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A86503	Plain dealing or the cause and cure of the present evils of the times. Wherein you have set forth, 1 The dreadful decension of the Devill. 2 His direfull wrath. 3 The woeful woe to the wicked world. 4 The mystery of all. 5 The history and computation of times devolving all upon this age, and downward. 6 The art of resisting temptations, in this house of temptation. In a sermon before John Kendrick Lord Mayor of London, upon the Lords day after the great eclipse (as the astrologers would have had it.) Upon occasion whereof, something was spoken touching astrology: By Dr. Nath. Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1652 (1652)	Wing H2572; Thomason E1315_1; ESTC R209201	39,652	125

of I know not what kinde of Spirit and of having the Spirit but are most abominably sensuall whiles they walke after their owne UNGODLY lusts But the next inquiry is to whom this Woe belongs what is meant by the Inhabitants of the earth and sea For all men good and bad inhabit there and Beasts and Fishes are not the object of Satans wrath Answ This is spoken by way of distinction from the state of mysticall Heaven the holy Church the sincere Beleevers for they are bid to rejoyce in this very same verse Rev. 12.12 Rejoyce yee Heavens and yee that DWEL in them The impieties and calamities of the earth may obliquely glance a darknesse upon some particular Comforts of the Heavenly holy ones but it hastens their generall joy and felicity When the sinnes of the Inhabitants of the earth that is of the grosser wicked openly prophane dirty Imps Earthly wretches whether named Christians or not And of the Inhabitants of the sea that is of cunningly counterfeiting hypocrites under a vizard of a kind of Religious profession and of both these whether they be the Secular men of earthly Civil imployments or are Ecclesiastical having to doe with Doctrines and Church administrations oft signified by waters as Churches like Islands are or should bee severed from the grosse world * Pareus out of Brightman hath it thus Consentit Brightmannus Incolas terrae esse quosvis improbos Christianismum ficte profitentes regui Antichristiani incolas Maris verò incolas facit Ecclesiasticos qui turbidam salsuginosam amtram doctrinam suis fucatis Christianis propinant quae quidem ad hypocrisin eos efformat sed viscera tandem Corrodit animosque perdit So Pareus And Brightman himselfe saith thus From hence may this metaphoricall signification of these words be confirmed that if earth should bee taken properly the Devill should be alike troublesome to all the Saints who dwell in common together with the wicked Besides who are the Inhabitants of the Sea but men For the D evill doth not spit out his spightfull poyson upon Whales and great Seas Good men also and bad dwell together in common in the Isles as well as in the firme land Thus then distinguish them That the Inhabitants of the earth are very wicked company either of Heathen or Christians who have onely a painted shew of Religion but the inhabitants of the sea are the Clergy-men as they call them who set abroach grosse troubled brackish and sourish doctrine to their counterfeit Christians which doth rather bring barrennesse of godlinesse to the hearers and gnaw their entrals then quench their thirst or yeeld any other good fruit The Devill being now stript of his power of hurting the true Saints should tosse these men up and downe with all manner of whirling tempests I say when these mens sinnes are ripe then Gods judgements are ripe and the ruine of them is the raising of the Church When Dagon fals before the Arke the Arke is delivered When the Amorites sinnes are full Israel is possessed of Canaan But the mean while there is a great spring of wickednesse more darknesse then light generally For the Prince of darknesse is here and casts out of his mouth much water which if it drownes not the Woman makes the wilde trees and weedy plants to fructifie amaine CHAP. II. The mystery of Satans wrathful passion now against the world and of Gods just permission of him and it SUrely after all this unfolding we cannot but perceive that the core of the cause of the cursed corruptions of the present times and of like further woe to the world for future is Satans powerfull presence by speciall permission toact great wickednesses in and upon it according to his great wrath in that short time yet remaining for him to prevaile here For why is it said he hath great wrath and why is a woe pronounced if he will not or cannot worke according to that wrath If you will have it shortlier then thus The world is now extream loose because Satan is extraordinarily let loose