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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03810	The arte of Christian saylinge. Or a comfortable treatis written on these words of the prophet Dauid in the 55. Psal. 22. 23. verses	Hull, John, 1569 or 70-1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 13929; ESTC S116570	57,762	152

and little into our rifty soules Isidore makes it manifest vnto thee Suggestio parit cogitationem cogitatio delectationem delectatio consensum consensus actionem actio consuetudinem consuetudo necesiitatē necessitas malam mortem mala mors dānationem damnatio poenam aeternam in Gehenna First there is offred a suggestion a suggestion ingenders a thought or cogitation cogitation breedes delight delight begets consent and consent brings foorth the action one action must haue another and many actions turne vnto custome custome cannot be left and so it produceth necessitie necessity that must not be repēted of and so it brings vs to an euill death an euill death that drawes vs to damnation and damnation to the eternall paines of hell And thus sinne entring in by a little hole yet stings to death and what doth it aduantage thee whether thou bee smitten with a broade sword that makes an apparant wound or stabbed with a small poinyard that makes but a small breach seeing thou art assured to die as well by the one as the other Wherefore let this be a caueat for vs to take heede of all sinnes for if they be great the world will condemne vs if small either the poyson thereof will kill vs or the number of them will destroy vs. But least the fire should loose her nature so not consume this shippe and the water should forget her moisture so not drowne it the enemie will set his hand to destroy it euen the enemy which is called the Diuell with his great army of Angels and powers vnder whose banner doe fight men and spirits the flesh and the world For there is a neuer ending warre betweene him and vs. The Herauld whereof was God himselfe who sowed this dissention and proclaimed this warre saying veepah Ashith benecah Gen. 3.15 I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seed and her seed 1. Pet. 5.8 Hence hee is called our aduersarie and that no small one but that great red Dragon euen that Dragon that fought in heauen Apocal. 12. the olde Serpent and Satan which deceiueth all the world who set vpon God in heauen Adam in paradise and Christ in the wildernesse and will neuer leaue vs which alas haue neither force to resist him nor wit to discerne him Bernard 7 serm de aduent domini Si discernere volumus inter bonum malum decipimur si tentamus facere bonum deficimur si conamur resistere malo deijcimur If we would discerne betweene good and euill we are deceiued If we go about to do good we quickly faint and if we indeuour to resist sinne we are easily ouercome A fight most vnfit and warre most vnequal he strong we weake he full of experience we altogither vnexpert he subtill we simple he valiant and we full of cowardnesse Onely this remaines to keepe vs from destroying in this dangerous battell namely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to let downe and cast this holy anchor fall to prayer and call vpon our God For vt nauem ancora sic oratio vitam firmam reddit As the anchor staies the shippe and keepes it steadie against winde and weather so doth prayer maintaine the Christian from perishing by the temptations of Satan and inuasions of the wicked world For the Diuell is compared by Saint Peter vnto a Lyon and saith Gaudentius Merula As a Lyon is discomfited at the sight of a Cocke and at his crowing betakes him vnto his heeles so doth Satan that murthering Lyon both stand in feare when the godly man appeareth and flies away when he betakes him vnto his praiers The Diuell is a venemous Serpent and saith Isidore Mustela bellatura cum Serpente primo rutam comedit cuius virtute odore contra venenum se munit sic ad bellum secura procedit The Weafell going to fight with the Serpent first eates Rue the smell and vertue whereof armes and defendes her against the force of the poyson and then she goes boldly vnto the battell So must we who are continually inuironed and daily besieged by Satan and his army first arme our selues with prayer which will defend vs against Satans temptations and then may we be bold to encounter the enemy according to Christ his precept and practise who prayed himselfe saying O my Father Mat. 26.41 and likewise commaunded the same vnto his Disciples saying Watch and pray least ye enter into temptation For a prayer is sacrificium Deo demonibus flagellum and oranti subsidium a sacrifice to God a scourge for the Diuels and a refuge and a rescue for him that prayeth First a sacrifice vnto God which Saint Paul calleth the sacrifice of praise Heb. 13.15 that is the fruit of their lippes which confesse Gods name This is that munus that gift which Christ commanded the Leper to offer vnto the Priest Tertul. aduers Mars lib. 4. namely orationem gratiarum actiones saith Tertullian prayer and giuing of thankes For sicut Thimiama bene confectum delectat hominem odorantem sic oratio iusti suauis est ante Deum Chrysto As sweete perfume much delights the smell so is the prayer of the righteous man much pleasing in the nostrels of God The altar whereon we offer this sacrifice is Altare coeleste our faith which Ambrose calleth an heauenly altar whereon our prayers being offered Christ saith Chrysostome receiues them and purifying them commends them vnto his father vnto whom for Christ his sake they are acceptable Wherefore he that offereth vnto God sacrificium orationis must diligently obserue three things Bernard Epist ad frat de mont Dei Quis Cui Quid. First who is he that offereth and he must be pauper spiritu the poore in spirit Secondly to whom and that is to God vnto whom he must sursum cor lift vp his heart Thirdly what he must offer and that is a right qualified prayer proceeding from true saith and feruent loue and then God wil receiue thy sacrifice and the Diuels will bee much tormented with it which is the second benefit which followeth heartie and earnest prayer Bernard For per orationem vincuntur demonia the Diuels are cast out and subdued by prayer By this was the Lunaticke person deliuered frō that tormenting Diuell which oftentimes cast him into the fire and oftentimes into the water because this kinde goeth not out but by prayer and fasting Mat. 17.21 Neither is this all that we receiue by prayer but we are defended also by it from all assaults and temptations Ambrose For it is bonum scutum quo omnia spicula aduersarij repelluntur that good shield whereby all the dartes of the aduersarie are repelled It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Christian mans physicke against all spirituall diseases Theodoret If we be in medijs aquis in the middest of the waters this is our safest deliuerance and as it was vnto Ionas Ionas 3.2 who being in