1 ' Satanaggrauateth thefinneofthe f úthtuIt. 04 t hathbut frnall proceedings, if we hunger after more perfe- }ion,and carefullie vfe-the meaneswhereby wemay attaine to trucholineffe. . .,___--_-. CHAP. SIX. "Satan, temptations :rherebybeaggraurteth our linnet ingenerail,aVivered. Nd fo much concerning -thole temptations of§ ;1. i Satan, which hegroundeth upon our naturali Hvge msarart corruptionsandour finali meafure of fanéifi- tervijiabthe cation. Nowweeareto fpeake of fuch as hee Chr;fïrans cor,-. fuggeíleth after we haue committed fouie ac- tual] finnes : and thefe are either in rcfpe& of cur fnnes in gz~ne. n gcnerall, or els form íj;eciall finne intowhich wee haue fal- len. Concerning the firfi, when The wake Chriflian (who bath a tender confcience, and therefore cannot bee perfwa- -ded to lie fecurely in his finne) hath through the Prength of his owne corruptions,and violence ofhis temptations, com- mitted any finne againli his knowledge and confcience, thendoth the tempter (whobefore his fall ex:eedingly ex- tenuated and minced his finne, now after that he is fallen in- to it) out of meafure aggrauai,e the grieuoufneffe and hai- noufnes ofhis offence, partly in refpeóó of the nature and qualitieofthe finne it felfe, and partly in refpeái ofthe` cir- cumliances, as beingcommitted after his calling, againli his knowledge, in fuch a, time orplace, and by fuch a perfon, as God is therebymoli diíhonoured,and his brethren offended by hisbadexample. And thus hauing as it were ftrctched out his finnevponthe tentars ofhis temptations, and with the blaflsofhisfalfe fuageitionsmade ofeueriefinal' drop great bubble, then dothhee alfo fet before him the curfe of the law, Gods fearefuil iudgements,the plagues and punifh- ments ofhis life, and eucrlafling death and- condemnation in the life to come, continually accufing and- terrifying him as beingguiltie of all thefe fearefull euils,'by reafon ofhis flumes, to the end that hereby being vtterlydiicöuragcd,hee -T t may
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