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A19862	The wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans saluation) betweene Christ and Satan Opened in seuen most excellent, learned and zealous sermons, vpon the temptations of Christ, in the wilderness, &c. Seene and allowed.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1592 (1592)	STC 629; ESTC S100202	68,496	222

THE WONDERFVLL Combate for Gods glorie and Mans saluation betweene CHRIST and Satan Opened in seuen most excelent learned and zealous Sermons vpon the Temptations of CHRIST in the wildernes c. Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by Iohn Charlwood for Richard Smith and are to be sold at his Shop at the West doore of Paules 1592. ¶ To the right honorable Sir Iohn Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of her Highnes most Honorable priuie Councell after all terrestriall blessings and ioyes the perfect possession of all celestiall comforts hartely wished IF the painefull labours of the Learned right Honorable especially in Gods cause are generally aboue all things reputed most worthy acceptation the lesse then neede I feare my good Lord the receipt of this smal Volume containing not so manie leaues as most excellent Lessons nor so manie lines as sound assurances of eternall life The Tree from whence this heauenlie fruite was gathered may well bee discerned both by the beautie and taste the one not so commendable in the shewe but the other ten times more comfortable in substaunce And as hee is a sweete sounding Cimball or rather a singuler instrument in Gods Church for the propagation of his Truth and speciall reliefe of hunger-pining soules euen so doo these seauen Sermons beare witnes of him wading so weightely in Gods cause as by our Sauiors absolute Conquest of the diuell in all his Temptations our harts are cheered consciences prepared to imitate so good a guide whensoeuer our trialls happen So fearing least by needles circumstances I should seeme troublesome to your Honour when the goodnes of the woorke doth plainly declare it self in humble duetie I conclude praying for your Honours long health and happines as also to encrease the number that maye bee benefited by these Sermons To the Christian Reader CHristian Reader hauing sent vnto mee by a Gentleman a friend of mine certaine excellent Sermons with desire to haue them published to the world after perusing them to my great comfort I imparted them to other my friendes of better iudgement than my selfe who did earnestly encourage mee to the publishing of them which to my great cost I haue perfourmed Hoping the wel disposed wil be thankefull to God for them And because they are such as my best praise can no way sufficiently commend I leaue theyr praise to thy selfe when thou hast receiued comfort by them Finally as the Author to me is not certainly knowen so am I driuen to let them passe without name desiring you to suspend your iudgements whose they are Thus not doubting but I haue done God good seruice and pleased manie that happily haue heard them preached I end ¶ Two most excellent Praiers which the Preacher commonly vsed before his Exercises THat the name of God may be glorified by this our assembly and his holie Woord blessed to the end he hath ordained it let vs in all humblenes present our selues before the mercie seat of God the father in the name mediation of Christ Iesus his deer sonne through the sanctifying of his holy spirit with an vnfained humble acknowledgement both of our owne vnworthines to receiue anie of his graces and vnablenes when we haue receiued them to make right vse of them And both these by reason of our manifolde sundry sinnes and offences among the rest of this one as a chiefe one that wee diuers times haue bin hearers of his diuine and precious woord without care or cōscience to become the better therby let vs beseech him in the obedience of the life sacrifice of the death of Christ Iesus his deer sonne to receiue both vs this our humble confession to pardon both this and the rest of our sinnes and to turne from vs the punishments deseruedly due vnto them all especially that punishment which most vsualy he doth exercise at such meetings as this is which is the receiuing of his sacred word into a dead dull hart so departing with no more delight to heare nor desire to practise than we came with That so throgh the gracious assistance of his good Spirite inward adioined to the outward ministerie of his word at this present the thinges which shall bee spoken and heard may redound to some glorie of his euerlasting blessed name and to some Christian instruction comfort of our owne soules thorow Iesus Christ our onely Lord and Sauiour This praier ended hee proceedeth againe in this manner ANd as the Church of Christ wheresoeuer it is at this present assembled met together is mindfull of vs that be here 〈◊〉 is it our parts and duties in our praiers to remember it recommending vnto the Maiestie of Almightie God the prosperous and florishing Estate thereof beseeching God the Father for Christ Iesus hys sonnes sake to bee mercifull to all his seruaunts euen his whole Militant Church scattred farre and wide ouer the face of the whole earth both preseruing it in those trueths that it hath recouered from the sundrie grose and superstitious errors of the former age and restoring it also vnto that vnitie in his good time which it hath almost lost and daily looseth through the vnchristian and vnhappy contentions of these dayes of ours And in this Church let vs be mindfull of that part thereof which most especially principally needeth our remembrance that is the poore afflicted members of Christ Iesus in what place for what cause or with what crosse soeuer that it would please God to minister into our hearts the same spirit of compassion and feruencie now in the time of their need that we would wish should be ministred into theirs in the time of our need for them to become suters for vs. And let vs wish them al from the Lord in his good time the same ioyfull deliuerance and till his good time bee the same measure of patience that wee would wish vnto our owne soules or would haue them intreate and praye for at his hands for vs if euer our case shall be as theirs is at this present And forasmuch as those Churches or members of Churches which enioy the outward benefits of the Lord as of health plentie peace and quyetnesse doo manie times as much and for the most part much more neede the prayers of Christ his faithfull Congregation than those that are vnder his hande in the House of affliction Let vs beseech him for them also that he will giue vnto each and euerie of them a thankfull receiuing of those his benefites a sober vsing of them and a Christian employing of them to his glorie that hath sent them And in these our prayers let vs be mindfull also of the Churche and Countrey wherein we liue yeelding first and formost euer-more our vnfained and hartie thankes-giuings for all his mercies and gracious fauours vouchsafed this Land of ours and namely for our last no lesse gracious than meruailous deliuerance from our enemies and for all those good signes

