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Ai%.-i,
f4ilráYi?':s
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Eri
tv
Sdta4
d:a?eth
Witb
the
(iron.g Ghri-
Rian.
Pfal.
tp.i;..
2.Cor,il.1 4.
86-
OfSatan,
flratagenu.
that
he
cannot take
any
aduantage
of
their
ignoiránce,nor
o
+.
uerthrow their faith,then
he
laboureth to
trr:
ke
them
wound>
their
confcience,
by committing
fins
of
prefun,ption
again1
their knowledge,
vfngthe
violence
of
their
affelions,
to
a-
bide
their
reafbn
and
mifleade
their iudgement
;the
danger.
of
which te,nptatio-n Dattid well difcerning
by
his
own
wo-
full
experience,
doth
earneffly
intreate
the Lord
to
preferue
..'
him
from prefamptuous
fins,Pfal.i9.13.And
thus
hath
Satan,
preuailed with
fo
many
ofGods
owne
children,that
he
dura
therewith
of
ault our
Sauiour. Clarifl
himfelf,byoffering
hint
the whole.world'and the
glory
therof; ifhe
would
fall
down
and worfhip
him; that
his
affe
&ions-
tickled with
ambition,.
might
moue
him to commit this
fin
for
the fatisfying
his
de-
fires.3ut
ifhe
cannot thus preuaile,he wil transforme
himfelf
into
an
angell
oflight,and
tempt them
to
the
doing
ofa
1ef
e
good,that
they
nray
neglea
a
greater
;;
or
that
which
is
in
it
felfe
lawfull and commanded
in
his due time
&
place,he
will
tempt
them
to
performe
it
vufeafonably, wh
as
other
duties
in
refpeá
ofprefent
occafion
are
more neceffary;and
fo
vfeth
onevertue or.dtttyto
(boulder
another,&
thruff
it
diforderly
out ofit-own
place
and
ftanding.For
examplc,in the
hearing
ofthe
word
he
wil cad
into their
minds
meditations,in their
owne nature
good
and acceptable
to
Godin
their
due
time
and place,to the end
he
may
diflraa
their
mindes
and make
them
heare
without
profit
:
in
the
time
of
prayer
he will
not
flick
to
recall
to their
memöries
fom.e'profitable
inflruélions
which
-they
haue
heard,
at
the
fermón, to
the end
he
may
di-
ffurbe
them
in
that
holy
exercife,and
keep them
from
lifting
vp
their
hearts
whollyvnto
God.Moreouer,in
"al
his
tempta-
tions
he
will
alleage fcripture;
but
then either
hee
depraueth
the place by
adding
or
detra
&ing,,as wh
he
alleageth
fcrip
-r,
tune
to
our
Saui;our
Chriff,Matth.4.6,
It
it
.written,he vill
gi:se
'his
angels charge
osier
thee;
&c. and leaueth
out
to
keepe
thee
in
All
thy
waies,
which,
is expref fed
in
the
place
he
quoteth,Pfah
99.11.
becaufe
that
made
quite againff
him;
or
if-hee
recite
them
right,
he-will
wreff
the words vnto
another
fenfe,
than
the hoiie Ghof
l hath written thetn;that
fo
hemay
deceive
vs
and
leade
is
into error.
,
CHn