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A17936	Tentations their nature, danger, cure. By Richard Capel. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. To which is added a briefe dispute, as touching restitution in the case of usury.; Tentations. Part 1-2	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1633 (1633)	STC 4595; ESTC S119212	168,622	502

stirring within and praying against them we may be kept from acting the sin in it selfe in the deed This must be borne for wee must know that our inward lust ever foameth out a loathsome fume loathsome I say even to the naturall conscience of a man and would if it were possible defile as one notes the very regenerate part sin is to be in us till we dye and therefore evill motions suggestions and delusions of Satan must be borne withall the help is that wee doe delight in the law of God as touching the Inner man and what if we see them to bee more than they were before yet it is because our light is more our sight is cleerer our spirituall sense quicker so that if wee have by prayer wonne then delight and consent away from sinne the more grace we have the more sinnes wee have not but the more sins wee see for that if God should let us see the sinnes heretofore when we had little or no grace wee see now wee then must needs have despaired we could not have borne it it being a great worke and power of grace to be able to stand before the sight of our sins and againe wee can discerne more corruption now than we could then because our eyes are now more open wee must not goe about then to conclude against the haire that sure the victory is not got because wee see and feele perhaps more evill thoughts or our evill thoughts to stir more than before alas did we not feele them and the burthen of them we would never care to come to God to have them done away and therefore it is rather an argument that the conquest is comfortably made and that the Lord doth intend us a good turne even to helpe us away with our lust more and more every day for that wee finde that our lusts doe burthen us and appeare in their odious colours more and more every day make not that then an argument against us which is rather for us say that I find it and feele it more and worse I hate it more I delight in it lesse I consent not at all this is sufficient for our comfort for the present and that man who hath gone thus far may well be said to overcome the tentation 2. The second thing to bee considered of after the tentation is that in case we do catch a fall and the tempter without lust within doe blow and push us downe yet wee must not make the matter worse by despairing for to despaire is a greater fall than the fall it selfe this were to leape into the fire to save our selves from the blame I know a godly man can never utterly despaire there is still a seed in him and where faith is there is some hope where hope is there is not a totall despaire but doubt wee doe saith Paul yet not despaire and such doubtings we have as do make our life uncomfortable and some degrees of despaire we do admit and for every degree of despaire that wee doe suck in wee doe suffer the losse of a degree of comfort wherefore wee must hold out against thoughts propositions tending to despaire rise with David rise with Peter and grow better after-than before the maine push is given because we sin after knowledge so did these two Worthies and they are in heaven and dyed for all that in peace and honour Davids conscience when hee came to dye was troubled about a lesser matter I meane the cases of Shimei and Ioab as for his bloud and murther not a word why Because hee had made a thorow-peace with God for those sins in his life and health-time he had compounded with his Iudge let us doe so in any hand resist hold out doe and suffer any thing rather than sin but if Satan hath gone beyond us lye not in sin up againe it is not death to commit sin but it is to lye in sinne repentance doth give the soule a vomit up comes all againe it showes great love in God and great faith in us to rise up againe out of great fals and when up once then fortifie our selves we must against relapses there is a se● depth of trouble in minde will follow if after our rising we fall againe into the same or the like offence this will cost deare but yet by the way I affirme that this may befall the child of God In the story of the Iudges the Church up and downe did sin the sin of Idolatry repented and yet fell againe and againe and this were to unchurch the Church of the Iewes to say that Gods people cannot doe that sin after repentance which they did doe before And who can thinke that Abraham did not repent of that his sin in the matter of Sarah yet the next occasi●n he sinned the very sinne againe and was not that a grosse sinne to tell a tale as hee did to lay his wife open to adultery to save his life which many heathens would rather have lost their lives than have endured and what to make a bargain that not for once or so but where ever we come doe thou say thou art my sister If this were not in substance in circumstance a grosse sin I know not what is they did as it were consent unto it and that Abraham finding so strange a deliverance by God as he did repented not were straying and yet after he fell into the very same sinne againe and one dares say that David committed adultery often because he took Bethsheba and had six wives besides and ten Concubines and for murther deny it who can that David went far when hee said and swore that he would be the death of Nabal and all his innocent family wherein was a godly and right vertuous wife and some religious servants this was a grosse sin and what if hee did not act the deed No thankes to him he was resolved if ever man were and yet after hee fell into the foule murther of Vriah the Church in Nehemiah and Ezre fell the second time after solemne repentance into the grosse fact of having many wives and for the word wee have nothing against it God will forgive us seventy times that is infinite times a certaine number being put for an uncertain me thinks it is a sinfull limiting the holy one of Israel in his free and infinite mercies of Christ our redeemer in his merits to say the contrary as though GOD did forgive us because wee have done the grosse sin but once after wee are in Christ and for reasons I propose but these 1. What ever sin wee may repent of that God may and will pardon but the sinne of falling againe after repentance into the selfesame great offence is a fault that a man may repent of which I thus prove because it is not the sin against the Holy Ghost or there is no sinne but that sinne which doth exclude repentance and that every

