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A19862	The wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans saluation) betweene Christ and Satan Opened in seuen most excellent, learned and zealous sermons, vpon the temptations of Christ, in the wilderness, &c. Seene and allowed.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1592 (1592)	STC 629; ESTC S100202	68,496	222

THE WONDERFVLL Combate for Gods glorie and Mans saluation betweene CHRIST and Satan Opened in seuen most excelent learned and zealous Sermons vpon the Temptations of CHRIST in the wildernes c. Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by Iohn Charlwood for Richard Smith and are to be sold at his Shop at the West doore of Paules 1592. ¶ To the right honorable Sir Iohn Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of her Highnes most Honorable priuie Councell after all terrestriall blessings and ioyes the perfect possession of all celestiall comforts hartely wished IF the painefull labours of the Learned right Honorable especially in Gods cause are generally aboue all things reputed most worthy acceptation the lesse then neede I feare my good Lord the receipt of this smal Volume containing not so manie leaues as most excellent Lessons nor so manie lines as sound assurances of eternall life The Tree from whence this heauenlie fruite was gathered may well bee discerned both by the beautie and taste the one not so commendable in the shewe but the other ten times more comfortable in substaunce And as hee is a sweete sounding Cimball or rather a singuler instrument in Gods Church for the propagation of his Truth and speciall reliefe of hunger-pining soules euen so doo these seauen Sermons beare witnes of him wading so weightely in Gods cause as by our Sauiors absolute Conquest of the diuell in all his Temptations our harts are cheered consciences prepared to imitate so good a guide whensoeuer our trialls happen So fearing least by needles circumstances I should seeme troublesome to your Honour when the goodnes of the woorke doth plainly declare it self in humble duetie I conclude praying for your Honours long health and happines as also to encrease the number that maye bee benefited by these Sermons To the Christian Reader CHristian Reader hauing sent vnto mee by a Gentleman a friend of mine certaine excellent Sermons with desire to haue them published to the world after perusing them to my great comfort I imparted them to other my friendes of better iudgement than my selfe who did earnestly encourage mee to the publishing of them which to my great cost I haue perfourmed Hoping the wel disposed wil be thankefull to God for them And because they are such as my best praise can no way sufficiently commend I leaue theyr praise to thy selfe when thou hast receiued comfort by them Finally as the Author to me is not certainly knowen so am I driuen to let them passe without name desiring you to suspend your iudgements whose they are Thus not doubting but I haue done God good seruice and pleased manie that happily haue heard them preached I end ¶ Two most excellent Praiers which the Preacher commonly vsed before his Exercises THat the name of God may be glorified by this our assembly and his holie Woord blessed to the end he hath ordained it let vs in all humblenes present our selues before the mercie seat of God the father in the name mediation of Christ Iesus his deer sonne through the sanctifying of his holy spirit with an vnfained humble acknowledgement both of our owne vnworthines to receiue anie of his graces and vnablenes when we haue receiued them to make right vse of them And both these by reason of our manifolde sundry sinnes and offences among the rest of this one as a chiefe one that wee diuers times haue bin hearers of his diuine and precious woord without care or cōscience to become the better therby let vs beseech him in the obedience of the life sacrifice of the death of Christ Iesus his deer sonne to receiue both vs this our humble confession to pardon both this and the rest of our sinnes and to turne from vs the punishments deseruedly due vnto them all especially that punishment which most vsualy he doth exercise at such meetings as this is which is the receiuing of his sacred word into a dead dull hart so departing with no more delight to heare nor desire to practise than we came with That so throgh the gracious assistance of his good Spirite inward adioined to the outward ministerie of his word at this present the thinges which shall bee spoken and heard may redound to some glorie of his euerlasting blessed name and to some Christian instruction comfort of our owne soules thorow Iesus Christ our onely Lord and Sauiour This praier ended hee proceedeth againe in this manner ANd as the Church of Christ wheresoeuer it is at this present assembled met together is mindfull of vs that be here 〈◊〉 is it our parts and duties in our praiers to remember it recommending vnto the Maiestie of Almightie God the prosperous and florishing Estate thereof beseeching God the