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A73031	Certain godly and learned sermons, preached by that worthy seruant of Christ M. Ed. Philips in S. Sauiors in Southwarke: vpon the whole foure first chapters of Matthew, Luc. 11. vers. 24. 25. 26. Rom. 8. the whole, 1. Thess. 5. 19. Tit. 2. 11. 12. Iames 2. from the 20. to the 26. and 1. Ioh. 3. 9. 10. And were taken by the pen of H. Yeluerton of Grayes Inne Gentleman	Philips, Edward.; Yelverton, Henry, Sir, 1566-1629.	1607 (1607)	STC 19854; ESTC S114640	484,245	625

that he might haue been aduanced and Diotrephes 3. Iohn 1.9 to hinder preaching that he might be chiefe and the Disciples to fall out Luke 9.46 among themselues who shall be chiefest one desiring to sit on the right hand the other on the left that they might be iolly fellowes But neuer any tooke the Diuell so much at his word as the Hierarchie of Rome who from God had nothing giuen them but the Word and Sacraments but from Sathan hath had his staiers and degrees to ascend into the mountaine first God hauing prouided men should bee Pastors ouer the people it was appointed by man that there should bee superintendents ouer the superintendents that is Bishops ouer Pastors which was thought good to appease the ●●●ention of the church and to aduance men for the excellencie of their gifts After was deuised that some should bee ouer the Bishops as Archbishops deuised at first by singular policy that as Bishops in their Dioces were ouer the Pastors so these should bee ouer them to deale with them as they did with the Pastors After was inuented that some should bee ouer them and then was the Church giuen to foure Patriarkes which were to haue as ample authority ouer them as they had ouer the Bishops and these were placed in euery corner of the Church namely at Alexandria Antioch Constantinople and Rome Heereupon by reason of the multitude of matters brought to these foure Sathan withdrew them from their studies being so instantly importuned as they were From hence they being in such eminent places and bearing the name of great professors the Emperours growing to bee Christians indowed them with great substance called them to be of their Councell and gaue them much worldly wealth as to great men of the earth and when they began thus to negotiate in the world they despised preaching After when they were inriched and brought thus farre ad gloriam mundi to behold the glory of the earth then Sathan wanted no more then to see which of these would fall downe first and haue all at the end the strife grew betweene Constantinople and Rome as Patriarkes of the East and West Churches and after some buckling Rome preuailed partly by the absence of the Emperour partly by the diuision of the Empire in the East partly in that it sought it more ambitiously than the other and partly for the fulfilling of the Prophesie that the seat of the Beast should bee built vpon the seuen hils And how was this done but by Phocas that killed his Master Mauritius wherupon afterward partly by worldly power disposing of Emperours and the yoke of conscience thinking them Peters successours he was stupor mundi the wonder of the world hauing power in the peoples vnderstanding both in hell heauen earth and purgatory and when he came to rule in all these them was this fulfilled heere spoken of Fall down and worship me And this hath also infected the Churches of the Protestants as one Bishop Bennet hath written namely the Diuell hath shewed them the 〈◊〉 Bishopricks Deaneries and Parsonages of the land and hauing once gotten them at this lift hath brought them to disclaime and renounce the simplicity of the truth and leauing their calling to betake themselues to the glittering shew of the world and to be sed and fatted with ambition For the third which is the condition hee requireth for his ●●berality he will not giue it for nothing Where note that the Diuels promises are faire but there is some cursed condition tied and annexed to them He will giue Absolon a kingdome but he must rauish his fathers concubines 2. Sam ●● 22. 