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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

rest of the Apostles saying Men brethren Act. 2. what shall we do Euen thus I say let vs come vnto Gods Ministers Counsell f●r the ignorant very necessary and confesse acknowledge our great blindnes and ignorance and say vnto them Help vs instruct vs teach vs set vs in the way guid vs in the paths of the knowledge of God and of our saluation What the true Ministers of gods word are for surely they are the Phisitions and Surgions of our soules so that if w● repayre vnto them they shall giue vs t● drinke of the holesome waters of knowledge to quench our thirst of Ignorance they are the dispencers of the manifolde graces of God the Lords Stewards to giue each one of vs our portions in due time We haue not Christ alwaies amongst vs as appertayning to his bodely presence but as himselfe saith we haue the Poore alwaies amongst vs euen so also we haue not Christ himselfe that body I meane which sitteth at the right hand of God the father alwaies with vs but yet our Lord Christ ascending vp on high gaue vnto men among other giftes this gift also if we could rightly cōsider of it of no smal value euē Pastors Doctors that is the Ministers of the Gospell of Christ that might instruct informe and teach vs in the way of life that might declare vnto vs the secret counsailes hiden misteries of God How the true ministers of Gods word are to be accounted of thet might arme vs with the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God to encounter resist our deadly enemy the Diuel therwith Let vs ioyfully receiue them for who so receiueth them as they ought to be receiueth also with thē him that sent them whose Messengers they are Let vs heare them for they bring vnto vs the word of life Let vs giue credit vnto the Lords Ministers Glory vnto the Lord himselfe that hath giuen in his great loue this blessing vnto vs to haue his messengers and Ambassadours abiding among vs to declare and make known vnto vs by them what his own good will and pleasure is in all thinges to the auoiding of this blind ignorance the very mother of Desperation and so consequently of eternall Damnation with the Author thereof and his cursed Angels for euer CHAP. 3 Of the great seruitude bondage of sins and of the remedies thereof COncerning the great seruitude and bondage of sin being the third before noted cause of Desperation for the helpes and remedies thereof this haue I briefly to say that what though we haue bin seruants vnto sinne and haue bene pressed and surpressed with the bondage thereof so that we must néedes confesse vnlesse we should proue our selues lyars and thrt there were no truth in vs that we through our often doing of those thinges which we should not haue done on the other side through our leauing off those things vndon which we should haue done haue most iustly deserued Gods threatned curses and plagues to light on our bodies our soules our children our stockes our croppes euery thing else we goe about put our hands vnto What though our sinnes fight against our soules and gnaw our consciences and be ready euen out of hand to lead vs into the most dangerous state of Desperation Examples tending to the strengthning of our faith hope and patience against desperation What though wee haue contended fallen out with our brethrā as did Paul and Barnabas who were so hot in contententiō one against another that they forsooke one an others company in high displeasure and heat of their stomacks the one taking with him Luke the other Iohn What though wee haue yeelded vnto practised and followed Oppression Extortion polling pilling and wresting that wee can by hooke or crooke from our brethren Luke 19 2 So did Zaoheus yet notwithstanding after his repentance his forsaking ceasing from bad getting his restitution and almes giuing receaued that most chearefull and comfortable saying of Chiist This day is saluation entred into thine house Luk. 19 9 What though we haue bin théeues robbers stealers of our neighbours goods so was the théefe that was crucified with Christ and yet vpon eis 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 sh●d the blood or caused the bloud to be shed of some of our brethren so did Dauid to Vrias and yet vpon his zealous inward true vnfained sorrowfulnes repentance hee was not taken away in his sinne but found pardon And so did the Iewes which put to death the Lord of life 〈◊〉 Manasses was an Idolater he def●●● th● Temple of God hee with stood 〈◊〉 beat downe the truth 2 K●●● hee set vp Ido●●●ry he was a coniurer a Southsa●●● 〈◊〉 shed aboundance of Innocent 〈◊〉 so that the streets flowed therewith he committed more abhominations thē the Cananites or Amorites whō for their