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A13533	Christs victorie over the Dragon: or Satans downfall shewing the glorious conquests of our Saviour for his poore Church, against the greatest persecutors. In a plaine and pithy exposition of the twelfth chapter of S. Iohns Revelation. Delivered in sundry lectures by that late faithfull servant of God, Thomas Taylor Doctor in Divinitie, and pastor of Aldermanbury London. Perfected and finished a little before his death.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1633 (1633)	STC 23823; ESTC S118152	543,797	874

nativity thou wast borne an enemie of God a child of Hell as full of venome and poyson as a toad or serpent But by this birth thou receivest power to be a sonne of God 1 Joh. 3. 2 and the priviledge of sonnes pardon of sinne the favour of god or fatherly affection and a childs portion in that immortall and eternall inheritance and a sweet joy in the assurance of that estate 2 The second marke to know a man borne of this Mother is his crying The first thing which discovers the birth of a Child if alive is the crying of it or else it is still-borne so the new borne child of this Mother cryeth in sense of want of miserie and of spirituall nakednesse In naturall birth is sense of weakenesse and crying after supply so in supernaturall is sense of frailties and much griefe for sinne and the miserable fruits of it And as the child in those wants can doe nothing for it selfe but cry and by crying it gets help so is it with the child of God when he findeth an utter nothing in himselfe but a gulfe of miserie ready to drown him in despaire yet now he hath a spirit which makes him cry Abba Father Rom. 8. 15. If any of us have never gotten a distinct and sound knowledge of sinnes and the curse of God due to the same nor applied to ourselves that wrath and curse denounced and due to our particular sins of which we are guilty for the humbling and breaking of our hard and stony hearts If we have not out of the sense of an humbled and terrified conscience seene our need of Jesus Christ and from thence have not more earnestly hungred and thirsted after Jesus Christ and cryed as much after pardon of sinne as a condemned man after the Kings gracious pardon These persons may well instruct their conversion and their birth of this woman All thy profession will not make thee a true sonne of the Church except thou cryest in sense of miserie after mercy and grace and this desire be above al other desires in the world On the othe side art thou distressed in conscience in the sense of thy sinne and feare of damnation due to it Doest thou freely confesse thy sinnes and heartily bewaile them Doest thou crie after Christ crucified so as the whole world would not be so sweet as a taste of Christ and the more thou valuest grace dost thou the more thirst and desire after it Oh be of good comfort let not thine estate discourage thee thou art in a good way and a comfortable condition It is a comfort to heare a child new borne to cry it argues both birth and life and so is it here 3 The third note of tryall of one borne of this Mother is sucking An infant so soone as ever it is borne seekes and suckes the breast and so the new borne babe seekes and suckes the sincere milke of the word 1 Pet. 2. 2. And as an infant is never well but when it is sucking night and day and nothing stils the cryes of it or quiets it but the breast so the child of God suppose him but an infant in grace hungerly desires Gods word Gold silver honor pleasure which satisfie carnall men quiet not him only Gods word can quiet and satisfie the heart And as the infant desires the pure breast-milke without any other blending or cookery so Gods children affect chiefly the sincere milke of the word in the plaine evidence of Gods wisedome and care not for blending with froth of wit or humane eloquence but as it comes out of the breasts of the Mother the two Testaments And as the infant sucketh the breast to grow thereby So by the sincere milke the children of God grow in spirituall strength and stature till they come to their talnesse 1 Pet. 2. 2. 4 The fourth note is similitude and likenesse to the father of this birth This mother brings forth children to God in the similitude and Image of god Other Mothers bring children in their owne Image as Adam begat Seth in his owne Image Gen. 5. 3. But what is borne of the spirit is spirit Joh. 3. 