wantonnes to put God to try what he can do and to set him about base seruices by the one he driueth vs vnto vnlawfull meanes by the other he draweth vs from the vse of things lawfull by the one he brings vs to this conceipt that we are so abiected of God that if we trust in him he will in the ende fayle vs by the other to thinke we are so deare in Gods eyes and such darlings as throw our selues into anie danger and he will not forsake vs by the one he puts vs in feare as Augustine saith Deum defuturum et iamsi promisit by the other in hope Deum adfuturum vbi non promisit by the one he slaundreth GOD vnto vs as if hee were a God of straw of base condition and subiect to our becke by the other as if he were a God of yron that would not encline though wee requested him Now to the Temptation wherein we are to consider three things First the g●ound the Diuell chose for the woorking of this Temptation Secondly the temptation it selfe to wit the diuells speech Thirdly Christs answere to it In the place three things are to be noted first the place it self secondly the diuel chose it thirdly that our Sauiour followed him thether For a new Temptation hee makes choyce of a new place Indeed for a temptation to presumption the Wildernes was not a sit place first it was not high enough and then it was not populous enough It was a melancholy place when a man is vnder the crosse in affliction or in some anguish and sorrow for want death of frends or otherwise and generally for all solitarie men the hungrie temptation is fitter than this of presumption As long as Noah was in the Arke in the midst of the waters hee had in him no presumptuous thought but sitting vnder the vine in his vineyard he was ouercome therewith And iust Lot 2. ●et 2. 8. in Sodome had no fit time or place to bee presumptuous but when he dwelt in the mountaine in securitie then he committed incest with his Daughters beeing made drunke by them Dauid so long as hee was persecuted by Saule and tossed vp downe from post to piller had no leasure to be presumptuous but in the top of his turret when he was at rest in his pallace 2. Sam. 11. 2. presumption gaue him a blow So heere the Wildernes was no fit place but the Pinacle is a very fit place for one to be presumptuous on It is as good as a stage to shew himselfe vpon to see and to be seene In the Wildernes there was small warrant for one that would bee presumptuous but from the Pinacle hee might discerne farre and neere both the inner Court and outward Court and see a whole Clowde of Witnesses and haue some warrant of example of all estates high or lowe wise or noble For what abuse soeuer be in him bee he neuer so presumptuous hee shall see some as prowde stout and high minded as himselfe be his hayre neuer so long or his ruffs neuer so great he shall finde some as farre gone therin as himselfe If wee marke the foure gradations that it hath wee shall finde it to bee a verie fit place As first before hee could come to the Pinacle hee must goe out of the Wildernesse into the Citie secondly not anie Citie but the holy Citie thirdly into the Temple of the Citie and fourthly out of the Temple vp to the Pinacle First hauing got him to leaue the Wildernes hee brought him into the Citie that there hee might saye vnto him you see such such graue men how they behaue themselues why should you seeke to bee holier than they This was a good ciuill temptation hee brought him not to Cesarea or Samaria but euen to Ierusalem the holie Citie for that addition is giuen it Luc 4 9. and Dan. 9. 24. Thirdly he brought him into the Temple where euen the verie ground was holy Fourthly not to anie other place of it but to the verie top and pinacle which was ouer the Sanctum Sanctorum Who would not tread hard there and take vpon him being in such a place where if a man will be carried away with example hee may see Ananias the high Priest renting his cloathes at the hearing of things that sounded like blasphemie Mark 14. 63. and yet buying his Bishoprick for money who will not then be bold to doo the like And Herod a Prince such a one as heard Iohn Baptist preach yea and with much delight to commit adulterie Mark 6. 20 who would feare to doo the like There he may see the Pharisie vnder showe of great holines tything mynt and comine and vnder colour of long praiers deuoure widowes houses bringing in by extortion and sending out by excesse Matth. 23. 14. 21. And so in this Citie one may see some men both great frequenters of Sermons and yet great vsurers gentlewomen misshapen in theyr attyre Seeing this who will not be as bolde as they the place being so holie And beeing thus warranted by example surely we must needs commend the diuels wit for his choyce Out of this arise two notes First against some phantasticall spirites who say Can that bee an holie Citie where there be dumbe dogges There were so in Ierusalem Es● 56. 10. where the leaders be blinde Matth. 15. 14. They were so where Iudas ministred the Sacrament where there is diuision and debate amongst themselues Phil. 4. 2. Can this say they be the holie Citie And thereuppon they forsake the fellowship Hebr. 10. 25. whereas they notwithstanding the former abuses and notwithstanding the eleuen Tribes were Apostataes did yet name it the holie Citie Secondly on the other side wee are to be instructed that though a man be on the battlements of the Church yet hath he no sure footing or cause to be secure but rather to feare the more for euen there doth the diuell stand at his elbow watching his ouerthrow There is no place we see priuiledged from temptations no Desert so sollitarie but the diuell will seeke it out no pinacle so high but the Diuell is a Bishop ouer it to visit and ouerlooke it To conclude though in Ierusalem sit the abhomination of desolation whereof Daniel spake yet it is the holy Citie stil. And though the place bee neuer so holy yet is that no cause of priuiledge but euen there may sit the abhomination of desolation Both are prooued out of Matth. 24. 15. The second thing that wee obserued in the circumstaunce of place is that the Diuell assumpted Christ which to those that are weake as Gregorie also collecteth may be offensiue in giuing them to thinke that the Diuell had such power ouer Christ as to carie him whether he listed But when they shall consider that euen the lymbes of the Diuell haled and harrowed him too and fro from Annas to Caiphas from Caiphas to Pilate from Pilate to Herod and from him backe againe to