filthines the Lord cut off out of the land of the liuing he sacrificed his sonnes and daughters to Diuells and yet vpon his true returning to the Lord from the bottom of his heart he found fauour and mercy If our sinnes then 2. Chr. 33. or the sins of any one of vs were as grieuous as euer were the sins of Manasses yet vpon our true and vnfained returne to the Lord shall we despayre of his mercy shall we or may we or daie we thinke that the mercy and power of the Lord is shortened or that God is not the s●●●e God he was Is he not as ready to pardon forgiue sinnes the sinnes of a m●● repenting returning faithfully c●●ling vpon him as euer he was the sinnes of Manasses All these examples and many more are written for our learning comfort strengthning of our faith hope and patience that we should in no wise despayre vpon our true repentance neither for the multitude nor grieuousnesse of our sinnes And likewise also it is written for the brusing as it were euen for the breaking of the backe of all damnable Desperation and to hold the hearts and to restore the fainting and dull spirites 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 that the Sonne of man is come to saue mens liues Luk. 9.56 And he himselfe hath said I am come to call not the iust but sinners Math. 10. Math. 20 Ioh. 3. Wherfore Christ came into this world And againe Iesus Christ is come to giue his life a redemptiō for many Also God the father hath not sent his Son to iudge the World but to the end the world 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

sicknesses but that we haue time leasure and quietnesse to doe all such things as any of vs all trusted vnto at our last farewel with the world The diuell will bee most busie to hinder repentance at our last houre yet will that deadly enemy that mortall aduersary of ours Sathan the Diuell at the time aboue all other apply himselfe let vs looke for no other but what vile sinne we haue committed and delighted ●n all our life time that wil he lay to our ●harge and clogge our consciences with to bring vs into desperation with and ●y them he will put vs in minde ter●ifie vs with Gods seuere threatnings against sinne He will obiect against vs that saying of our Lord Christ Math. 19. that if we would haue entred into life we should haue kept his Commandements Math. 7. He wil tel vs that not he that saith Lord Lord but he that doth the wil of the father of heauen shall enter into the Kingdome of God He will put vs in mind that Not the hearers of the Law but the doers shal be iustified Rom. 2. Rom. 8. He wil threaten vs that because we haue liued according to the flesh we shall die He wil crack vs that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdom of God that neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Wātons 1. Cor. 6.9.10 nor Buggerers nor theeues nor the Couetous nor Drūkards not Railers nor Extortioners shal inherit the kingdome of God And that such as haue liued according to the works of the flesh which are repeated vp Gal. 5. shall not attaine to the kingdome of God 1. Cor. 5. Ier. 2. And that we must be presented before the iudgement seat of Christ and euery man receiue particularly according as he hath done in this life good or euill Apoca. 20 2. Pet. 2. euery man shal receiue according to his works and that God spared not the Angels when they sinned 1 P●● 4. if the iust shall scarce be saued where shal the wicked man and sinner appeare When all these a great deale more describing setting forth vnto vs the rigor of Gods seuere iustice the reckoning wherevnto we shal be called shal be put into our minds on our death-beds that damned Sathan which all the daies of our liues before laboured to make vs careles negligent of the knowledge or consideration of any of these things that so he might make vs the more boldly blindly to run headlong into sinne shall charge vs with this and much more like stuffe appealing to our owne consciences for witnes heereof and so heervppon plant in our hearts déepe Desperation Alas in what case shall our poore soules then stand Would a man then for a thousand worlds and all the profits and pleasures thereof be brought to such a quandary O thou therefore that readest or hearest this damnable and miserable state that silly soules may be implunged into for the better auoyding of these perills read and read againe meditate ponder and put in practise the direction aduice and counsell in the beginning of this present sixt Chapter And take this lesson of Ioseph of Arimathia The example of Ioseph of Arimathia most worthy to be imitated that like as hee in his life time had made a ready Sepulcre in the midst of his Garden which was the place of his pleasure as all Gardens of great men most commonly are euen so thou