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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00405	Sathans sowing season. By William Est minister and preacher of Gods word in Bydeford.	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.; Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625. Mirrour of mercy.	1611 (1611)	STC 10536.5; ESTC S118580	32,844	100

expressed in these words ver 15. And your feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace The metaphor is thus They that go to the warres prouide themselues of good bootes and shooes and with them do fence and arme their legges and feete from the cold wet and stripes of their enemies and that they may bee the more prompt and ready to fight So the Christian Souldier should arme the feete of his minde with these spirituall shooes to wit readinesse in all places to confesse and if we be called of God to preach the Gospell to all men It is called the Gospell of peace because it preacheth reconciliation with God through Iesus Christ and because by the name peace among the Hebrues are signified all felicity and all good things and the Gospell bringeth all happinesse vnto vs. And aboue all take the Shield of Faith wherewith yee may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked Here is the fourth part of the spirituall armour In the warre ye know that the shield is necessary with which the whole body is couered the strokes repelled and the darts receiued if a man knoweth in battell how to vse it And in our spirituall fight the shield of faith is most necessary aboue all the rest but to what end The Apostle addeth wherewith ye may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked that is of the Diuell When hee saith fiery darts he alludeth to the ancient manner for in old time as it is yet in vse among the Indians and other barborous nations they were wont to cast their darts infected with poison against their enemies by which the bodies of the wounded were so inflamed that they might hardly bee cured The darts of the Diuell are all temptations and his tares wherewith hee laboureth to draw vs vnto all manner of sinnes against which wee pray in the Lords prayer And leade vs not into temptations but deliuer vs from euil They are called fiery because they are dangerous and deadly if they bee admitted and do easily kindle the heart vnto infinite sinnes so that it cannnot easily bee cured for one sinne inflameth the heart vnto another as drunkennesse to wantonnesse wantonnesse to murther We see in Dauid who for the loue of Bathshaba he deuised how to slay her innocent husband Vrias 2. Sam 11. The darts of the Diuell therefore are indeed fiery but they are quenched with a sound faith in Christ Iesu VVhom resist strong in the faith saith the Apostle Peter And Saint Iohn This is the victory that ouercometh the world euen our Faith 1. Ioh. 5. 4. Heere wee see that all temptations of the Diuell are as artificiall fires more to bee feared then all the fires or fireworkes in the world which if they enter once into our hearts they kindle a most deadly fire Marke but them that are wounded with malice or wrath doe they not burne with a desire to bee reuenged And those whose hearts auarice hath seized how they are inflamed with a desire to haue all Those who once are pierced with the flames of fornication and whooredome doe wee not see how they burne to haue their fill of their most infamous filthy and inordinate lusts Those who are inflamed with anger and wrath doe they not cast out fire out of their mouthes their eyes do sparkle their nosthrils smoake their mouthes breath out fiery threatnings and rayling speeches And those who are caried away with ambition desire of honour or vaine-glory c. But if thou say that thou neuer didst feele any paine but rather pleasure in thy passions how then can they bee so fiery I answer so much the worse is it with thee for this argueth thy wound to be incurable when thou art past feeling and that this fire wil draw vnto it another to wit the fire of Gods wrath and heauy displeasure which will precipitate and throw thee downe headlong into the fire of hell They then that yeelde and are ouercome with these fiery darts of Sathan shew plainly that they are destitute of this impenetrable shield of Faith wherewith we may easily driue backe and extinguish all his fiery darts on which side soeuer they be For if by faith wee haue feeling of Gods fauour and loue towards vs and are fully assured that he will be a good and mercifull father vnto vs then his loue which is kindled in our hearts by faith his spirit which he hath giuen vs doth cause vs to hate abhor and detest all euill and strongly resist temptations Next he cometh to the Helmet Take the Helmet of saluation vers 17. It is called Galea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of saluation ●er metonimiam because it bringeth saluation or is saluta●is holsome for it defendeth the head But what this spirituall Helmet is the Apostle teacheth 1. Thess 5. 8. Putting on the hope of saluation for an helmet The Diuell by all meanes laboureth to bring vs to desperation for then hee thinketh himselfe sure of vs. The Apostle therefore willeth that euen as in earthly battels Souldiers couer their head with an Helmet So we should fortifie our heart and minde against all the insults of the Diuell with a sure hope of eternall saluation obtained freely for vs by Christ without our merites And most certain it is that there is no kinde of temptation which may not be ouercome if we hold fast the most certaine hope of eternall saluation and therefore Rom. 8. We are saued by hope They that despaire of the victory fight no more but yeeld themselues into the hands of the enemy as they that conceiue an assured hope of the victory fight couragiously and strongly And as the Helmet or head-peece is very necessary for him that is in the brunt of battell among so many arrrowes and shot which flye on euery side for without the same hee should quickly bee wounded and slaine So is hope most necessary for vs which is the companion of patience to withstand and beate backe all the assaults of Sathan For the assurance of saluation that wee haue promised vnto vs in Christ doth make vs inuincible in this fight Take heede therefore brethren that in any case the diuell shake not our hope of saluation in Iesus Christ but still let vs go armed with this Helmet that wee bee not wounded by this enemy Vita vitae mortalis spes est vitae immortalis saith Saint Augustine The life of our mortall life is the hope of the life immortall Spes animum in aeternitatem erigit idcirco nulla mala exterius quae tolerat sentit Greg. Hope erecteth our minde into eternity and therefore it feeleth no euils which it outwardly suffereth The sixth part of this spirituall armour is the sword of the spirit which is the word of God Now hee cometh to describe that part of armour wherewith we must strike and expel the enemy from vs as are Sword Speares Gunnes c.