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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15496	The anchor of faith Vpon which, a Christian may repose in all manner of temptations. Especially in that great and dangerous gulfe of desperation. Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and burthen of their sinne, and not resisting themselues by the hand of faith, vpon the promises and inuitations of Christ, haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues, to the vtter confusion both of body and soule for euer.; Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1628 (1628)	STC 25763.5; ESTC S102508	45,869	112

THE ANCHOR of FAITH Vpon which A Christian may Repose in all manner of Temptations Especially in that Great and Dangerous Gulfe of DESPERATION Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and Burthen of their Sinne and not resting themselues by the Hand of Faith vpon the Promises and Inuitations of CHRIST haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues to the vtter Confusion both of Body and Soule for euer PROV 18.14 The Body will beare his infirmitie but a Broken and wounded Spirit who can beare St. August in lib. de Vtilitate poenitentiae agendae Least wee should increase our sinnes by despayring the gate of Repentance is set open vnto vs. Least by presuming the day of our Death is concealed from vs. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson and are to bee sold at his Shop at Grayes-Inne new Gate in Holborne 1628. A PREFACE TO THE Christian Reader IT is a Wonder of the World a wonder to bee seriously marked and diligently considered of and a wonder being seriously marked and diligently considered of worthy to bee deepely wayed and inwardly to bee laid vp in m●n● hearts as a thing most necessary profitable and auaileable to Christian piety and euerlasting felicity both of soule and body The thing 〈◊〉 bee ●dred 〈◊〉 seriou● to be ●sidere● to see and to thinke of it how carefull watchfull diligent earnest and painfull almost all the world euery where is to auoyde to preuent to cure and to remedy all such troubles crosses griefes maladies infirmities and sicknesses as do or may befall the body And on the other side to see or finde so few watchfull carefull and painefull to auoid preuent cure or expel the most dangerous wounds of the Spirit the troubles of the conscience or desperation a mischiefe of all other mischiefes most needfull to be looked into 〈◊〉 se● thing 〈◊〉 bee ●dred ●nd se●sly to 〈◊〉 ●d of It is a wonder to see and consider how many there are in the World which either loath and are aff●aide of bodily sicknes or loue like health will send for and seeke run and ride after bodily Phisitions and enquire after the best the most expert most skilfull of them to learne by their direction and to bee aduised by their counsaile though it cost their purse full deare how to purge and auoide such corrupt humours as may breede though not presently bring forth noysome diseases and sicknesses how carefull and how scrupulous they are to keepe a temperate order and a dyet in eating and drinking and how moderate they will be in sleepe and all other bodily exercises And on the other side how few there bee in the World that will either abate their sleepe forgoe their pleasures abridge their dyets or seeke after the spirituall Phisition or prepare Phisicke to purge and expell those dangerous peccant humors of notorious and hainous sinnes which in time will both breede bring forth the most deadly disease of Desperation the very Peste of soule and body for euer It is a wonder to see The 〈◊〉 thing bee ●dred how many abhorre and are affraid of worldly pouerty and for the auoiding thereof and for the loue and liking of transitory riches will with great carke and care rise vp early and late take their rest they will fare hardly and go clad full barely they will hazard both bodies and soules they will toyle and teare their flesh in vnmeasurable labours by land and sea bee the weather faire bee it foule per mare pauperiem fugientes per saxa per ignes And yet on the other side how few can abide any costes charges or paines to escape and remedie spirituall decayes to auoyde pouerty of conscience or in time before it be too late to beware that they be not plunged ere they be aware into the most deadly and diuelish gulph of Desperation as though saluation and peace of a godly conscience were a matter not worthy the talking of or labouring for It is a lamentable thing to behold how many in the world will vndertake and attempt any thing ●ing to ●men● bee it neuer so chargeable troublesome not sluggish nor sleepie not carelesse and slothfull but most earnest and