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A15495	Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation Collected for the direction and comfort of such Christians as trauayling and being heauie loaden in their consciences, with the burthen of their sinnes, stand in danger either in time of their sicknesse to fall away from their God, through deepe despaire, or else in time of their health, to yeelde to one desparate end, or other, to the ruine and vtter confusion of both bodyes and soules for euer. By W.W.	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1605 (1605)	STC 25762; ESTC S102526	47,571	122

may be implunged into for the better auoyding of these perilles reade reade againe meditate ponder and put in practise the direction aduice and counsayle in the beginning of this present sixt Chapter The example of Ioseph of Arimathia most worthy to be imitated And take this lesson of Ioseph of Arimathia that like as he in his life time had made readie a Sepulcre in the middest of his Garden which was the place of his pleasure as all Gardens of great men most commonly are Euen so thou in the middest of these things wherein thou takest thy greatest felicitie and delight remember yet thy Graue and what one day thou knowest not how soone shall become of thy poore soule and afterward of thy soule and body for euer Remember and learne likewise at the Egiptians who perceiuing the mindfulnesse of death to be a good helpe to brydle their euill actions ●he vse and ●ustome of ●●e● Egipti●ns vsed to bring a Picture or Image resembling Death into their great and solemne Feastes which fearefull and ouglie sight trembling and shaking they tooke to be a speciall occasion to keepe the beholders in sobrietie by the remembrance of their end which they must all come vnto sooner or later And finally learne at the good King Ezechias ●he notable ●nd imitable ●xample of ●ing Eze●hias when thou shalt be by any occasion put in the remembraunce of death be af●aide of Gods threatninges and sorrow a little before hand least thou be constrayned to sorrow howle and cry remeddesse alwayes afterwardes for according to the old saying Qui ante non cauebit post dolebit he that will not beware before shall afterward be sory Ecclesiasticus 7.40 And hee that in all his doinges remembreth the end shall neuer lightly do amisse The which wise remembraunce of our endes he vouchsafe to plant in our hearts who hath full dearely bought vs Iesus Christ the righteous to whom with his and our heauenly Father and the holy Spirit three persons and one eternall maiestie of Godhead all worthy glorie honour and prayse be worthely attributed for euer and euer Amen CHAP. VII The seuenth Chapter conteyning the Generall Preseruatiue against the despaire or doubting of Gods mercie arysing vpon any cause whatsoeuer FOr as much as it is a thing manifestly to be prooued by holy Scriptures that a man endued with true fayth it selfe may notwithstanding now and then be toubled and assaulted with motions of doubtinges wauering yea and of despairing therefore for the brideling suppressing and ouercomming of these assaultes it shall be good to put in practise these fiue thinges especially First we are to thinke and consider thus much The first preseruatiue against Despaire that as not to murther not to steale not to commit adulterie and all the rest of the Decalogue or ten Commaundementes are the Commaundementes of God and we are carefull and striue with our selues that wee should not breake any of them least that in breaking any of them we should so highly offend God that he would therefore powre downe vpon vs his heauie wrath and in his indignation seueerely punish vs as by many examples wee see he hath done to others in the like offences So also it is Gods commaundement as well as any of the other are 1. Ioh. 3.23 That wee beleeue in the name of his sonne Iesus Christ and therefore we must thinke wee offende against God as greeuously or rather farre more greeuously in violating and breaking this Commaundement by incredulitie doubting wauering and despairing as if we should shed mans blood commit whoredome theft periurie or any other such like notorious sinne O what a haynous sinne must it needes be to cast no doubtes nor despaire in the helpe of a mortall man in the time of neede and yet to mistrust and despaire of the like in God As for example We can settle our heartes to beleeue in our mortall Fathers if we stand in neede of meate drinke or cloathes An