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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17389	An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is methodically analysed, and the sence of the words, by the help of vvriters, both ancient and moderne is explayned: but also, by doctrine and vse, the intent of the holy Ghost is in euery place more fully vnfolded and vrged. ... Being, the substance of neare seauen yeeres vveeke-dayes sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the citie of Chester.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.	1615 (1615)	STC 4216; ESTC S120678	703,664	509

with great pompe thus did Christ to the wicked spirits either vpon the crosse or in his resurrection Quest. But might some one say what appearance was there of any victorie when Christ suffred Answ. Great euery way for if wee obserue it in euery branch of the processe there is euident signes of victorie For doe they attach him why first the officers are smitten to the ground with a very word and Iudas the chiefe leader is made to goe and hang himself the eare of Malchus was miraculously cured and they are suffred to do no iote more then will fulfill the scriptures Will they arraigne him in the Consistorie why there sits a high Priest that was made whether he would or no to prophesie of Christs death for the people and Christ casts a spirit of giddinesse vpon the witnesses so as their testimonies could not agree yea he there foretells them of his most glorious and terrible second comming in the clouds of heauen and then miraculous recouers Peter a lapsed sinner Will they arraigne in the common hall why there he ouercomes by patience no indignities could stirre him and the Iudges wife from a dreame giues warning that he was a iust man yea the Iudge himselfe was compelled to pronounce him innocent Will they haue him to the crosse there are wonders of victorie a theefe without meanes saued the vaile of the Temple rent signes in heauen and earth and a title of victorie superscribed by his very aduersaries This is the King of the Iewes besides his incorruption in the graue and glorious resurrection and visible ascension to heauen All this being considered where is the ignominie of the crosse seeing the deuills erected a crosse for themselues when they plotted to crucifie Christ And why should we be afraid of suffrings seeing the crosse is Christs triumph and let vs resolue also to ouercome by suffrings T is an excellent and loftie praise to ouercome by suffring Lastly let vs neuer iudge of Christ or Christians by their outward shew great things may be done in the kingdom of Christ which are not discerned by carnall reason Here we see a great adoe trophies triumphs yet the world tooke no notice of it so is there incomparable glory euen in this world in the soules and liues of Christians which the blinde multitude neuer takes notice of And thus much of the second interpretation The third and last interpretation is of those that limit not the time of this victorie to the crosse but consider it generally and in steed of the words vpon the same crosse read in himselfe and thus doe the most Interpreters new and old read it And so this victorie is vnderstood not so much of what Christ did attaine in his person as what he doth in vs by the conuersion of sinners by the Gospell he daily spoyles principalities and powers and triumphs ouer them c. and so these words are a consequent of the putting out of the hand-writing mentioned in the former verse Foure things are in these words to be considered who whom what and by what meanes For the first it is the second Adam that vndertakes this battel he that is God and man he of whom the prophecies ranne he that by a voice from heauen at his baptisme was acknowledged the only champion t was he that sent the challenge by his fore-runner Iohn Baptist he it is that foyled Sathan in many Monomachies this is he that now comes forth in the Gospell in the seuerall ages of the Church to spoyle these principalities and powers Now for the second the spoyled are called principalities and powers Principalities and Powers These termes are giuen to the good Angells Eph. 3.10 and to great Magistrates and Princes on earth Eph. 1.23 In effect they are giuen to Christ Esay 9.6.7 but vsually they are restrained to euill angells and so they are called either considering them as they were before their fall or as it is vsually conceiued it notes their estate euen since their fall The two words note two things in the euill Angells Excellencie and Abilitie Excellencie so they are principalities Abilitie so they are powers Their excellencie is two waies to be considered 1. in themselues 2. their soueraigntie ouer the world In themselues and their owne nature euer since their horrible fall they are creatures of wonderfull knowledge swiftnes discerning and such like And in respect of the vnregenerate world they haue a principalitie hence called worldly rulers the prince of this world yea and the god of this world We may obserue here in the holy Ghost a wonderfull patterne of candor he praiseth what is praise-worthy euen in his enemies and it may wonderfully comfort Gods children in their acceptation with God for if God can yeeld these titles and acknowledge that is yet good in the very deuills sure then it cannot be he should not like what he findes good in his owne Saints though they haue many wants and sins seeing they sinne not of malicious wickednes as the deuills doe As they are called principalities so for their abilitie and force of working they are called powers The wonderfull power the deuills haue may be considered either in the world or in the Church In the first race of men before the floud how soone had they drawne away Cains race into apostacie and not long after Sethes till they had chased the light of sinceritie within the walles of one house and not all sound there neither After the floud the world is no sooner filled againe but together with the building of Babel a most dreadfull confusion was wrought by the deuills euen the beginning of a generall falling away into gentilisme and idolatrie which will neuer be vtterly recouered againe while the world stands all the families making apostacie in the beginning of the Babilonish Monarchie and such an apostacie as they continued in for many hundred yeeres in the generalitie of them so as there was only a little light left in the race of Sem. Now leauing the whole world lying vnder this powerfull wickednesse come to Abraham a brand taken out of the fire of the Chaldeans in whom the light shined with great glory see the power of these wicked spirits ouer his race the Ismalites went quickly of to gentilisme then the Edomits were easily gained after then in Egypt the light that did remaine was almost put out the bondage of the Isralites being as great in soule as it was in bodie In Moses time the light was diffused in that people all abroad againe and a kingdom of Priests was raised vp to God this light held with various increases and decreases till the captiuitie after which time it waxed dimmer and dimmer till Christ the day-starre arose and filled heauen and earth with the brightnes of his comming After in the very first hundreds of yeares these cursed spirits not only persecuted religion by incredible tyrannie but infected it with