The Prince of the world Joh. 12.31 now in speciall rules the world of worldly men The Spirit Prince of the aire Ephes 2.2 now more powerfully poysons the spirits of men But why you will say is Satan thus angry with man and more NOW in this age and downward whiles his time lasts Surely the defection of Beelzebub in Heaven at first with his faction of Angels was because man was so farre exalted above him MAN was a body and yet having a soule as an Angelical spirit a double capacity above Angels to partake of all blisse was so formed of both into one person as that he is said to be made in the image and likenesse of God Gen. 1.27 which was never said of Angels and in the image and likenesse of God in the triplicity of modalities and dispensations of himselfe as Father sonne and Holy Ghost Let us saith God in that first of Gen. 26. make man in OUR Image after OUR Likenesse having said before God Elehim in the plurall Created Bara in the singular Gen. 1.1 and mentioning distinctly in the second and third verses c. God the Father and the Holy Ghost saying the Spirit of God moved upon the waters and God said Let there be light c. which had in the sound of words an hint of making man not onely the Sonne of God in some sense as Luke 3. last Adam is called but of making him like the onely Sonne of God as after Christ tooke the nature of Man and not of Angels Heb. 2. Angels being termed Gods Ministers that is servants Heb. 1.7 yea whiles man is made Lord of all Gen. 1.26 the Angels were to be servants unto man Heb. Heb. 1.14 as they saw by their imployment from the beginning of the world Besides Adam in all his glory must have a wife a second-selfe formed out of himselfe as a propagatrix of Man-kinde as a good without which it was not good for man then all-happy man to be Gen. 2. Angels being stinted in their owne number and comforts too and in their own single persons which Conjugals and Propagative became an opportunity of a Prophesie Gen. 3. and a performance of the birth of Christ out of mans loynes and in opposition to the Devill to overthrow him Gen. 3. And as a Seale to all this hee had the Tree of life a type of Christ to be continually in his eye All which might well make the most sagacious Angell especially afore his fall suspect that mans nature in time should bee united to the Godhead in the person of Christ and so man at last to become farre above him in compleat happinesse and thereby cause him in wrath against God as neglecting him to revolt from God in heaven And to bee revenged on man whom he so direfully emulated hee effectually tempted him to fall also Since when hearing articulatly in the word Gen. 3. c. to the end of

Revelation to boot 2 Cor. 12. yet he Gal. 1.8 9. pronounceth an Anathema a curse twice over upon any man or Angel that shall deliver any other Doctrine then what is according to the Gospel John the Apostle also had the Spirit in an extraordinary degree for Doctrine and Miracles and had a large Revelation viz. the booke of the Revelation besides yet he bids us try the Spirits whether they are of God by this He that knoweth God HEARETH us he that is not of God HEARETH not us Hereby we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of errour 1 Joh. 4.1.6 But because Enthusiasts Hereticks c. make the Word of God a Nose of waxe to turne it which way they list even as they phantasie it to be like the eye of a picture as that it still lookes towards them in favour of their opinion which way soever they turne therefore adde this that as the constant Tenor of the Scriptures is to promote Christ and to presse holinesse so the Spirit that dictated that word doth both those it advanceth Christ 1 Joh. 4.1.2 and 1 Cor. 12.3 And it worketh holinesse Rom. 1.4 Rom. 8.9 10.11 2. The particular rules touching temptations are these 1 Lay load of Gospel-contrition on that originall sinne concupiscence which is a naturall pravity in our natures inclining us to evill and to poure out spirituall sighes and groans of prayer unto Christ and applications of Christ as batteries against it So did David Psal 51. as his Penitence for past-times and a prevention of future James in Chap. 1. v. 14. makes originall sinne or concupiscence the first drawing of the heart aside as a pillar of an house off of his Centre Paul Rom. 7.19 makes it that Tyrant that made him doe that evill he would not whereupon he makes an out-cry to Christ and is comforted Rom. 7.24 25. Indeed here is the foundation laid and a strong Bulwarke built against all Temptations viz. by continuall applications of Christ and supplications to Christ to have a pure heart in a constant exercise of purity Act. 15.16 Act. 24.16 An heart purified by faith