Father for Christ Iesus hys sonnes sake to bee mercifull to all his seruaunts euen his whole Militant Church scattred farre and wide ouer the face of the whole earth both preseruing it in those trueths that it hath recouered from the sundrie grose and superstitious errors of the former age and restoring it also vnto that vnitie in his good time which it hath almost lost and daily looseth through the vnchristian and vnhappy contentions of these dayes of ours And in this Church let vs be mindfull of that part thereof which most especially principally needeth our remembrance that is the poore afflicted members of Christ Iesus in what place for what cause or with what crosse soeuer that it would please God to minister into our hearts the same spirit of compassion and feruencie now in the time of their need that we would wish should be ministred into theirs in the time of our need for them to become suters for vs. And let vs wish them al from the Lord in his good time the same ioyfull deliuerance and till his good time bee the same measure of patience that wee would wish vnto our owne soules or would haue them intreate and praye for at his hands for vs if euer our case shall be as theirs is at this present And forasmuch as those Churches or members of Churches which enioy the outward benefits of the Lord as of health plentie peace and quyetnesse doo manie times as much and for the most part much more neede the prayers of Christ his faithfull Congregation than those that are vnder his hande in the House of affliction Let vs beseech him for them also that he will giue vnto each and euerie of them a thankfull receiuing of those his benefites a sober vsing of them and a Christian employing of them to his glorie that hath sent them And in these our prayers let vs be mindfull also of the Churche and Countrey wherein we liue yeelding first and formost euer-more our vnfained and hartie thankes-giuings for all his mercies and gracious fauours vouchsafed this Land of ours and namely for our last no lesse gracious than meruailous deliuerance from our enemies and for all those good signes

and tokens of his louing fauor which euer since and daylie he sheweth towards vs. And together withall let vs beseech him that while these dayes of our peace doo last hee will open our eies to see encline our harts to seek after those things which maye make for the continuance and establishing of this peace long amongst vs. And as by especiall dutie we all stand bound let vs commend vnto his Maiestie his chosen seruaunt Elizabeth our Soueraigne by his grace of England France Ireland Queene Defendresse of the faith and ouer all estates and persons within these her Dominions next and immediatelie vnder God supreame Gouernesse let vs beseech God daylie more and more to perswade her Highnes hart that the aduauncement and flourishing of this Kingdome of hers consisteth in the aduancement and flourishing of the Kingdome of his Sonne Christ within it that it may be therfore her Maiesties speciall care and studie that both her Highnes in that great place wherein GOD hath set her and euerie one of vs in the seuerall degrees wherein we stand may be as carefull to testifie vnto the whole world a speciall care and endeuour that we haue for the propagation of the Gospell of his sonne as Christ Iesus hath shewen himselfe by many arguments both of olde and of late and that of weight that he hath caried still carieth a speciall care of the preseruation and welfare of vs all Let vs commend also vnto God the seuerall Estates of the Land for the right honorable of the Nobilitie and of her Highnes priuie Councell that they may be carefull from the spirite of the Lord to deriue al their Councells that so God which sendeth the Councell may send it good and happie successe also and maie confound cast out the councels of the enemy For the estate of the Cleargie the right reuerend Fathers in GOD in whose hand the gouernment of the Church is and all other inferior Ministers that he will giue vnto each and euerie of them sufficiēt graces for the discharge of their functions together with the graces both a faithfull and a fruitful employing of them For the Estate of Magistracie and namely for the Gouernors of this honorable Citie that they together with the rest according to the trust that is reposed in them may be no lesse carefull speedely without delay than incorruptly without partialitie to administer iustice to the people of God For the Estate of the Commons that they all in a Christian obedience towardes each and euerie of their superiors and in a godly loue with the frutes and duties there of one towards another maye walke worthie of that glorious calling whereunto they are called And that the blessings of the Lord may not only be with vs for our times but successiuely also be deliuered to our posterity let vs beseech God that he will visit with the spirite of his grace the two Vniuersities Cambridge and Oxford all Schooles of learning and places of education of youth that they being watered with the deaw of his