113 / 772
O
fSatans
f
ratagexn.t.
.fuggeflions,he
was
not guiltie offinne.Whofc
example
if
we
imitate,Satans
b.t
ifphemous temptations
fhal neuer bee
laid
to
our charge
;
neither
is
it
poifible
tobe
free
from
tempta-
tions, although
it
be
pofíìble
by
Gods
grace
to
refill
them.
But
more
of
this hereafter.
Ifby
this
meanes he
cannot ouerthrow their
faith
&
bring
them to defpaire,then
hee
taketh aduantage
of
their
fimpli-
citie, by inticing
ahem
to commit
finucs
of
ignorance.
For
example,he will tell
them that it
is
lawful!, nay expedient
to
vfe
their Chrif
}ian
libertic,when
he
tempteth
them
to licen-
tioufiieffe; and
to the
end
he may
more
eafily
decciue
them,
he
will fet
a
faire
glofl'e
vpon foule finnes,and'feeke
to
iuflifie
them by Gods word, apparelling
vices in
the
habite
of
thofe
vertues which
moil
refemble
them. He
will
tempt to
coue
toufies,vnder
Phew
offrugalitie,telling
them
that
they
who
prouide not
for
their
familie
are worfe
than
Infidels; and
to
prodigalitie,vnder
the pretence
ofliberalitie,
alleaging
that
they
who low plentifullie
fhall reape
plenfully. Hee will
al-
lure them
to tempt
God,
by negleóting
thofe meanes
which
he
bath
graunted them, vndcr the colour
of
affiance
in
God;
and to
trut
in the meanes,vnder
the vizard ofcarefull prom
dence. He
will tempt them
to propound
this end
of
their
good
workes,
that they maybe
faued by
them,becaufe
God
hath
promifed
to reward them
;
or
to negle&
good workes,
as
vnneceffarie
to faluation,
becaufe faith alone iuflifieth.
Which
temptations
if
we
would
withf}and,wee
muff
labour
after true fauìng
knowledge
that
we may difcerne
betweene
vertue
and vice,truth
and
error,that
which
God
hath forbid-
den
as
vnlawfull, from
that
which
hee
hath
commanded
as
lawfull; to this
enti
vung diligentlie
all
good
meanes
which
tend
to this
purpofe,as
hearing,reading, meditating,
&
con-
ferring
of
God
word,that
fo
the cloudes
of
ignorance
be-
ing
difpelled
with the
light
of
knowledge,wee
may difcouer
Satans delufions
and deceits.
Otherwife
if
he depriue
vs
of
knowledge,
which
is
the
eie
ofthe
foule, hee may
eafily
fe-
duce
vs
out
of
the
right
way
into
the gulfe
ofperdition.
And
thus
Satan
dealeth
with
the weake Chriflian
:
but
if
he
finde
thofe whom
hee affaulteth
flrong
men
in
Chrifl,
fo
G
3
that
See
lib.
;.
Cap.,:.
Hfw
Satan
ht.
ticeth
the
weak
chriflian
to
ccn:mit.finnes
ofigrtarancc.
4.Sec7.S.