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A91898	Panoplia. Universa arma. Hieron. Or, The Christian compleatly armed: being a treatise of the Christians armour, clearly opening every part thereof, both pressing to the putting of it on, and instructing us so to use it, as we may not be soyled in time of temptation. / Delivered by that late reverend, and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Ralph Robinson, pastor of Mary Woolnoth, London, to his congregation there, in several lectures: and now published for the further benefit of the Church of God.	Robinson, Ralph, 1614-1655.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1710; Thomason E1586_2; ESTC R208953	180,905	372

so Hezekiah when God had given him a great deliverance from a mortall disease Satan tempted him to pride Isa 39. 1. 2. 7. The day of death This is indeed a peculiar day of Temptation There are some Interpreters which understand the Text to be meant if not onely yet chiefly of that day And indeed this no doubt is a tempting time This Satan knowes is the last storm that ever he shall make upon the soul if he conquer not now he shall never conquer therefore he useth all the power and all the policy he hath to carry captive the soul at this last encounter We see by daily experience that Satan shoots his Arrows at the Saints on this day There are very few that go out of the World without strong and many Onsets of Satan 8. The day of the success and prosperity of wicked men especially if they live actually in wicked wayes when it is as Psal 37. 7. Eccles 4. 1. Heb. 12. 13. Satan will be sure to assault the Servants of God in this day And that with these two Temptations 1 He will tempt them to deny Providence That God doth not take any notice or regard of the Actions of men vid. Mal. 2. 17. and Cap. 3. 15. 2 He will tempt them to justifie the cause of the wicked and to condemn the cause of the righteous vid. Psal 73. verse 13. Satan suggested such thoughts to that holy man there This is the first Particular When this evill day is LECT 3. Octob. 24. 1649. II. Why this day is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An evill day NOt in regard of the finall conclusion LECT 3 and event of it For the day of Temptation is to the Children of God the fore-runner of a glorious Victory There never was never shall any of the true Servants of God be lost or utterly overcome in this day my Father is stronger then all and no man shall pluck them out of my Fathers hands John 10. 29. He is greater in wisdom and he is greater in power Hell where is thy Victory Satan cannot shew any soul for whom Jesus Christ intentionally dyed that he was prevailed against No no neither life nor death nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers c. shall ever be able to separate any Child of God from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus his Lord Rom. 8. ult Though Jesus Christ did not pray against the Temptation of his people yet he hath prayed against the failing of their faith in Temptation Luke 22. 31. Satan must prevail against Christ before he can prevail against any of Christs That which was the blessing of Gad is the blessing of every true Israelite A troop shall overcome him but he shall overcome him at the last Gen. 49. 10. Michael and his Angels fought with the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angels but they prevailed not nor shall they ever prevail Rev. 12. 8. So that in regard of the finall issue it is so far from being an evill day that it is indeed a good day But it may be called an evill day in two respects viz. 1. In regard of Satans Intention he aims at nothing but evill he means to swallow up to ruine to devoure and to lead the soul captive for ever 1 Pet. 5. 8. We may say of the Devil in all his assaults as God saith of the King of Assyria whom God used to chastise his Church Isay 10. 7 8 9 10. God put his people under his power onely for correction but he aimed at their destruction Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off Nations not a few c. 2. In regard of present effects and Apprehensions It creates many fears much sadnes many doubtings unto a Child of God that is in such a condition Therefore an evill day 1. Temptation bereaves the soul of present comfort and fills it full of horrors and tremblings If you read over the 88. Psalm you may see how it was with Heman in the day of his Temptation My soul is full of troubles my life draweth nigh unto the grave v. 2. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in the darkness in the deeps while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted v. 15. 2. Temptation hinders the soul from doing that good and receiving that good it might do and receive at another time It hinders from praying from hearing from meditation c. 3. It doth many times involve the soul in many sins it causeth sometimes distrust sometime creates prejudice in the soul against God and godliness and sometimes evill speakings sometimes neglects of duty Those who are hampered under such Assaults finde and can discover the evill of it better then we can speak or conceive III. Why doth God suffer his people to be thus assaulted and tempted Why doth he permit such dayes to come upon them 1. In regard of himself That he may manifest his Power and Providence and wisdom and Grace and faithfulness to his people both in supporting and in delivering them out of Temptation These Attributes of God are most clearly discovered in such a day My grace shall be sufficient for thee 2 Cor. 12. 