Part 1. Chap. l· wM over.,.,helmed. I 11m fo trf1sllleJ, that I camlflt t;eak!.. - ~1 (Owle rt(ufod to hee-comfortt~. N "l, upon /efm Chrijl- hunfelfe, c.Mat.~7·46• c_r)l»g, ~God, "'} qod, why haft thou forfak!n me ? · Art thou haunted .wtth fome of Satans men h;'ltc,.. F L 'bl . - r. 11 d h 'bl · • .o. • •If: 1 · h · f' 4· or norn e temp· m an • orrt emJC:Lllons, grtne y tot e·eye e-ven o ratiom · · ccnrupted nature, Thoughts framed by himfelfe im- · • mediatcly, and put int{) tbee; perhaps tending to Atheifme, or to the difhonour of God.in the highdi degree, or of his blefled word; tofelfe-defirud:ion, or the like~ Thoughts, which. thou canfl: not remember without horronr, and:dare£1: not reveale, or name for their fi:range and prodigious monfl:rouf- .ndfe. I fit beethus with thee: : confider how this ma• licious fiend dealt with the Sonne ofGod himtelfe, He off.:red . to his ;moll: hvly, and unfpotted imagination, the(e Propo!itions : FirA:,<..Murder and mt~k! ~WAJ tb.I fe/fe, ~atth. 4 6. Secondly~ F altdowne and 711fJY• ~~.All temprationsar~ fosp ~he DweU,_Yerf.9: !hen whtch a fouler t~ought, not !ins in the rcmp ~ I thmke, was never mJed:ed :: that JifH4 Chr1f1 blef- ted : for then Chri!l fed for ever, in whome tbe Gr;d-head J.,.,e/t !Jodily, lhould bne liRncd. fhould fall downc: and worlhip the Divell, the vileft Thhtfs t~ayb ~omfort ' f d h' 1 fi d b r o e, jq[ emg vex· -o Crea.tures. An rc:t t ~s was .ugge ~ to .our Id- ed with fcncful iu~· :fed SaviOur. To wh1ch hts purefi: heart mfimtely un- gdliOs ofSatan. as ro capable ofiinne, was as a braffi: wall to an arrow, bea- thinke amille ·of God ting it backe prcfently with infinite contempt. And htmfd~i·,&c.det~(rehimfelfe did utterly conquer and confound the ~6e~~cT~:~ o:·::~h:: tempter; and that for thee, and thy fake too. And were thcr~fore moR therefore x if thy humbled foule doe: abominate and vile wretches.Butthey abandon them from ,the heart-root to the pit .of Hell, ~~ll .rc:member, rh~ t they fhall never be: laid to thycharge but fet on Sa- hu 1~ no more rhetr . r: ' li rme,tf they prefenrJy tans 1Core, Extremely then doe thofe wrong them- beace itbacke rhc:nif felves, and gratifie the Divdl to the height ; who fuf.;.-a Banlikcthe~'Clvc:s Rr fuch injeCl:ions, which they heartily hate, an,d iliould wifh them rt !\:and againft with all their ftrength to hold their rhclike . sa~a muft·if· L-·- n '11· · ' 1 · k f d,' 11. · (h wcr fm· thisliimfdJfe. sx;ar~s. u~ ~pon t ~e rac e o extraor mary au.om .- Dike ofchri{is te~npta:~ ment and dtftra~bon ; whereby they arc unn~ceffun-. t;,ns,p,c,." 9 • z ~ ly '
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