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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23771	A sermon preached before the King at White Hall on Sunday Nov. 17, 1667 by Richard Allestree ...	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing A1167; ESTC R15229	19,264	41

against the will desire against appetite But do but keep thy self sincerely and in truth from being willing and thou must be safe For God expects no more but that we should not voluntarily yield to our undoing He hath furnisht us with his own compleat armour for no farther uses of a warre but to encourage us to stand Take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil and again Put ye on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand There is no need to doe more then this not to be willing and consent to fall for no man can be beaten down but he that will fall It were very easie for me to prescribe you how to fortifie against those Engines of the Devil's battery which I produc'd to you But that I may not stay upon particulars directing those whom he prevails upon through want of imployment to find out honest occasions not to be idle and here it is the most unhappy thing in the whole world for any man to be necessitated to be vicio as by his having nothing else to doe and because while the world accounts it a Pedantick thing to be brought up by rules and under discipline he cannot learn how to imploy himself to his advantage to pass by these I say the universal strength against this enemie is Faith Your adversary the Devil like a roaring Lion goeth up and down seeking whom he may devour whom resist steadfast in the Faith And that not onely as it frustrates all that he attempts by means of Infidelity but it also quenches all his fiery darts whatsoever bright Temptation he presents to draw us from our Duty or whatever fiery triall he makes use of to affright and martyr with For the man whose Faith does give him evidence and eye-sight of those blessed Promises eye hath not seen and gives substance present solid being to his after hopes and whose heart hath swallow'd down those happy expectations which have never entred in the heart of man to comprehend what is there that can tempt or fright him from his station To make all that which Satan gave the prospect of prevail on such a Soul the Kingdoms of the earth must out-vie God's Kingdome and their Gauds out-shine his Glory and the twinkling of an eye seem longer then Eternity for nothing less then these will serve his turn all these are in his expectations Or what can fright the man whose heart is set above the sphere of terrours who knows calamity how great soever can inflict but a more sudden and more glorious blessedness upon him and the most despiteful cruel usage can but persecute him into Heaven 'T is easie to demonstrate that a Faith and expectation of the things on earth built upon weaker grounds then any man may have for his belief of things above hath charg'd much greater hazards overcome more difficulties then the Devil does assault us with For sure none is so Scepticall but he will grant that we have firmer grounds to think there is another world in Heaven then Columbus if he were the first Discoverer had to think there was another Earth and that there are far richer hopes laid up there in that other world for those that do deny themselves the sinful profits and the jollities of this and force them from their inclinations then those Sea-men could expect who first adventur'd with him thither For they could not think to gain much for themselves but onely to take seisin of the Land if any such there were for others covetous cruelty cold get little else but onely richer graves and to lie buried in their yellow earth Nor are we assaulted in our voyage with such hazards as they knew they must encounter with the path of Vertue and the way to Heaven is not so beset with difficulties as theirs was when they must cut it out themselves through an unknown new world of Ocean where they could see nothing else but swelling gaping Death from an abysse of which they were but weakly guarded and remov'd few inches onely and as if the dangerousest shipwrecks were on shore they found a Land more savage and more monstrous then that Sea Yet all this they vanquisht for such slender hopes and upon so uncertain a belief A weak Faith therefore can doe mighty works greater then any that we stand in need of to encounter with our enemy It can remove these mountains too the golden ones that Covetousness and Ambition do cast up yea more it can remove the Devil also for if you resist him stedfast in the faith he flies which is the happy Issue and my last part Resist the Devil and he will flie from you And yet it cannot be deny'd but that sometimes when the messenger of Satan comes to buffet though S. Paul resist him with the strength of Prayer which when Moses manag'd he was able to prevail on God himself and the Lord articled with him that he might be let alone yet he could not beat off this assailant II Cor. XII 7 8 9. When God either for prevention as 't was there v. 7. or for exercising or illustrating of Graces or some other of his blessed ends gives a man up to the assaults of Satan he is often pleased to continue the temptation long but in that case he does never fail to send assistences and aids enough against it My grace is sufficient for thee saith he to S. Paul there And when he will have us tempted for his uses if we be not failing to our selves he does prevent our being overcome so that there is no danger on those Trials from their stay But yet it must not be deny'd but that the Devil does prevail sometimes by importunacy and by continuance of Temptation so that Resistence is not always a Repulse at least not such an one as to make him draw off and flie It is not strange to find him siding with a natural inclination with the bent of Constitution still presenting Objects laying Opportunities throwing in Examples and all sorts of invitation always pressing so that when a man hath struggled long he does grow weary of the service not enduring to be thus upon his guard perpetually watching a weak heart which strong inclinations busie Devils do lay siege to and so growing slack and careless he is presently surpris'd or else despairing that he shall be always able to hold out lays hold upon a tempting opportunity and yields by the most unreasonable and basest cowardice that can be yields for fear of yielding lest he should not hold out he will not but gives up and puts himself into that very mischief which he would avoid merely for fear of coming into it For which fear there is no reason neither for 't is not here as in our other Sieges where if it be close continuance must reduce men to