christ the foundation of faith the perfecting of the minde the glory of the kingdome of Heauen the change of life the taking away of bondage the loosing of bands the instauration of the couenant Tertull. 4. Aduer Marc. p. 231. It is the originall of true life and of true iustice it is a compendious washing it is the sacrament of life and saluation eternall The holy Ghost into this Brooke doth come From Heauen August 21 contra Crescen c 18. Paulinus Epist 12 ad Seuer and brooding on the front celestiall Doth heat the holy waters they become Conceiued of GOD and in their liqours christall Bring forth an holy Brood an holy Nation Of the eternall seed the propagation For what the grace of God doth worke inuisibly in our baptisme that hath béene shewed in visible signes in the Baptisme of Christ Ch●mnit in cap. 17. Harmoni The water of baptisme was sanctified by the touching of the Lords body for what things soeuer Christ hath deserued and purchased in the body of his flesh he hath as it were layd them downe in baptisme He tooke vpon him baptisme with vs sinners that hee might witnesse that by baptisme wee are made his members As the eternall Father in the baptisme of CHRIST vttered this voyce This is my beloued Sonne so as yet this day all that doe beléeue and are baptized hée doth adopt for Sonnes As in the baptisme of Christ Heauen was opened so as yet at this day by the Sacrament of Baptisme the gate of the heauenly Paradise is

consideration of our vnworthinesse in the meane time out of the meditation of the promises of God ought there neuerthelesse a firme confidence to arise Therefore God hath comfort from the hidden seat of his maiesty and hath manifested his will in his word that wee might bee sure of his will Therefore God hath promulged not onely legall promises which haue added vnto them the condition of perfect obedience and therefore to vs are made vnprofitable but also Euangelicall which are frée that with firme confidence of heart we might relye vpon them Rom 4.16 Therefore of faith fréely sayth the Apostle that the promise may bee firme Psa 116.11 Mens promises are vncertaine and doubtfull because euery man is a lyar but the promises of God are certaine and vnmoueable because God is truth it selfe As God is true in threatnings so is he also in promising As without Christ certaine damnation doth hang ouer al vnbeléeuing impenitent persons so in Christ certaine saluation is proposed to all that are conuerted vnto God and beléeuing Cypr. serm 4. de morta pa. 209. Doest thou doubt that these things will come to passe which God promiseth which is true whose word is eternall and firm to them that beléeue If a graue laudable man should promise thée any thing thou wouldst put trust in his promise neither wouldst thou thinke that thou shouldest be deceiued of him whom thou shouldest know to be constant in his words doings Now God speaketh with thée and doest thou perfideously wauer in thine incredulous minde Furthermore attend to the stabilitie of the oath of GOD I liue saith the Lord Ezech. 33.11 I will not the death of a sinner but that hee may be conuerted and liue Verely verely I say vnto you sayth Christ hee which heares my word Iohn 5.25 and beleeues on him which sent mee hath life eternall and shall not come into condemnation but hath passed from death to life Verely verely I say vnto you if any man keepe my word hee shall not see death for euer Ioh 8. ●1 This hath God sayd this hath hee promised if that be little hee hath sworne it August in Psal 88. Blessed therefore we for whose sakes God sweareth but O most wretched if we do not beléeue GOD then when hee sweareth Tertul. lib. de poeniten Acknowledge therefore the wonderfull and neuer sufficiently praised mercy of God that he willing to shew more abundantly to the heires of the promise the immutabilitie and immobilitie of his counsell hath added an oath Heb. 6.71 vers 18. that by two vnmoueable things for it cannot come to passe that God should lye we might haue most strong comfort which haue fled to lay hold on the hope that is set before vs. XXVII The want of due preparation The Tempted ALL these things doe easily perswade with me that I doe not doubt of the firmenes of the promises of God in themselues in the meane time I am yet vncertaine whether they be so firme and vnmoueable to me and whether I am in the number of them to whom God doth promise and offer so great things The Comforter NAy but because God promiseth these things to all that flye vnto Christ with true repentance and faith 2 Cor. 4.13 therefore also he promiseth them to thée séeing thou also beléeuest in Christ Attend therefore farther to the inward sealing of the holy Ghost for the spirit doth not only testifie outwardly in the word but also inwardly in thine heart Rom. 8.16 The spirit it selfe giues testimonie to thy spirit that thou art the son of God Gal. 4.6 therefore also an heyre Thou hast receiued the spirit which is of God that thou mayest know the things which are giuen to thée of God He which doth confirme and strengthen thée with all that are truly godly in Christ and hee which hath annoynted thée is God which hath also signed thée and confirmed thée as it were with his seale and giuen the earnest of the spirit in thy heart Because thou art the sonne of God 1 Cor. 2.12 therefore God hath sent the spirit of his sonne into thine hart crying Abba Father Beléeuing the word of truth and the Gospell of saluation thou art sealed by the holy spirit of promise Cap. 4.30 which is the earnest of thine inheritance for the purchased redemption by which thou art sealed against the day of redemption Euen as the Bridegroome which hath giuen the promise of marriage to the Bride giues her an earnest which is a pledge of the marriage to come so God hath espoused or betroathed himself to thée in faith Ose 2.19 he hath betroathed himselfe to thée in mercy Apoc. 19.7 but as yet the marriage of the Lambe doth not appeare therefore hee giues vnto thée the earnest of his holy spirit by which thou mayst be confirmed concerning the fulfilling of the promises and the leading to the heauenly marriage which is to come This is the spirit of Adoption because it doth witnes that thou art adopted for the Son of God This is that seale by which the promises of God are sealed in thy heart this is that earnest by which the word of trueth is confirmed vnto thée 1 Iohn 4.13 By this thou knowest that thou abidest in God and God in thée because he hath giuen to thée of his spirit XXVIII The doubting of the inhabitation of the holy Ghost The Tempted BVT from whence may I be certaine that my heart is the temple and house of the holy Ghost the spots of sinne do cleaue vnto me and I feele that in my flesh dwels no good how therefore shall that holy Spirit which is holynesse and puritie it selfe dwell in mee The Comforter Rom. 8.23 WE receiue the first fruits of the spirit onely in this life wee expect the full measure and perfect tenths hereafter in the life eternall there remaines in this life the wrastling of the flesh and the spirit Rom. 7.14 we remaine as yet in part carnall and sold vnder sinne yet neuerthelesse for the benefit of regeneration and renouation wée are temples of the Holy Ghost Furthermore from thence thou mayest know that the Spirit of God dwels in thée because thou dost bewaile and detest thy sins Sapi. 1.4 2 Cor. 4.13 because that holy Spirit dwels not in the body subiect vnto sinne because thou dost beléeue on Christ and louest him for it is the spirit of faith because thou callest vpon God the most benigne Father with earnest sighes Zach. 13.9 for it is the spirit of grace and prayers and crieth in the hearts of the godly Gal. 4.6 Abba Father because thou art led with the desire of all good for they that are the temples of the holy Ghost are led by him surely to good because thou oft times dost féele a foretaste of eternall life in thy heart Rom. 8.14 for the kingdome of God is not meat and