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A49761	An history of angells being a theologicall treatise of our communion and warre with them : handled on the 6th chapter of the Ephesians, the 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 verses / by Henry Lawrence ...; Of our communion and warre with angels	Lawrence, Henry, 1600-1664.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1649 (1649)	Wing L660; ESTC R12895	135,420	210

us with which through him wee fight against the divell so as by the righteousnes of Iesus Christ infused into us and derived by his spirit our vitall parts are armed and secure against the divell who by unholines and unrighteousnes would destroy that building of Gods owne rearing I have bene some thing large in this both in shewing you what righteousnes is as it respects God and man and in distinguishing it from the imputed righteousnes of Christ which is the temire wee hold by and by which wee stand accepted before God and in shewing you how it secures you against sin which is the divells weapon to wounde us withall If ye aske mee how you shall put it on in a word be renewed in the spirit of your minde things are maintained as they were gotten be converted often one conversion is not enough the worke of repentance that is of a change of heart is of a continuall dayly use you must be changed from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord righteousnes in you acted and enlarged by the spirit of God must worke out unrighteousnes in you acted and fomented by the divell and you must do your part to righteousnes as you have done to sin and as ye have yeilded your members servants to uncleannesse and to iniquity unto iniquity So now yeild your members servants to righteousnes and to holinesse Rom. 6.19 Your Members that is your whole soule the faculties of it the endowments of it must be yeilded in service to God as they have bene to sin and the divell they must be now weapons in Gods hand under the command of his spirit for so saies hee ver 13. neither yeild your members as weapons or armes of unrighteousnes for so signifies the word which wee translate instruments Wicked men unrighteous men furnish the divell with weapons to kill and destroy themselves their owne weapons slayes them the divell doth but helpe to point them and sharpen but wee must yeild our selves to God and our members weapons of righteousnes to God and by doing this sin shall not have dominion over you for saies hee yee are under grace not under the law that is the grace of God in Christ and the assistance of his spirit will enable you to overcome sin and the divell which the law would never have done Nothing hinders more then discouragement but feare not imploy your members as weapons for God and you will prevaile the rigour of the law Christ hath satisfied and those parts which remaines you which are left for you grace will work in you and by you so as let the divell be what hee will be sin or unrighteousnesse shall not have dominion over you and consequently not the divell against whome ye fight for hee moves in the strength of unrighteousnesse Wee are come now to the third peece of armour which is for the feet and leggs for the Breast-plate reached downe to the knees and this covered the rest by the feete are commonly denoted the affections by which we martch or move to good or ill they are the movings and outgoings of the soule and the feet and legs are a part which needs asmuch armeing as any other thing for in their motion to fight they conflict with the difficulties of the place and in their fightings are exposed to wounds and danger other parts are freed from that more they are not so much offended with the ground on which they are but these are aswell exposed to the difficulties of the place as to the wounds of the combate The armour therefore for this part is the preparation of the Gospell of peace that is an ability and readines with chearfulnesse to preach and confesse the Gospell First that this is a great duty to confesse or manifest upon all occations your beleefe of the Gospell appeares by that place Rom. 10.10 with the mouth confession is made to salvation that is it is a part of the duty which you owe to God in order to your eternall salvation to confesse and promulge the glorious Gospell which in your hearts you beleeve for the faith of the Gospell should so fire your heart with the glory of God that the flame should breake out On the contrary it is an absurd and foolish thing to talke of fire where no flame or heate appeares to speake of beleeving to righteousnesse where there is not at all occations a readinesse to confesse with the mouth This being laid for a foundation you shall see how two other places will helpe to interprete this Those shooes the feet armour I take to be a fitnesse and readinesse to preach or declare the Gospell of peace this semes to be extremely parrallelled with Rom. 10.15 taken out of Isa. 52.7 How beautifull are the feete of them that preach the Gospell of peace Heere you have the Gospell of peace the same thing named in this place and the bringing or communicating of it expressed by feet As heere by the armour of the feet but if any shall say this is onely applicable to Ministers because in the beginning of this 15. ver it is said How should they preach except they be sent that is utterly a mistake for by sending