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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19037	The parable of the vncleane spirit pithily opened, and plainly applied; wherein is shewed Sathans possession, his dispossession, and repossession. A worke needfull for these secure times, in which the most neglect the meanes oftheir salvation. Preached, and now published, by Edmund Cobbes minister of the Word of God.	Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3.	1633 (1633)	STC 5454; ESTC S116664	66,367	214

THE PARABLE OF THE VNCLEANE SPIRIT Pithily opened and plainly applied wherein is shewed Sathans possession his dispossession and repossession A worke needfull for these secure times in which the most neglect the meanes of their salvation 1 Pet. 5. 8. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devill as a roaring Lyon walketh about seeking whom he may devoure August Epist 7. Ego ex eorum numero me esse profiteor qui scribendo proficiunt proficiendo scribunt Preached and now published by Edmund Cobbes Minister of the Word of God Printed at London by T. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie dwelling at the three Golden Lyons in Cornehill 1633. To the Right Worshipful Sir Nathanael Brent Knight Doctor of the Civill Law Vicar generall in causes spirituall for the Province of Canterbury Commissary for the Diocesse of the same and Warden of Merton Colledge in Oxford And to the Right vertuous and honoured Lady the Lady Martha Brent his wife The best blessings of this life and eternall blessednesse in the world to come RIght Worshipfull although Gods word can countenance it selfe and needes no shelter from the arme of flesh yet experience shewes that not onely the writings of the most but even some of those sacred bookes which were breathed from heaven have beene dedicated to renowned Saints on earth If that heavenly Evangelist dedicated his ●uke 1 3 Gospell and Treatise of the holy Acts of the Apostles unto Acts 1 1 that most excellent Theophilus And that eminent pillar of the Church directed 2 Iohn 1 1 that heavenly Epistle to that elect Lady whom he loved in the truth In imitation whereof I have made bold to devote this poore mite in comparison of that rich treasure unto your Worships whose vertues and pieties have also dignified you for the countenance and respect which you beare to religion and learning The subject of my discourse is divine answerable to your affections not unbefitting your place and most necessary and so not unworthy your studies Here I have discovered Sathans inveterate malice against the godly and for their sakes have prescribed such spirituall Antidots as Christ the Saints comforter hath confected In which if I have passed the bounds of modestie I humbly crave pardon for the same relying upon the innate goodnesse that rests in your nature I have presumed to offer unto your acceptations a taste of such fruits as my barren orchard could afford my meaning hereby is not to crave any thankes or praise where none is deserved but that so farre as I may I might make evident to others for imitation those excellent vertues which God hath made so eminent in you And also according to my poore abilitie leave to the world a testimoniall of that duty and respect which I beare unto either of your Worships for those many favours you have extended towards me which I have no other way to requite saving my prayers which shall be that you may goe forward in your pious courses to serve God your King and Country that you may stand couragiously for religion before men and then it will stand for you before God Thus shall you gaine glory from your God favour from your King purchase peace to your conscience and shame them that say Law and piety cannot stand together or that greatnesse is any hinderance to goodnes then shall you cause all them that feare God to love and reverence you and mee among the rest to be your servant in Christ and remaine Your Worships humbly devoted and ready to be commanded Edmund Cobbes To the Curteous Reader grace mercy and peace DEarly beloved you may be pleased to remember that not long since I set forth a Treatise under this Title The worldlings looking-glasse In which I promised to publish this present Parable And seeing promise is counted a due debt though I have stayed long before I have performed that which I then undertooke yet at last as you see I am as good as my word and now tender you paiment In this present Discourse I have laid open the fearfull estate of all Hypocrites who have Christ rife in their mouths and therefore would seeme better than any when as indeed they are worse than many for God accountes a devout Hypocrite no better than a prophane Epicure he cannot endure a Devill though he be in Samuels mantell and that because they respect not the reward of vertue but the regard of men as if vertue were not a sufficient recompence to it selfe Happy is that man that can espy this cursed vice in himselfe happier that laboures by the power of God to purge it out They that will have helpe against this spirituall wickednesse must seeke unto God and get directions out of his Word which is mighty through 2 Cor. 10 3 God to the pulling downe of strong houlds Praying dayly for the assistance of his Eph. 6 18. Spirit else it will not bee enough to fight with Gods weapons unlesse wee borrow his arme The enemy of our Saluation is powerfull and therefore called the god Eph. 2 2. of this World and the Prince that ruleth in the Aire who laboures mightily to keepe us in league with our sinnes And therefore useth innumerable stratagems to hinder us in our journey to the Celestiall Canaan Working either upon the corruption of our nature to disturbe us in the practise of Piety or else by dishartning of us under the crosse when wee should be most resolute for Gods glory and therefore seeing he is so resolute to worke our ruine it should make us carefull to Phil. 2 12. worke out our owne salvation with feare and trembling and give all diligence to make our calling and election sure and to 2 Pet. 1 10 let our conversation be such as becommeth the Gospell of Christ that so we may bee Phil. 1 27. blamelesse and harmelesse the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middest of a Phil. 2 15. crooked and perverse nation Else if wee neglect the meanes of our salvation and spend our daies in sensuality carnall security will seaze upon us and then when we would cast off these bonds wee cannot because our Dalilahs our own follies have beguiled us Therefore seeing our enemy is so potent and malicious let us not 1 Thes 5 7 sleepe as doe other but let us watch and be sober Nature can teach men to care for those things that concerne their temporall life but it is grace that must teach men to minde those things that concerne their spiritual life seeing that upon the breath of our lives hanges two eternities the one of endlesse felicity the other of easelesse and endlesse paines what maner of persons ought we to be passing the time of our pilgrimage heerein feare and with Iob 14. 14. to waite all the daies of our appointed time till our change come Happy will that servant bee whome his Master when hee commeth shall finde so doing But least I should seeme