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A72164	The conquest of temptations, or Mans victory over Satan especially, the great assaults, at the agony of death, full of very strong and effectuall consolations, to sustaine and comfort the weakest heart, in the greatest conflicts which can befall a Christian in the vvhole course of of life, and approach of death / gathered by the holy and deuout labour of Iohn Gerard, doctor of diuinitie, and superintendent of Heldburge ; newly Englished by Rich. Bruch, minister of Gods word.	Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637.; Bruch, Richard, minister of Gods word.	1614 (1614)	STC 11767.5; ESTC S5215	71,686	143

to resolue that the sense and mouing of faith kindled in thy heart is first to be expected before that thou wilt heare meditate and receiue the word of the Gospell This is a peruerse opinion which take héede that thou sucke not in that thou put not vpon thée this is a peruerse order which take héede that thou doe not follow In the Schoole of the holy Ghost wée must take our beginning from the hearing and meditation of the word by that meanes thou art brought vnto faith by faith vnto the féeling of faith Thou sayest that thou canst not beléeue therefore thou oughtest to heare the word meditate on it and receiue it into thy heart that thou mayest beléeue GOD giues his holy spirit to those that Luk. 11.13 aske and yet without the grace of the holy Ghost we cannot aske so God giues faith to them that sigh after it and yet without the beginning of faith we cannot sigh after it For a surety faith riseth with a certaine wrastling in the heart it is encreased with wrastling it is performed in the heart with wrastling and that which we cannot doe of our selues wée are able to doe by his gift which hath said No man commeth vnto mee vnlesse the Father draw him Ioh. 6.44 Euery one that heareth of my Father and learneth he commeth vnto me him that commeth vnto me I will not cast forth If thou art not yet drawne pray that thou mayest be drawne heare and learne that thou mayest come vnto Christ XXI The small number of good workes The Tempted TRue and liuely faith alwaies workes by loue on the other side that faith which hath not workes is dead in it selfe Gal. 5.6 As the body without the soule is dead so faith without workes is dead Iac. 2.17 Vers 2● Rom. 9.21 Vers 18. But now I doe not see a great number of good workes which may giue manifest testimonie of my faith Euill cleaues vnto me that am willing to doe good to will is present with mee but I finde no power to performe that which is good The Comforter THou doest well that thou doest estéeme the light of faith out of the beames of good workes For as workes which are not done of faith are not truly good workes so faith which is without workes is not true faith but a vaine perswasion Math. 7.16 and emptie shadow Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes 2 Pet. 1.10 saith our Sauiour Doe your endeauour saith Peter that you may make your calling and election sure Therefore out of workes we must iudge of faith and this is the third property of faith that as it hath contrition to vsher it and true confidence on Christ in stead of an Essentiall forme so it alwaies hath new obedience to follow it Therefore thou doest well as I haue said that thou doest estéeme the light of faith out of the beames of good workes but take héede thou doe not thinke that those are onely good workes which are great in their outward shew in the eyes of men and frée from all spot of sinne cleauing vnto them Vnder the name of good workes is especially vnderstood the inward renuing of the heart and the kindling of those spirituall motions in the hearts of the regenerate by the holy Ghost Therefore an holy cogitation a good purpose the true feare of God sincere loue ardent inuocation are truly good workes although they are not perceiued and séene of men Psa 45.14 The glory of the Kings daughter is within the outward workes doe giue testimonie of that inward glory of the reuelation Therefore if thou hast nothing else that thou canst offer vnto God offer vnto God a good will and an holy purpose to liue godlily Offer to God thy heart and thou hast offered all things Submit thy selfe wholy to the will of GOD cleaue vnto him resigne thy will to him and thou shalt be one spirit with him 1 Cor. 6.17 This if thou shalt doe the outward workes will readily follow because the spirit of God dwelling in thée will driue thée to all manner of good workes but where there is not an outward faculty of working there the inward good will to God sufficeth Neither is there any reason why thou shouldest hope that thou canst be frée from the spot of all infirmitie in this life Our workes doe please God not because they are absolutely perfect but because they doe procéede out of true faith in Christ and are offered of beloued Sonnes in stead of a sacrifice of thankesgiuing Acknowledge therefore the testimonie of good workes which they giue of faith least thou be cast downe in thy minde