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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93682	A hand-kercheffe for a disconsolate soule, to wipe away his sinne, and to keep him from despaire, as though they had never been committed. / By Samuel Spinckes, minister of Gods word.	Spinckes, Samuel.	1651 (1651)	Wing S4981; Thomason E633_7; ESTC R206473	19,356	31

there is no God as also to deny the providence and power of God harping that all things happen by fortune and chance sometimes againe I am ready to deny Christ the second Person in the Holy and Sacred Trinity and sometimes I am ready to lay violent hands upon my selfe and thus to sinne sometimes against the first Table and sometimes against the second Yea and although I pray to be free there from yet I cannot well I shall tell thee the reason of this Sathan is thy utter enemy and for that cause both he and the world and the flesh will not leave assaulting thee and therefore it is that thou doubtest and thinkest withall that thou oughtest not to apply the favour and mercy of God unto thy selfe Unto these I fully answer That these temptations and corruptions may sometimes be found even in the best of Gods children yea in those upon whom God hath bestowed an excellent measure of grace the which either ariseth from the corruptions of their owne natures from which they are not fully purged and in which there are the seeds of all these sinnes of Atheisme Infidelity and the like or else from the temptations of Sathan from which they neyther are nor can be free so long as they live in this vale of misery Paul the Apostle was often buffetted with Sathans temptations Peter had a shrewd fall when hee denied his Master Noah Lot and saythfull Abraham they had their resurrections from sinns as I may say and David though a man according to Gods own heart Acts 13.22 yet he was constrained to pray as Psa 51.10 for to have a new heart created in him c. And how terrible were Jobs temptations as we may read Job 6.4 if these men were not free then how canst thou looke to be priviledged But to satisfie thee further herein know that thou art yet a member of the Church militant and so long as thou art so thou art and shalt be subject to these fightings and warrings against the temptations of Sathan continually nor canst thou be free from these till thou be a member of the Church triumphant which shall be in the world to come for first our regeneration is not fully perfected in this life and therfore the seeds of sin and corruption remaining there is a feare and doubting even in Gods dearest children yea and sometimes a kind of despaire too Oh! but in this know for thy comfort that Christ thine and our sweet Saviour hath felt the terrors of Gods wrath and absence that so his faithfull ones might bee delivered from it yet know this also that there will bee a combate in thee if thou beest Gods even betweene the flesh and the spirit Againe Sathan is a perpetuall enemy and hee will never leave off to seek thy destruction howsoever thou mayst get the victory and be at peace for a time when upon true repentance thou art reconciled unto God yet thy enemies will adventure againe and thou shalt bee sure of many battels and skirmishes with them before thou canst passe thorow the wildernesse of this world to the Canaan of Heaven But yet take this againe for thy comfort that temptations are sure signes that they that are troubled and possessed therewith are the deare children of God And temptations are profitable for a Christian and therefore Saint James saith my deare brethren count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing that c. Ja. 1.2.3 c. nay our Saviour himselfe was tempted and that to grievous sins too as ye may see Mat. 4. as to Idolatry distrust of Gods providence and to doubt whether he were the Sonne of God or not nay hee was also tempted to pride and vain-glory yea to lay violent hands upon himselfe and so to be the cause of his owne death and when the Devill left him saith the text Luk. 4.13 it was but for a season St. Paul was an excellent Christian and the deare child of God and yet he could not be free from assaults Rom. 7.23 for he had the seeds of sin in him and he had a Law in his members rebelling against the Law of his minde and often leading him into the Law of sin for hee had inward enemies and hee was not free from outward for he had the messenger of Sathan sent to buffet him 2 Cor. 12.7 8. that is Sathan still assaulted him with one temptation or other to move him forward and to provoke him to sinne And St. Paul prayed thrice that is often and earnestly to be freed therefrom and that he might have no more of these assaults and troubles and yet hee could not bee free and why did not God give and grant his desire and request if he would have given this freedome to any then why not to Saint Paul I answer the state of the Apostle required it being a member of the Church militant that he should not be free least he might grow secure leave off fighting and so cease to be a Souldier which we must not do in this life for we then breake our vowes and oaths made by our Sureties or Parents in our Baptisms wherfore we must I say fight manfully under Christs Crosse and Banner against the three deadly enemies of the soule the world the Devill and the flesh and be faithfull unto death and then thou shalt have a crown of life Revel 2.10 It is the property of the Devill saith Saint Bernard to suggest evill motions but it is our parts and duties not to consent unto them for as often as we resist so often we overcome the Devill and we thereby doe honour our God who visiteth us that we should fight who helpeth us that we may overcome and who strengtheneth us that we faint not in our combate to be tempted by Sathan is Sathans sinne not thine but to yield and consent to his temptations is sinne in thee And know this that seeing our Saviour as I shewed you a little before was so tempted to such grievous temptations therefore let none thinke to be free but yet comfort thy selfe with this that God who is thy loving Father in Christ hath the Devill in chaines and as he stayeth the waves of the Sea at his pleasure Job 38.8 So he holdeth Sathan as it were with bit and bridle that he can tempt thee no otherwise nor any longer then God sees for thy good as is evident by the example of Job Job 1.12 And if the children of God be tempted and overcome by any assault yet upon true repentance and comming unto Christ we have an Advocate with the Father even Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins 1. John 2.1 and in the first Epistle John 1.8.9 If we say that we have no sinne we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us but if we acknowledge our sinnes then he is fathfull according to his promise to forgive us our sinnes and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse We