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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89018	Spiritual vvisdom improved against temptation. In a sermon preached at Stepney Septemb. 16. 1660. And now made publick to obviate misrepresentation. By Matthew Meade.	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1559; Thomason E1045_12; ESTC R202905	17,363	37

wear a Surplice then to pinch our carkass Thus many it is to be feared destroy their consciences to keep their places and conform against their judgements to preserve their profits this is as if a man to save his hat should lose his head or as if a man should sink the ship to avoid the storm Alas poor souls how are they fallen in the hour of temptation Suppose a man were put to this either he must swear canonical obedience or he must be put to silence either he must prostitute the seals to all or he must preach to none Either he must take up the ceremonies or lay down his Ministry This would be a great temptation which part ought a man to chuse in this case Why you will say It is pitty but such a man should preach I but it is greater pitty that he should sin you will say He may do much good in his Ministry would he but conform I but he must not do evil that good may come on it Rom. 3.8 If I suffer for conscience sake God is honoured but if I sin for Gods sake he is dishonoured for my lye cannot advance his glory and 3.7 and therefore the resolution of the three children is a good pattern we will not worship the image thou hast set up So that if when temptation brings me under a dilemma I chuse that part of the dilemma which is for Gods glory though to my loss rather then that part which is for Gods dishonour and my gain then I walk wisely in temptation 9. Wisdom lies in a diligent endeavour to improve grace by temptation As the Israelites were multiplied by being oppressed Exod. 1.12 it is said The more they were afflicted the more they grew so a true Israelite the more he is tempted the more is his grace encreased as trees are the deeper rooted by the wind that most shakes them so beleevers are most strengthned by the temptations that most try them Temptation is the Devils bellows which he brings to blow out the spark of that heavenly fire that is in us but as the breath of the bellows makes the fire flame the more so the blasts of temptation make grace increase the more God hath an over-ruling hand over temptation and he turns them to good when Satan intends them for hurt and makes grace prosper by that very means whereby Satan hopes to make it wither Thus can God out-shoot Satan in his own bow So then if I labour to grow in grace in time of temptation if I turn a tempting season into a growing season then do I walk wisely in temptation 10. It is wisdom in temptation to use no indirect means for riddance but to rest upon the promise for deliverance There is no temptation that can befalus but God hath made a suitable promise to releive us that so we might not sinfully deliver our selves but patiently rest on him for deliverance He hath promised to tread Satan under our feet to bind the strong man Rom. 16.20 not to suffer us to be tempted above what we are able but to make a way for us to escape Cor. 10. that we may be able to bear it O that Christians would study the promise and converse much with the promise in time of temptation Heb. 13.5 God hath promised never to for sake us and therefore neyer let us forsake the promise There are three things very remarkable in every promise The faithfulness of the Father who gives it Owen The grace of the Son which is the matter of it The power of the Spirit which accomplisheth it The faithfulness of the Father makes the promise good to us The grace of the Son makes the promise sweet to us The efficacy of the Spirit make the promise good in us So that the promise is a sure resting place for a tempted soul Now then if in temptation I use no indirect means for riddance but rest upon the promise for deliverance then do I walk wisely in temptation 11. The wisdom of walking in temptation lieth in not yielding to temptation Temptation from Satan is our suffering but it is from our selves if it becomes our sin The Devil may flatter us but he cannot force us He may provoke but without our consent he cannot prevail He may tempt us unto sin but he cannot tempt us into sin He could never come into the house if we did not open the door Iam 1. ● Every man is tempted when when he is assaulted no but when he is drawn away of his own lust and onticed The true procreating cause of sin is in every mans soul Satan is the Father of temptation but the heart is the Mother of sin Suggestion without could do nothing were it not for corruption within it is not calliditas diaboli decipientis Aug. de ●ec orig l 2 ap 37. but voluntas hominis consentientis outward crast could do nothing without inward lust Satan woes our wills but we will our own woes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fire is in our wood though it be the Devils flame we may do the Devil wrong as bad as he is to lay all our sins at his door as though we were innocent For though the Bastard be gotten by him it is conceived and brought forth by us This is an old trick as old as Adam when God asketh him Go● 3.11 12. Hast thou eaten of the tree I forbad thee mark how he shifteth it off The woman which thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the fruit of the tree and I did eat And when God comes to the woman and asketh What is this that thou hast done saith she the Serpent beguiled me and I did eat Adam shifteth the fault from himself to the woman and she from her self to the Serpent But had not they been willing what could the Serpent have done if we are tempted it is Satans fault but if we yeild it is our guilt Sceva at the siege of Dyrrachium so long alone resisted Pompeys Army that he had two hundred and twenty darts sticking in his shield and lost one of his eyes and yet gave not over till Caesar came in to his rescue Deut. 22.23 to 2● Under the Law if a man met a Damsel and lay with her if she consented she dyed but if she cryed out she was innocent and acquitted So if when Satan assaults us he obtaines consent from us we die for fin when it is finished brings forth death Iam. 1.15 But if we consent not but cry out to Christ for help against temptation we shall be delivered So that if I stand out and yeild not when temptation comes if I consent not to the sin the temptation leads to if though Satan perswades yet he prevailes not then I walk wisely in temptation 12. The wisdom of walking in temptation lyeth in praying much when we are tempted much this is the Lord Christs own counsell Watch