9. Paul never apprehended so much of the All-sufficiency of Gods grace or power c. as he did when he was under the buffettings of Satan Now he understood what Almighty Power was and what Providence was and what Faithfulness was and what infinite Wisdom meant c. II. In regard of his people 1. To teach them to hate sin and to watch against it The soul that hath been much under these Assaults will not be so bold as others are the smoke of sin the very sight of it will be offensive to his eyes 2. To teach him how to handle and use his spirituall Armor Christian Graces are best used and most improved in a day of Temptation Now he knowes how to use faith and patience and hope and seeth what strength is in them he knowes now the power of faith vid. 2 Thes 1. 11. Now he seeth the efficacy of Hope and the potency of Prayer he now seeth the excellency of all his graces the necessity and usefulness of them that which he knew before in the Notion he now knowes by Experience And then 3. To make them more experimentally feele the love of Christ in submitting Himself to Temptations for their sakes The tempted soul knowes best the sorrow of Christs Temptations and the greatness of his Affection in being willing to be tempted for their sakes As Christ would actually be tempted that he might experimentally succour them that are tempted Heb. 2 18. so he will have his people tempted that they may the more experimentally know how to prize His Temptations 4. To kill their sins vid. 2 Cor. 12. 7. The bran is sifted out onely III. In regard of Satan 1. God will have him do some service for Himself and some service

the contrary vertues 13 Look very narrowly to the heart the inward man It 's impossible to preserve Holiness of life if Corruptions be not dayly purged out of the heart Let the blood of Jesus be sprinkled upon the heart every day purge the Conscience and then the Conversation will be kept clean also Out of the abundance of the heart c. Matth. 15. 18. EPHES. 6. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lect. 14. Janu. 9. 1649. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IN these words we have the third piece of the spiritual Armour The preparation of the Gospel of peace In which we shall consider of these three things 1. The Epithite given to the Gospel Evangelium pacis 2. The Armour it self The preparation of the Gospel 3. The Subject of this Armour the part of the body upon which it is to be put the Feet I shall at this time onely go over the first of these viz. The Commendation given to the Gospel And it teacheth us this lesson viz. That the Gospel is a Gospel of peace Doctrine In the opening of which Doctrine I shall 1. shew you what the Gospel is 2. What peace this is 3. How the Gospel is a Gospel of peace 4. Answer an Objection against it 1. The Gospel according to the notation of the word signifieth good news glad tydings so the greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so the hebrew word Desporah signifieth it is here used to set forth the joyful tidings of salvation by Jesus Christ first preached to Adam in Paradise by God himself Gen. 3. 15. afterwards by the Prophets by Jesus Christ himself and his Apostles The Doctrine of free grace and obtaining righteousness by faith in Christ without the works of the Law It s called in the Scripture sometimes The word of Gods grace Acts 14. 3. because it doth reveal the riches of Gods grace to the children of men for their salvation Sometimes it s called the word of faith Rom. 10. 8. because it holds out faith in Christ as the instrumental cause of our salvation Sometimes it s called the grace of God Titus 2. 11. Sometimes it s called the mystery of Christ Ephes 3. 4. because it doth reveal Jesus Christ to the sons of men in his person natures offices benefits conveyed by him to such as beleive Sometimes the hidden wisdom of God 1 Cor. 2. 7. It s wisdom because it contains the wise design and plot of God for the saving of sinners And its hidden because it was from eternity hidden in the secret counsels of God till he was pleased to make it known to Adam and because Rom. 16. 25. it is still hidden from many who have not the knowledge of it and because many who know it in the letter do not savingly embrace and entertain it Sometimes it s called the word of life Phil. 2. 16. because by the right beleiving of it men are translated from the state of death to the state of life Sometimes the unsearchable riches of Christ Ephes 3. 8. because in this shop it is that all those riches are laid abroad to the view of men Sometimes it s called the good word of God Hebr 6 5. Every word of God is good the Law is a good word all the threatnings are good they come from him who is good the matter of them is good the end of them is good but the Gospel is by way of eminency called the good word because the greatest goodness and mercy that God ever manifested to his creatures is contained in the Gospel God was very good to man in creation the goodness of God was expressed in the Covenant of works but the highest expression of goodness and love lies in the Gospel And in the Text it s called the Gospel of peace the reason of which we shall see when we have done with the next particle viz. 2. What peace is here meant There is a threefold peace 1. Peace with the Creature of this Eliphaz in Job speaks Chap. 5. 23. Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be in peace with thee He is said to be at peace with the Creatures who is in such a condition that no Creature can be an instrument of his hurt but all creatures are instruments of his good and serviceable to him for his advantage All things are yours things present and things to come 1 Cor. 3. 21 22. 2. Peace with a mans self Peace of conscience of this the Apostle speaks Rom. 15. 13. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing This peace is a fruit and consequence of faith of this our Saviour speaks Math. 11. 28. Come unto me c. and ye shall find rest to your soules When the soul apprehending the pardon of sin and assurance of Gods love is freed from those fears and horrors which attend unjustified sinners 3. Peace with God Which is nothing else but Reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ of which the Apostle speaks Rom. 5. 1. Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ For the understanding of this we are to consider man in his threefold state 1. In the state of Innocency In this state man had peace and communion with God God and man were united in a Covenant of friendship There was nothing but Amicableness between God and man man was able to know God as the chief good To will God as the last end of all To give God the glory of his works actively To converse with God There was nothing in him opposite to God or in God till man by sin on his part had made a breach 2. In the state of corruption or the fallen estate of man This is a state of enmity and wrath God and man in this state are at deadly fewd one with another They are said to be afarre off from God they are said to be without hope and without God in the world Ephes 2. 12. Sin hath made such a wide distance that there is no hopes for God and man to come together as friends untill some meanes be used for the removal of this distance This is the state in which all unregenerate persons are The wrath of God abideth on them John 3. 36. In this state man is opposite to God His nature is opposite to God His wayes are contrary to God His heart is full of hatred to him And in this state God hath put man under Rom. 1. 30. the curse and is resolved to have his envy out of him 3. In the state of Graee or regeneration This is a state of reconciliation It consists in these four things 1. The wrath and displeasure on Gods part is quite done away so that he loves the persons and carrieth no indignation in his breast against them Some think that there is no reall wrath in God towards the vessels of election while they are in their natural

dye either presuming or dispairing And you will be encouraged to this if you consider how many thousands have been brought out of themselves unto faith in Christ by the power of Gods Spirit working in and by this meanes Hereby Lydia was brought out of unbeleef Hereby the Jewes who crucified Christ were brought to beleeve in Jesus Christ for the saving of their souls Acts 2. 37. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart c. There is still the same Institution and the same effectual Power of the holy Spirit in this Ordinance for the working of the same disposition in thy heart Thus much for the fourth piece of this spirituall Armour the shield of Faith The next is the Helmet of Salvation of which in the next verse EPHES. 6. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And take the Helmet of Salvation IN these words we have the fifth Lect. 27. Feb. 21. 1649. piece of the spiritual Armour which is recommended to a Christian for his safe standing in the day of spiritual encounters viz. The Helmet of Salvation It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Because it doth totum caput circumqua que munire The Helmet is that defensive Armour wherewith the Souldier doth protect his head and face from danger in the day of battel That which is meant by this Helmet is the grace of the hope of salvation so it is interpreted by this Apostle in 1 Thess 5. 8. Let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breast plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation The hope of salvation is called Salvation by a metonymy because it doth expect salvation and because where it is true it doth produce and bring forth salvation As salvation is the end of faith so it is also the end of hope Col. 1. 5. And therefore the Holy Ghost gives to it the name of salvation We read in Scripture of a twofold salvation A Temporal and an Eternal Salvation Of the temporal Salvation we read Exod. 14. 13. 1. The outward deliverance of the Lord Psal 37. 39. c. Of eternal Salvation we read Luke 19. 