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A77480	Satan the leader in chief to all who resist the reparation of Sion. As it was cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Febr. 28. 1643. By Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B468; Thomason E35_17; ESTC R209954	47,169	63

SATAN THE Leader in chief to all who resist THE REPARATION OF SION As it was cleared in a Sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn Fast Febr. 28. 1643. By ROBERT BAYLIE Minister at Glasgow Published by Order of the House of Commons Micah 6.9 and 7.8 9. The Lords voice cryeth unto the City and the man of wisdome shall see thy name heare ye the rod and who hath appointed it Rejoice not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darknesse the Lord shall be a light unto me I will beare the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him untill he plead my cause and execute judgment for me he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousnesse London Printed for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND at the Brasen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1643. Die Mercurii 28. Febr. 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament That Mr. Rous doe from this House give thanks unto Master Baylie for the great paines he took in the Sermon he preached this day at the intreaty of this House at St. Margarets Westminster It being the day of publike Humiliation And to desire him to Print his Sermon And he is to have the like priviledge in Printing of it as others in like kinde usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint SAMUEL GELLIBRAND to Print this Sermon ROBERT BAYLIE For the Right Worshipfull his much honoured friend M. ROUS One of the Members of the Honourable House of COMMONS Right Worshipfull THese late times have produced many great and sensible changes in many Time a great changeling both matters and persons I must acknowledge the power of time that mighty changeling over my minde also Some four yeers ago it was my wish and very passionate desire then publikely expressed to have had that favour of your honorable House as once to speak in their audience Ladens Autocat Praef. Notwithstanding the other day when in their Honours Name you did offer to me that singular courtesie how unwilling I was to entertain it my own heart doth know fully and you in a part can bear witnesse Verily my former desires to speak when I could not be heard were no greater then my present to keep silence when I was required to speak As I would have been very glad in so honourable an Audience to have said nothing so when your entreaty in sō great a Name had necessitated me to speak something I could have wished that what then was said might have past away without any farther notice But being it was your desire that what then was spoken should now go abroad esteeming it unfit to dispute any of your Commands in this also you shall have me obedient Be pleased therefore to receive what you required of me the Notes of that poor Sermon without any addition at all and without any change considerable It is well if it finde in the eyes of others when read that patience and respect which it had in your ears at the first hearing I know the matter it self is above any just contempt The scope of the Sermon for it is not mine but the Spirit of God's speaking to the Churches That of it which belongeth to me the managing of these divine Truths and their Application to the auditor I leave to the benigne construction of every Reader intreating his belief it was my sincere intention with so great simplicity and clearnesse as I was able To speak a word in season to every soul To let out from the fountains of Scripture the streams of consolation on the dry and parcht ground To send down from the Lamps of the Word the Rayes of divine Light for direction in these dark and misty days By the terrours of the Lord to perswade some To smite with the rod with the Sword of the Spirit the secure souls of our sleeping friends to awaken them and of our too watchfull enemies to pull them with fear but yet with all compassion out of the snare of Satan wherein now they lie captive at his will The Text led me by the hand to that most seasonable Consideration That in all quarrells about the building or rebuilding of a Church The chief parties in the present quarrell are Christ and the Devill the chief and principall parties are Christ and the Devill Men are but inferiour and subservient agents to these two Princes It is most certain That side which is for Truth for Piety for Justice must in the end triumph For it is utterly impossible that the Dragon and all his Angels though for a time and a long time they maintain the fight should ever prevail over Michael the Arch-Angel and his followers These extraordinary Commotions whereby not our Kingdom alone but the most of the neighbouring Nations are at this very hour so terribly shaken we trust they shall prove preparations for a glorious Work At the building of a Royall Palace where much rubbish is to be removed by many hands where timber stones and other materialls are to be brought together and set in the work by a multitude of divers Crafts-men no marvell if in that place for a time there be much noise and stirre much commotion and some confusion also Doubtlesse ere long The end of the present troubles must be happy the Scene of this world must be closed the Man of Sin must be beaten from the Stage which long he hath possessed The Rebellion must be removed from Jacob and the Iron sinew taken out of the neck of Israel The fulnesse of the Gentiles must be brought in with them that both may mourn after Christ their common Saviour The shaking of the Heavens and Earth are the Lords Prefaces and Prologues his antecedent Acts which must be followed with such joyfull Conclusions When we are most tossed with Tempests when we are most likely to be split upon the Rocks of desperate dangers then would we cast up within the Vail the holy Ankor of this hope the strong Cable of this confident expectation In the subsequent Discourse I glance at one Point which I wish were well weighed by all who truely minde the prosperity of the Work in hand The longsome Anatchy of this Church is lamentable Durst I have taken the boldnesse of prefacing to the whole House as indeed I was loath to presume it having already by the length of my Sermon taken from them so much of their precious time it would have been all or at least my main purpose to have proposed to their Honours and pressed that one Consideration which now forsooth is become so triviall and common in the mouth of every one that it seemeth to be rare in the heart and reall sense of many I mean these extraordinary and unexpected delays of setting up the Government of God in his House The ordering of the State and Kingdom The first care of the