blessing maye yeeld foorth such plants as may both serue for a present supply of the Churches need and also in such sort furnish the generations that are to come that our posteritie also may bee counted vnto the Lord for a holy seede and a Christian generation as we our selues are And thus recommending our selues vnto the praiers of Christ his Church as wee haue commended Christ his whole Church by our praiers vnto the Maiestie of Almightie God reposing our trust and confidence neyther in our owne prayers nor in the Churches prayers but in the alone mediation of Christ Iesus our Aduocate Let vs vnto him as vnto our sole Intercessor offer vp these our supplications that hee maye present them to God his Father for the effectuall obtayning of these and whatsoeuer graces else he knoweth needfull for his whole Church and for vs calling vppon him as himselfe in his Gospell hath taught vs. Our Father c. The Texts of these seuen Sermons following taken out of the 4. chapter of S. Mathewes Gospell beginning at the first verse and ending with the eleuenth THen was Iesus led aside of the Spirit into the wildernesse to be tempted of the diuell 2 And when he had fasted fortie daies 40. nights he was afterward hungry 3 Then came to him the Tempter said If thou be the Sonne of God command that these stones be made bread 4 But he answering said It is written Man shal not liue by bread onely but by euerie word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God 5 Then the diuell tooke him vp into the holy Cittie and set him on a pinacle of the Temple 6 And saide vnto him If thou be the Sonne of God cast thy selfe downe for it is written that he will giue his Angelles charge ouer thee and with their handes they shall lift thee vp least at any time thou sholdst dash thy foot against a stone 7 Iesus said vnto him It is written againe Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God 8 Againe the diuell tooke him into an exceeding high Mountaine and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world and the glorie of them 9 And saide to him All these will I giue thee if thou wilt fall down and worship mee 10 Then said Iesus vnto him Auoyde Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue 11 Then the diuel left him behold the Angels came ministred vnto him These Texts are the Gospell appoynted to be read the first Sunday in Lent The first Sermon MATTHEVV Chap. 4. ver 1. Then was Iesus led aside of the spirite into the wildernes to be tempted of the diuell OVr Sauiour Christ by his Natiuitie took vppon him the shape of man by his Circumcision he tooke vpon him and submitted himselfe to the degree of a seruant by the first hee made himselfe in case and able to performe the worke of our redemption by the second hee entred bound for the performing of it All was to this end that he might restore the worke of God to his originall perfection In the bringing of which to passe it was decreed by God in the beginning as a thing necessarie that the head of the Serpent by whose meanes it was violated and defaced should bee brused And For this cause saith Saint Iohn appeared the Sonne of GOD that hee might loose the workes of the Diuell whereof this was the first For in Gen. 3. wee read that his first worke after his fall was enuiously to tempt our first parents and thereby to ouerthrow all man-kinde And heere streight after our Sauiour was baptized hee with like enuie setteth on him Christ therefore first beginneth with the ouercomming of that and for that purpose he is heere led forth to be tempted that so being tempted he might ouercome Our Sauiour makes this question Matth. 11. 7. vpon their going out to

Christ himselfe as we see here How carefull therefore had we need to be to finde out a fit answere for him For onely to assault vs doth hee reade the Scriptures yea but not to anie good end but euen thereby to deceaue the simplicitie of men as heere to make them put their soules in aduenture to the last hower He hath indeed a grace with some vaine youths of the Court vngodlye Atheists to set them a scoffing at the Scripture as Esay 28. 22. But with others that haue the Scriptures in more high reuerence he goeth another way to worke making it to them the sauour of death Roman chapt 7. vers 10. The words which hee vseth in the name of Samuel hee vseth to make Saule dispaire and here he vseth Dauids words to cause presumption and to make them our bane And not euerie Scripture but if there bee anie Scripture more full of heauenly comfort than another that of all other wil the diuell abuse as indeed the psalms are and of all the Psalmes this 91. especially and in that part if anie one sentence be sweeter than another that of all other will the diuell abuse Mark the second verse here cyted He shall giue his Angells charge ouer thee to keepe thee in all thy wayes These last wordes the diuell leaues out because they make not for his purpose They shall beare thee in their hands that thou dash not thy foote against a stone And we shall see nothing can be spoken more comfortablie as first in that it is said that the Angels haue charge ouer vs in all our wayes Exod. 23. 