g x 6 Satans temptations improouingourfaith. who are affeéuallycalled againff, their faith and tliefe are oftwo forts : the firft whereby hee laboureth to perfwade them that they haue no faith; the fecond, that their faith (if theyhaue any) is fo weake, fo imperfe6, and fo mixt with doubting, thatit is altogether infufficient for their faluationo For the fit il,he will thus frame his tentation :Though thou boafteft much ofthy faith, and therebyprefumefl that thou (halt attaine vnto faluation, herein thou maiefl much de-. ceiue thy felfe, and altogether faile of thypurpofe; for there may be in many fhewes and fhadowes offaith, and yet no- thinginthem but infidelitie ; there are alfo many kinds of faith, and yet but one iuftifying and fauing faith ; there is a. generali or hifloricall faith; there is a faithofworking mira- cles, whichWashadas wel as Per ;there is a temporarie or- hypocriticall faith, there is a dead faith, there is alfocarnali prefumption, w'herewi'.h many who haue made gcodlie fhewes ,haue beenbewitched and deceiued to theirperditi-- on ; feeing then there are many falfe faiths,for one true faith,, it is likely that thine is oneofthegreatef}number, and con-. fequentlie, no true faith.And therefore doenot fla:ter andde- ceiue thy felfe in thy fond prefumption, by applying-vnto thy felfe the fweete promifes and gratiou, confolations of the Gofpell, for they appertaine onlie vnto thofe who are in- dued with a true,liuely and iuflifyingfaith,ofwhich thou art: altogether dellitute. Sea.2.. And thus Satan indeuoureth to perfwade the Chriflian.- Satans tefli- exercifedin the combate oftentations that heehath no faith, mcnie no good to theend that he may def roy it,and ifitwere poflible bring reafon to prose it indeede to nothing. To which tentation wee may firf+ an- ijeFaue fweere thus generallie, that. Satans teflimonie is no found no JohnS.44. argument to proue that we haue no faith, nor tobe beleeued ofvs,feeinghe is not onelie amalitious murtherer,whocon- tinuallie feeketh our dePeru lion, but alfo a falfe liar from- the beginning, who bath not feared to belie men onelie but euenGod himfelfe,accufing him ofvntruth, enuie and- want ofpower in that tentation, wherewith bee affailed and' ouercameour firfl parents : -and therefore if hebe fo audaci oufly impudent, as that he:durfibelie Godhimfelfe, wemay. affure
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