exam●●● that man men put more tru●● in morta● man ther● God wee then call on them and if they promise vs any such thinges we can set our heartes at case and count it as a thing done we doubt nothing of their good wil towards vs nor of the performaunce of their word vnto vs wee depende vppon them wee relye onely on them and none other and what they giue their word to do for vs we make as sure reckoning of it as if it were alreadie in our handes Againe if we stand in neede of a peece of money as of x. ●nother ●xample ●ewing ●at many ●on put ●ore trust 〈◊〉 mortall ●●n then 〈◊〉 God xx li. xxx li. or be it more or lesse to discharge some dangerous Bond or for any such like vse by a set day or to saue our bodyes out of prison and in the meane time before the day appointed come some one of our honest rich neighbours that is counted an honest substantial man and of good credite promise vs certainly so much money as we want and stand in need of to serue our turne with and bids vs trust vnto it that before that day he will be sure to helpe we herevpon trust his honest promise we beleeue his word make as sure account of it as if we had it already in our purses and take no more thought nor care for it O how much more should we trust Gods most faythfull iust and true word and promise beleeue him without all distrust doubting or despaire and depende vpon him who is a thousand times more able and more willing to do vs good and to keepe touch with vs then euer was or euer shal be any mortall earthly Father or friendly neigbour The second thing in this case to be considered of is that euery one of vs The second generall help against desp●●ation is particularly to beleeue that he is in the number of those that shal be saued by the merites of Christes death passion for the promises of saluation in Christ are indefinite excluding no particuler man as for example God so loued the world Iohn 3 16. that he gaue his onely beloued Sonne to the end that all that beleeue in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting In which generall wordes is included euery particuler beleeuing person although he haue not his name seuerally particulerly set downe and heere God excludeth none from his promise vnlesse through their vnbeleefe and despaire they exclude their owne selues If the King of Great Britaine of his owne meere mercie and motion of compassion or at the sure and mediation of some Noble man or other that is deare vnto him should freely pardon and forgiue all the malefactors and prisoners of any Gaile within his Kingdomes may we not account them very fond foolish men and not worthy the benefite of the Kinges gracious Pardon if some two or three should doubt and despaire that this generall Pardon

So on the other side by this Armour of righteousnesse sinceritie and integritie of an holy life is the Diuell withstood and resisted and wee become the more able to stand fast in the day of our temptation So that it is not without iust cause that the Apostle compareth this Righteou●nes the second kind of spiritual Armour vnto a corporall Breast-plate for that like as a Breast-plate saueth and fenceth the vitall partes of man as his heart liuer and entrailes The good fruites of vprightnes and holine● of life which once being striken and pierced mans life is lost so doth vprightnesse and holinesse of ●●e preserue the heart and conscience of man free and safe from the inuasion and confusion wrought by Sathan from the sicrie dartes of infidelitie hardnesse of conscience coldnesse in religion wickednesse of life corruption in conuersation and finally from Desperation the very vpshot of al mischiefes Thirdly The third kind of Armour for a Christian against Sathan must we arme and furnish our selues to resist Sathan the Diuell with the Gospell of peace that is our heartes must be throughly acquainted and fully fraughted with the knowledge of that glad tydings of great ioy which the Angels of the Lord brought at the birth of Christ Luke 2.10 that tydinges of great ioy which must be vnto all Nations with that most comfortable and ioyfull embassage of the Reconciliation of Man with God which may full well be called the Gospell of peace for that it onely maketh the Conscience of man quiet and at peace with God and it selfe then the which what one thing in all the world can set a man more free from all Desperation The fourth Armour ● Cor. 16.13 Fourthly with Fayth in Iesus Christ wherewith the same S. Paule arming men against spirituall assaultes