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,§.Se-i.z.
gobv
Satan
frameth
hts
temptations in
rerpeft
ofour
fporstuat
Oak,
2.Thsf'í:2:4.
80
Of
Satani
f
ratagems.
temne
oerbrethren
who want them5eeing
in
an
in(lant
they
may
abound,and
we
maybe
(tripped
of
all
we
poffeffe.
So
if
we
be
in
aducrf
tie,
wee
are
to
relie
our
fillies
on the
Lordsprouidence,who
bath
promifed
to
all
that
depend
vp-
on him
all
things
neceffarie,
fo
farm
foorth
as
they
tend
to
the faluation
of
our
foules
:
neither
are wee
to
beleeue Satan
when
he
telleth
vs
that
afl3i6lions
are fignes
of
Gods hatred,
fc
cing there
are
innumerable
examples
ofGods
deale
chil-
dren
grieuoufy
affli6led,and plaine reflimonies
ofS
criptures
which
proue the contrarie,as íhall
appeare hereafter.
In
refpe&
of
our fpirituall
elate
Satan obferueth
whe-
thçr
wee
be
meere
worldlings or
profeffors.
If
worldlingsy
then whether
we
be notorioufly
wickcd,or
ciuil
honeft
men;
thofe
that
be notorioufly wicked
he
plungeth headlong into
a
gulfe
of
all wickedneffe
and outragious rebellion againít
God,
hee
tempteth
them
to
Atheifine, and to contempt
of
Gods
worfhip
and
fcruice,
to
fwearingg
and blafpheming,
to
the prophaning
ofthe
Sabbath,
and
(corning
ofall religion,
to
murthers, adulterie, drunkennes,
theft,
and
all
diuelliíh
pradlifes, becaufe
they
are his
flaues
readie
at
his
appoint-
ment to
execute
all
thofe workes
of
darknes wherein
he
will
imploy them. For
fuch
men
it
is
but
loft labour
to
(hew
them
how
they
may refill Satan,
Peeing
they
take their
whole
de-
light
in
feruing and
obeying
him;
and therefore
before they
be
taught
how to
refill
him,they
mull be
perfwaded
to
a
dc-
fire
ofcomming
out
of
his
thraldome,
of
whom
they
are
ta-
ken
prifoners
to
doe his will,as
it
is
2.Tim.2.26.
If
they be
ciuill
bond men,
he
perfwadeth them
that
it
is
fuf
icient
ifthey
deale
iuftly and
vprightly with
their neigh-
bours
both
in
their
words and
aólions;
and for
Gods
fetuice
confining
in
the duties
ofpietie,which
is
commanded
in
the
firft
table, that
it
is
enough
if
they haue
a
good meaning,
though
they bevtterly
ignorant
of
the
principles
ofreligió,
and
that it
is
onely
rewired
ofPreachers
and thofe
that
bee
book-
Iearned,to
be able
to
render
an
account
of
their
faith
;
as
for
them
God
wil
haue them
excufed,fo
they leade
an
ho-
ne({
life
amongft their neighbours, and be
not
tainted with
graft
and outragious
finnes.
But
Or