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hand_n	lay_v	lord_n	see_v	4,431	5	3.2997	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19037	The parable of the vncleane spirit pithily opened, and plainly applied; wherein is shewed Sathans possession, his dispossession, and repossession. A worke needfull for these secure times, in which the most neglect the meanes oftheir salvation. Preached, and now published, by Edmund Cobbes minister of the Word of God.	Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3.	1633 (1633)	STC 5454; ESTC S116664	66,367	214

purpose of God Though Sathan stand like a bloudy Midwife ready to devo●●e the Child the woman brings forth Revel 12. 4 yet the Lord prospered her in her travell and when earth could not secure the man-child she brought forth God tooke up the Revel 1● 5. child unto his throne Though Sathan laboured by all meanes to overthrow Iobs faith yet the Lord stood by him gave him deliverance Though Herod that crafty Fox pretended to adore Christ in his infancy when he intended to murther him hee may travell in his mischiefe but hee shall not effect it for the watchfull eye of God shall warne Ioseph to flye for the Babes safety Though the Devill Act. 23 31. If they had kept their vow they had fasted to death 1 King 17 5. make the Iewes to binde themselves with a curse that they will not eate nor drinke till they have killed Paul yet they were disappointed the Lord delivered him out of their hands Though Iezabel vowed the death of the Prophet Elijah and send hue and cry after him yet rather than shee shall doe his Prophet any hurt he will hide himselfe in a Cave at Hore● the mount of God Though Hama● plot the ruine of Gods people and maliciously accuse them as seditious and Traitors yet he that never slumbers nor sleepes will laugh him to scorne and hang him upon the Gallowes Ester 7 10. which hee had prepared for Mordecai the kings friend Though Saul persecute David and labour by subtiltie to take away his life because he thinkes hee would be an hinderance to his sonnes preferment to the Crowne yet see how the Lord disappoints him of his hope Saul layes violent hands on himselfe and so prepares way for David to come to the Crowne And thus you have this truth confirmed that though Sathan and his instruments doe seeke the godlies overthrow yet they shall bee prevented And reasons proove the same 1. Because Gods care and providence Reason is over his Children and his eyes runne to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himselfe strong 2 Cron. 16 9 in the behalfe of them whose heart is perfect towards him And though the Lord do not presently free them from the exercise of troubles yet he leaveth them not till he hath delivered them 2. Hee that is with us is stronger than hee that is against us And for ●uk 11 22. ●ph● 1 19. ●ol 1 11 this end the Sonne of God undertook our nature and temptations Heb 2. 8. And for this very end hee sanctified himselfe Ioh. 17. 19. therefore he hath provided an invincible armour for his children and exhorts them to stand Ephe. 6 10 11. fast And therefore hee sayes unto them Feare not Lam. 3. 57. for hee is with them Esay 43. 1. 2. For if one peece of this armour namely faith be able to quench all his fiery darts what will the whole doe 3. Gods promise is that he wil not suffer his to be tempted above that they are ble to beare therefore at length he wil deliver them and make them see the salvation of the Lord that because they are precious in his sight and he Za●h 2 8 Deut. 32 10. that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye And therefore lest the wicked should thinke that hee is an idoll hee shewes himselfe strong in the defence of his Children Againe he would have his Children know that though Sathan assaults them furiously by himselfe and by his instruments yet their power is limited there is an houre appointed for the power of darkenesse to worke in and till that houre come and no longer than it last shall they molest and vex the godly God in his providence hath limited Sathan and his instruments their time sometime longer as Israel in Egypt 400. yeares sometime shorter as in the Babilonish Captivitie 70. yeares sometime shorter than so Yee shall suffer persecution 10. dayes and then though heavinesse may endure for a night yet joy shall come in the morning Tyrants which are Sathans Instruments shall not live ever Where is proud Pharaoh railing Rabshekah Where is cruell Nero bloudy Bonner Are they not gone and their honour laid in the dust God hath spoken to them in his wrath and vexed them in his sore ●d 2. displeasure And though the Churches enemies are malicious yet God hath a hooke in their nostrills to pull them backe and will not suffer them to execute their malice upon his Children Though the King of Babilon cast the three Children into the fiery Oven yet he cannot command the abilon fire to burne them And though hee cast Daniel into the Lyons den yet hee cannot compell the hungrie Lyons to devoure him The worst that Tyrants can doe is to send us to heaven in a Chariot of bloud they can doe no more than God pleases hee knowes how to deliver his Israel out of all their troubles This doctrine is usefull and that Vse for consolation to the people of God though they have a vigilant enemy which pursues them with a deadly hatred as Laban did Iacob yet the Lord will step in and commaund him not to hurt them though the godly live among wicked men who like ravenous Woolves thirst after their blood yet the Lord will not give his children as a prey to their teeth Though every wicked man in whom Sathan ruleth be like a Canaanite to the Israel of God yet hee will not let their furious floods carry them away Though the godly lie open to the snares of Sathan and they like silly birds are ready to be carried away yet for all this when Sathan and his instruments seeme to have made most sure of them then his snares are suddenly broken and they escaped by the providence of God When Herod had maliciously cast Act. 12 3. Peter into Prison and that for no offence but to please the Iewes while he was sleeping betweene two Souldiers bound in chaines the Lord delivers him miraculously out of his hands Seeing God is a present helpe in the time of neede and able and ready to deliver his children from the malice of wicked men The consideration hereof should make them goe on cheerefully in the workes of their callings and not to feare what man can doe to them Therefore as they must looke up to God for helpe and deliverance in the time of their troubles so also they must have an eye to Sathans malice to expect it and to be resolved not to shrinke for all his temptations and cunning Stratagems Shall the Israelits returne backe to Egypt because Pharaoh pursues them No no but let them make the more haste to the land of Canaan So let every one of us resolve with our selves not to give over any good action because the world hates us and reproaches us for it No no let us not neglect any good duty which God and a good conscience requires at our hands to please the world or to