there is not meant the particular and lawfull call of Ministers which the Apostle heere treats not of but imports onely that it is a speciall signe of the love of God when the Gospell is brought any whither for hee sends it it drops not out of the clouds by chance or hazzard but it comes whither God sends it whither hee addresseth it and therefore should be received accordingly The other place is 1. Pet. 3.15 Be ready alwaies to give an answere to every one of the hope that is in you The word ready is the same word that is heere prepared 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and heere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a readines or preparation having your feet shod with a readinesse of the Gospell of peace that is as heere with a readinesse to give an account of it or preach it or confesse it as in the former places as you have occation either by offering and declaring it or by answering and giving account of the hope that is in you of the Gospell the ground of that hope or of your actions according to that rule and word you see how this exposition suits with a generall duty in other places commanded and runnes paralell with the very phrases and expressions of them so as the exposition falls naturally and without constraint If you aske mee now how this readines and preparation of preaching and confessing the Gospell upon all occations armes the legs and feet which denotes our Martches and Motions in this warre against the divell Answere first because it imployes a great boldnes in the faith of Christ which fits for motion and going forwards hee that is ready and prepared to be a Preacher or Confesser to give an account of his faith hath as it is said of the

they are bound Men also are in the same condition some are under the bonds of election others under the bonds of reprobation reserved both of them by the chaines of Gods decree to eternall glory or wrath which is to follow this in the decree hath been for ever but since the fall the bonds have seazed upon men an attatcht them assoone as they have had a being so as they have lyen under the arrest clogged with shackles and chaines which of themselves they could never put of They have had a wound in their wills and a blindenesse in their understandings the spirit of bondage through conscience of sin and feare of wrath to come have fallen upon all men who have not gone sleeping to hell Now then see the use of Christ Luk. 4.18 Hee was sent to heale the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives recovering of sight to the blinde and to set at liberty them that are bruised Heere is one that can knocke of your shackles can breake those bonds indeed hee layes another yoake upon you another chaine by it you are reserved also but it is to everlasting joyes it is to a crowne that fades not away and it is a yoake but it is a light one not which shackles and fetters but advanceth your motion and is a comely ornament to your necke they are the bonds of a friend it is such an imprisonment as excludes bondage as gives liberty Let those therefore that are invironed with those chaines that are honoured with this yoake glory in their bonds and walke as freemen these are markes of their libertie and badges to distinguish them from slaves let them walke livelily and cheerefully not as men bound up by a spirit of bondage and reserved under darknesse but as men set at liberty and in a joyfull light with singing in their mouths and laughter in their faces and joy in their hearts that they may be knowne by their lookes to be the sonnes of the most High and heires of a free kingdome and let your actions and steps speake libertie every one freedome from sin from lusts from corruptions that there may be a glory in every motion and an impression of sealing to eternall life Secondly for those that are yet under those ill yoakes let them consider to get loose or they will finde a worse state behinde they will finde themselves but reserved to judgement though one would thinke the yoake they beare the yoake of lusts bad enough to be servants of sin and corruption of lust and pride yet they are reserved to worse Change your bonds therefore rest not till you finde your selves bound by other cords bonds reserving you to everlasting joy and happines Wee have considered the Divells already under two heads one of their sin another of their punishment That of their sin wee have dispatch't with the corollaries drawne from it In respect of their punishment wee considered them under a double consideration either that present or that which remaines them heareafter and founde it usefull for our purpose Wee will consider now of their spirituall punishment First for their will they are so obstinated in ill and in hatred against God and Christ that they cannot will to repent and be saved They are that wicked one by way of eminency What death is to us that the fall was to the Angells put them into a pertinatious and constant state of ill but the reason of this was the judgement of God upon their sin which was against the holy Ghost because willingly and knowingly they opposed the truth and gospell of God therefore sayes Iohn hee that committeth sin is of the Divell for the Divell sinneth from the beginning 1. Ioh. 3.8 Not hee hath sinned but doth sin that is pernitiously and constantly as a fruit of that great first sin For their knowledge that it is exceeding great in it selfe is without all question they being of the same substance with the other Angells indued with a most excellent knowledge of things and a most tenacious memory It appeares also secondly from their experience of things from the creation of the world to this time Thirdly from their office which is to delude and deceive the reprobates and to try the Saintes which require great ability of knowledge Fourthly from this that they are the great masters of all the impostures that have bene in the world of all sorcerers witches and southsayers who for title call the Divell their master Yet notwithstanding their sin hath given their knowledge a mighty wound For first their naturall knowledge is maymed exceedingly there is darknes mixed with it they lost what man lost and more Adam could call things by their names according to their natures but who can do it now and proportionably to their more eminent nature and sin was the greatnes and eminency of their losse Secondly in their knowledge of things divine and revealed in many things they fall short they beleeve enough to make them tremble but many the best and most things were lost to them what they see they see but by halfe lights and therefore though the Divells understood more of Christ then men not enlightened by God and they could tell that Paul and his companions were the servants of the most high God also Iesus they knew and Paul they knew Acts 19.15 they have whereof to beleeve and tremble Iam. 2.19 they raise from the effects some darke and obscure knowledge Yet in things of this kinde the Divells beleeve not very many things which they should have beleeved if they had stood and therefore are called darknesse and the power of darknesse because they are exceeding darke in themselves in respect of the good Angells and of what they might have beene But now then thirdly to see things as the good Angells and holy people doe to wit the beauty of holinesse the evill of sin the lovelinesse of God in Christ the glory of God as Father to his elect such sights as might gaine and winne them to God they are perfectly blinde in and understand nothing of and as I have told you before they never saw God as the elect Angells did they never beheld the face of God so nor now can they see him as the elect both Angells and men doe but heere lies the greatest darknesse which they can never overcome Their spirituall punishment will appeare also by those names and titles attributed to them in the Scripture they are called Perverse spirits and uncleane spirits from their quality and office they are the authours of uncleane thoughts and actions they are called The evill one the enemy viz. to God and man The Father of the wicked Iohn 8.44 Also the Divell the calumniator the tempter one whose worke lyes in deluding and depraving man Also the God of this world hee would be worshipped as God as hee hath also a power over men 2. Cor. 4.4 So hee would have worship from them as they have also formally and explicitely

righteousnes none are to be excluded that are capable of God and happinesse because the roote of love aswell to others as our selves is God the measure of which is love to our selves and therefore no particular enmity should interupt therefore wee should love our enemies You see how wee have stated and whither wee have ledde this notion of righteousnes wee cannot leave it in a better place and it was fit to say some what of that of which the word sayes so much and which armes so faire and noble a part But how doth this peece arme the breast or how is it fitted thereunto The breast containes I told you the vitall parts wherein properly as in the subject is the feate of life that holines therefore that righteousnesse that image of God is wounded by unrighteousnesse by sinne the Divell that wicked one shoots at the fairest marke and by unrighteousnes wounds that is it which drawes downe Gods wrath puts a sting into every condition into death it self that weakens the heart makes timerous and fearefull the breast-plate in Greeke is Thorax and they say it is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hoc est subsilite to leape or shake Propter cordis palpitationem for the heart ever mooves but unrighteousnes and an evell conscience makes it shake inordinately renders men timerous and fearefull now this peece of armour this breast-plate of righteousnesse secures you of this those shaking those darting wounds and ads courage and assurance so Prov. 28.1 The wicked flyes when none pursues but the righteous are bold as a Lyon now the use of armour is to render you not onely safe but bold and secure Contrary to which are those feares that make wicked men affraid of their owne shaddowe they goe without being driven saving by their owne conscience which is also excelently exprest Lev. 26.36.37 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintnesse into their hearts in the Lands of their enemyes and the sound of a shaking leafe shall chase them and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword and they shall fall when none pursueth And they shall fall one upon another as it were before a sword when none pursueth and yee shall have no power to stand before your enemies Heere is a disposition quite contrary to such strength and courage as this peece the breast-plate of righteousnes gives doe you not see now need