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woman_n	bruise_v	heel_n	serpent_n	2,564	5	9.8176	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23696	The art of patience and balm of Gilead under all afflictions an appendix to The art of contentment / by the author of The whole duty of man.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, d. 1679.; Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1096; ESTC R20086	106,621	176

the Lyon and Adder the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou trample under thy feet Psal. 91.9 10 11 12 13. In secular Enmity true Valour may be oppress'd but not easily daunted with Multitude I will not be afraid of ten thousand saith David Psal. 3.6 and Psal. 118.12 They came about me like Bees but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them 8. IT was a brave Resolution in that General when a Soldier told him the Persian Arrows darkned the Sun be of good chear said he then we shall sight in the shade Answerable to which was that Heroical Determination of Luther who against all Threats and Disswasions would go into the City of VVorms though as many Devils were in it as Tiles upon the Houses and why should we not imitate this Confidence What if there were as many Devils in the Air as are Spires of Grass upon the Earth God is our refuge and strength as a very present h●lp in trouble therefore will we not fear though the Earth be removed though the Mountains be carryed into the midst of the Sea Psal. 46.12 Behold God is our Salvation we will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is our strength and our song he also is become our Salvation ●●a 12.2 Let God arise and let his Enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee b●fore him like as the smoake v●nisheth so shalt thou drive them away Psal. ●8 1 2. 9. BUT on the malice of those infernal Spirits is implacable and deadly whose Artifice is Temptation and Accusation whose delight Torment Shrieks Howlings Groans and Gnashing whose main Drift is the Eternal Damnation of miserable Mankind Why should we expect otherwise from him who is a Manslayer from the beginning That carries Destruction in his Name and Nature That goes about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour 10. SURELY this Malignanty is restless on this side Hell But comfort thy self in spight of Hells malice thou art safe Dost thou not know by thee stands the Victorious Lyon of the Tribe of Judah whom that infernal Fiend dare not look in the Face Dost thou not remember when sentence was pronounc'd of Eternal Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent it was with this Doom It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Gen. 3.15 11. A bruise of a Heel is far from the Heart but a bruise of the Serpents Head is Mortal where his Sting is there his Life lies Neither did the Seed of the Woman Christ Jesus this for himself who was infinitely above all the Power and Malice of the Devil but for us the impotent and sinful Seed of Man The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your Feet saith the blessed Apostle Rom. 16.20 not under his own only Of whom God the Father had long before said Sit thou on my Right Hand till I make thine Enemies thy Foot-stool Psal. 110.1 But what do I speak of the Future Already is this great work atchieved For the Lord of Life having spoiled Principalities and Powers hath made a shew of them openly triumphing over them on his Cross Col. 2.15 12. ALL the Powers of Hell were dragg'd after this Conquerour when he advanced upon that Triumphant Chariot Look therefore on these Hellish Forces as vanquished and know that in all things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us Rom. 8.37 Only do thou by the power of thy Faith apply to thy self this great work that thy Victorious Saviour hath done for Salvation of all Believers 13. POWER without Malice were Harmless and Malice without Power Impotent But when both combine together they are Dreadful But Malice to execute Mischief hath Force or Fraud now the Malice of Satan prevails more by the latter and the Subtilty of these Malignant Spirits is perniciouser than their Power In his Power he is a Lion Psal. 7.2 in his Subtilby he is a Serpent Gen. 3.1 He is that Old Serpent Rev. 20.2 Whose craft is marvellously increased by the Experience of so many thousand Years 14. THEN the more careful ought we to be lest as the Apostle saith 2 Cor. 2.11 Satan should get an advantage of us This he seeks and if our Spiritual Wisdom and Circumspection be not vigilant will be sure to find It is a Word too sublime for us which the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 2.11 For we are not ignorant of Satans devices Alas he hath a thousand that weak Simplicity is not able to reach The Wisest knows not the Deceitfulness of his own heart much less can we dive into the Plots of Hell that are against us 15. WE hear and are forwarned of the wiles of the Devil Eph. 6.11 But what his Machinations are how can we know or prevent Ev'n the Children of this world saith our Saviour Luke 16.8 are in their Generation wiser than the Children of Light How Craftier is their Father from whom their cunning is deriv'd Be as humble then as thou wilt and say with Agur the Son of Jakeh Prov. 30.2 3. Surely I am more brutish then any man and have not the understanding of a man I neither learned Wisdom nor have the knowledge of the Holy 16. BUT what ever thou art in thy self know what thou art in Gods esteem Consider what the Psalmist impartially professes Psal. 119.98 Thou through thy Commandments hast made me wiser than mine Enemies for they are ever with me The Spirit of Wisdom is ours as well as Righteousness Deut. 34.9 Eph. 1.17 1 Cor. 1.30 And he who over-rules Hell hath said Mat. 16.18 The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church 17. WHAT are Hell Gates but the deep Plots of those Infernal Powers The Serpent is the Emblem of Subtilty The Serpents of the Egyptian Sorcerers were devoured by Moses his Serpent Wherefore but to shew that all crafty Counsels and Machinations of hellish Projectors are easily destroyed by the Power and Wisdom of the Almighty It was the Rod of God that swallow'd 'em all and was still it self when they were vanquished And when Satan thought to have won most honor to himself attended him shame and loss 18. WHAT an advantage did the Powers of Darkness think to acquire in drawing our first Parents by their subtil Suggestions into sin and perdition imagining either Mankind shall not or shall be ours But the Incomprehensible Wisdom and Mercy of God disappointed their hopes and took occasion by Man's fall to raise him to a greater Glory and so order it that the Serpents nibling at the heel lost him the breaking of his head What Trophies did that wicked Spirit think to erect upon the Ruines of miserable Job and how was that Saint doubled in his Estate and Honour by his conquering Patience 19. HOW confidently did the Subtilty of Hell say concerning the Son of God exhibited in the flesh This is the Heir come let us kill him and the Inheritance shall be ours Mat. 21.38