6. Now examine how thou expressest the seed of new birth Whom resemblest thou If God be thy father thou resemblest him in quality though not in equality Thou art like him in holinesse in righteousnesse and in the whole divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. Our Saviour makes this a sure note of a sonne of God or of the Devill Joh. 8. The Jewes bragge they are sonnes of Abraham ver 39. Christ saith were they sonnes of Abraham they would doe the works of Abraham Then they bragge God is their father ver 41. Christ answereth If God were your father you would love me and resemble him for I came from him and he loves me But I will tell you whose sons you are ye are of your father the Devill for his workes yee doe So thou that professest in the Creed that God is thy Father and thou beleevest in him if in stead of Divine vertues thou expressest impious and vicious behaviour thou art of the Devill whose workes thou doest He delights in blaspheming swearing drunkennesse filthinesse he hates the word the Sabbaths the Ministers he delights in feircenesse slaunders and the like so dost thou Thou professest Jesus Christ thy Lord and Saviour but how dost thou grow in conformity with Christ If thou expressest not his humility patience selfe-deniall holinesse and all Christian vertues in some measure thou art none of his The member will grow in conformity with the head a good child will imitate a good father in goodnesse 5 The fift note of new birth is growth A child once borne growes up to strength and stature A child in nature that still suckes wholsome milke stands not at a pitch but growes every month and quarter sensibly so if thou beest borne of this Mother thou growest 1 In understanding and knowledge 2 Pet. 3. 18. 2 In sound affection and powerfull use of the meanes of salvation As a child the more it growes the more it feeds so a man new borne hath daily more love to the word more reformation by it and outgrowes weakenesses 3. In sound practise of holy duties As a child growes active to naturall and civill actions so the child of God and the Church growes strong to prayer and the parts of Gods pure worship strong to endure the labour of the power of godlinesse 4 In strength for the Christian combate He growes able to beare afflictions and stand under great burdens and crosses for Christ and the Gospell He growes strong in resistance of temptations that he is not now carried ordinarily away neither by the world nor by the God of the world from his place To this marke St. John sends us for tryall of our new birth 1 Joh. 5. 4. He that is borne of God overcommeth the world and ver 18. He

the precious from the vile We must manifest it to be the fanne in the hand of Christ severing the chaffe from the wheate And this is as a wise steward to give every man his portion Here some obiections must be removed Object 1. Wee are under the Gospell and freed from the Law which is not given to the iust 1 Tim. 1. 9. you need not bee so sterne and earnest Ans. The most men that live under that Gospell by secret hypocrisie or open disobedience are under the curse of the Law and wrapped in that great condemnation pronounced by Christ upon the world that light is come but men love darknesse rather than light because their deeds are evill Iohn 3. 19. But suppose all that heare the Gospell were converted by the Gospell were the menaces and terrours of the Law needlesse to them For though the malediction and law is not to bee urged against their persons yet it is to be urged against their remaining sinnes and the best men may by frequent meditation and application of the curse of the law bee much furthered in godlinesse For First the best being sanctified but in part may sometime abuse the grace of God to liberty in sinne Secondly the best need more humiliation which is wrought by the Law Thirdly the best may nodd and need a wakening voyce Fourthly the best may fall and need an helpe to rise Fiftly the best may slack their pace their love and zeale need spurres to pricke and hasten them in their way Now if the best need the law what doe the worst Object 2. You are preachers of the Gospell of peace and must set forth the peace and grace and mercy of God and not be so tart and sowre Ans. Wee are so and must doe so but when or to whom 1. Shall wee preach peace before men see the need of it or before their hearts be ever troubled for sinne or the grace and favour of God to a gracelesse wretch that spurnes against the grace of God or mercy to him that presumptuously sinneth and addeth drunkennesse to thirst May wee say that God will fill vessels of wrath with mercy 2. To whom shall wee preach peace to every gracelesse sinner that loves his peace in his sinnes better then peace with God Shall we preach peace unto such as grow into opē hostility with God to such as blaspheme his name his servants his graces to such as upon pretenced malice wickedly spurne at Gods Ministers and slander the doctrine that is according to godlinesse God speakes no peace to these nor may we from God He can have no peace with God till hee warre with his sinnes And hee must begin with the Law that must conclude with the Gospell of peace Hee must be at peace with the Law before the Gospell be peace to him Object 3. The servant of God must not strive but exercise all meeknesse and patiently suster evill men 2 Tim. 2. 