of an armour when wickednesse and unrighteousnes brings you into that miserable condition unrighteousnes is opposite to the being of a holy man the renewed state of a man which consists in righteousnes and true holinesse and to the comfort and welbeing of a saynt which stands as you have it Rom. 14.17 In righteousnes peace and joy in the Holy Ghost marke the order first righteousnes which is as I may say the materiality of peace and then joy in the Holy Ghost But may not the righteousnes of Christ imputed by faith more properly be called this peece of armour then our owne inherent righteousnesse or holinesse Answ. without all question that is the Roote and source of all our righteousnesse Rom. 8.3.4 That the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in us who walke not after the flesh but after the spirit That is wee are reputed in Christ to have fulfilled the whole law for saies hee the righteousnes of the law is fulfilled in us there were two things the law required a just suffering for what wee were in arreare a due expiation for sinne and a perfect obedience now in Christ wee are reputed to have done all this for Christ is the end of the law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeveth Rom. 10.4 This was the first intention and scope of the law videlizet that Christ might justifie and bring men to life by his observation and keeping of it and therefore the Apostle blames them vers 3. that being ignorant of Gods righteousnesse they would establish their owne righteousnesse by which meanes they submitted not to Gods righteousnes that is to that way that hee had set and ordained But secondly having made them righteous and acquitted by imputation and standing right before God God leaves us not thus but the love of God producing in us and upon us some lovely effect makes sutable impressions and Charracters to the relation wee hold to him you have the print and Charracter of a sonne upon you aswell as the relation of a sonne which is nothing els but a certaine image and likenesse of his holinesse and therefore if you bee in Christ you are a new creature 2. Cor. 5.17 Now how can any be a new creature without the infusion of new qualities new guists without an essentiall change for it is a new creation therefore the scriptures describes all the parts of this infused holinesse yee were darknesse but now yee are light in the Lord Eph. 5.8 also you have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Coll. 3.10 There is for your light for your apprehensions you have another sight of things then ever you have had other lights other notions Also you have a new heart a new disposition of spirit another bent and frame and propension then you have had so that of Ezek. 36.26 I will give you a new heart and a new spirit and you are to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnes and true holinesse Eph. 4.24 Christ therefore that doth all for us doth much in us hee is a head of influence wee have him all among us and every one hath him all in their measure and according to those influences and infusions wee have our denominations so Abell was called righteous so Noah Iob also Zacharij Elizabeth Luk. 1.6 were both righteous before God walking in all the ordinances and commandements of the Lord blamelesse In this sence a man may be called Righteous that is regenerate that is renewed although corruption remaines as you call a house white aswell as a Swan though there be many spots on it and such a one may be said not to sin 1 Joh. 3.6 because hee is not given up to sin but hath his heart armed and fenced with a holy frame and a pursuite of righteousnesse Now having thus distinguished and explained things this scripture in all the parts and peeces of the armour seemes rather to speake of the working and motion of the graces of God in us then the imputation of Christs to us which is that which indeed gives the forme enargy and operation to every peece but because according to what Christ is to us so in a proportion and according to our measure hee is in us by his influence by his infusions therefore wee are to till and improve him in us and as the divell could do nothing against us but by virtue of our corruptions so Christ makes use of his owne infusions of his owne graces of his workes in

Deacon attained a good degree and great boldnesse and as Christ saith Hee that casts out divells in my name will not lightly speake evill of mee so hee that is ready and prepared to confesse and publish as hee hath occation the Gospell of God is prepared for advanceing for martching for goeing forward this therefore it implyes to wit a boldnes of minde and a courage Secondly the objections that the divell and wicked men frame against our actions and motions are extreamely hindering make us heavy and timerous but if you be able and ready to be a confessour if yee can preach or give account of it and you be prepared to it you are safe enough you will take any stepps and walke boldly so as it is not onely a signe of courage as before but it doth actually and really inable you Thirdly to this you must adde what the Apostle addes considerately that it is the Gospell of peace about which and for which you moove this agrees extreamely well to this motion for being to goe through many uneaven waies and to breake through the thickest ranckes of enemies you are helped by this that you are