when SatLoá encounters the fry rttsofChrift. 29 The Divell will renew his affaults againRus, and we mutt renew our courage and [}rength againRRhim ; which cannot be done,unletle we liveby'faith. He that bathno truft inhimfelfe,, but leaneth on the power.. ofCod, will, though he fall often, Riffhave hope, andbe contagious to fet upon his enemies with frefla affaults after forne foyle received. For he that know es he bath no strength, "can- not wonder, if when God leaveth him he do fall : andhe that maketh Gods (trength his Ray, though he be never fo farre from a thing, yet will not cal awayhope in time to obtaine. The ass of faith in refpeta oftemptation be thefe or fuch like. Fin i, Faith makes fenfibie, that we cannot refill ofour felves. By Sathans force the mighty Cedars have Beene overrhrowne, and withmore cafe we might be overtur- ned : But yet when he rageth withgreaten fury, it affu- reth that he is chained up by the power of the Almighty God, andcan go no further, thenhe will give himleave. Well maay the Divell barke and roare, likea band-dogge or Lion fafely chained or fbut up, but : he cannot ltirre further then God is pleafed to let him lore. He cannot tempt whom he will, nor when he will, nor how he would, nor by what meanes, nor in what meafure he would, nor withwhattemptations,nor: for what continu- ance: in all thefe he is confined by the providenceof God, who bath pramifed, that hewill not fuffer us tobe temp- ted above that we are able, but will with thetemptation alto makea way to efcape, that we may heable tobeare it. A legion of Divels couldnot enter into a gadarene Hogge, till Chrift had given them leave. Sathancannot touch one Bleate pertaining to Iob, till he have obtained. libertie : nor then lay a finger upon his body, till his li berry be renewed. The Divell is the finfitll Author of Temptations,wherebyhe f ekes tomoleCt andoverthrow the Saints : but God inhis infinite wifdome and tnercie doth limit them, both in refpef of time, place, perfon, V4 and The ails of faith in refimil oli heft tempta- tienr, I. Matth.4,i32, Cor.I©.í3i Mar&e. ; . I 2. J01.I.I2A 2, 6. ;
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