acknowledge the imperfection of the same and the spot of sin cleauing vnto them least thou be too much lifted vp in thy minde XXII The want of Merits The Tempted IVst is God and iust are his iudgements therefore hee will giue to none the reward of eternall life vnlesse there goe before the merit of good workes What therefore is my hope what is my confidence when my workes are imperfect foule many wayes contamined and no way meritorious The Comforter Rom. 6 23 Bern. Ser. 1 in Annunc Col. 106. NAy eternall life is not the due wages of our deserts but the frée gift of God in Christ and for Christ For neither are the merits of men such that for them eternall life is due of right and God should doe iniurie to some man vnlesse he should giue him it For that I may not speake of this that all merits are the gifts of God and so man is more a debter vnto God for them then God to man what are al merits to so great glory All the Saints do confesse Exod. 34.7 Esa 64.6 that before God no man is innocent that all their righteousnesses are before God like the cloath of a menstruous woman that no man can stand before the iudgement of God if he will impute sins that when they haue done all things that are commanded of God Psa 130.3 Luk. 17.10 they are neuerthelesse vnprofitable seruants what place therefore can there be héere for merits who can presume of sufficiencie to saluation either of his owne wisedome or righteousnes or holines Bern Serm. 22. in cant Col. 555. Gerson li. 4. de consola Theolog. pros 1. Rom. 8.18 who can shew his owne righteousnesses as it were in boasting vnto God more then a woman the cloath of her confusion to a man neither our doings nor our sufferings are worthie of the future glory which shal be reuealed on vs. We cannot deserue that crust of bread which we eate by our obedience but are constrained to begge it by daily Prayers of God how much more incomparably lesse can we deserue the reward of eternall life by our merits Therefore if thou wilt fall from grace bragge of thy merits August in Ps 31. Id. de verb. Apost Ser. 15. Fulgen. 1. ad

of life Apoc. 20.12 but in the last iudgement the bookes shall be opened and amongst these also the booke of conscience in which before the whole world grauen with great letters shall all the particular faults and offences of men be séene which are not blotted out in this life by true contrition by faith and amendement of life Before that day of iudgement come and the time of grace passe away thou mayest haue as yet excellent hope and sure confidence that the bloud of Iesus Christ Heb. 9.14 which through the eternall spirit hath offered himselfe without spot to God will clense thy conscience from dead workes to serue the liuing God XXV Too late Repentance The Tempted TRuly I am earnestly sorry for so many wounds inflicted on my conscience I doe earnestly desire the cure of my wounds I haue an earnest desire to keepe a good conscience hereafter but I feare lest that my repentance be too late I feare lest the grace of God so oftimes reiected of mee doe againe reiect and forsake mee August de verâ falsâ poenit cap. 17. Late repentance is wont to deceiue many and that repentance which proceeds from a dying man hee must feare lest that also dye The Comforter NAy there is nothing too late which is true and earnest Cyprian tract 1. contra Demet. No repentance is to late for him that abides yet in this world there are some which are called and come at the eleuenth houre of the day into the Lords Vineyard Mat. 20.9 and receiue the reward of Grace No length of time doth preiudicate eyther Gods equitie or his pietie Fulgent Epist 7. Repentance is neuer too late with GOD 〈◊〉 in whose sight aswell the things past as the things to come are alwayes held for present Behold the example of the Thiefe on the crosse which confessing Christ with his mouth vpon whose vtmost lippes as it were his soule dwelt ready to depart gods the pardon of his sinnes and the 〈◊〉 pr●mise of the heauenly paradise As long as that to day is named Heb. 3.13 so long God doth earnestly looke for our conuersion As long as the heauenly Bridegroome doth as yet defer his comming Mat. 25.5 so long the gate of Grace and indulgence doth as yet lye open The whole time of our life yea the last houre thereof is graunted vs to the space of repentance Esa 65.2 God spreads forth his hands all day neyther doth hee cast forth him that comes vnto him at what time soeuer hee come Iohn 6.37 Therefore take thou care of that that thy repentance be true and earnest and then thou néedest not feare lest it be too late If when the houre of death drawes néere thou therfore repentest thée because thou art destituted of the occasions of sinning that repentance is false for by this reason thou doest not leaue thy sinnes but thy sinnes forsake thée If thou therefore repentest because thou séest the punishment of thy sinnes neare that repentance is likewise false for it procéeds out of the loue of thy selfe not out of the sincere loue of God it procéeds not out of the hate of sinne