watchfull most careful and painefull at euery assay by Prudence and prowesse by witte and by warinesse by counsaile and by cunning by learning and by labouring ambitiously to hunt gaine and gape after honor and vnfatigably seeke to attaine fame and highly account of it to be gazed on talked of with the eyes and tongues of all men And againe how few take any care at all or once endeauour themselues to auoyd shame confusion in the presence of the Almighty to become glorious in the sight of GOD and his Angels and to vse and exercise any of those good meanes and instruments ordained and appointed of God for the increase of Faith Hope and Charity and for the weakening and abandoning of all desperation and diffidence in Gods infinite mercies and infallible promises It is a lamentable thing to marke and consider how vigilant careful The secōd th● to bee ●mented and heedfull many of the wiser and circumspecter sort of men of this world will bee to escape and auoyd all the penalties paines and punishments prouided and set downe for offenders of mortall mens lawes how painefull they will be in Penall Statutes how skilfull in euery branch of the Ciuill Lawes least they should ignorantly incurre the dangers of imprisonment of losse of landes forfeytures of their goods or death it selfe Many haue greater care of mortal mens laws then of Gods lawes But the mighty God the only highest Law-giuer that Lord of Lordes and King of all Kings Let him ordeyne publish and proclaime his Lawes Statutes and Ordinances to be hearkned vnto obserued and kept and that vnder neuer so rigorous and Seuere conditions punishments and penalties How few men will search his Booke of Statutes and Lawes How few are affraid of his not temporary but euerlasting threatninges and punishments contained in his Lawes and how few men regard esteeme and thankfully embrace his couenant of reconciliation set forth in his most ioyfull and comfortable Gospell And yet most certaine it is that all these aforesaid things so much to bee wondred at and so greatly to bee lamented for so lightly looked on so smally regarded and so little thought on many such other of the like fraternity and order of disorders sins being delighted in and securely continued in without all care or indeauour to forsake them in time by repentance true returning to the Lord doe first breed or in gender and afterwards bring forth Desperation then the which all the Furies and Diuells in hell cannot lightly excogitate nor find out a greater torment or a more intolerable paine and that because that all other torments penalties and paines are but temporall and pursue men no further then bodily death but this endeth not with

bodily death but becommeth eternall Whosoeuer then he bee that is once surely catcht in this net of desperation hee needes no mo accusers to come against him then his former vnrepented sinnes which lye at the doore to arrest him his owne heart will giue euidence against him and his owne iniquity wil plead him to be guilty and that to his owne face Vpon consideration of these things I haue now in this treatise following good Christian Reader endeuoured my selfe to set downe First a definition of Desperation then the grieuousnesse thereof after this certaine principall causes thereof together with remedies for the same and lastly a generall preseruatiue against Desperation arising of what cause soeuer To the intent that the Children of GOD falling by some occasions into some degrees of it for if it rage in extremities in the opinion of some learned Writers it is an euill incurable and vnrecouerable may with the more case and quietnesse bee recouered and saued as it were out of the Diuels clawes euen out of as great danger as euer were the poore Sheepe that Dauid tooke out of the Beares or Lions mouth 1 Sa 17. Accept heereof gentle Reader ●●h no worse a minde then I haue at●mpted to bee the Writer and then ●oubt not but it shall either mini●r vnto thine heart some comfortable Physicke or else giue thee occasion to seeke reade or collect a better Thine in all Christian affection W. W. The Contents of this Booke entreated of in euery seuerall Page as followeth A Definition of euery thing which is to bee ●puted or reasoned of is necessary 〈◊〉 wherefore The Definition of Desperation of two sorts Page 1 Two kindes of Desperation the one wicked 〈◊〉 other good and holy pag. ● Three thinges especially to be noted in the Treat● of Desperation Page ● GOD is constant and faithfull and how a● wherein Page ● The duty of the faithfull towards God in rega●● of Gods faithfulnes towards him Page ● The horriblenes of the sinne of Diffidence Mistru●● or Desperation Page ● When especially the Diuell