TENTATIONS Their Nature Danger Cure By RICHARD CAPEL Sometimes Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford To which is added a Briefe Dispute as touching Restitution in the Case of Vsury 1 COR. 10. 13. There hath no Tentation taken you but such as is common to man But God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the Tentation also make away to escape that yee may be able to beare it LONDON Printed by R. B. 1633. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR WILLIAM GUISE Knight Grace and Peace from IESUS CHRIST SIR THose that honour God God will honor and so will godly men God will for he useth not to be behind with any neither will hee with you You have done God much honour in setting up such Lights in our Countrey Ministers who both Doe and Teach They as Christ hath it shall be called great in the Kingdome of heaven and so shall you And so will godly men honour you both Ministers and Others Ministers because you have built us of our coat some Synagogues Others who had it not beene for you might have sate in the Shadow of Darknesse and Death for that they now see best by their present mercie what was their former and what would have beene their future Misery To save one soule fom death is noted in the Word to be an honourable piece of service How great is your Honour and comfort then to whom God hath given an Heart and meanes to set up sundrie Lights of it for the Saving of many soules in many Parishes Now as God and GODS People will honour you for providing that which is Bread indeed So you must conceive that Satan will not fall downe from Heaven like lightning thus without some stirre You doe plucke downe his Kingdom and he will pluck at you and you must and I hope doe provide for his assaults As for your Safety your Name being written in Heaven out of Satans walke you stand sure The Father holds and the Sonne holds and none shall plucke you out of their hands But as touching your inward Quiet by GODS Leave Satan will take his time to winnow you not as Chaffe but as Wheat Expect it he will doe what he can and he can doe something to interrupt your Peace He hath no Peace himselfe and so he cannot abide as farre as he can doe withall that any should have any He durst and did set upon and vex the Lord himselfe with the smoake of an heavie Tentation And will he not Dare he not let drive at us Verily when we come to have those true Riches about us and to be in some spirituall strength which usually is in our later and more experienced age it is usuall that GOD should and he often doth suffer Satan What to beat us No! But yet to buffet us as he did Saint Paul Wherefore after some great things done to GODS honour and Satans undoing we are then chiefest of all to looke for the houre of Tentation and to take the best care we can both for our Safetie and Peace This is to fight not so much with men nor with beasts after the manner of men as with Principalities and Powers His Arrowes are firy and have sorrow enough in them to make the Heart of a Christian man to stoupe We are therefore all of us by all meanes to furnish our selves with such Armes as may fit us in our several occasions And now to helpe the weaker sort of Christians I have here done somewhat that way which what ever it be I doe here make bold to publish it under your Name and Countenance To whom I wish as Saint Iohn did to Gaius the Hoste of the Church in his Time That above all things you may prosper and be in health even as your soule prospereth Yours in our Lord Christ Iesus RICHARD CAPEL To the Christian Reader AFter the Angels left their owne standing they envied ours and out of envie became both by office and practice Tempters that they might draw man from that happy Communion with God unto that cursed condition with themselves And successe in this trade hath made them both skilfull and diligent especially now their time being but short And if neither the first or second Adam could be free from their Impudent Assaults Who then may look for exemption the best must most of all looke to be set upon as having most of Christ in them whom Satan hates most and as hoping by dis-heartning of them to foile others as great trees fall not alone no Age or ranke of Christians can be free Beginners he labours to discourage those that have made some progresse hee raiseth stormes against those that are more perfect he labours to undermine by spiritual pride and above all other times he is most busie when wee are weakest then he doubles and multiplies his forces when hee lookes either to have all or lose all His course is either to tempt to sin or for sinne To sinne by presenting some seeming good to draw us from the true good to seeke some excellencie besides God in the creature and to this end he labours in the first place to shake our faith in the Word thus he dealt with Adam and thus he dealeth with all his posterity And besides immediate suggestions he commeth unto us by our dearest friends as unto Christ by Peter so many tempters so many devils in that ill office though neither they or we are oft aware of it the nearest friend of al our own flesh is the most dangerous traytour and therefore most dangerous because most neare more neare to us than the Devill himselfe with which if he had no intelligence all his plots would come to nothing this holding correspondence with him layeth us open to all the danger it is this inward bosome enemy that doth us most mischiefe When Phocas like another Zimry had killed his Master Mauricius the Emperour he laboured like Cain to secure himselfe with building high wals after which hee heard a voice telling him that though he built his wals never so high yet sinne within the wals would undermine al It is true of every particular man that if there were no Tempter without he would be a Tempter to himselfe it is this lust within us that hath brought an ill report upon the creature This is that which makes blessings to be snares unto us all the corruption which is in the world is by lust which lyeth in our bosome and as an Achitophel or Iudas by familiaritie betrayeth us yea often-times in our best affections and actions Nature will mingle with our Zeale and privie pride will creepe in and taint our best performances with some corrupt aime Hence it is that our life is a continual combate A Christian so soone as New-borne is borne a souldier and so