20. Behold I send my Angell before thee to guide thee in the way and to comfort and confirme vs as when Iacob was in feare of his brother Esau the Angell met him Gen. 32. 1. and to defend vs in all dangers and succour vs in all necessities spreading their winges ouer vs and pitching their tents about vs Psal. 34. 7. Secondly this charge not only concerneth our head and principal members but also our feet yea Gods prouidence reacheth euen to the haires of our head for they are numbred Mat. 10. 30. Thirdly this charge of theirs is not onely to admonish vs when daunger commeth but they are actually to help vs as it were putting their hands betweene the ground and vs. Mat. 13. 41. they shall take the rubs and offences out of our way Fourthly this doo they not of curtesie as being creatures giuen of nature to loue mankinde but by speciall mandate and charge they are bounde to it and haue a praecipe for it yea the very beasts stones shalbe in league with vs. Iob. 5. 23. This Psalme and these verses conteining such comfort hath the Diuell culled to perswade men that beeing such sweete Children of God they may venture whether and vpon what they will for the Angels attend them at an inch He bids them put the matter in aduenture and then but whistle for an Angell and they will come at first he carieth them vp to the top of the pinacle and shewes them theyr owne case in Annas and Herod and tells them God will require no more of them than he did at their hands all the way as they goe vp he singeth them a Psalm of the mercies of God he carrieth them vp with a song that Gods mercie is aboue all his workes Psalm 145. 9. And with Psalm 103. 8. how gracious and long-suffring God is who rewardeth vs not according to our deserts and Psalm 136. That his mercie endureth for euer God therfore beeing so full of mercie will take all things in good part But this mercye the diuell tells them of differeth from the mercie Dauid meant for the mercie Dauid speaketh of is coupled with iudgement Psal. 101. 1. I will sing mercie and iudgement to thee O Lord and Psal. 85. 10. Mercie truth are met together Iustice and peace haue kissed each other Thus I say they shall haue musique al the way if any at the height thinke it a great way downe no saith the diuell you need but a iumpe from your baptisme into heauen you shall need no staires at all The fift Sermon Matth. 4. Ver. 7. Iesus said vnto him It is written againe Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God COnsidering that Saint Iames saith chapt 4. 5. The Scripture speaketh nothing in vaine that as our Sauiour Christ saith Io. 10. 35. No scripture can be disappointed it may seeme strange that the diuell comming armed with The sword of the spirite for so is the word of God tearmed Ephes. 6. 17. Christ giues not place but opposeth himselfe to answere Wee see that a message comming in the name of the Lord this verie name abashed Nehemias Nehe. 6. 10. at the first hearing till hee perceaued it was contrarie to the law of God and so came not from him which here we see to bee the cause why Christ dooth not yeeld by and by vpon the hearing of the Woord but sets himselfe to make answere forsomuch as the word is not of force Quia dicitur onely but Quia creditur as Augustine noteth If there bee not the mixture of faith with it whereof Paule speaketh Hebr. 4. 2. it is nothing worth And therfore the badde spirite was nothing abashed or daunted at the hearing of the bare names of Iesus and Paule Act. 19. 15. but answered I know them but who are ye They did not beleeue and therefore could doo them no good but were wounded themselues glorious names would not serue the turne So was it here vsed without faith When the Scripture is heere vrged against one a man would thinke it were not to be answered by cyting an other place of Scripture but by some tradition of the Elders Mark 7. 1. or some glosse or other shift but wee see our Sauiour answereth here no other way but by Scripture Because the wolfe comes somtimes disguised in a sheeps skin it is no reason that therefore the verie sheepe should lay away their fleeces so here because the diuell vseth the word as the slaying letter 2. Corin. 3. 6. or as the sword to kill men with it is no reason why Christ may not therfore vse it in his owne defence Why then wil some say one of these two inconueniences will followe that hereby we shall thinke the Scripture is of the diuells side aswell as of Christs side so diuided as in like sort they make a diuision of Christ when one holdes with Paule another of Apollos 1. Cor. 1. 13. No it is not so Christ alleadgeth not this Scripture in that sort as one nayle to driue out another but by way of harmonie and exposition that the one may make plaine the meaning of the other For albeit the diuell sheweth himselfe to be the diuell in cyting that Text so as might best serue for his purpose in that whereas the Psalme whereout he taketh it hath it thus That he might keepe him in all