by Sathan and his ministers and preparing them to the spirituall battle against the Diuell and his members encourageth them not to shrinke but to cleaue fast to this Fayth whereby we may resist and beate backe our spirituall enemie And likewise S. Peter instructing vs to prepare and make our selues strong to encounter with the common enemie the Diuell teacheth vs to resist him by Fayth especially ● Pet. 5.8 Be sober sayth he and watch for your aduersarie the Diuell goeth about seeking whom he may deuowre whom resist stedfast in the fayth For this cause Saint Basil vpon the 32. Basilius in Psalm 32. Psalme sayth What man is able to wage warre with the Diuell vnlesse he flee for helpe to the Captaine of the Hoast through Fayth in him to wound and thrust through his enemie And likewise S. Augustine accounted this Fayth to be so powerfull Augu. lib 3. Cap. 20. de lib. a●bi trio that it resisteth vanquisheth and ouercommeth the Diuell And this true Christian Fayth which is of such power as is aforesayd What fayth is is a sure trust in the mercie of God the Father through the merites of Christ Iesus when we do perswade our selues most certainelye of the pardon of our sinnes through Christes righteousnes and of eternall saluation by his passion hereby obtayning peace in our conscienses with God and rest and walke in obedience to his will and commaundements by his word vnto vs reuealed Of this kind of Fayth is entreated in Abac. 2.4 Rom. 3.28 Rom. 5.1 Ephes 2.8 The fift kinde of Armour to resist the Diuell with The fift kind of Armoure whereof S. Paul in the catalogue of a Christian Souldiers armour maketh rehearsall is the Word of God this is the Sworde of the Spirit whereby the suggestions and wicked temptations of Sathan are beaten backe propelled and kept off euen as a man keepeth backe his enemie at the poynt of his Sword With this kinde of Armour did our chiefe captaine Christ Iesus in his manhood heere on earth resist and put backe all the Diuell his subtil and false temptations answering euery one of them with Scriptum est It is written Whence wee may learne by the like meanes Christ him selfe an ex●mple● how to resist the Diuels temptations after his most excellent example to combat with the D uell and to giue him the foyle when soeuer by him or any his wicked instruments wee shall be tempted to this Desperation or any other sinnes whatsouer If wee be tempted to sweare and blaspheme the holy name of God it is to be resisted with Scriptum est It is written Thou sh●lt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine If to pollute and breake the Lords Saboath day through either laboring about our pleasures or profites answere It is written Remember that thou keep holy c. If to murther and shedding of blood by any forbidden way or meanes or vpon any vnlawfull occasion what soeuer a●swere It is written Thou shalt do no murther If to steale and purloyne by any vnlawfull meanes directly or indiractly answere It is witten Thou shalt not steale If we be tempted to Vsurie Exod. 22.25 Deut 23.19 Leuit. 25.37 Psalm 15.5 let vs draw out this Sword of the Spirit Thou shalt not giue to Vsurie vnto thy brother Vsurie of monie Vsurie of meate or of any other thing If he mooue vs to deceipt and fraudulent dealing let vs resist him with It is written 1. Thes 4.5 Leuit. 25.14 Let no man oppresse or deceaue his brother in bargoning for the Lord is a Iudge in such thinges If we be sollicited to Disloyaltie and disobedience to Princes let vs striue against that with It is written Let euery Soule be subiect to the higher powers Finally to be short Rom. 13.1.2.3 to what kinde of sinne mischiefe or inconuenience so euer any of vs all shall hoppen to be drawen intised or inueigled The Scriptures do minister store of swordes against euery kind of temptation let vs search the Scriptures and we shall soone finde stoore of Swordes of one kind or other to answere foyle and recoyle what soeuer this mortall enemie of ours can vse or obiect against vs heere is armour enough to find him occupied with The sixt kinde of Christian armour The sixt kinde of spirituall Armour and heauenly furniture wherewith Saint Paule or rather the Holy Ghost by Saint Paule would haue vs complet and furnished against all the dangerous combats conflictes and wicked suggestions of this wicked and damned spirite thereby to auoyde repell vanquish him vtterly is deuoure heartie zelous godly prayer Ouer and besides S. Paule his instruction and most needfull exhortation in this case his and our Lord Maister and Sauiour Christ Iesus hath commended vnto vs this kind of weapon when he taught to pray with this Petition And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill Let vs then apply this Armour this kind of propulsatiue weapon and feruently and heartely vse it And firmely beleeue that which Dauid the Prophet for our good encouragement hath written in Psa 145.19 God is neere