24 25. Ans. A meeke disposition is much set by of God in all and of all men it is most usefull and gracefull in a Minister But 1. Christian meeknesse is a meeknesse of wisdome I am ● 13. this discerneth both of cases persons to whom mecknesse must be shewed for all sins are not alike some are motes some are beames some are but as scratches some are deeper and larger wounds some let out with the pricke of apinne some not without the launce In matters of greater moment when Gods glory is impaired the happy proceedings of the Gospell stopped or the salvation of men greatly hindered now is no place for meekenesse to sway Moses that was the meekest man upon earth in case of Gods dishonour and making the Calfe turnes his meeknesse into a severe revenge broke the Tables and slew three thousand of his brethren the same day For persons Meeknesse of wisdome discerneth that all sinners are not a suit some are weake some wicked some ignorant some wilfull some are leaders some are led some are free-borne some of Hagars seed some need the rod some the spirit of meekenesse some must bee saved with compassion some with feare Iud. 23. some are wonne by meeknesse some marr'd and lost Our Saviour Christ who was the mirrour of meeknesse and our patterne of whom wee must learne to be lowly and meeke for hee would not breake the bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking slaxe yet he who never failed or departed from the highest pitch of any grace being to deale with Scribes and Pharises who had corrupted the Law and sinned against their knowledge and led others into sinne how loades he them with curses one in the necke of another And his Ministers sinne not against meeknesse of wisdome when in cases where Gods glory is trodden downe mans salvation hindred the devill prevailes and sinners are impudent they valiantly shew themselves for God against all that rise against him 2. No grace of God is contrary one to another and therefore Christian meeknesse neither abolisheth nor weakneth Christian zeale And therefore although meeknesse will alwayes shew it selfe to the persons yet zeale will ever burne against their sinnes Zeale will not suffer under a pretence of meeknesse an irreligious and mute approbation or bearing of evill but will kindle and fasten upon it 3. No part of Scripture is contrary to it selfe Those Scriptures which command us to shew meeknesse to all crosse not those which command us to reprove sharply or cuttingly wee must set an edge and point upon our reproofes nor those which bid us Reprove plainly and not suffer sinne upon our brother And therefore meeknesse in a Minister must not stop him from sharpe reproofes whereoccasion is but must temper and order them and excellent is the use of meeknesse in plaine and sharpe reproving For 1. Meeknesse doth so temper zeale that it comes slowly and as it were with a leaden foot to sharpe reproofes not rashly or hastily 2. It makes it come orderly It will first assay loving and gentle meanes before it grow to roughnesse especially if the parties bee corrigible and not conceited and impudent in their sinne Deut. 20. 10. when the Jewes went out to warre the Lord commanded them first to offer conditions of peace to that City and if it refused peace then to besiege smite and destroy it So we first offer peace and this refused we proclaime warre first allure admonish exhort and then thunder threaten and terrifie them that stand out 3. Meeknesse mingleth charity with sharpest reproofes and as the Lord in his sharpest reproofes and messages seekes our good so doe his Ministers Men cry out that Ministers are angry when wee deale sharply with a stubborne perverse people and why may wee not bee so hee that commandeth us to be angry and sinne not hath made it a sinne not to bee sometimes angry But wee speake not now of naturall and personall anger against persons but a Christian and holy indignation which we

Anthony c. Oh abominable sinke of Romish Idolatry the true Church doth not sing salvatiō to Saints living or dead but saith of Abraham Iacob They know us not Es. 63. 16. here Salvation is the Lords this the Church of Rome doth not therefore it is not the true Church But 3. Above all their hatefull Idolatry they exceed themselves and all other Idolaters in worshipping the Queene of heaven and depending on their Lady and where the true Church sing salvation to the Lord they sing salvation to the Lady The Psalter of Bonaventure which they call the Ladies Psalter is a witnesse beyond exception or credit where in every Psalme whatsoever is sung to the Lord they change into the Lady Psalme 3. 1. O Lady why doe they increase that trouble me Psal 6. 1. O Lady correct me not in thy fury so in all the rest all prayers all confessions all the praises of Gods salvation are turned wholy upon her Add to this that they turned Athanasius Creed into our Ladies Creed Whosoever will be saved must above all things beleeve firmely concerning Mary which whosoever holdeth not firmely cannot be saved and so on and concludes This is the faith of our Virgin Mary which whosoever c. They have and doe sing to her the Song of Simeon Now let thy servant of Mary depart in peace for mine eyes have seene the salvation of Mary which thou hast prepared before the face of all people a light c. They sing to her the Song of Zachary Luke 1. 