at peace with God all the while what ever enemies you meet with in the way so as this Gospell of peace fits you for motion and by confessing and promulgeing your faith to conflict with others So I state this armour which the holy spirit appropriates to the legs and feet I alter not the words of the Text I shew you how it fits for motion The help is therefore to this peece of armour is first to be filled with right knowledge how can yee beleeve on him of whome yee have not heard how can you preach him how can you confesse him of whome ye are not well instructed concerning whome you are not taught an implicite faith heere to beleeve as others doe as your teachers doe will not helpe you Secondly you must be zealous that will render you ready and prepared a zealous man wil be communicating what hee hath will have his confessions and answeres at hand when his Brothers darknes or scandall shall call for it hee will put on for converting for enlightening of men it will grieve him to see the world and the divell gaine from God Thirdly you must be possest with the peace I spoke of the Gospel of peace will never come of from you if your hearts be not filled with peace this is that Christ left his disciples to worke with and by Peace I leave with you my peace that is the peace of the Gospell I give unto you so John 16.33 These things have I spoken unto you that in mee ye might have peace In the world yee shall have tribulation that is you are to martch to heaven through a troublesome world the profession and preaching of the Gospell will cost you much but in Christ and in the Gospell you shall have peace The other is but outward that is the most intimate peace a peace that passeth all understanding a peace that will enable you to goe to warre and deny your selves of outward peace How did this peace that made Paul and Sylas sing in the Prison inable them to preach Christ abroade What bold confessions could Stephen make in the midst of all his enemies upon the very point of Martirdome when hee was at peace with God and sawe Christ the King of peace at the right hand of God It is not the enemye so much as the strength or weaknesse to resist and fight that is considerable if there be more with you then against you It is no matter what is against you if you have a deepe and quiet peace within it is no matter what noyses you heare abroade The Martirs that were filled with that peace in their sharpe warfares could say non patimur sed pati videmur we rather seme to suffer then suffer indeed this will make you strong in every motion towards fight and this will ayde you to this profession and confession of Christ which will both assure all your owne motions and by which as with spirituall feet you doe move mightily against the divell For the use of this in particular wee may consider how happy our conditions are that wee are preachers and publishers of peace blessed are the peace makers and how beautifull are their feet this wee are if wee be filled with peace a peace that passeth all understanding will passe its own bounds and fill others also But then secondly in a sence wee are all preachers all confessors they that teach must doe and they that doe must teach that is by that doing by the light of their actions which shines but in truth wee should not onely be contented to walke holily our selves but wee should be ready and prepared to communicate what ever wee have of the Gospell to others as occation shall offer it selfe and draw it forth which is both a great motion and walke against the divell and as it is heer exprest it armes our feet and secures our motion exceedingly in this warre so as wee are not subject to the shaking of objections and disgraces which the divell would represent to us and cast in our way continually Thirdly in this preaching and confessing the Gospell upon all occations doe it as the Gospell of peace bring it as the Angells did who knew well the minde of God Glory to God on high on earth peace good will towards men Luk. 2.14 Also feare not for behold I bring you good tydings of great joy which shal be to all people ver 10. Offer the Gospell like the Gospell that is like good newes the good newes of peace let the world knowe that it is brought and offred to all men that it is good tydings of great joy to all people Christ is an universall good and as the heires of great kingdomes are the common possessions of all the subjects so the Son of the God of the whole earth is good newes to all mankinde and it is pitty but that they should knowe it and that it should be offred to them as it might be their owne fault if they intertaine it not And as Christ said to his disciples when ye come into any house say peace be to it It is time enough for your peace to returne to you when they refuse to receive you This if any thing will take with the guilty world who from the sence of their owne ill are a thousand times apter to dispaire then beleeve or at least to be hardened in a negligent desperate way This will also make good the ends of the Gospell which are the glory of Christ and the alluring and gaining of the elect and a soule gained by the freest way of grace will vent its obedience by love and this will put honour upon your selves render your feete beautifull render you acceptable and desireable where ever you come in the world when you shal be shod with the shooes of the preparation of