~ .--- 'The Saint:t notice, left he wrongfully accufe himfelfe or Sa– tan) lef.l: hee unnecdldrily afflict and torture his · . owne foule, if they bee none of his owne, or too Oeightly regard them, if they be the brood of his How to difiin· inbred concupifcence. It is to difringuith anddi1 ?tui!hSatans . fcerne betwixt the devils fLlggefiions, Ollld the evill f~~~e~~~~svill motions ofamans owne heart. They grow·upon< motions of our us by leifure, from outw~rd objects abroad, or ownehearcs. · fpring out of our memory : But the otherbreake inuponusabmptly,·.wheri"wee are wliollyfull and poffetfed ofother me-ditations.; without 'occafion given , either by outward occurrents, or former difcourfe of the minde J antl whenwe little thinke . ofanyfuchmatter. Sinf!uUtheughis ofourowne . ·corn~ upon ~s entkingly, .··py ·alfur~~erirs, ba1~s~ ; and 'mfinuattons; but Satans ·fuggelhons rufh m · -violently, forcibly andfurioufly, they are throwne into our imaginations _like a fhlli o( ligl?.t'~ing, • 1 with fuch an unavoidable impreffion, that they . M. M· cannot bee prevented by a:ny·wit or frrength of a man. I have knowne fome which havebeene fear– fully vexed and a!lonifhed in heart, with horrible and ,;blafphemotls:-thoughts, which were Satans 1 owne i~ .diate inj~frion~, and terrours even to nature lt felfe : but when tt:·ey havebeene told and ·taught that they were none of theirs> and that if ,· they did hate, abhorre, and withHandthem~~ the · ·pure fpight and malice of that fiend ·of bel~ they _fhould neverbe imputed unto theinas their Gnnes, ~ but fet upon Satans fcore, who by right is charge– \able with them, both for horrour and punifhment ~ /and_th~t even our bleffed Saviour himfelfe was · .·. ___ .. -· __ __ . . . _tempted.
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