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A85388	The tyranny of Satan, discovered by the teares of a converted sinner, in a sermon preached in Paules Church, on the 28 of August, 1642. By Thomas Gage, formerly a Romish Priest, for the space of 38 yeares, and now truly reconciled to the Church of England.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing G116; Thomason E119_20; ESTC R3263	28,403	44

there shalt thou be delivered saith the Lord Let my Conversion be a President to you of this truth and strengthen you that you may not despaire of Gods mercies For if I who have sucked my first milk of the Whore of Babylon of the most erroneous Popish doctrin who have worshiped creatures and Saints instead of my Creator who have been disloyall and treacherous to my King and Countrey who have beleeved a damnable doctrine of Purgatory derogating thereby from the infinite merits of the satisfaction of Christs Passion who have superstitiously offered up a sacrifice of the Masse for the quick dead as if the Sacrifice which Christ himselfe offered of his own body upon the Crosse were not a sufficient Sacrifice for a whole world yea and many more worlds if I who erroneously have beleeved that by my own works I might merit de condigno the glory of heaven as if any human or naturall works may work a thing supernaturall and merit a glory which required the meanes and satisfaction of Christ not as man only but as God and man If I who have been almost 40 years thus blinded who have so many years persecuted the chosen elect and Protestant people of the Lord who have so many years been frozen and void of all heat of the love of God who have so many years been in Babylon in confusion and slavery there have been delivered there have found the mercies of God like stars in a winter night shining most confortably into my cold and frozen soule O let none despaire of the mercies of God nor willingly fall into sin by my example least their comming out of Babylon be as hard to them as my conversion hath been to me But how great soever your miseries be trust in the Lord that as he prayed for Peter that his Faith might not faile as he hath pleaded for me before his ●…ernall Father So he may also be an Advocate and only Mediator between God and you when deepest you are in sin and according to mans judgement hardest to be brought out of it The last Point which is plainly to be observed in my text is a precept and cōmand of our Saviour to Peter contained in those words And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren This Peter did and this all they are bound to do who are truly converted from sin and from a wicked estate to the true knowledge of Gods Laws True it is Peter did fall and did most cowardly thrice deny his Master But after our Saviour looked upon him and with one look turned his heart then Peter went out and wept bitterly And he did not only weep and repent within himselfe but most zealously endeavoured to strengthen his Brethren as you may observe Acts 2. when having received the Holy Spirit himselfe he preached couragiously unto the Jews to convert them and strengthen them in the true Faith as you may read from the 14● to the 38 verse and forward where publickly he said unto them Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost O he was a true converted man and thought he must not be contented to be himselfe converted only but that he was bound to convert and strengthen others So did Saul who had been so great a Persecutor when he was truely converted presently he strived to do good to others as you may read Acts 9. 19 20. verses And when he had received meat he was strengthned Then was Saul certaine dayes with the Disciples that were at Damascus And strait way he preached Christ in the Synagogue that he is the Son of God And further in the 22 ver. But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus prouing that this is very Christ Behold how this converted Apostle is not satisfied with his own conversion but presently burneth with an inward zeale of communicating unto others that good which he had received from God by his Conversion Your Divines say that Bonum est diffusivum sui that which is truly good in it selfe is with a natu●all inclination to impart it selfe yea prodigally to pou●e it self out to others This doctrin also David teacheth us in his 51 Psal. where he repenteth himself for the Adultery which he had committed and having begged of God that he would create in him a clean heart and renew a right spirit within him Then saith he in the 13 verse will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee Lo how David doth not only repent himselfe and manifest his conversion by words of sorrow and bitter compunction but promiseth God that he will strengthen others by teaching them the ways of God that also they may come to be converted In the first Chapter of the Canticles ver. 4. You shall find a few words easy in this sense but hard to be understood in any other where the Spouse speaking to her Beloved saith Draw me we will run after thee The King hath brought me into his Chamber we will be glad and rejoyce in thee we will remember thy love Me thinkes the Spouse should have said draw me I will run after thee The King hath brought me into his chamber I will be glad I will remember thy love If one be drawn why do many in the plurall number run If one be brought into the Kings chamber Why be many glad and rejoyce O dearely Beloved it is to teach us how we ought to be have our selves when we are truly converted