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Epbefianr,
Chap.6.
V
E
R.IÖ.
Defart
when
he was now hungry
:
the
condition
of
the party
,
whe-
ther
in
profperity or
in
adverfity, relïgious,or otherwife
:
his
weapon,
in choofing and ufing
of
which
he
bath great
skill
:
and
two
things
are
here remarkable and
mofteminent.
Firlt, that
he will
then redouble
hisforces, when after
God
is
ready
to
remove
him
:
as
men
that
be-
liege a
City,
if
they
have intelligence
of
any
power
comming to
re-
move the
fiege,
they will put forth
all
their
courage,
trying if they
may make breach
or
fcale
the
wals and enter. Revel.
r
z.
r
2. He can fo
watch opportunity
,
that
he
can
be
ready
to
hurt
us
with our owne
weapons.
M
x
Cor.27. he
would
have fwallowed
up
the Corinthi-
an in his
repentant
forrow.
The
more
particularconflitls
and
afaults, fome
are
leffe
feene, fome
are
more openly hoftile.
The leffemanifefi
afayling
ofus
is,
when
he
diffembleth
his
perfon,
or
his
ftrength
:
For
Satan often
commeth
in
the
perfon
of
a
friend ,
fometimes
in
an
Angels
of
light,
fome-
times in
the perlons
of
Saints departed
;
and hee
is
like
that
policy of the
Gibeonites,
lsf.
9.9.
Like the
King
of
Ifrael
who
s
l
íng,an,
e.
fought with
virara
in
other
appareil
:
or
like as
if
a
Man
of
warre meeting
an
enemy
fhould
hang out the
fame colours
with
them,
and fet men fpeaking
the
felfe fame language, and
of
the
felfe
famehabit
with theirenemies,
and fo fhould board them and
finke
themat unawares; thefe therefore muft
a
little be opened.
Firft,
bee
commeth
and
eloafeth
in
a
friend,
infinuating,as
if
he bare
us
more
good
will then God,Gen.3. God knoweth
if
your
eyes fhould be
opened,
&c.
fo
to
Chrift,
Mailer
(pare
thy
Idle
:
but
marke
what
Chrift
re-
plieth, Goe
behinde me Satan.
So
he
commeth to
another, What
?
hee
bath
abufed
thee;
doe not let him doe thee
that wrong
, others
will be
heartened
to
doe thee the
like.
So when
he perfwades
cove.
toufneffe, You muft
have
fomething more then this
:
You have, and
may
have
agreatcharge
:
fo
to
him
that
would double
his
diligence,
What
need you fo difeafe
your
felfee
God
forbid
none but filch
great
pains
takers fhould
come
to
Heaven.
Thus
he would with
a
friendly
pule,
with
a
loah,
kilfc
utterly betray
us.
Secondly, he
bath fame-
times
taken
on
hint
the
perfon
ofan
tiingelof
light
,
in
words which he
can fpeake
good,
Marke
1.24. and
5.7. Thou
art the
Son
of
God.The
Alts
:6.:6.
maide with the
fpirit
of
divination
faith,
You are the fervants
of
the
molt
high God
:
but
he pròfaneth
the
words,
and ufeth
them
unto
evill ends, to win hitnfelfecredit
in his
lying , or
weaken
the
truth of
them by
his
confelfing: fo
in nomine
Domini beginneth much wicked
-
neffe.
Secondly, he
will fet
us
unfeafonably and butte
us
about good
works,
and
thus
he
did
Martha,
Lake
to.
q.o.
making her
fo
bufiein
the entertainment, that
the had no
leifure
for the better
worke ,
that
which
Mary
chofe. This
is
his wickedneffe , and
he
alwaies
doth
it
either
to
juftle
out
a
better worke, or to draw
-in
with that good fome
greater
evill.
So
in
the
Church,
many readc
often and
are
thinking
ofgood
things,but the Devill
doth
draw them
to this,that they
might
not attendthe
worke
in
hand.
Thirdly,
he will perfwade to
evill
un-
der,