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A10033	The patriarchs portion or, the saints best day Deliuered in a sermon at the funerall of Sir Thomas Reynell of Ogwell in Deuon. Knight, Aprill. 16. 1618. Wherein may be seene, 1 The shortnesse of mans life. 2 A Christians combat against 1 Sathan. 2 The world. 3 The flesh. 4 Sinne. 3 A preparation to die well. 4 The reward of glory after warfare. By Iohn Preston, preacher of Gods word at East-Ogwell, in Deuon.	Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.	1619 (1619)	STC 20282.3; ESTC S114305	28,466	80

if they ouercome Conquerors shall be Crowned but C●wards shall bee shamed and the Conquered shall be captiuated The first enemy is the Diuell SAthan is a great enemy A roaring Lion going about seeking whom he may deuour A Lion for his might roaring for his malice and wrath with a hungring desire to hurt going about without wearinesse seeking through his studiousnesse to deceiue whō he may deuour with an implacable wrath to wreake his malice both vpon God and man for all his paines and pollicy all his force and fraude aymes at this that neither God may bee serued nor man may be saued When he cannot secretly deceiue by the subtiltie of a Fox hee runnes vpon men with open mouth like a deuouring Lion in peace hee is craftie in persecution cruell You may perceiue the Lion by his claw and iudge of his nature by his names Hee is called a Serpent and therefore subtile wise and craftie A Tempter the Tempter to perswade a Diuell to destroy whom hee doth perswade before the sinne we shall finde him a Tempter after the finne wee shall finde him a Diuell kinde in the entrance cruell in the end He prooues a Tempter that he may play the Diuell and that in euery place hee made warre in Heauen practised fraud in Paradise sowed hatred amongst the first brethren and tares in the wide field of the world We know tares will grow fast enough of themselues without fowing yet in hope to haue fewell enough for hell fire hee will take paines to sow them and that in the night when others sleepe In eating hee hath surfeting in drinking drunkennesse in generation wantonnesse in labour idlenesse in conuersation enuy in gouernement couetousnesse in correction anger in promotion pride in honours ambition in talke vaine ostentation in profession hppocrisie and backsliding in the Christian race and in euery blessing of God some secret baite to draw men to sinne Into the heart hee doth iniect e-euill thoughts into the mouth euill words into the members euill workes He mooueth the merry to be dissolnte and the mournefull to bee desperate What then shall wee doe shall wee faint and feare and fly from him no then wee are sure to bee foyled wee must fight it out with him and resolutely resist him and he will flie Indeed wee cannot doe it by our owne strength flesh and blood are but vnequall matches for spirits of the ayre as these are What then Wee must put on the whole Armour of God that we may be able to resist in the euill day and hauing finished all things stand fast The first weapon is the truth of God with this the minde must bee so confirmed and strengthned that Sathan doe not keep vs continually in doubting The second weapon is innocency of life that Sathan doe not extinguish all heat and light of Religion in our soules seruice of God The third is an allacrity and chearfulnesse to embrace the Gospell of peace The fourth is faith which the Diuell desires to robvs of because it is the Casket yea the Castle of all our comfort and in this warfare both sworde and buckler Resist stedfast in the faith and this is our victory wherby we ouercome the world euen our faith And the Apostle saith Watch yee stand fast in the faith gird you like men and be strong VVatch sleepe not in sinne stand flie not to sin● stand fast fall not through sin watch for the Lord commeth to Iudge stand for Sathan commeth to tempt stand fast for the flesh perswadeth to yeeld in faith for Sathan would winnow vs like wheat and not winnow vs onely but also win vs from God The fift weapon is hope which in this skirmish must holde vp our hearts The sixt is the word of God which is powerfull to saluation which is sharper then a two edged sword which is a lanterne to our feet which is able to make vs wise vnto saluation The last spirituall weapon is prayer which to the partie that prayeth is ayde to God a sacrifice and to the Diuell a scourge In sicknesse prayer is a medicine Hezechias prayed in his sicknesse vnto the Lord In sorrow it is a