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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55568	The young mans conflict with, and victory over the Devil by faith, or, A true and perfect relation of the experiences of T.P., begun in the 15th and continued till the 17th year of his age ... by T.P.	Powell, Thomas, fl. 1674-1679.	1675 (1675)	Wing P3076; ESTC R17963	49,441	152

of things not seen Heb. 11.1 Paulus How is this Faith attained Evangelus It is attained by a conscientious use of the Word and increased by Prayer and Sacrament Paulus What is Prayer Evangelus Prayer is the pouring out of our souls unto God in the Name of Christ by the help of the Spirit and with faith on the Promises for those things which are agreeable unto his Will Paulus This I remember for it has been told me a great while ago Evangelus You understand herein I shall examine by asking you several questions concerning this duty as first ought we to pray unto God and only unto him Paulus Only unto him excepting Saints and Angels Evangelus How do you mean Saints and Angels I hope you don't hold praying to them Paulus Nay I cannot think any otherwise but that it is lawful to pray to them for they are those who do make a way unto God the Father for us Evangelus I deny it and therefore shall affirm that Christ only is the way to the Father but that I might further clear this truth observe 1. Prayer is a part of Divine Worship which all grant and God only is the object of Divine Worship therefore to pray unto any besides God is a perfect violation of that Command Deut. 6 1● Mat. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve 2. Consider we have but one Intercessor and Mediator in Heaven and therefore it is a high affront unto Christ to make any use of others in that kind 3. Consider that excellent place of Scripture Rev. 19 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him and he said unto me see thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant And in the last place consider here is but little encouragement for any of us to pray unto Saints because the best Saints in Heaven is ignorant of our conditions here below Isa. 63.16 John 14.21 Paulus Why truly all this is clear none can deny Evangelus Well friend what think you of this question can one pray and not speak Paulus No surely that can't be Evangelus Yes one may for there is vocal Prayer and mental Prayer Vocal Prayer is the expressing our desires unto God by the words of our lips and Mental Prayer is the offering up of our desires unto God without the help of words as Hannah prayed when her voice was not heard 1 Sam. 1.13 Paulus How may I pray so as to finde acceptance with God Evangelus First direct your supplications unto God Secondly Pray in faith Thirdly with a sense of your wants Fourthly with a sense of your unworthiness to have any of your wants supplied Fifthly with Sincerity and Perseverance Sixthly beg what you beg in the Name of Christ. Seventhly conclude your Prayer with a Doxology being this For thine is the Kingdom Power and Glory for ever and ever Amen Paulus I thank you good Sir for this seasonable advice Evangelus What think you now of the Sacrament Paulus It is an Ordinance instituted by Jesus Christ himself Evangelus A Sacrament is a seal of the Covenant of grace whereby as God doth oblige himself to give unto us all the benefits contained therein so we in like manner do by that oblige our selves to be the Lords and to be true and faithful● unto him Paulus This I now do understand Evangelus Very good now how many Sacraments are there of use in thi● Gospel● Dispensation Paulus Surely there are but two Evangelus Thou sayst right and therefore the Papists herein are to be blamed wh● say there are seven Sacraments whereas we do deny any such number and do affirm that there are but two Sacraments viz. Baptism and the Lords Supper Baptism is a Sacrament wherein the washing with wa●er in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost doth signifie and seal our ingrafting into Christ the Lords Supper is a Sacrament wherein these things given viz. Bread and Wine are signified exhibited and shewed forth unto us the Body of our Lord Iesus which was broken and his blood which was poured out abundantly for the remission of our sins Circumcision and the Passeover was in the Law in room whereof comes Baptism and the Lords Supper Baptism in the room of C●rcuncision and the Lords Supper in the room of the Passeover Paulus In this I am also very well satisfied Evangelus I am glad of that but what think you of this Is the bread really transubstantial and turn'd into the Body of Christ Paulus Yes that is really my belief for does not our Saviour say This is my Body 1 Cor. 11.14 Evangelus Friend believe it not because there is not Grounds whereupon Reason should be built much less faith Observe what I have to say contradictory to it and you will finde that such an opinion is against Scripture Sense and Reason Consider these words This is my body is no proper but figurative expression were all Scriptures to be understood literally then there would be some reason for the understanding of this expression to be as you would have it Paulus What do you tell me of Figures surely our Saviour would have spoken more plainly to his disciples than so especially in the instituting of an Ordinance Evangelus Christ spoke intelligible enough but tell me is not that plain enough when we take the words as they are frequently and commonly used in Scriptures Paulus Yes That I can't deny Evangelus Well then these words are common and frequent in Scripture John 6.14 is thus written I am the Way so John 10. I am the Door Christ properly is no Door but only as a Door is an entrance into a Place so Christ in this respect is an entrance into Heaven Now compare this with the other Place of Scripture This is my Body the true meaning is This is a figure sign and Pre-Presentation of my Body This is my Body that is as Bread doth nourish strengthen and refresh the Body and satisfie the natural appetite so the Body and Blood of Christ received by faith doth strengthen nourish refresh and satiate the spiritual appetite Observe I pray you how oppugnant this is to reason for is it not absurd that bread should be turn'd into another substance and yet the accidents remain the same there is the colour ●as●e and smell of the bread if the bread in the Sacrament is turn'd into the real Body of Christ then the Nature End of a Sacrament would be destroyd the nature of a Sacrament is to be a Sign and the Ends of it is to be a remembrance of Christ both which supposes Christs Body to be absent Again observe our Lord Iesus mentions Bread after the words of Consecration saying the bread which we break 1 Cor. 10.16 He that eateth this bread 1 Cor. 11.27 28. If the bread is turn'd into the real Body of Christ then wicked Communicants may receive Christ and Christs