1. Sa. 22.9.18 Luk. 23.2 Ioh. 19.12 he will get Doeg a place in the Court but he must persecute the Church Caiphas shall be chiefe Priest so he will betray Christ Pilate shall bee a Iudge if he will be Casars friend Balaam shall be highly promoted if he will but curse the people and Christ shall haue the whole world if he will but bend his knee to him He will promise Num. 23.11 a merchant shall be made an Alderman if he will but continue his vsury a Lawyer shall be made a Iudge if he will not sticke at a little bribery a scholar shall haue great preferment if he but follow his counsell at first to preach pleasingly not to do it often for then he shall be stale to come vp only in famous places especially at Bethel the Kings Chappell so as the country must not content him he must preach like a Clerke in his Greeke Hebrew and Latine that the people may rather admire him than vnderstand him thinke hee hath knowledge rather than get any for themselues for Sathan cannot abide to haue them learned hee must defend all things not onely to bee well established but well executed to beware lest he gall men in authority and howsoeuer in the pulpit he may generally glaunce at abuses yet after to shew himselfe plausible and to make himselfe deafe when he heareth an oath Thus doth the diuell indent with men and thus is wine giuen to the Nazarites Amos 2.12 as Amos speaketh and vnlesse thou wilt suffer God to be dishonored and thy soule hazarded he will giue thee nothing But it may bee said It is a shamefull thing to demand this of Christ so may it seeme of vs for no man will professe to worship the diuell But this cannot be denied in action howeuer it be in wo●ds for if a man worship him whom hee serueth and serueth him whom he obeyeth as S. Paul saith Rom. 6.14 And if wee may measure the worship by the fruits of worship he that by p●●ier expecteth not a blessing by loosnesse of life giueth himselfe to vncleannesse and from the poison of his heart profaneth the Sabbath doth worship the diuell greatly though hee crie neuer so much against it for none will sooner defend her honestie then a strumpet nor giue bigger words then a coward Yea some are so fully possessed with him as they doe not know it and those diseases are most dangerous that are not felt Now the diuell is worshipped two waies either by idolatrie in iudgement as in grosse superstition or by idolatrie in affection as they that make their belly their God for the couetous man is an Idolater Ephes 5. and so is the voluptuous man Phil. 3. yea if we plant our hearts any where but in heauen we commit Idolatrie Now for the resistance of the temptation it hath two parts the first generall the second particular Fist answering by the detestation of the person Auoid Satan for because he had dealt more shamefully in this temptation then in the others he giueth him a more sharpe answer then before Secondly he descendeth for the instruction of the godly into a more particular answer I must worship God Out of the first learne the wisdome of our Sauiour Christ who dealing with a most malicious enemy would not multiplie words or argument with

it commeth euer betweene the heart and the sinne for thus Sathan powreth in poison into the heart by the outward sense and our looks are as windowes whereat lust is let in and concupiscence inflamed Heereupon it is that the Saints of God haue made their praiers that the Lord would turne away their eies from beholding vanity Iob 31.1 and Iob made And if these that were so full of the holy Ghost so painful in crucifying their members so feruent in praier and so awfull of God did this much more ought we that are farre behind them in religious exercises and farre before them in fleshly desires haue a steddy hand ouer our selues and our senses that they bee not caught and insnared Therefore let vs yeeld nothing to the course of waters nor seeke to quench the fire with oile or abate our lust by dalliance Some haue the eies of the Cockatrice of Egypt that sendeth foorth poison to infect others and rebounding backe againe poisoneth it selfe For him that can scarse stand of himselfe it is not safe sliding on the ice nor for a weake braine to come neere an Iuie bush for in this hee betraieth his owne soule For the second which is the promise hee made him All these faith he I will giue thee and lest he might seeme to promise that was none of his owne it appeareth by S. Luk. 4.6 that he doth not challenge this as his of himselfe but as giuen him as if hee should say They are all giuen me and I wil giue them all to thee wherein partly hee saith true and in part lieth most shamefully His truth is in this that he acknowledgeth it to bee bestowed by a higher Lord but heereby he would insinuate that they are so giuen as the Lord hath vtterly renounced and abdicated his care of the world and hath left the earth to bee disposed by Satan or the wheele of fortune contenting himselfe with the gouernment in the heauens Where learne that though Sathan doth rule against Gods will and that he neuer allowed his power whee ruleth not without his will Heereupon we must vnderstand