sollace In trouble it is a comfort Prayer ouercommeth the Diuell and stayeth the hands of God it is the messenger which relateth our affaires to God faithfully and bringeth his answere wished for speedily God that would not be ouercome with the brags of the proud Pharisie was ouer entreated by the prayers of the humble Publican To conclude All these weapons we must haue if we conquer Satan and all these weapons wee shall haue if we put on Christ. The second enemy is the World THe second enemy is the world and there is a world of enemies in the belly of this beast worldly pleasures and worldly pompe and worldly pride and worldly prophanonesse and worldly profits which all fight together against our poore soules and fight amongst themselues which shall haue the first blowe at vs. But the loue of the world is the Captaine of them all which hath carried many captiue Demas louing the world did forsake the world nay it makes men forsake God himselfe and become Gods foe for he that will be a friend of the world maketh himselfe the enemy of God And loue not the world saith Saint Iohn For whosoeuer loueth the world the loue of God is not in him This world is a strumpet which by her beauty doth bewitch vs a staffe of reede which by his brittlenes doth deceiue vs when we lie or relie vpon it The world doth promise vnto men mountaines of gold huge high towers of honours but these are but towers of Babell which will fall vpon the heads of the builders and bring them to confusion The Sea somtime doth hoise vp the Ship towards heauen but presently it is plunged down in the deep so doth the world lift vp many men for a time but ere long they faile of their footing and fall downe to the bottome of basenesse or beggerie That part of the wheele which is one while highest is presently down againe in the durt so they that to day are in the top of honour before to morrowe may be brought to deep disgrace Agathocles of a Potter became a Potentate being aduanced from the dirty Clay to the Crowne Diademe On the contrary Dionisius fell from his princely Throne to a poore Pedagogue in Corinth God hath put downe the mighty from their seate and hath exalted the humble and meeke God taketh the simple out of the dust and lifteth the poore out of the mire that hee may set him with Princes euen the Princes of the people Wrastlers vse to list thē vp on high whom they purpose to cast downe on the ground with greater violence such a wrastler is the world that hath hoysed many but to giue them a greater fall The world is troublesome

as the Sea which cannot rest Esay 57. 20. such tossing and troubling there is in it It is as brittle as glasse very bright but quickly broken The world passeth away and the lust thereof The world is a swelling Sea through pride blew thorow enuy feruent through anger deepe through dissembling vnquiet through couetousnesse fomie through wantonnesse supping vp all through the care of the belly Where the greater fishes eat vp the lesse Is the world so turbulent and transitory what madnesse is it then to bee so fast nayled to it in our affections that wee can hardly bee knockt off from it or as wee did verily beleeue there were no other world to come Wee suffer a great deale of trouble which is certaine to prolong our dayes a little time which are vncertaine for this world is not our mansion house or permanent but an Inne or rather but a thorow-fair through which we must passe to our owne house and home Heere we must so lodge this day as that we must be ready to depart the next and though wee loue it neuer so well and liue in it neuer so long we shall finde and be forced to confesse at last when wee must leaue it that it hurts many heales few promseth much performes nothing Let worldly men vaunt of their knowledge how to get and keepe and saue and thriue the knowledge is little worth while the world knoweth not God they may speak of their quicke and stirring spirits but a better Spirit then theirs hath spoken it that the world receiueth not the spirit of truth They may reprooue the Saints of God for singularity but the Holy Ghost reprooueth the world of sinne They may thinke themselues iolly wise men But the wisedome of the world is but foolishnesse with God They may prey vpon the poore but our Sauiour did not pray for the world They may play Rex and domineere as Kings here but Christs kingdome is not of this world Now if any godly soule shall say how may wee ouercome this world I will tell him in a word or two but it is sooner sayd then done First