fayth hope patience against Desperation who were so h●at in contention one against an other that they forsooke one anothers companie in high displeasure and heate of their stomackes the one taking with him Luke the other Iohn What though we haue yeelded vnto practised and followed Oppression Extortion polling pilling and wresting what we can by hooke or crooke from our brethren Luke 19.2 So did Zacheus yet notwithstanding after his repentance his forsaking and ceassing from bad getting his restitution and almes giuing receiued that most chearefull and comfortable saying of Christ Luke 19. ● This day is saluation entred into thine house What though we haue been Theeues robbers and stealers of our neighbours goodes so was the Theefe that was crucified with Christ and yet vpon his humble contrite and sorrowfull confession of his sinnes he heard this most sweete word from Christ This day shalt thou be with mee in Paradise What though we haue murthered and shead the blood or caused the blood to be shed of some of our brethren so did Dauid to Vrias and yet vppon his zealous inward true vnfained sorrowfulnes and repentance he was not taken away in his sinne but found pardon And so did the Iewes which put to death the Lord of life King Manasses was an Idolater he defi●ed the Temple of God he withstood and did beat downe the trueth he set vp Idolatrie 2. Kin. 21. he was a Coniurer and a Southsayer he shed a boundance of Innocent blood so that the streetes flowed therewith he committed more abhominations then the Cananites or Amorites whom for their filthinest the Lord cut off out of the land of the liuing he sacrificed his sonnes and daughters to Diuels and yet vpon his true returning to the Lord from the bottome of his heart he found fauoure and mercie 2. Chro. 33. If our sinnes then or the sinnes of any one of vs were as greeuous as euer were the sinnes of Manasses yet vpon our true and vnfaigned returne to the Lord shal● we despaire of his mercie shall we or may we or dare we thinke that the mercie and power of the Lod is shortened or that God is not the same God he was Is he not as readie to pardon and forgiue sinnes the sinnes of a man repenting returning and faythfully calling vpon him as euer he was the sinnes of Manasses All these examples and many more are written for our learning comfort and strengthening of our fayth hope and patience that we should in no wise despaire vpon our true repentance neither for the multitude nor greeuousnesse of our sinnes And likewise also it is written for the brusing and as it were euen for the breaking of the backe of all damnable Desperation and to hold the heartes and to restore the faynting and dullie sprites of all such as the seruitude and bondage of sinne this our third cause of Desperation doth vexe and presse downe It is I say written Luk. 9.56 that the Sonne of man is come to saue mens liues And he him selfe hath sayd I am come to call not the iust but sinners Math. 10. Math. 20. Ioh. 3. Wherefore Christ can into this world And againe Iesus Christ is come to giue his life a redemption for many Also God the Father hath not sent his S nne to iudge the Worlde but to the ende the Worlde may be saued by him Now what is it to saue not to iudge but to deliuer from death and damnation wherein we lay in the middest of the bondage of sinne for sinne is the death and damnation of the soule Now he can not saue vs except sinne be first taken from vs And therefore and for this cause came Iesus Christ the Sonne of God Ioh. 8. and he hath declared himselfe to the world to the end that he should take away sinnes and should destroy the workes of the Diuell If it be so that Iesus Christ be come into the world to take away sinnes and if the same were his intent and his message the purpose of Iesus Christ shall not fayle at all and his message remayneth stedfast and true he then without all doubt hath taken away this which the Diuell would perswade vs to be a cause of Desperation this great seruitude and bondage of sinne from all those that trust in him and do verily