seem'd to be somwhat penitent but I am afraid now God has stricken thee with a judicial hardness and blindness Note in this Discourse comes Demas who interrupts and speaks as followeth Demas I wonder Sir you would urge him to renounce that which he hath seal'd to by his own blood and calling God as a witness to the same Paulus O stop thy mouth false thou hast been to me for as to paper yea and also blood I do deny and therefore say no such word Evangelus Is this he my Child whom thou call'st Demas if so then that thou didst not enter into any combination with him and his Comrague the Devil by blood return Praise to God and matter not what they say And wherfore dost thou O Demas impute that to my Lamb which he was never guilty of Demas Pray who be you that you rage so much at me as if I was engaged to the Devil and as if I was the cause of troubling your friend both of which I deny and pray speak no more but what you can prove Evangelus Thou art a Liar being like the Devil thy father for we fear not thee nor any of thine and it shall be prov'd that thou wert the great Instrument which the Devil made use of to destroy my Child but the God whom we serve has deceived thee Glory be ascrib'd unto him for ever Demas Know you friend I will not be th●● taunted at by you and did I b● bring the God whom I serve yo● would tremble meerly through a fight of him Evangelus We care not for you nor your God and if you should bring him hither we would not stir out of our Places Demas I shall ere long make trial of that and until then farewell Evangelus And farewel y●u Paulus How glad am I that he is gone Evangelus Ha Child walk as long as you live in the sense of this mercy of agracious God unto you in restreining you from doing what you was tempted to And now for the glory of this God I do desire you to make a brief Confession of your being first acquain●ed with this Person and so with the Devil and what it was he required of you tha● these things may be left as a Narra●tive of Gods dealings with you unt●● succeeding Generations The CONFESSION of PAVLVS When I first began to be troubled this Person Demas being a● ancient Acquaintance of mine wh● at first seem'd mighty zealous in the ways of Godliness did of late visit me very often and perceiving of m● to be somwhat unsatisfied he demanded the Reasons thereof and a● last understanding somthing of it he told me that he had experienc'd the God whom I serv'd not to be the true God producing substantial Reasons as I thought for the proof thereof which winn'd so upon me and being likewise perceiv'd by him it did make him somwhat prevalent with me to grant leave that he might bring the Gentleman unto me i.e. Devil which being granted and concealing it from you together with many temptatious that attended me I did meet him at a certain time and place appointed and so in process of time he got me to deny these three things 1. To deny the God whom I serv'd 2. To abstain from the Ministers I frequented 3. To believe whatsoever be should say unto me which after these were granted he then made me to promise my soul unto him in form as aforesaid and as soon as I had set Pen to paper and writ this word For I could not go any further which being perceived by him he cursed me and withal told me that if I did not write it was all one and I was his as long as I had set Pen to Paper only this he added If I would write all then he would be more merciful unto me at the expiration of my time but if I did not he then would use me ●o much the more cruel the saying of which does at this present time trouble my soul very much 〈◊〉 ●hinking that I am his And therefore I pray Sir what think you of it Evangelus Child that was only a temptation fram'd by himself to draw you aside 〈◊〉 set Pen to Paper Paulus Say you so but what shall I 〈◊〉 then with your God which I on● worshipped he I suppose will b● never recounted unto me because have disowned him and all his Commandments Evangelus Truly my Child if so be it is a● things are Presented to me I mus● needs say then If your Head was 〈◊〉 fountain of tears and your Hands streams thereof you could not sufficiently mourn for what you have done and moreover if God had damn'd you longere this had been committed he would have been justified therein but much more now when you are guilty of that which I thought you would never have been guilty of Nevertheless from hence gather Hope viz. Gods restraining of you to do what was intended it being an infallible sign that God is willing to save thee Paulus O that I had but assurance of it Evangelus Nay no doubt it may be a long time before God will give you an assurance of his love in regard that you have by exceeding Provocations forfeited it Paulus Ha but I am one that can never be at peace unless God doth immediately tell me that all my sins are forgiven nay I am afraid I shall kill my self if God does not cast some favourable aspect upon me Evangelus How do you talk have you not provoked God enough already and will you provoke him still have a care lest you do thereby augment your misery Paulus Alas I am damn'd I am damn'd do not then blame me for speaking so Evangelus I must needs confess your case is desperate but yet notwithstanding this if you will go to God in his own way you may find mercy Paulus I have without doubt commited the sin against the holy Ghost in regard of those several aggravations which do attend my Sins for did you ever hear of any sav'd who sin'd after their Baptism and acknowledgment of the truth Evangelus Yea surely for what think you of David Manasse Peter and the Church of the Galatians when called in by Paul to repentance Paulus If I had but access to the Throne of grace it would be something but I have been for a year and an half through sin debarr'd there from how think you therefore that I can go without Blushing Evangelus If thou wouldest have God to take any notice of thee thou must go to the Throne of grace in great shame and confusion Paulus What if I can't lift up so much as my eyes unto him Evangelus Yes for have you not read of the Publicans demeanour before God Paulus This is true and therefore my dear friend I am much oblidg'd to you for all your love and pains with me and if you will be pleas'd to tell me what I must do when I come home I shall thereby be