holinesse none can see his face such of our selves we are not we are like to our Father old Adam till we become ingraffed in a new stock till Christ become to us a head it is he that sends down into us as living members the influence of his Spirit which begins continues and increaseth in us that life that light that love which makes us like our heavenly Father partakers of the divine nature 2. Pet. 1.4 Phil. 2.14 Iohn 15.5 Of our selves we cannot think a good thought It is he that works in us to will and to do without him we can do nothing out of him we are but lifelesse saplesse withered branches fit for nothing but the fire but in him we are the trees of righteousnesse bringing forth all manner of fruit in due season The use of this doctrine is The first use first for our information of the true cause why much of our devotion is fruitles oft times we draw neer to God but have no accesse we cry and call at the door of heaven but there is no hearing no opening no answer The reason is we have mistaken our way we have gone to the wrong door we have run ever alone in the vehemencie of our owne spirit in the fervour of our naturall desires we have forgotten our Mediator and gone to the Father without the Son or if we have begun to take him with us at once as foolish children we have run before our guide No wonder then we be disciplined for that error that Christ permitting us to assay how much we can do of our selves without him we feel our labours lost our prayers in vain no marvell there commeth no voice no message no fire from heaven on our sacrifice to give us any assurance of our acceptation Matth. 3.17 God will not shew himself well pleased with us for any thing we do when we come without the Son in whom alone he is well pleased A second use A second Use is for direction Hold fast to Christ in all thy wayes especially in thy approaches to God most of all in thy solemne Prayers on such a day as this Set Christ betwixt thee and God let all be offered up by his hand he is thy only Priest no man was permitted under the Law to offer his own sacrifice all was put in the Priests hand who laid all upon the Altar Christ is the true Altar which sanctifieth and maketh acceptable all that is laid on him When we draw neere to God by him he covereth all our infirmities he supplyeth all our defects he enableth all who seek their life in him to do every duty in such a way as is well-pleasing in the sight of God he taketh all our desires and prayers in his hand put teth them in his golden censer he kindleth them with his own fire Revel 8.3 and perfumeth them with the incense of his own merits that so dressed they may have a sweet savour in the nostrils of the Father A third use is for caution in our magnifying of Christ A third use for caution against the Antinomians beware of an old trick of the devill which of late he hath resumed and by it done more mischiefe then ever Grace and wantounesse in themselvs are most opposite yet Satan striveth to conjoyn them To turn the grace of God into wantonnesse Iude 4. Mat. 27.29 It is no new thing to adore Christ in shew while you buffet him in truth There is a generation of people who under the colour of magnifying the free grace of God of setting Christ in his Throne of advancing a Gospel way of crying down nature and legall righteousnesse with these glorious shows and pleasant words they are misled by a spirit of delusion to patronize profanity to grieve and extinguish the Spirit of grace to scoffe at repentance and sorrow for sinne to foster the fruits of the flesh to bring in the highest degree of all wickednesse a dedolence of minde a reprobation of spirit when a man has committed all wickednesse with greedinesse to be nothing grieved for it as if the Spirit of the just Lord were nothing offended with it Among the many devils who very boldly this day are walking up and down the land this is one of the worst albeit masked with the fairest shews of piety and reason Who magnifies not the Lord Iesus let him be Anathema maranatha let Iesus be all in all to thy soule make him alone thy Righteousnesse thy Sanctification thy Redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 but for all that beware to divide Christ from his Spirit his death from his life his blood from his grace Separate not faith from repentance dash out none of thy Lords commandements so long as thou livest wert thou never so holy thou hast need from thy heart to beg pardon for thy sins whosoever will neglect repentance must perish who ever will have true comfort must be a mourner Christ eurseth them that laugh now and no laughter more devillish then in the act of sin he blesseth them that mourn now and no mourning in a child of God more pious then for the offending of God and grieving of his Spirit by sinne I thought to have laid open other stratagems of Satan by occasion of the words in hand and pointed at some other very dangerous errors wher with lately this land was overgrown and which to this day are not altogether evanished First that Idolatry of the Papists in their standing before Angels and Saints for intercession before images for adoration further no Papist ever went and thus far Court-Divines here were wont to preach and print 2. Against the Arminians That wickednes of Arminius denying the commerce of the Israelites with the Angel of the Covenant taking away the knowledg of Christ from the very Patriarchs and Prophets that however Christ speak expresly of Abrahams seeing of his day reioicing therin yet the Lord must have the open lie and Abrahams both sight and joy must go no further then to his son Isaac the type of Christ they must be terminate in the shadow and not go through to the substance It is the lesse wonder that this man and his followers should steal Christ out of the Law since under the Gospel they really remove him from the hearts of the people putting free-will in the place of grace and in stead of our justification by Christ would teach us that old fundamental error of the Papists justification by works and inherent righteousness to wit by faith as a worke in us Strange that any Protestant Divines should yet stumble upon that infamous stone 3. Against the Socinians That horrible wickednesse of the Socinians denying the Angel of our Text to be Christ because he had no being before his conception denying his Incarnation abolishing his divine nature blaspheming the Trinity A wonder that so foul a spirit should ever have gotten entrance in any famous Divine or other man