but out of the irkesomnesse of most iust punishment Therefore that thou mayest repent truly and earnestly grieue for thy sins so often committed and therefore grieue because thou hast so often so grieuously by them offended God the chiefest good see●e in Christ the remission of thy sins and seriously propose to thy selfe whatsoeuer shall remaine of thy life to 〈◊〉 it out wholly on the seruice of God submit thy selfe to God be humbled from thy heart before him permit it to his will what and how great punishments a thousand times deserued of thée he will inflict vpon thée that it may appeare that thou doest repent out of the hatred of sinne and not out of the hatred of punishment Psal 51.19 Such a contrite and humbled heart will be a most acceptable sacrifice vnto God for so he saith by the Prophet Esa 66.2 To whom shall I haue respect but to the poore and contrite in spirit and him that trembles at my words XXVI The doubting of the grace of God The Tempted TRuly I feele in my heart serious contrition and griefe for my sinnes neither doe I altogether despaire of the mercy of God yet my heart is shaken with the waues of doubtings neither as yet am I certainely assured of the free remission of my sinnes Indeed well I hope in the meane time humbly I doubt the consideration of Gods mercy doth lift me vp but the thought of mine owne vnworthinesse doth againe cast me downe I am conuerted vnto God therefore I hope well but I am conuerted too late therefore I doubt as yet in part The Comforter BVt I will set most firme props vnder thy wauering faith on which thou mayest relie thée against all the tempests of doubtings for neither is that doubting an humble confession of our vnworthinesse but a dangerous oppugning of the faith that ought of right to be giuen to Gods promises neither is there any reason of doubting of sufficient strength in late conuersion and repentance when the mercy of God doth offer to al that are earnestly conuerted a most certaine promise of the remission of sins First of al therefore attend to the vnmoueable verity of the promises of God Whosoeuer they are that acknowledging and bewailing their sins doe séeke remission of them in Christ and conceiue a firme purpose of amendement of life to them God hath promised his grace forgiuenesse of sinnes and eternall life Whosoeuer beleeueth on the Sonne Ioh. 13.15 18. 1 Ioh. 5.12 Mar. 16.16 doth not perish but hath life eternall He that beleeueth on him is not iudged He that hath the Sonne the same also hath eternall life Hee that shall beleeue and be baptized shall be saued He that hath promised these things is God whose word is more firme then heauen earth which is the truth it selfe 2 Tim. 2.11 which is faithfull and cannot deny himselfe or his word That therefore which God offers with indubitate promises that must thou entertain with indubitate faith neither must thou pretend the infirmitie of thy nature which cannot imbrace the promises of God with such an assurance of trust for this fault of thy nature must be corrected by the efficacy of the holy spirit As thou dost not beléeue on CHRIST out of the strength of nature but out of the working of the Holy Ghost so by the grace of the same spirit thou mayest be assured of the mercy of the Heauenly Father against all doubting that is inherent in thy depriued nature 1 Ioh. 5.10 Hee that beleeues not God makes him a liar Asmuch as thou doubtest so much is diminished of thy trust therefore thou must resist that doubting neither is that to be set forth vnder the specious name of humilitie verily Humilitie ought to arise out of the

is Vsury and losse which is gaine Whatsoeuer thou méetest with now hath béene and whatsoeuer thou shalt léese there is nothing but it shall be againe All things returne into their state when they shall depart Therefore are they brought to an end that they may be new made Nothing perisheth but that it may be saued Therfore this whole order of things which is in reuolution is a witnesse of the resurrection of the dead God hath prescribed it in his workes before he wrote it in letters hée hath preached it by his strength before he vttered it in words Hée sent Nature before to be thy Mistresse meaning to send Prophecie after that so much the more easily thou mayest beléeue Prophecie being the Scholler of Nature that thou mayest by and by entertaine when thou hearest that which euery where thou now séest and not doubt but that GOD will be a raiser againe of thy flesh All this Tertull. which knowest him to be the restorer of all things Are such lypes as these to be thought to be set out in vaine in the whole state of things Is GOD to be iudged weaker then Nature Nay looke vpon thy selfe and know a testimonie of the resurrection in thy selfe Id in Apolo aduer gentes c. 45. p. 737. Remember what thou wert before thou wast surely nothing for thou mightest haue remembred it if thou hadst béene any thing Thou therefore which wast nothing before thou hadst thy being being made nothing when thou shalt cease to be why canst thou not be