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V
E
R.
io.
Epbefiana,Chap.6.
flick
to
go
to
Wifardss
;
when the Devill doth wound them,they will
fecke
to
him for
a
plaiffer
:
that
cure will be
well
done,when the
mur-
dering fpirit
mutt
play the Surgeon.
Now
followcth the end, that
yee
may
be
able
to/land.
Two
things mutt
bee unfolded.
r.
What
this
meanes
[to
fiand
?]
An(w.
A
fouldier
handing
orderly
to
hi
fight,
doh
neither run
forth
to
his
peril!,
nor
retire
through conardife
;neither
is
bea-
ten donne through violence.
So
thathanding
,
is
holding their courfe
without hurt received.
...iffauits
of the
Devillaré
of
two
forts : forcible
or
politicke.
Now
this
Text
fpeaks
of
thofe fubtle
stratagems, the word
fignifying one
principali kinde
,
(to
wit) ambufhment,
that
put for the
other: the
fenfe
then
of
the wordsis,that you may be
preferved harmeleffe,
not.
withstanding the Devill doe
praEtice
all his flratagerns againfl
you.
Thus you
fee
what
is
the
benefit
of
our Chriftian furniture: it
dothput
us
out
of
danger
;
this
is
tryed proofe, wee
need
not
feare any
that
if
it
be
well buckled
unto
us
:
thus Christ being with this harneffed,
the Devill could not
fatten any
thing on
him
:
for even
fome peeces
are
of
no
leffe
force, much more
the whole.
2
Pet.
r.
He that joyneth
faith,
venue,
knowledge (which
all
is
butthe breftplate ofrighteouf-
neffe) fhall
not
fall
:
John
faith, faith
(which
is
but
our
fhield)
is
our
viEtory.
Now if
one peece
be
of
fuch
ufe,
how
beneficiall is
the
wholes
Again,
in
the
fats
of
the Saints
it
may be
feene
how they
caught theirwipes, for lack
of
their armour.
Which
mutt teach us,firfl, to
prife
and
get
us
this furniture.
We
fee
Yfe
t
how
going
to
warres
weefteeme more then
life
fuch an
armour
as.can
fecure
us,
that we need
not
take care
for gunfhot
:
how much
more
fhould we count
ofthis,
which
keepeth the life
of
God from
being
wounded
in
the
foule
a
Which
if
we were fully clad
with,
we
might
fight
at
the Cannons mouth
fecure
from danger.
2.
It
doth
let
us fee
what
we muff
blame whenwe
are
wounded;
s.
our want to our
felves in
not
putting on
this
armour
:
for hence
it
was
caufed.
a.
We
fee
that
the
devil!doth
ufe
policie
in affayling
re. Thus
from the
beginning
he (hewed
more
of
the Serpent then
of
the Lion
,
a Car.
r
r.3.
He
did
through
deceit beguile
Evah.t
The
f
a.8.His
working is
not
in all
power only,but
in
alldeceivabletief£e
of
unrighteoufneffe:he
is
the father ofcommon Machiavelifine;
he
knoweth the Lions skin
will
not
come where
the Foxes may enter
;
and
if
he were
firength
without fubtilty,hee were the
leffe
to
be
feared.
For what
is
the Poets
Polyphemus
when
his eyes are
wanting
s
what
is
ftrength
if
wifdome
and policy
be wantingor
abfents But
for
our further
infl:rui Lion,
we
muff fearch out
what thefe fubtillfiratagems are, wherewith
he
doth
circumvent
us
:
not that we
can finde
them
all
out,
but
that we
may
point at
the
fountains
of
further meditation.
Thefe
maybe
confidered generally,
or
more particularly. General-
ly,
his
policy
in
fight
is, that heobferveth
all circumftances
for
his ad-
vantage
;
as
perfon, place, time
;
and
as
he fet upon
Christ
in
the
art
Q9cl
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