beleeue and perswade themselues in the bottome of their consciences that it is most true but yet how comes this to passe to wit by Iesus Christ onely by his owne free grace and mercie by the benefites and merites of himselfe who is our onely Sauiour Ioh. 1.29 without any other meane or merit for he is the only Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the worlde Act. 4.12 As also S. Peter sayd to the Iewes There is none other saluation but onely in Iesus Christ for among men there is giuen none other name vnder heauen whereby wee must be saued And so Christ himselfe sayd after he was rysen from the dead It must needes haue been that Christ must haue suffered death Luk 24.44 and that he must haue rysen the third day from the dead and that amendement of life and forgiuenesse of sinnes must be preached in his name to all people and to all nations O how sweete and comfortable are these wordes and sayinges of God which is the onely eternall trueth in deed O how worthy are they to be layde vp in the deapth of our hearts and to haue our whole confidence reposed freely vpon them Colloss 2. And to the Collossians it is sayd God hath quickened vs which were dead in sinnes with Iesus Christ forgiuing vs all our trespasses and hath put out the hand-writing that was against vs hee euen tooke it out of the way and fastened it on the Crosse What meaneth he by this but onely that Iesus Christ hath taken away the Obligation of our debt to wit that we did owe for our sinnes and hath taken it and tyde it with him selfe vpon the Crosse and hath in deed payde it full bitterly who also is for vs and will surely take away this great seruitude bondage of sinne which the Diuell would vse as an instrument of Desperation against vs in case we will beleeue his word and that we can settle out mindes and quiet our harts to account and esteeme his bitter passion and merites to be so great and of such value th●● they are able effect●all and of sufficient strength to obtaine these aforesayd thinges for vs. And Christes prayer to his heauenly Father is heard and remayneth heard continually when he prayed ●o 17 20. saying I p●●y not for these alone ●eaning his there present Disciples but for them al o which shall beleeue in mee through their worde Wherefore the same prayer includeth euery one of vs so farre foorth as we beleeue and place the same in our heartes and wholly repose our selues thereon ●ct 10.42.43 And

S. Peter sayth Iesus Christ hath commaunded vs to preach vnto the pe●p●e and to test●fie th●t it is hee that is ordayned of God a Iudge of the quicke and the dead and that to him al the Prophets giue witnesse that through his name all that beleeue should receiue remission of sinnes Moreouer S. Paul sayth 2 Cor. 5.21 God hath made him which knew no sinne sinne for vs to the ende that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him And heere is to be noted What maner of righteousnesse God requireth at our handes what Righteousnesse or Iustice and Goodnesse that is which God requireth and esteemeth which is no other but that onely which dwelleth and holdeth vpon the Iustice Goodnesse and Merite of Iesus Christ being vtterly ignoraunt of the Iustice or R ghteousnesse and Goodnesse which many do seek in their owne good works But yet when I stande so much vppon this poynt to prooue that our sinnes should be no cause of Desperation a thing which the Diuell greatly vrgeth obiecteth against the conscience of an ignorant man for that our sinnes are taken away by the innocent Lambe Christ Iesus that he hath sufficiently pai●e the ransome therof that we are become righteous by the righteousnes of I sus Chri●t it is not here my meaning neither would I haue any man so to mistake mee and misvnderstande mee that I thinke or would haue any other men to thinke hereby that there is no more sinne in vs or that sinne dwelleth not in these our mortall bodyes Sinne dwelleth euen in the beleeuers and in the most righteous men in the world but yet raigneth not in them for I confesse it plainelye and it is too true that sinne indeede dwelleth in vs but yet to the great comfort of an afflicted conscience against Desperation I affirme it hauing the holy Scriptures for my teachers herein that although the roote of sinne the naughtie disposition and inclination to sinne remayneth alwayes strong in a Christian and neuer can be wholly vanquished before we put off by death this sinfull flesh of ours although I say it do dwell in vs yet it doth