9. Though hope be exercised about temporal Salvation c. Yet here eternal Salvation is meant In the words we may for method sake observe tow things 1. The thing enjoined The hope of Salvation 2. The manner of the injunction Take The lesson from the whole is this Viz. He that would withstand and overcome Satan in the day of Temptation must be very careful to Doctrine take and keep the well grounded Hope of eternal Salvation as an Helmet upon his head In the handling of which Doctrine I shall open these three things 1. I shall open the nature of this grace of Hope shew how it agrees with and how it differs from the former grace of Faith 2. I shall shew you wherein the grace of Hope is like a Helmet 3 Wherein its useful to resist and overcome Temptations 1. Hope is a saving grace of Gods holy spirit wrought in a regenerate person whereby he doth firmly and patiently expect the certain accomplishment of all future good which God hath promised and faith beleeves In the opening of this Description we shall see both wherein it agreeth and wherein it differs from faith There is such an Affinity between faith an hope that they can hardly be differenced they cannot be separated one from another they have respect one to another as the two Cherubins on the mercy seat Exod. 25. 20. And yet they are really distinguished in the Scripture they are several things Now abideth Faith Hope and Charity 1 Cor. 13. 13. The Scripture makes them three several things The agreement and difference of them will be manifested by the unfolding of the former Description 1. Hope is a saving grace of Gods Spirit I say a saving grace to difference it from that natural Hope which is not saving we read of a hope that is as a spiders web Job 8. 14. Of a hope that shall be cut off Job 8. 14. Of a hope that shall be as the giving up of the ghost Job 11. 20. And then I say of Gods Spirit to shew the pedigree and the original of it The Scripture makes it to be a fruit and work of Gods Spirit Now herein faith and hope agree they are both in regard of their nature saving graces and they are both from the spirit of God as the fountain and efficient cause 2. Wrought in a regenerate person This is the subject of it Neither the profane person nor the hypocrite hath this glorious flower of hope growing in them that natural hope is found both in wicked persons and hypocrites but this saving hope hath abiding only in the hearts of such as are truly converted Now here also it agrees with faith As both of them proceed from the same root so both of them have the same general subject they differ in the particular subject Luther ut supra faith is in the understanding hope in the Will 3. Whereby he doth expect This word notes the nature of this grace Expectation or waiting is the proper work of hope Thus the Scripture doth express it Psal 62. 5. My soul wait thou onely upon God for my expectation is from him Psal 130. 5. I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope Psal 123. 2. As the eyes of servants c. so our eyes waite upon the Lord untill that he have mercy upon us Nor is it a slight careless expectation but a very vehement intention both of body in expecting and waiting when a man doth stretch out his spirit and mind to look for a thing so the word Karah signifies Isa 8. 17. I will wait upon the Magná intentione corporis erectione expectare Lord that hideth his face c. and I will look for him The Apostle sets it out by a greek word of the same signification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8. 19. The earnest expectation of the Creature c. It signifies to look with a stretched out neck as a condemned prisoner for a hope for pardon Now herein it differs from faith faith is not in expectation but in making things evident hope is in expectation and waiting for things evidenced by faith 4. It expects firmly and patiently These two properties of hope we have in Scripture 1. It expects firmly or certainly The Apostle mentions the full Assurance of hope Heb. 6. 11. Hope is never without assu●ance saith Mr. Pemble though not of the thing yet of perswasion for the firmness and stedfastness of it is compared to an Anchor Heb. 6. 19. Which hope we have as an Anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast 2. It expects with patience 2 Thess 3. 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and the patient waiting for Christ Faith is our Logick saith Luther to conceive what we must beleeve Hope

is our Rhetorick to perswade us in tribulation unto patience Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him Psal 37. 7. and Psal 40. 1. I waited patiently for the Lord c. 5. The accomplishment of future good This shews the object of Hope generally that which is good particularly or specially future good Herein it differs from faith The object of faith is not onely good things but evill things also Faith beleeves the threatnings as well as the promises Faith doth beleeve there is an Hell as well as an Heaven but Hope onely looks at good things Evill things are the proper object of fear and hatred not of hope And then this differs in the spiritual object Hope onely looks at good things to come what a man sees why Rom. 8. 