68. Blessed be the Lady and the Mother of my God of Israel who by thee hath visited and redeemed his people and raised up an horne of salvation And Maries owne Song My soule doth magnifie my Lady and the Song of Ambrose We praise thee Lady wee acknowledge thee to bee the Lady c. The same Bonaventure in his Ladies Psalter lately imprinted prayeth to her thus Coge illum peccatoribus misereri Enforce Christ to have mercy upon sinners and in his Treatise called corona B. Mariae Virginis Iure matris impera tuo dilectissimo filio Command thy welbeloved sonne in the right of a mother to turne our hearts from the love of earthly things unto heavenly And in their Mariall the name of the Lady is a strong tower the sinner flyeth unto her and is saved as is said of God Prov 18. 10. Is not this to sing salvation to their Lady not to the Lord Biel upon his Exposition of the Canon of the Masse saith Wee flie principally to the Queene of heaven for it is signified in Ester the Queene who comming to appease King Ahasuerus had this grant It shall be given thee though thou aske halfe of my Kingdome so God the Father having his justice and mercy as the chiefest goods of his Kingdome keepes his justice to himselfe and surrenders his mercy to the Virgin Mary and so makes her as Bonaventure cals her the chiefe corner stone Bernard de Busti in his Marial tels us Velocior est nonnunquam salus memorato nomine Mariae quàm invocato nomine Iesu filij ejus A man may be sooner saved by mentioning the name of Mary than by calling upon the name of Christ her sonne How then is salvation the Lords Christ saith I have trodden the winepresse alone and there was no man with me Esa. 63. 3. but saith hee there was one woman c. Bozius de signis Ecclesiae saith By the two Cherubins covering the Arke are signified Christ and Mary through whom God is mercifull and heareth our prayers and as Hevah was the mother of the living that filled earth so Mary was the mother that bare all men to heaven That vision beleeved of thē above the Canonicall Scripture of the two Ladders set up the red Ladder on the top of which Christ stood the Fryers of Francis could not get up by but the white Ladder on the top of which the Virgin Mary stood by that they easily gat up shewes to whom that hereticall Church sings their salvation The heathens would rend their garments and pull their haire off their head to heare such blaspemies against their so reputed gods and wee Christians can comport with such hatefull blaspemous Idolatrous people No marvell if the Gospell take her to her wings when such vile seducers are taken into our bosomes and such Preachers as withstand them cast out of all request But Papists expect not salvation onely from the Host of heaven but from the host in earth Not troubling you with their Crosses Relickes Images all which they invocate for helpe with most religious devotion They all expect the very same salvation from the broaden god as from Christ himselfe the very God for it is very Christs body blood bones flesh Boots and spurs and all Their detestable prayers to their breaden god are infinite in number and sacriledge I will not stirre that sinke now But can wee sufficiently detest or bee too opposite to a religion whose god may be stolne away as Labans Why hast thou stolne my gods where Chrysostome saith Art thou not ashamed of the speech what can they be stollen and be gods too whose god may bee burned in the fire as the bread even after consecration whose god may bee eaten by dogs mice wormes yea by his worshipper Avernoes after his long travell and experience of many religions detested as worst and fondest of all the Christian Religion because said hee they teare him with their teeth whom they worship as a god Can we bee too farre from that religion whose god may poyson him that eates him as in many instances I could shew in their host and whose god may bee broken to pieces and some of them reserved for relickes shall wee bee so senselesse as they to expect salvation from that which cannot save it selfe from wormes The second reproofe after Churches lighteth on many persons that seeke and expect salvation not from the Lord but from the devill seeking to Witches and sorcerers a common sinne even of hearers of the Word Consider some reasons shewing the wickednesse of it 1. It is against Gods Commandement Levit. 19. 26 ●1 Yee shall use no inchantment the soule that turneth after such I will set my face against and cut off God by his Law pronounceth death on the Witch and the seeker to him see Deut. 18. 10. 2. All commerce with the devill directly or indirectly mediately or immediately is condemned First the open compact with Satan by the Wisard who openly invocates the devill and for his helpe renounceth his Creator his Baptisme Jesus Christ and his redemption worships the devil executes his commands c. It is absolutely wicked to require this of them which they cannot doe without their owne destruction and wraps themselves in the sinne for not principals onely but accessaries are worthy of death Rom. 1. 32. Secondly for the secret compact on thy part thou seekest them for thou gettest no cure but by