The Spouso signifieth a soule wedded by Faith to God the true and heavenly Bridgroome The Chamber whereinto this foule is brought is the true Church Therfore if one Soule be drawn by God many must run after this one if one Soule be brought into the true Ancient and Apostolike Church many must be glad and rejoyce Why B●cause we must not be contented to be drawn alone from our iniquities we must not be contented to be brought alone into the Church we must also draw others we must make others also rejoyce by strengthning them by teaching them by converting them by our words works and good example This is the command and precept of our Saviour to Peter in the words of my text And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren This cōmand of Christ I that am this day converted brought into the Heavenly Bridgrooms chamber into his true Church must also obey O I must not be contented to be drawn alone I must be the cause that many may run after me This dearely Beloved I have begun to performe already having brought one from the snares of Popery strengthned one soule in the true Protestant Apostolik Religiō of this Kingdom This by the Grace of God both by preaching writing and printing I will endeavour all my life to performe by discovering and laying open to the world those Rocks and quicke sands of Popish doctrin whereupon so many soules do run and are dayly cast away by the ignorance of foolish and unskilfull Pilots O dearely beloved never were you in greater danger than at these times for in Ireland you see how the Papists threaten us with their erroneous doctrines here at home they secretly plot to bring in their superstitions therefore let me warne you this day to hoyse up your sailes and top masts and with the gale of that heavenly Spirit of that Divine blast save your soules from being splinted upon these Rocks of Popish superstition from being swallowed up with the quick sands of Antichristian doctrin O beloved abhor all your lives the chief and principall point of all Popery which is that false authority that Supremacy which the Papists give to the Pope above all the Church O never admit this erroneous doctrin nor ever thinke that Christ left Peter or any other to be Supream head and only head over the Church but this authority was given equally to all the Apostles as ye may gather out of Matth. 28. 3 last ver. where our Saviour equally and with equall authority sent all his Apostles to preach and teach saying Go ye therefore and teach all Nations And further he saith And loe I am with you alway even unto the end of the world Behold how Christ sendeth not only Peter but all his Apostles to preach and teach And saith he will bee not only with Peter but with all his Apostles inspiring spiritually and instructing them all and not Peter alone to rule and governe feed with spirituall food his flock If this be so dearly Beloved never beleeve that the authority which the Pope challengeth to himself over all the Church is due unto him who usurpeth his authority seeketh by it to encroach upon Kings and Princes Crowns as I shall in some other occasion more largely declare Fly therefore deare soules from this chief and most dangerous Rock of all Popery and having once discovered the dangers of this false doctrin abhor then all other erroneous doctrins of Rome which come from him that usurpeth Christs own power and challengeth it to himselfe alone O let my conversion be your strength and comfort O beleeve an experienced and skilfull Pilot who hath travailed almost over all the world and hath by experience of almost 40 yeares discovered all those rocks and quick sands of Popish errors of Antichristian doctrines and superstitions which threaten the losse and utter overthrow of your soules O that this day I may performe what Iesus said to Peter And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren O let my example dearely Beloued strengthen you all in the true Protestant Religion that so I may say with the spouse draw me and we will run that I being drawn this day unto the true Faith yee may all run more hastily and speedily to the same that I being brought this day into the Kings chamber that is into the true Church ye may all be glad and rejoyce finding in your soules a new greater strength to continue and dye in this ancient and Apostolike Church that so we may all meet and rejoyce together after this life in another chamber of our Heavenly Bridegroome in the triumphant Church of Heaven Amen FINIS

Matth. 25. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels If this be a horrid thing to consider and which ought to make our haire stand upright and our flesh to tremble let not us laugh but feare and tremble to fall into Satans hands hearing out of the words of my Text that his only desire is to sever us from the elect and godly to prepare us for the finall sentence of Iudgment to make us ready for the curse of God and everlasting fire of hell For what can more plainly be understood by these words of our Saviour to Peter Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat What doth the Husbandman when he sifteth his wheat but with the help of the wind separate the chaffe from the good grane Even so the Devill striveth and endeavoureth to sift us as wheat which is as much as to say to separate us from the Elect and chosen people of the Lord from the good Laws of God from the good and wholesome Doctrine of the Church This was the only endeavour of Satan the night of the Passion of our Lord to sever and separate not only Peter