a double power the first giuen the second onely permitted All power thou hast saith Christ to Pilate is giuen this of my Father Iohn 19.11 But the Diuels power is so permitted as it was neuer ordained of God therefore it is not so lawfull as that of Magistrates be they neuer so wicked for this is so giuen as though it bee abused yet the authority in it owne nature commeth from God Reuel 13. The beast that was the Emperour of Rome came tumultuously and aduanced by warres had his authoritie giuen him from the Dragon Where wee must distinguish two things first the ordinance of God commanding such magistracy so farre as it is preheminence secondly their Apostasie their tyrannie persecution of the Saints and their vniust comming to that seate was from the diuell But the diuels power he executeth is no way lawfull as from God for he neuer commanded it so as he is a meere vsurper and according to this is the lieutenancy of Sathan which God doth suffer but not ordiane namely that princely imperious popish Priest of Rome neither Magistrate nor Minister and hath no power but from sathan and is absolutely as vnlawfull as the Diuels Where further consider that there is nothing so euill but it is by Gods decree though not allowed and it is good there should be euill And though the diuell as hee is the Diuell ruleth not well yet it is to Gods glorie for the exercising of his children by the buffetings of Satan to humble them lest they should waxe proud and for the condemnation of the reprobate by the suggestions of Sathan to ntangle them that they might not escape the iustice of God The second thing Sathan assumeth to himselfe is most false namely that they were his to dispose for since they were neuer giuen him he cannot assigne them ouer for hee hath gained no interest by vsurpation And this is true that Nabuchadnezzar Dan. 4. learned by liuing among beasts Now saith he vers 31. I see by experience which I could not before iudge of that the Lord of Lords disposeth of kingdomes But it may bee thought a strange impudency in the diuell to goe about to perswade the Sonne of God that he could giue these things for scarce any of vs would thinke his soueraignty so great It is true Christ could no●●● this proffer bee seduced but a great part of the world doth thinke that hee can dispose of the comforts of this life which is proued by the meanes they vse to come to these blessings vsing leud practises and vnlawfull meanes not for a kingdome but for a trifle which they would neuer doe if they were not perswaded the disposition of these inferiour things were turned ouer to the Diuell for God giueth nothing as a blessing but by a lawfull course so as vsing Sathans meanes how can wee thinke it commeth from God And that such is our iudgement also appeareth by the prouerbe Hee that liueth an honest man shall die a begger and what is this but to giue ouer the gouernement to the Diuell of these earthly things And though they aske their daisie bread of God yet they testifie that this their God is Sathan For note the meanes they vse For kingdomes can a man perswade himselfe that God setteth vp Princes and that promotion commeth neither from the East not from the West and shall he aspire to it by treason For authority can a man thinke that to come to a place is in the disposition of the highest when he is aduanced by bribery and corruption He that thinks to win somewhat from a Prince by flattery perswadeth not himselfe that God can dispose of Princes harts And he that comes to a liuing by simony thinks not that the holy Ghost hath appointed him there nor he that increaseth his wealth by vsury holds not that riches come from the Lord for all these meanes hath his mouth cursed Further for the promise hee will giue him all if hee will giue him but a knee a small matter and if he would acknowledge him a benefactor he would gratifie him as a person worthy with all he shewed him Now how euer Christ was not ouercome with this yet it mightily preuailes with the sonnes of men Looke into all particular places and we shall finde he hath many to crouch to him for a great deale lesse then this was Iudas will betray his master for thirty peeces of siluer Mat. 26.15 Doeg will flatter Saul 1. Sa. 22.10 and speake all euill of Dauid in hope of preferment Absolon will seeke his fathers life to step into his throne 2. Sa. 15.2 Ioab will kill Amasa 2. Sam. 10. to get but the chiefe captainship of the guard And Abimelech will slay threescore and ten men Iudges 9.2 to make himselfe way to the Crowne This made Balaam Numbers 24. that hee would faine haue cursed