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47.
ephefiái:r,
Chap.4.
547
This
therefore
reproveth fach
as
let
not the
Swine fet
onely, but vfe
r.
yeeres
paffe
them
in
their wrath
,
that
will never
forget
nor forgive,
bold
ouch
as
a
man (hall
never come in their creed
that
once
is
out with
them;
and
long.
they count
it
manhood
,
when once they
are moved not
to
bee
re-
conciled eafily
:
But let
them know this wrath
is
curfed,for
it
is
fierce;
they are men, but
foolifh men
,
Wrath
ledgeih
in
the brea/i
of
a
f
ole
:
Ectler7.9,
How
unlike
arc
thefe
to God,
robe
is
flow to
anger,
but
ready
to
forgive?
pral.to;.e.
It
muff teach
us,
though wrath doe
affaile
us, not to give
it any
lung
of
i
harbour,
it will not much hurt us,
if
it dwell
not with
us.
A
fparke
or
Coale,
if
it light upon us, and
be
prefently
(haken
off,
it
proves not
fo
hurtfull, but
if
itlye
fill,
then
it caufeth
burning:
So this
coale
of
the
devils
blowing ; the
devil! will
labour to
make us continue
wrath,
he will amplifie
the
indignity done us,
the
untowardneffe
of
the
per
-
fon,
he
will
fay, Beare
this,
and you
(hall
have
enough, &c.
But re-
member
,tbcroifdomefromabove
is
pure,
peaceable,
gentle,
eafe lobe
Jam.;.[.
intreated,
full
ofmercy
:
turn
from thefe
fuggefions.
VERSE
27.
Neither
givc
placete the
Devil!.
Vsnss
27.
Obferve
hence,Tbe
more
we
give
place
to any
fn,the
devil! bath
fur
-
Doti.
eherpower
of
as
:
The
Devili
is
fad
therefore
to
fill
the heart
affome
per-
The more
we
fins,
who
now gave
themfelves
up
to
fin
defperately,
and he
is
faid
to
$,veplace
to
any
En, the
be
effelivall
in
the
fensef
di
fobedience.
For
as
we being
good
in
righte-
mo,e
power
oufneire, have
the
Father,
Son and Spirit further
and
further making
bath the devia
their
manfiòn in
us
:
Soon
the contrary,
fuch
as
doe yeeld themfelves
gets
to
finfulneffe, give
entertainement more
and more
to thefe
fpirituall
Eph.Z.
wickedneffcs.
For
when we
are
moved to finne, thefe are
about
us
:
Satan bath
defiled
to
winnow you. The
deviilike
a
roaring Lion
goetb
up
Luke
ZZ.;I,
and down
continually
f
eking
to
devoare
:
Now
giving
place
to finne,
rpet.53.
which they
fuggeft , wee give place
to them. For the
more cleare
conceiving
of
it, you muft know that by
five
degrees wee doe give
place
to the
Devil!.
r.
By communing
with him,when
we
finde
fbme fpirituall
wicked.
Degrees
by
ne(!'e
to
plead for this or
that which Godforbiddeth,we
muff
not hold
peaccell
o
tháve
difpute
with them
;it wasEves
firft
degree
of
giving place
to the
devil,
devil
that
fhe
duff!
hold
a
parle
with
him ;
for though
Chrift
did
it,
no man
may
doe
it
he was
that
Man
that
was
to
bruife
the
Serpents
head, to
diff'olvetheworks
of
the Devil!.
2.
We
give place,
when the
firft
motions
of
fan
are not grievous
to
ourfoules,
though
we yeeld
not
to them.
3.
When
we
confent
to them.
4. When
weaccompli(h
them.
5.
When
wee reiterate
an evill
deede,
and doe
continue
it
once
begunne.
This therefore
muff tench
us,
feeing finne
yeelded unto , letteth in
vfe
t:
the devill
upon us,
to
refift
fin
even
as
the
devil!
himfelfe
,
abftaining
aKceepe.uru
n
from
the appearance
of
evil!
: hating
the
garment
ofthe
fle/h
that
is
defiled.
b
¡,
felfr
Men
thinke,
why,
robe
a
little angry
is
no fuch matter
,
who
is
not
.
Thece.
fometimes
a
But marke
the confequence,
it doch let
the
devil!
hi
to
Jude
vertu
i
B
b
b
z
have