not raigne in any Christian beleeuer yet it is not able to damne a true faythfull beleeuer It can not I say damne vs for as much as we are in Iesus Christ and that we do fight and striue against the remanent of sinne albeit we stagger and wauer sometimes and do feele and perceiue our selues to be assayled sometimes by the strong temptations of the Diuell and the flesh This is it that S. Paule writeth of when he sayth There is now no dampnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. ● which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit The remaynent roote of sinne dwelleth alwayes in vs but wee like vnto licentious worldlinges giue it not the bridle and suffer it not to range too farre and to take too deepe a roote but wee breake it tame it and make it subiect vnto vs by walking after the spirit c. and then nothing more sure then that there shal be no condemnation at all vnto vs thereby neither any cause of Desperation thereby for that we are iustified by our Fayth and deliuered from sinne to wit these sinnes which might condemne vs the roote originall and mother of sinne yet notwithstanding still abyding remayning and dwelling in vs against which we warre and striue as long as we continue in this life but the victorie remayneth to our Chieftaine head-Captaine Iesus Christ by the law of his spirit which maketh vs to liue in him and hath set vs free from the right of sinne and death in such sort that we may no more feare sinne nor death by Iesus Christ who hath ouercome all for our wealth and hath reconciled vs eternally to his Father who as our deare Father from hence-foorth will shew fauour vnto vs for the loue of Ies s Christ his deare Sonne and so will take from vs all our sinnes as though we had neuer committed them Euen so doth he promise saying Mich. 7.18.19 God is one God willing to shew vs grace and mercie hee will ●u●●e to vs and will be fauourable and hee will t ke away our iniquitus and cast our sinnes into the deapth of the Sea And againe it is sayd of Gods wonderfull mercies The Lord is full of compassion and mercie 〈◊〉 10● 8 ● 10 c. long suffering and of great goodnes Hee will not alwayes be chyding neither keepeth he his anger for euer He hath not dealt with vs after our sinnes nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities For looke how ●igh the Heauen is in compa iso● of the Earth so great is his mercie also towards them that feare him Looke how wide a●so the Fast is from the West so farre hath he set our sinnes from vs. Yea lik● as a Father pittieth his owne children euen so is th● Lord mercifull vnto them that ●●●●e him For he knoweth whereof we be m●●e he remembreth that we are but dust c. Of the great mercies of God towardes sinners read more in Psal 145 8.9 and 147.8.10 in Ioel. 2.13 Math. 18 11. 2. Cor. 1 3. Places of holy Scriptures setting foorth gods great mercies Ephes 2.4 1. Tim. 1.13 vnto the 18. verse Surely these places are wordes of most rare and singular comfort and they be certaine sinne sure and vnchangeable spoken and pronounced by the eternall veritie it selfe and therfore not to be mistrusted or despaired of But yet let vs take heed least that verse be verified in vs Stulti dum vitant vitia in contraria currunt Let vs not abuse Gods mercies making a cloake thereof to couer our sinnes Let vs not presume too farre and say as in Ecclesiasticus 5.6 The mercie of God is great hee will forgiue my manifolde sinnes for mercie and wrath commeth from him c. CHAP. IIII. The fourth Chapter concerning the Remedies to be vsed against the Fourth cause of Desperation arysing of the doubts suggested by the Diuell vnto many men to bring them into despaire of their saluation by meanes of the small number of those that shal be saued in comparison of the great number of the reprobate GReat in deed is the power and manifold and marueilous are the pollicies deuices wyles subtilties assaultes and suggestions wherewith and whereby that wylie Foxe A catalogue or rehearsall of many thinges ●hereby the Diuell craf●ily temp●eth men to sinne des●eration that old bitten Dogge that subtill Sathan the Diuell dayly and howerly practiseth to entice allure and euen as it were to force multitudes of men heere on earth into one sinne or other wherevnto he findeth and prooueth them to be naturally enclyned and last of all vpon one occasion or other into Desperation How the di●●l tempteth by riches If he espieth a man to he rich and to haue worldly blessinges through the gift of God