her and put her off from that and so she fell perhaps she halted in adding to the Lords words for IEHOVAH had forbid them to eate it but hee did no where forbid them to touch it yet this shewes that therein she was strict and more strict than the words wil beare but for the theatning where God said yee shall dye she falters and hath it thus least yee dye and for certaine when we doe not keep to the threatning wee shall not hold our selves to the commandement it goes with us as it did with our first fathers a want of holding the threatning fast did cast them downe and if we be short there and doe not oppose the threatning wee cannot stand as soone as ever Satan is at us to yeeld to our lust say no it is forbidden by God let it be to Adultery answer it is written thou shalt not commit adultery then adde to the prohibition the commination Adulterers and Fornicators God will judge I must not I am forbidden I dare not yeeld if I do I shall dye the death I shall damne and so Satan hath his answer The last generall Rule wee propose is to aske helpe of other men and the directions which come in here to bee set downe are these 1. Never to let any man know what the matter is if by any meanes we can have comfort from GOD acquaint no man with it if we can get him to doe the cure in ordinary matters see what the use of ordinary prayer will doe in cases extraordinary stretch our strength to the most that our prayers may bee strong and long let us wing them with faith and with a fast that they must up to the bosome of the father to say I have prayed and can finde no ease and therefore I will make use of a friend is well enough but I have prayed fasted and waited too as long as ever I can and yet it will not come then we must but til then till we have tried the utmost I could wish men to secret their tentations from the world God will not take himselfe to be wel used for us to goe to others when wee may have it for the comming at his hands with comfort and encouragement A father loves not a child shold run to neighbours for physick when hee may have it of him besides it is sweetest when we have it immediately from the hands of God our father when a child is sick the same cordiall or sweet meat sent by a servant is not so accepted when father or mother brings it and gives it with their owne hands we see many must have mother give it else they will not take it so it is with us it cannot but be best welcome when God doth give us our comforts with his owne hands and tell us good tydings of peace and mercy with his owne mouth and then againe we do not conceive how it wil wound out hearts that we have let any man know our state and case when wee are to come to our selves againe if so be then wee finde and conceive that all might have beene well and the cure done betwixt God and our selves without the knowledge of any man the trouble that way many times wounds more than ever the tentation did and some have even wished them dead and fairely buried to whom in times of their heavinesse they have broken their mindes and therefore the counsell I give is first to try all meanes to use all patience to watch to pray to fast to waite and if God at any time will come in with comfort let him doe all and have all the praise we hiding our grifes from all the world in great inward sorrowes wee are too apt to open our selves more than needs therefore this counsell is in season 2. See whether we can cure our selves as thus what would I say to or think of another should he come to me with my sore complaint the same say wee to our selves and see what that will do 3. When all will not doe and we finde that GOD doth look straying yet and wee can hold no longer then wee must know that GOD doth call us to vent and open our griefe to some one or other now the griefe must be opened God doth call us to a free discovery of our selves to another and without wee doe breake open the matter the end is not like to be good So Iames Confesse your sinnes one to another and pray one for another and there shall bee an healing and in this case without this mutuall and reciprocall confession there shall not be an healing I know God could make all well without this but he will not there is a naturall reason why we find ease by this venting because it doth open the sore and make it as it were runne and so there comes some ease but the spirituall cause is it which carries it and it is because God will have acommunion of Saints amongst us he will not have us straying one to another and hee knowes that by curing another we cure our selves upon that it is that the pain of the foule in this case doth not nor shall not stake till we have acquainted one or other with our case so wee see that tho the party to whom we confesse say no more to us than wee knew before yet the very venting brings some ease Satan I know cannot abide this for few ever open all but there is a remedy and his tentation is at an end and therefore hee urgeth hard upon the point to hinder us by all meanes from telling any body What saith he it will all the Country over hee will tell his friend and that friend another friend and out it will and thou art either shamed or undone for ever Indeed when God doth not call us to this it is dangerous to tell our veriest friend for though he be our friend yet commonly we are not his confident friend but he bath some other and hee must know it under benedicite and then he is sick til his friend knowes it too who is commonly some third man and so there is great danger that it will abroad wherefore if wee can doe up our matters by telling God alone let no man know but now when wee have tried and it will not be then say God hath called mee to out with it and out with it I must and will live by faith that God will make them keepe my counsell or if they doe not yet shame mee no shames I will follow God and confesse I will what ever comes of it and here we must know that when we find a great disposition in us to keep it from all the world that then Satan meanes us some great danger and therefore hee will fill our heads with a thousand proclamations of shames and dangers and all to make us keepe all close to our owne undoing and ruine say then I know by this that great hurt comes