And herein saith Paul I doe exercise my selfe to have alwayes a conscience void of offence c. Then are Satans darts shot as against a wal of marble that pierce not and his temptations are but as dirt throwne upon Cristall but neither staine not sticke long See an example in Christ yea in Paul 2 Cor. 12. and so proportionably in all that partake of Christ 2 Quick-sightednesse to discerne and suddenly and seasonably to despise the overtures and pretensive perswasions of a sinfull object confederating with our concupiscence to draw us to a consent to sinne Heb. 5. last v. Christians of full age by reason of use have their senses exercised to discerne both good and evill St. James tels us that after that drawing aside by concupiscence afore mentioned followes an Enticing by some object suitable to that drawing to bring us to consent By the object a man is baited for as a Fish is baited for with an amiable bait upon an hooke Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jam. 1.14 The bait seemes lovely to the eye and pleasant to the taste whiles the hook is not perceived So original corruption opens its eyes and beholds and shews us the honour pleasure profit or other carnall sweetnesse of the object not considering the snare under it So that the object presenting it selfe concupiscence is that which playes the bait before the mouth of the will and affections to cause them eagerly to catch and swallow it the Object is as the Woor Concupiscence is as the Spokesman To cure all this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Apostle cals upon us 2 Cor. 10.4 to consider the Gospel weapons or Armory whereby to throw downe these pretended reasons and rationall thoughts as we dreame to consent to sinne for a shew of reason to a rationall creature that he may sinne is a powerfull temptation which the Apostle therefore there cals strong-holds that is the word of the Gospel which we must ding in the face of all perswasive seeming reasons to sinne Inest peccatum cum delecteris regnat si consenseris Austin 'T is too much misery to be disposed towards sinne by Concupiscence but it is a slavery to bee drawne to consent There is saith one A sinne if thou art delighted with evill but it reignes if thou consent But if we keep our consent chaste from the Harlot sinne as it is typically termed in the first nine Chapters of the Proverbs we may comfortably say as the Apostle Rom. 7.16 17. If then I doe that which I would not I consent to the Law that it is good Now then it is no more I that doe it but sinne that direlleth in me 3 Satan oft strikes in with both these viz. this Object and that Concupiscence for those are his materials he workes upon and his Topicks or Places whence hee drawes his arguments of temptation thrusting in his suggestions and incitations to adde fresh impressions for that 's a mystery both in Divinity and Philosophy that Satan can make our phantasies to lay aside our owne phantasmes and heed his to cause our imagination to lay downe the images of things presented by our inward senses and to take up into consideration those his suggestion brings in Which adventitious additional power of Satan in the temptation may bee in part discerned by the suddennesse unseasonablenesse and violent importunatenesse perhaps when the object or its lustre is something withdrawn or concupiscence begun to be in a slumber Therefore the third rule mounted of purpose for this particular is that of Jam. 4.7 Resist the Devill and he will flye from you Resist may the tempted say Is it no more but resist That is true If I could resist the work were done Resist if I can But how shall I resist Answ Why marke the mystery of the Rule that is the meaning resist whiles thou hast at least a little strength to resist Resist before thou art inveagled before thou art ingaged inchanted and captivated beyond retreat Bid defiance to the temptation at first sight Make an outcry against the first motion And remember this and be positive and peremptory in the use of it That it is thy sinne and thou wilt in danger thy selfe to sinne further if thou parie with the Devils suggestions and lend thine care to his arguments as we have a wofull example in Eve Minde that thou hast other and better words namely the Word of God to hearken to and better motions the blessed suggestions of the Spirit according to that Word to busie thy thoughts withall And therefore wee must follow Christs example Matth. 4. to ding and dash a pat plain powerfull Scripture in the mouth of every Temptation with a 'T is written Not encounter with our phantasied spirit but with the written Word of the holy Spirit Diseases say the Physitians are at first hardlier discerned