in the midst of these thinges wherein thou takest thy greatest felicity and delight remember yet thy graue and what one day thou knowest not how soone shall become of thy poore soule afterward of thy soule and body for euer The vse custome of he Egyptians Remember and learne likewise at the Egiptians who perceiuing the mindfulnes of death to be a good helpe to bridle their euill actions vsed to bring a Picture or Image resembling death into their great and sollemne Feasts which fearefull and vgly sight trembling and shaking they tooke to bee a speciall occasion to keepe the beholders in sobriety by the remembrance of their end The notable imm●●a●●e example of ●ing Ezechi●s which they must all come vnto sooner or later And finally learne at the good king Ezechias when thou shalt be by any occasion put in remembrance of death be affraid of Gods threatning sorrow a little before hand least thou bee constrained to sorrow howle and cry remedilesse alwayes afterwards for according to the old saying Ecclesiast 7.40 Qui ante non cauebit post dolebit he that wil not beware before shall afterward bee sorrye he that in all his doings remembreth the end shal neuer lightly do amisse The which wise remembrance 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 maiesty of God-head all worthy glory honour and praise be worthily attributed for euer and euer Amen CHAP. 7 The seauenth Chapter containing the Generall Preseruatiue against the despaire or doubting of Gods mercy arising vppon any cause whatsoeuer FOr as much as it is a thing manifestly to be proued by holy Scriptures that a man indued with true faith it selfe may not withstanding now and then be troubled and assaulted with motions of doubtings wauering yea and of despairing therefore for the bridling suppressing and ouercomming of these assaults it shall be good to put in practise these fiue things 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 adultery and all the rest of the Decalogue or ten Commandements are the Commandements of God and we are carefull and striue with our selues that we should not breake any of thē least that in breaking any of them wee should so highly offend God that he would therefore power downe vpon vs his heauy wrath and in his indignation seuerely punish vs as by many examples we see he hath done to others in the like offences So also it is Gods commandement as well as any of the others are 1 Iohn 3.23 That wee beleeue in the name of his son Iesus Christ and therefore we must thinke we offend against God as grieuously or rather far more grieuously in violating and breaking this Commandement by incredulity doubting wauering and despairing as if we should shed mans blood commit whordome theft periury or any other such like notorious sinne O what a hainous sinne must it needs be to cast no doubtes nor dispaire 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 wee can settle our hearts to beleeue in our mortall fathers if wee stand in neede of meat drinke or clothes An example that many men put more

Diuell with whereof S. Paul in the catalogue of a Christian Souldiars armor maketh rehersal is the word of God this is the Sword of the spirit whereby the suggestions and wicked temptations of Sathan are beaten backe propelled kept off euen as a man kéepeth backe his enemy at the poynt of his Sword With this kinde of Armour did our chiefe captaine Christ Iesus in his manhood here on earth resist and put backe al the Diuell his subtle and faulse temptations answering euery one of them with Scriptū est It is written whence we may learne by the like meanes Christ him selfe an example how to resist the Diuels temptations after his most excellent example to combate with the Diuell and to giue him the foyle whensoeuer by him or any his wicked instruments we shall be tempted to this Desperation or any other sinns whatsoeuer If we be tempted to sweare and blaspheme the holy name of God it is to be resisted with Sciptum est It is written Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine If to pollute and break the Lords Sabboth day through either labouring about our pleasures or profits answer It is written Remember that thou kepe holy c. If to murther shedding of blood by any forbiddē way or means or vpon any vnlawfull occasiō whatsoeuer answere It is written Thou shalt doe no murther If to steale and purloyne by any vnlawfull means directly or indirectly answere it is written Thou shalt not steale If we be tempted to vsury Exo. 22.25 Deu 23.19 Le. 25.39 Psal 15.5 let vs drawe out the Sword of the Spirit Thou shalt not giue to Vsury vnto thy brother Vsury of mony Vsury of meat or of any other thing If he moue vs to deceipt fraudulent dealing 1 Thes 4.5 Leu 25.14 let vs resist him with It is written Let