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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

craft and might did assay to countercarve it and make it fruitlesse That which here is brought by some of Satan his accusing of Joshua we do not deny it as one of the means whereby he did crosse the high Priest For he is stiled a Devill an Accuser a Calumniator Revel 12 10. who is ever accusing the Brethren to God as he did Job sometimes falsly and sometimes truely but ever calumniously because ever upon malice The particular accusation is not expressed in the Text yet the Chaldee Paraphrasts put that in their targum on this place which is most likely That Satan pleaded against Joshua as a man who ought not to be heard of God or receive any assistance from him for the building of Sion since he and the rest of the people were clothed with the foul Garments of sin especially that one of suffering his Children to marry strange Women Ezra 9 3. The marrying with Idolaters was so grievous and dangerous a sin that it made Ezra lament very heavily before God Joshua his tolerating of this fault in his children was a matter of a just accusation and might have hindered the fruit of his Prayers and all his endeavours for Sion For Doctrine observe The first Doctrine That the great and chief leader of all who oppose the Reformers of a Church or State is the Devill Jeshua and Zerubbabell in their repairing of the ruines of the Church and Kingdom of Israel Satan is the leader in chief to all who oppose the Reformation of a Church or State Ezia 4 8. had opposites of many kindes and conditions Ezra 1. At the first founding of the Temple there appeared against them at the beginning secretly and then openly First the common people of the Land the Samaritanes the Brethren of our Cassandrian mixed professors half Idolaters half Israelites With them joyned the Rulers of the Provinces Rehum the Chancelor and Shimshai the Scribe also the bribed Courtiers of the King and at last the King himself This opposition did so prevail that the building was marred for many yeers When the work again was set on by the motion of Haggai and Zachariah Ezra 5.3 that same prophane multitude and their Governours Tatnai and Shethar-Boznai did oppose yet by the help of God the Temple was finished Afterwards they went to build the Wall of Jerusalem Gods order requireth that the Church be settled before the State For this is the holy and happy order of the People of God in their building to begin with the Temple and then to go to the Citie to perfit the Temple before they lay a Stone in the Wall of Jerusalem It is preposterous to begin with the State and end with the Church that order pleaseth not God it is not suitable to his honour and will not be blessed by him How ever so soon as Nehemiah began to make up the Wall there was about him a swarm of enemies to hinder his progresse Tobia Sanballat Geshem and not onely these prophane Forraigners but also many among themselves that professed friendship Nehem. 6 17. Many of the Nobles of Judah kept correspondence by Letters with the enemies and that in a way well near avowed and open Sundry of the Priests and Prophets were plotters against the work Nehem. 6.14 Some Women also are noted for Malignant Instruments by name the Prophetesse Noadia is Registred to her perpetuall infamy The greatest plot of the enemies of Sion was a subdolus accommodation for her correspondence with the enemy in prejudice of the good work in hand Many plots were set on foot to discourage the people of God and make them faint in their labour when the building was neer an end but one was most likely to prevail a friendly treatie propounded by Sanballat to Nehemiah pretending an Union of Counsells and an accommodation but intending to kill Nehemiah that the reparation of Jerusalem wherein he was the prime Agent should be interrupted by his death and quite given over This plot was assayed once Nehem. 6.4 twice thrice four times but without successe for it was the wisedome of Nehemiah to distrust them and never for any perswasion for any terrour to enter into conference with them while the Wall was once perfited and then the adversaries perceiving without further haesitation the hand of God in the work they opposed sate down in despair and gave over their enterprises All these oppositions from so many divers sorts of persons were cleer to the eye of all yet when God will discover to the eye of the Prophet the great and main hinderer of the work in hand he sets all other aside and points at Satan alone standing on the right hand of the chief workers to crosse and resist them It is cleer then that in all the opposition we feel to the welfare either of Church or State Satan is he on whom the eyes of the godly wise would principally be fixed The Reason of this Doctrine is this Satan is the head The first reason of the Doctrine the prince the father the god of all the enemies of the Church Gen. 3.15 I will put enmitie betwixt thee and the woman betwixt her seed and thy seed The fountain of all the enmitie of the wicked against the Church is here made the Serpent deriving his malice to men as to his seed and posteritie The wicked in their malicious actions against Christ and his Church are reputed the children of Satan and worke according to the nature of their father Ioh. 8.44 You are of your father the devill the lusts of your father you will do When the wicked are not ready enough to follow the motions of Satan against the Church as children to be directed by their fathers advice then like a Prince or Tyrant doth he drive them as captive slaves to commit mischiefs For this Ephes 2.2 he is called the Prince of the power of the Aire the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience 2 Tim. 2.26 The wicked are in the snare of the devill taken captive by him at his will 2 Cor. 4 4. He is the god of this world When servants do the commands of their masters what subjects or children are set upon by their prince or father what is done by members by the motion of the spirit that animates and moves them all these actions must be ascribed chiefly unto their principall agents A second reason is The second Reason The interest of Satan in the confusions of a Church and State is greatest Interest advantage losse make persons active when a State is confounded and a Church in trouble there is no restraint of Idolatry of Heresies of Schismes of Drunkennesse Blasphemics Oppressions or any villanie wherein the dominion and glory of Satan is openly demonstrate But when the times of licentious libertie come to an end when by the mercies of God the outward State is settled the execution of good Laws banisheth