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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00405	Sathans sowing season. By William Est minister and preacher of Gods word in Bydeford.	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.; Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625. Mirrour of mercy.	1611 (1611)	STC 10536.5; ESTC S118580	32,844	100

Letchery he hath appropriated to none but prostituted her vnto all that so she might draw the the more vnto hell with her For the rooting vp of this hurtfull tare it shall greatly profit if among many other places of holy Scripture which shew Gods hatred of this sin we would diligently ponder in our mindes the Apostles most patheticall reasons 1. Cor. 6. The summe whereof is By whooredome great iniury is done to Christ our head to whom our bodies are sanctified great reproach to God who shall raise vs vp to glory as hee hath done the body of Christ Great indignity done to the holy Ghost whose temple we are and which dwelleth in vs. Our bodies themselues are hereby dishonoured damnified which are by whoredome pulled from Christ our head ioined to an harlot and made one body with her To conclude thereby wee are made sacrilegious theeues in defiling giuing of that vnto another which is not in our power This is the summe of the Apostles reasons which shewe the horriblensse of this sinne and the incomparable losse that cometh to the whoore monger thereby and should be sufficient to win the most refractary minde if there be left in it one spark of the feare God Hauing in some sort delineated the malice and industry of Sathan the enemy of mankinde in corrupting the good seed with the tares of vices and the oportunity hee watcheth for the same Now the order of prosecution requireth that I should set downe also the weapons and armour which euery good Christian should haue in readines to resist the fury of this enemy and withstand his assaults which the blessed Apostle and expert Champion of Iesus Christ out of Gods armory most excellently prescribeth Ephes 6. verse 14. vnto verse 19. Stand therefore saith he with your loynes girt about you with verity c The Apostle said before Take vnto you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole armour of God Now particularly hee expresseth the parts of this armour He setteth downe two kindes of armory necessary to euery Souldier against his enemy Some which are needfull for the defence of our selues and other to strike and repell the enemy Of the first kinde he speaketh verse 14. 15. 16. and part of the 17. Of the other verse 17. and 18. Hee armeth the whole man from the head to the feete that hee might in no part bee hurt of his enemy and of this kinde of armour hee nameth fiue The Girdle the Breast-plate the Shooes the Shield and the Helmet Hee beginneth with the loynes which must bee strengthened with the girdle and the breast as the principall parts in which the life and strength consisteth and which the enemy chiefly assaulteth and therefore the souldier is wont especially to arme those parts in which the strength and life abideth He saith therefore Stand he requiquireth here three things First that euery one should keepe himselfe in his station or calling that hee yeeld not nor turne his backe to the enemy And this calling is two-fold the one generall whereby we are all called into the Church militant that is to the army of Christian Soldiars vnder the conduct ensignes of Iesus Christ The other is a speciall calling whereby a certaine station and office is assigned to euery man in the Church as it is in a military army Euery one ought especially to keepe himselfe in the army of the Church and next in his priuate station First therefore he requireth that euery one abide in the Church and that hee depart not from the army for if hee depart actum est farewell to him as to him that going from the army is either slaine of the enemy or of his owne company by the command of his Prince Secondly hee requireth that euery man should conteine himselfe within the limits of his owne station or calling for in an army nothing is more pernicious then ataxia and confusion First therefore euery man must constantly remaine within the limits and bounds of the Church and next in his owne proper condition to which he is peculiarly called and not to giue place to the Diuel which diligently laboureth to draw him from both Thirdly vigilancy and watching is signified by this word stand This is necessary also and opposed to security For while men slept this enemy came and sowed tares Bee sober and watch for your aduersary the Diuell as a roaring Lyon goeth about seeking whom hee may deuoure Therefore wee must watch euery one in his seuerall station lest Sathan oppresse vs at vnawares But that we may stand in the battell and ouercome these things are required First Constancy in doctrine or in the truth this is the baltheus or girdle wherewith the Apostle would haue our loynes girded The loynes are as the foundation whereon the inferiour and superiour parts of the body doe rest and leane For against the Diuell this first is necessary that we stand fast in the truth of religion grounded vpon the word of God for this is the first thing which Sathan seeketh to shake and take from vs namely the truth of doctrine and obtrudeth vnto vs lyes and false doctrine This then is the first part of the armour of God the Girdle of truth vpon which the Church is founded to which pertaineth this of the Apostle 1. Tim. 1. 19. Hauing faith that is the truth of doctrine vpon which faith resteth and a good conscience which is the second part of this armour The second part he calleth the Brest-plate of righteousnesse for after that the minde is fortified with the verity of doctrine there must follow the Breast-plat of righteousnesse and of a good conscience that is of a holy life For euen as the breast-plate defendeth the breast of the Souldier so the care of righteousnes holines fortifieth the minde of a Christian man and conserueth his heart against the assaults of the Diuell that hee bee not wounded with his darts The Saints of God do slide and sinne they receiue wounds but not to the heart they sinne but not from the heart according to this of Saint Iohn VVhoso is borne of God sinneth not and why so because his heart is armed with the loue of righteousnesse holinesse and of a good conscience Dauid which at first had his heart fensed with the knowledge of the truth and did set his loue vpon righteousnesse yet hee fell and that shamefully and was wounded with the weapons of the diuell but these weapons did not pierce so farre as his heart they remained but in his flesh and why because his heart was fortified with this Breast-plate of righteousnesse This place of the Apostle agreeth with that of Christ Luke chap. 12. Let your loynes bee girded about and your lights burning These lightes are the holinesse of life and the workes of righteousnesse and a good conscience And this is the brest-plate of righteousnesse The third part of this Christian panoplie is