beginneth to tempt 〈◊〉 Desperation Page ● What kinde of Phisicke and Surgery the Diue● practiseth Page ● The absurd dealing of such as yeld to Desperation Page ● What great inconueniences they fall into that yee● to Desperation Page ● Saint Bernard his opinion concerning the haynousnes of the sinne of Desperation Page ● Scilla and Charibdis is not so dangerous as Desperation Page ● The dangers of Desperation Page 10 11 Of the degrees by which the Diuell draweth me● into Desperation Page 13 The Diuell the chiefe cause of Desperation Page 13 The forerunners of Desperation Page 14 ●hat the Diuell will obiect to bring vs to desperation Page 15 ●norance the second cause of desperation Page 16 ●norance the mother of Desperation Page 17 ●eruitude or bondage of sinne the third cause of ●esperation Page 17 ●he wofull effects of sins Page 18 ●he fourth cause of Desperation Page 18 ●he manifold aduersaries of mans saluation all ●hich the Diuel vseth as meanes to Desperation Page 19. ●he fift cause of Desperation Page 20 21 ●he sixt cause of Desperation Page 22 ●ong custome groweth into a second nature Page 22 ●he first preseruatiue against Desperation Page 88 ●n example shewing that many men put more trust ●n mortall man then in God Page 89 ●nother proofe that many put more trust in mortall 〈◊〉 man then in God Page 90 ●he second generall helpe against Desperation Page 91 ●he third generall helpe against Desperation Page 92 ●hatsoeuer could be looked for at Gods hands or whatsoeuer man could be charged with that hath Christ performed Page 93 ●he fourth generall helpe for the auoyding of Despe●tion Page 94 The fift generall helpe against Desperation Page 95 ●aint Paul and Saint Iames their counsell against the temptations and assaults of Sathan Page 24 〈◊〉 description of the Armour with which Saint Paul would haue Christians to resist the Diuell Page 25 The first kind of Armour to resist the Diuell with Page 25 The second kinde of armour werewith the Diuell is 〈◊〉 to be resisted Page 25 Whereby the Diuel is emboldened to tempt wherby on the other side he is discouraged Page ● The third kind of armour against Sathan Page ● The fourth kind of Armour against Sathan Page ● What ●aith is Page ● The st●t k●nd of armour to resist the Diuell Page ● The Scriptures do minister store of Armour agai● euery kind of temptation Page ● The sixt kind of Christian Armour Page ● Remedies against igno ance Page ● The danger of wilfull Ignorance Page ● What the Ignorant must do Page ● Counsell very necessary for the ignorant Page ● What the ministers of Gods word are Page ● How the Ministers of Gods word are to bee acco●ted of Page ● Of the great seruitude and bondage of sinnes and the remedies thereof Page ● Examples tending to the strengthening of our Fa● Page ● Hope and Patience against Desperation Page 39. 4● Wherefore Christ came into this world Page 41. 42. 4● What manner of righteousnes God requireth at o● hands Page ● Sinne dwelleth euen in the beleeuers in the m● righteous in the world but yet raigneth not neyth● can it condemne them and why Page 46 4● Places of Scripture letting forth Gods great mer● Page 4● A Catalogue or rehearsall of many things where● the Diuell craftily tempteth many men to sin a● Desperation Page ● How the Diuell tempteth by riches Page ● How the Diuell tempteth by pouerty Page ● How the Diuell tempteth by friends Page ● ●ow the Diuel tempteth by enemies Page 52 ●ow the Diuel tempteth by carefulnes Page 52 ●ow the Diuel tempteth by security and careles●es Page 52 How the Diuell tempteth by strength by health ablenesse of body beauty by honour and dignity by quicknes of spirit and sharpnes of wit Page 52. 53. How the Diuel tempteth by Gods word how hee wil abuse wrest and misapply Gods word Page 53. 54. The true vse of those Scriptures which the Diuell seeketh to abuse to bring men to Desperation thereby Page 55 The comforts and commodities of the crosses and aflictions of Gods children Page 57 58. Why God send●th euils to his children and how he sendeth comforts in the midst of euils Page 59. How God loue●h and dealeth with his children Page 60 Gods ●od● of what sort they are Page 61 What God séeketh to worke by dealing hardly with his children Page 62 Go●s affection to his children like vnto a kind louing mothers affection Page 63 64. God dealeth with his children as Phisitions Surge●ns do with their Patients Page 65 God vseth sometimes the seruice and ministry of Diuels and of wicked men Page 67 The wicked are not be●tered by their troubles and aflict on s Page 67 Whence it commeth that afflictions and crosses profit Gods children Page 67 The conceits and opinions of the wicked in their aduersities and troubles