24. doth he yet hope for it hope that is seen is not hope That 's the difference between hope and vision But now faith looks not onely at things that are to come but also at things that are past and at things that are present It looks to things past We beleeve that the World was created that Adam fell that the old world was drowned that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary that he suffered that he dyed c. We beleeve also things that are present We beleeve that Christ is at the right hand of God that he makes present intercession And we also beleeve things that are to come We beleeve that Antichrist shall fall that Christ shall come to judge the World that our dead bodies shall be raised c. 6. Which God hath promised Herein faith and hope agree they have both the same Basis or foundation viz. The word of promise The Scripture asserts the promise to be the foundation of hope Tit. 1. 2. There could be no reason of expectation unless the thing expected were bottomed upon a divine promise It s loose fancy not well grounded waiting which is not erected upon a promise 7. And Faith beleeveth This holds out another difference between Faith and Hope They differ in their order Faith goes before Hope followes the stedfastness of hope is from the certainty of faith faith beleeves the truth of the thing and hope waits for the accomplishment of it The Apostle tells us that faith is the substance or ground of things hoped for Heb. 11. 1. Faith is the Mother of hope and hope is the Daughter of faith faith discovers the treasure and hope gathers it and layes it up Faith is the fire of hope and hope is the flame of faith 2. Wherein the Resemblance between Hope and a Helmet Consider that in four things 1. The Helmet doth defend the head from violence offered either by sword pistoll c. The grace of Hope doth safeguard the soul from the violence of Satan 2. The Helmet is the highest of al the Souldieres Armour The grace of Hope is that which looks still upwards t is the highest of the graces it hath its eye fixed upon the things which are in Heaven 3. The Helmet doth make the Souldier of dreadful appearance to his adversary Polybius tels us that the Romane Souldiers had upon their Helmets garlands sticking upon spikes so high that they seemed of a double height and did appear very formidable to the enemy Men of low stature seemed exceeding high by reason of their Helmets and that dress which they wore upon them The Grace of Hope upon the head makes the Christian Souldier very formidable to Satan it doth lift him up even to Heaven Little David with his Helmet of Hope appeared of a greater height then Goliah though he had a Helmet of Brass Hope sets the Soul upon a Rock which is higher then all his Adversaries 4. The Helmet doth give warmth and heat to the head it hath a refreshing as well as a defending virtue in it The Grace of Hope warms and refreshes the Heart III. Wherein this Grace is usefull to a Christian in the time of Temptation 1. The Grace of Hope helps Christian Courage It sharpens the edge of Christian Valour faintness and fearfulness of Spirit gives a very great advantage to the enemy That was a good Martial Law which God gave his people Deut. 20. 8. If the heart once sink through cowardice and pusillanimity the hands grow weak Now the grace of Hope keeps the heart from sinking yea it adds courage to the heart We have a Proverb But for Hope the heart would break I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living Psal 27. 13. Upon this he gives an Exhortation to others to hope in God with a promise of strength v. 14. Wait on the Lord be of good courage c. The exercise of this grace kept the Apostles from sinking 2 Cor. 14. 16 18. For this cause we faint not c. While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. 2. The Grace of Hope doth strengthen Faith Though Faith breed Hope yet doth Hope strengthen Faith It is as a staff to her aged mother as one well observes Faith is the Evidence of things not seen Faith makes things that are not seen evident and then the grace of Hope helps the Evidence of Faith 3. The Grace of Hope helps the Soul to persevere Victory is promised onely to such as hold out unto the end Be thou faithful unto the death c. Rev. 2. 10. Now without Hope there can be no perseverance He that hath lost his hope will either yield or run or make some unworthy composition but now Hope will carry on the Soul in its opposition There are two things which Hope doth to help us to persevere First It fastens the Eye upon the sight of the Crown it layes that at the foot of the Soul and encourageth it to continue Secondly It fetches in help from heaven it fastens the Eye upon Jesus Christ and lets it see that He is fighting for them while they are fighting for themselves It shewes the Soul Recruits marching from Heaven for its Relief and assistance Information 1. This lets us see the benefit and excellency of the Grace of Hope The Scripture speakes very much in the commendation of it It 's the second of those three choice Graces Faith Hope Charity 1 Cor. 13. 13. It 's that which brings heaven down to the Soul or raises the Soul to heaven even when the Soul is here on earth It 's the Soul's Comforter in all the troubles afflictions and evils which it sustains in this life It 's that by which we overcome Satan in the day of Temptations It 's the Soul's Anchor by which it rides safely in the tempestuous Sea of Temptations Of all the Graces it is that which promises least but there is no Grace that is of more use then this It 's well compared by one to an Egge that hath more in it then is seen An Egge hath nothing to be seen