againe of nothing by the wil of the same founder which would haue thée to be of nothing What new thing shall happen vnto thée thou which wert not wert made when againe thou shalt not be thou shalt be made Render a reason if thou canst which way thou wert made and then shalt thou demand which way thou shalt be made and yet more easily shalt thou be made that which somtime thou hast béene which wert not hardly made that which neuer thou hadst béene Id de resur carnis p. 54. If God hath made all things out of nothing he can againe frame the flesh brought to nothing out of nothing Surely hée is fit to restore which hath made how much more is it to haue made then to haue restored to haue giuen beginning then to haue new framed so thou mayest beléeue that the restoring of thy flesh is easier then the first making therof XLV The flames of Purgatorie The Tempted I Feare the punishing flames of the fire of Purgatorie after death Psal 143.3 for seeing I am compast about with diuers infirmities of sinnes I feare least God should therefore enter with me into his iudgement and most iustly adiudge me to the flames of Purgatory The Comforter THose with whom God doth enter into iudgement that is which are not in this life reconciled to God those doth he not adiudge to the fire of Purgatorie there to be tormented for a certaine finite time but to the infernall and not to be quenched fire there to be broiled for all eternitie But they which doe acknowledge their sinnes seriously and beléeue truly on Christ they haue the hand-writing of Christ their Sauiour that they néed to feare no place of sorrow and torments after death for so hée sayth Iohn 5.24 Verely verely I say vnto you hee which heareth my word and beleeueth him which hath sent mee hath life eternall and commeth not into iudgement but hath past from death to life The tables of truth doe acknowledge two rankes of men onely that is to say the good and the bad the penitent and the impenitent the beléeuing and the vnbeléeuing two receptacles onely after death August lib. 3. hypog Id ser 8. de verb. Apost Id. 21. de ciuit Dei cap. 25. Id. 1. de peccat merit remis cap. 28. that is to say of consolation and torment of reward and payne of Heauen and Hell We are vtterly ignorant of neither doe we finde in the Scriptures a third kinde of men and places there are but two dwellings one in the kingdome euerlasting the other in the euerlasting fire therefore is not any place in the midst of these for any where hee may not be in punishment which shall not be placed in the kingdome that hee cannot chuse but be with the Deuill which is not with Christ Hee that shall beleeue Mar. 16.16 sayth CHRIST and be baptized shall be saued but hee that doth not beleeue shall be condemned Hee that beleeueth in the Sonne is not iudged Ioh. 3.18 but hee that doth not beleeue is iudged already because he doth not beleeue on the name of the onely begotten Sonne of God vers 36. He that beleeueth on the Sonne hath eternall life but hee that doth not beleeue on the Sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God remaines vpon him Chap. 5 29 They that haue done good shall come forth to the resurrection of life but they that haue done euill to the resurrection of iudgement Mat. 25.46 The blessed shall goe into euerlasting life and the cursed into euerlasting fire And that this immediate separation of the godly and vngodly is to be made not onely in the last day but also by and by after death the example of the rich glutton doth teach vs Luk. 16.23 whose soule is thrust into Hell and of the godly Lazarus whose soule is translated of the Angels into Paradise the example of the conuerted Théefe doth teach vs Luk. 23.43 to whom Christ promiseth the ingresse into Paradise on that very day wherein hée was to dye Apoc. 14.13 the spirit of Trueth doth teach vs pronouncing them henceforth blessed that dye in the Lord. There is none other purgation or expiation of sinnes then in the bloud of Christ 1 Ioh. 1.7 Esa 53.5 Rom. 5.1 1 Iohn 3.14 Sap. 4.1 which washeth vs altogether from all our sins the chastisement of our peace is vpon him that he might be peace to vs therefore he which beléeues on him is iustified and hath peace with God is translated from death to life neither néed hee feare any torment after death LXVI The rigour of the last iudgement The Tempted I Feare the rigour and terrour of the last iudgement Aboue mee will be the seuere iudge beneath mee gaping Hell within mee my Conscience gnawing without me fire burning on my right hand my sins accusing me on my left hand the Diuels terrifying me round about mee the good Angels driuing mee to hell and the euill drawing mee to the same Satan will accuse me my sinnes will accuse mee Bern. in Rithm my conscience will accuse me I feare much the countenance of the seuere Iudge from whom nothing that is hidden shall be kept close neither shall any thing remaine vnreuenged No man shall be able to escape his power to deceiue his wisedome to turne his equitie or to reuoke his iudgement The Comforter IF thou