but the rest of the disciples from the company of their master like chaffe from the true grane who said of himselfe that he was the grane that was to be buried in the earth that afterwards he might spring up again with great increase for all his Church O if every Christian soule would take this point to consideration how the Devill desireth and endeavoureth to sever us like chaffe fit for nothing but for the fire and for that dreadfull sentence of damnation Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire Doubtles we would feare to commit the sins which daily we commit doubtles we would tremble to yeeld to the power of such a tyrant doubtlesse we would take no rest in sin as we do if we did but consider that by it we are become dry chaffe separated from the heavenly grane our Saviour Christ severed from all those fruitfull granes and members of the Church who standing on the right hand shall through their fruitfull Faith at last be laid up in that storehouse of everlasting blisse and felicity when the sinner like chaffe already severed from the grane by the Devils endeavours expecteth nothing but death to burn for ever In the 12 Chap. of Judges and 6 ver. I have observed a pretty History for this purpose where the Scripture speaking of a battaile fought betwixt the Gileadites and the Ephraimites saith that the men of Gilead smote Ephraim and put the Ephraimites to flight towards the river of Jordan And the Gileadites tooke the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites And it was so that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said Let me go over that the man of Gilead said unto him Art thou an Ephraimite If he said Nay Then said they unto him say now Shibbobeth and he said Sibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce it right Then they tooke him and slew him at the passage of Jordan and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites fourty and two thousand Dearely Beloved two things I would wish you to note in this History of Holy Scripture The first that at the passages over Jordan these Ephraimites were examined who they were Secondly that because they could not say Shibboleth but insteed of it they said Sibboleth therefore they were slaine Shibboleth according to the true translation signisieth An eare of Corne And Sibboleth signifieth the chaffe or the straw that remaineth when the corne is separated from it So that we find that the sword killed all such as could not say Shibboleth or Eare of Corne but instead of it pronounced Sibboleth Straw or chaffe separated from the corne O Christian and devout Soule take out of this a lesson of morality and judge thy selfe a rebellious Ep●raimite always warring against thy God and Maker When thou sinnest what doest thou but rebell against thy Creator who at last will be too hard for thee But when When he shall meet thee at the passage over Jordan that is when as water thou shalt slide away Omnes morimur quasi aqua dilabimur we do all dye and like water slide and fall away O what a day will that be when thy Soule is to passe away from thy body When thy Soule is to passe over from this world to the other yet never seen O then shall meet thee the true Gileadite against whom thou hast rebelliously fought with the Sword of Iustice in his hand then shall begin thy tryall for thy life or death of thy Soule then shalt thou be commanded to say Shibboleth to say if truely thou beest an ear full of weighty and fruitfull grane of fruitfull Faith But if thou canst not say but Sibboleth that thou art fruitlesse that thou art a light straw a little chaffe separated from the true grane Christ Iesus then expect the wrath of God expect the the bloud of his sword of Iustice expect if he find thee among the wicked separated from the good that this thy being sifted this division and separation of thee from the just and righteous shall be a fore-running messenger of that finall sentence of damnation Depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire God forbid that in this Congregation there be any such chaffe any such dry straw separated from the fruitfull granes of the Church and fit only for the flames of Hel. I hope the Devill hath not so far prevailed with any But of my selfe with shame I may say that I have been that rebellious Ephraimite that have almost 40 years warred obstinatly against my Lord and Maker I am that wicked Ephraimite not able to pronounce since my first use of reason this word Shiboleth not able to say I had ever any fruitfull Faith or have ever been a f●uitful grane but have always pronounced Sibboleth have alwayes beene like bran sifted from the white flower like chaffe separated from the grane fit onely for the fire of Hell For what fruitfull Faith could be in me that instead of worshipping only my God and Lord have bowed my knee so often to worship for God a peece of bread according to that damnable doctrine of the Papists which now I abjure and renounce who teach that in their Communion is no substance of bread or wine but the true Reall and Physicall body and bloud of Christ A thing so against Scripture which teacheth that Christ since his glorious Ascension can be no more upon the earth much lesse in severall places and severall peeces of bread but that he must be in Heaven untill that last Iudgment day as ye shall find in the 3 Chap. of the Acts in the 20 21. vers. saying And hee shal sena Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heavens must receive untill the time of restitution of all things which God hath