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A12373 Satans compassing the earth. By Henrie Smith Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591. 1592 (1592) STC 22692; ESTC S107437 17,258 55

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SATANS COMPASSING THE EARTH BY HENRIE SMITH LONDON Imprinted by Thomas Scarlet 1592. Iob. 1.7.8 7 Then the Lord said vnto Satan Whence commest thou And Satan answered the Lord saying From compassing the earth to and fro and from walking in it 8 And the Lord said vnto Satan Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob how none is like him in the earth an vpright man one that feareth God and eschueth euill I Haue spoken of the question alredie now of the answere Compassing heere doth signifie tempting the Earth doth signifie all the people of the earth as if he should saie I come from tempting all men It is some vantage vnto vs to heare that the Spaniards are comming before they come and what number they haue and how they are appoynted that wee may leuie our forces accordingly But beloued there is a greater aduersarie then the Spaniarde which brings in the Spaniards your aduersarie the deuill It is good for vs to heare when he comes that wee may bee in a readines against him as we prepare against them Therefore this Scripture and this time accord well In Reuelation 12.10 the deuill is called an accuser and now I am an accuser of the accuser he accuseth vs to God God accuseth him to vs that when hee comes like an angell yet wee may say to him like Christ Auoide Satan First geue me leaue to say vnto you as Christ said vnto his disciples Take heed how you heare for that which I am to speake vnto you of the deuill the deuill would not haue you heare and therefore as hee is here called a Compasser so hee will compasse your eyes with shewes and your eares with soundes and your sences with sleepe and your thoughtes with fansies and all to hinder you from hearing while the articles are against him and after I haue spoken hee will compasse you againe with businesse and cares and pleasures and quarrels to make you forget that which you haue heard as hee hath made you forgette that which ye haue heard before or els to contemne it as though you might doe well without it as hee hath compassed them which doe walke in the streetes while the voice of God soundeth in the Churches as they passe by therefore before euerie Sermon yee had neede to remember Christes lesson Take heed how you heare Now to the matter Satan from whence commest thou I come from compassing the earth Here the deuill is called in like a Iayler which keepes some in perpetuall prison and some are bailed and some returne to prison againe and some are executed They which sinne fearefullie stay as it were about the Prison but are not bounde they which sinne wittinglie are vnder lock they which sinne greedely are vnder locke and boltes they which die in their sin are like them which are condemned this is the bondage which we haue brought our selues vnto for a fair apple When the tempter ouercame vs we vvere remoued out of paradise where we were seated when wee haue ouercome the tempter wee shall bee translated into heauen where hee was seated heauen dore was wide and the vvaie vvas broade before the rebellion but when weeknockt at the cannell doore then the good doore was shutte heauen is large but the vvaie to heauen muste bee narrovve therefore God hath set our enemies in the gate to fight vvith vs before wee enter that this saying might be verified The kingdome of heauen is caught by violence so soone as vve rise in the morning vvee goe forth to fight vvith tvvo mightie giants the vvorld and the deuill and vvhom doe vvee take vvith v● but a traitor this brittle flesh vvhich i● readie to yeeld vs vp to the enimie at euerie assault onely he vvhich sufferet● Satan to compasse vs doeth staie him from destroying vs. When God asked Caine vvhere is thy brother Caine lyed and said I cannot tell When God asked Sarah vvhy she laughed Sarah lied and said I laughed not but vvhen God asked the deuil from whence he came hee aunsvvered truely I come from compassing the earth and yet hee vvhich speaketh truth himselfe taught them to lie as hee is called the father of liers because hee teacheth all others to lie Hovve then Was Caine vvorse then the deuill because he lied and the other tolde truth By this you may see that carnall men doe not knovv so much of God as the verie deuill knovveth for he knevv that GOD could tell vvhere he had bin but Caine doubted vvhether God could tel what he had done and therefore he made a lie Thus thus the deuill teacheth his schollers to doe worse sometimes then hee will do himselfe euen as he would bring them if it were possible into a worse plight then he is himselfe The deuils faith cannot saue vs no more then it can saue him the deuils knowledge cannot conuert vs no more then it doth conuert him and yet he would not haue men beleeue that which he beleeueth himselfe nor haue vs vnderstand so much as he vnderstandeth him self for if Cain had vnderstood so much as he that God knew whether hee lied or no hee would haue answered God trulie as Satan did but the deuill knew that there was no dissembling with God who knowes what he asks before he asks therfore he told troth to God though hee lie to man for to lie vnto him which knoweth is as if one should lie to himselfe but Caine was not so wel learned he thought peraduenture yet God might vnderstand his murther as a theese suspecteth in his heart that the iudge may know his theft but he douted whether God did know it therefore he denied it like one which is guiltie but thinkes that if hee confesse hee shal be hanged and therfore though euidence and witnesse accuse them yet you see many which will not accuse themselues From compassing the earth He which was called Satan before which signifieth an aduersary is here said to compas the earth which is to saie beeing put together an aduersarie compasseth the earth and therfore let the earth beware like a Citie which is besieged with the aduersarie The deuill hath mo names then anie Prince hath titles some GOD hath giuen to him and some hee hath giuen to himselfe but this is to be noted in the deuils names that hee neuer called himself a lier nor a tempter nor an accuser nor a slanderer nor a deceiuer nor a deuourer nor a murderer nor a master nor an aduersarie nor a viper nor a lion nor a dragon nor a wolfe nor a cockatrice nor a serpent But when Christ asked him his name hee calleth himselfe Legion which importes a multitude as if hee shoulde bragge of his number and here he cals himselfe in effect the compasser of the earth as if he should brag of his power And in the fourth Chapter of Luke sixt verse hee calleth himselfe the possesser of the earth as if hee should brag of his possessions and in the same hee