Wee must not loue this world nor the things of this world more then God Secondly wee must not liue after the fashions of this world which are all either vaine or wicked Thirdly Wee must vse this world as though wee vsed it not Fourthly wee must not bee seruant to our seruant the worlde Fiftly if we truely iudge of the world of all the pleasures and profits and dedelights thereof as Salomon hath taught vs who had tryed it well that all is vanity and vexation spirit The best but vanity and the most vexation and so much for our second maine enemy which is the world The third enemy is the Flesh. THe third enemy is our flesh an enemy in our owne house which lies betwixt our brests and bosome and therefore more dangerous This flesh of ours is a Iudas which doth kisse but it is to kill a Dalilah in Sampsons bosome a Caine to Abel an Absolon to Ammon a Ioab to Amasa and in a word the common cut-throat of our soules As a moath which is bred in a garment and nourished by it doth notwithstanding fret and spoyle it so the flesh doth goe about to eate out our soules and doth fight against the spirit which giues life beeing to it Ciuill warres you know are farre more fearefull then forraine innations such is this fight of the flesh against the spirit it is inward and neare at hand to hurt vpon all occasions wee beare about with vs our greatest enemy which will stab the soule or rob it of all rich graces of the spirit darken the vnderstanding dull the memory fatte the heart blind the eyes stop the eares and strip the soule starke naked of all goodnesse If wee haue a Pharaoh a bloody Tyrant abroad wee shall haue a Iudas a plodding traytour at home and how hard is it to preuent the harmes which such an insinuating and close aduersary may pull vpon vs. Hee that ruleth his owne minde is better then hee that winneth a Citie He that represseth keepeth vnder his intemperate passions and violent affections doth a greater exploit and more praise worthy then hee that conquereth Cities and Castles and Townes and Towers Anger wrath couetousnesse and such corrupt affections are our capitall enemies I may tearme them our Turkes against whom wee must dayly warre and fight and that without fainting least they bring vs into bondage for of whomsoeuer a man is ouercome euen vnto the same is he in bondage Sampson did much hurt to his enemies the Philistims yet himselfe was ouercome if not with filthy yet with fond and foolish loue Alexander the Great Conquered a great part of the world yet would hee not conquer his owne anger or command his drunken desires Many rule and gouerne Cities Armies and Families yet are seruants to their sensuall pleasures and delights That Emperour therefore is worthy praise which ruleth his owne propper affections If thou wilt haue all subiect to thee subiect thy selfe to reason Thou shalt gouerne many if reason gouerne thee and rule many if thou be ruled by reason but if thou suffer the flesh to haue the soueraignty set the Crowne on her head thou shalt be sure to liue like a slaue and die no better then a beast But how shall wee ouercome this Enemy that is alwayes at home I will tell thee by these meanes and with these weapons First we must obstaine from fleshly lusts which sight against the soule Secondly we must tame our bodies by fasting and bring them into subiection Thirdly we must mortifie our members Fourthly we must abstaine from all appearance of euill Fiftly wee must not pamper the flesh Sixtly we must reiect such motions as the flesh doth iniect and that at their first entrance the Serpent must be crushed in the shell the Foxe must bee taken while he is a cubbe The last enemy is sinnne THe last Enemie with whom we are to make warre in this world is Sin a busie enemie because he is a borderer an inhabitant an innmate one that eateth with vs sleepeth with vs walketh with vs rideth with vs and meeteth vs at euery turning as fire in the flint so sinne is in the seede it is bred in the bones and will not out of the flesh vntill Iosephs bones be carried out of Aegypt that is vntill we be out of this World Sinne is a Iebusite a seditious neighbour and an insinuating mate so hath it eaten into the nature of Man with its canker and contagion that his affection is infection his reason treason and his will wayward altogether and auerse from good The more the Law of God doth forbid sinne the more doth man commit sinne we run with all might and maine to that which is forbidden for it falleth out commonly with sinners as it doth with sicke