no man oppress or deceaue his brother in bargaining for the Lord is a Iudge in such things If we be sollicited to disloyalty disobedience to Princes let vs striue against that with It is written Rom. 13.1 2 3 Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers c. Finally to be short to what kind of sin mischiefe or inconuenience so euer any of vs shall happen to be drawn The Scriptures doe minister store of swords against euery kinde of temptation inticed or inueigled let vs search the Scriptures we shal soone finde store of swordes of one kind or other to answer foyle and recoyle whatsoeuer this mortal enemy of ours can vse or obiect against vs here is armour enough to finde him occupied with The sixt kinde of spirituall Armour and heauenly furniture wherewith S. Paul or rather the holy Ghost by Saint Paul The sixt kinde of Christian Armour would haue vs complet and furnished against all the dangerous combats conflicts and wicked suggestions of this wicked and damned spirit thereby to auoid repell vanquish him vtterly is deuout hearty zealous Godly prayer Ouer besides S. Paul his instruction and most needfull exhortation in this case his 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 Armor this kind of propulsatiue weapon and feruentlie and heartily vse it And firmely belieue that which Dauid the Prophet for our good incouragement hath written in Ps 145.19 God is nere to those which cal vpon him will fulfill the desire of them that feare him and deliuer thē Whensoeuer therefore we are tempted allured and drawne on by Sathan through couetousnesse to riches through ambition to honour through enuy to murther through cōcupisence to adultery through intemperance to gluttony or to be short through any other sinne to iniquity Let vs straight waies by prayer craue for power and strength from aboue to ouercome these temptations and especially the most dangerous suggestion of Despayre This kind of Armour is alwaies ready at hand so that Satan can no sooner attempt any thing against vs but this weapon is as soone ready if we heartily and zealously lay hold thereon to repell and vanquish al his practises against vs And therefore Pray pray pray CHAP. 2. The second Chapter concerning remedies and helps against ignorance the second cause of Desperation entreated of before in Chap. 4. COncerning the second cause of Desperation to wit ignorance Our Lord Iesus Christ who was nothing ignorant of the manifold mischiefes and of the manifest dangers that the Diuell leadeth silly men into as it were blindfolded through blinde ignorance and hee knowing that Ignorance is rather the mother of desperation as heretofore in the 4. Chap. of the causes of Desperation hath beene sufficiently prooued then of Deuotion as the Papists haue in this point ignorantly taught maintaind hath in his owne person with his owne mouth exhorted and admonished all men Io. 5.29 to Search the Scriptures which is a lesson in this case most necessary for all men to learne thereby to deliuer themselues out of the dangerous gulfe of Ignorance and so consequently out of many other sinnes and finally out of desperation where-into thousands through Ignorance haue bene implunged and drowned for euer Let vs therefore for the remedie and auoiding of finall Desperation Remedies against Ignorance wherevnto so many runne headlong through Ignorance little knowing and lesse regarding what they doe vntill it be too late receiue the word of God which as S. Iames saith is able to saue our soules with al readines like vnto the Noblemē of Berea search the Scriptures daily Act. 17.11 Let vs seeke after the knowledg of God in time And as the Prophet Esay said Esa 55 6. Seeke the Lord whiles he may be found cal vpon him whils he is neere The danger of wilfull Ignonorance And let vs be assured of this that al māner of Ignorance is perillous but wilful Ignorance of all other is most perilous For it is as a learned Writer hath affirmed a plain Prognostication A. D. in the plaine mans path to heauen a demonstratiue argument of eternall death It is a most horrible and fearefull thinge for a man to refuse instructions dispise counsaile harden their Hearts stoppe their eares and close vp their eyes against God this is the very vp shot of euerlasting ruine What the Ignorant must doe Let the ignorant therefore that stand in this dangerous estate repayre with al diligence and attentiuenesse vnto the learned Ministers dispencers of Gods most sacred word and at their mouths enquire the knowledge of Gods lawes This doth God himselfe commaund vs by the Prophet Malachie Malac 4. And when we feele our consciences wounded let vs after the example of the Godly faithfull and deuout people who after the hearing of Gods word preached came vnto Peter and the