1e,mtion: 4rïfingfrom fiegefriorrr,4Yfr-ered. 65 may teachvs how to confute there temptations ; andwhen we cannot finde any cafe by our owne rncanes, wee are to difcouer our infirmities to the fpirituall phyfcions of Ott" foules, who may reach and applie vntovs ÇÇcciall remedies for euery particular temptation, when our ovine weakeeeffe will notfuller vs to take andvfe them. The other kind ofblafphentous fuggcflions are fuch,as 434,17.4. are without all fhewofreafonor appearance oftruth,fenfe- of 1F,, fe bla r is ly abfurd, and no lcffe admirable for their fottifhneffe, phcn:ourtenta., then for their ccllifhimpietie there are feldome fuggefled fromzibieb are into theminds ofciuill worldlings,or ofany other who re- potusád maine hevaffals ofSatan, vnleffe it be fuch as match them- gaiteveideof felues in impious maliceagain(} God; for theyare abouc the reajon. pitch ofnaturali corruption,and appeare odious and abomi- nable euenby thelight ofnature ; they firike horror & fcare euen into the heart ofa naturali man, and feemc ftrangelie wicked to thole who are wholly fwaiedwith the flefh and the lulls thereof. And therefore it flandethnot with Satans policie, to fiuggefl fuchabominable thoughts into theminds ofordinarie (inners, and fecure worldlings, left hereby lice fhouldwaken their fleeping confciences, route vp their dead hearts, and left hauing vnreliflable occafïon to fee, miflike andbewaile there horrible blafphemies, they fhould hereby be mooued to repent, not onely for thefe,but alto their other finnes. But therehellifh blafphemieswhich cannot without trembling be thought on,much lefle namedby a Chriflian, hevfually cafleth into themind offuch,as endeuour to come out ofthe power ofdarkeneffe, and to ferue the Lord invp- rightneffe of heart; not vfing herein the helpe ofthè.flefh, as inother tcntations,it being no fit infirument for this im- ploiment, becaufe there blafphemies are fo horrible wic- ked, that they are aboue the conceit of corrupted nature, but cafleth this hellifh wildfire into the-mind with great rwiftneffe and violence by his ovule' immediate fliggefli- on. Now Satans maine fcopeherein; is not tomoouc or per- 4.Sec1.5. (wade the Chríflan,togiueeaffen:and approbation vnto there Satans morns horrible blafphemies (althoUgh fuchishisimpudencie and ;eeptinpiaeb. audacious
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