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O
f
Satans
grate
rrns;
CHAP.
XIX.
nowSiam
allnreth vs
intofinne
by
degrees,
and
draxeth
vl
from
one
e.rtrense to
another.
Nd
thus haue
I
fhewed
at
large
Satans
&fl poli- 4,Sea.ue
tick
aratagem,
which
bee
vieth to circurnuent
vs
by fitting
his
temptations according
to
our
nature and difpofition,
or
our
fate
and condi-
.d.
,
°'
:
tion.
A fecond policie
which
Satan vfeth
to
circumvent
vs,is
this
;
ifhe
cannot at
the
firfl
intice
vs
to
fall
into outragious
wickednes,he
feeke
to
draw
vs
thereun-
saran
tabeud
to by degrees,beginning
at the leafl,and
fo
bringing
vs
from
ref)
to
dray,
that
to
a
greater,
till at
lall
wee corne
to the
highei
Rep
of
io
into
out
b
wickcdnes
:
whereby
it
con-meth to
paffe,
that
as
thofe
who
de reér.
walke to the top
ofan
high
hill,whofe
afcent arifeth
by
little
and little,come to the top
without
«earines,before they
wel
perceived
that
they did
afcend;
fo
they who goe forward
itt
the
waies
of
wickednes
by
degrees, do
withoutany
control..
,rent
orcheckeof
confcience
climbe
vp
to
the
highef
top
thereof,whence
Satan
cafteth
them down headlong
into
the
pit ofdeflruetion.
For
exatnple,if
he
fee
a
profeffor
ofreligi
on
which maketh
confcience
of
his
«aies,he
Both
not
vfual-.
ly
feeke
at
firfl
to
draw him
into
heinous
finnes, vnleffe
the
cords
ofhis
temptations
be exceeding flrong;
but firitheal-
Iurethhim
to
corne
into the
companic
ofwicked men,by
of
-
feting
fome pleafure
or profit, or by
occafion
ofaffinitie
and
tmariage,ioining
him
ifhe
can
with
fuch
a
yokefellow
as
vii
draw
him
fafler
backe,than
he
can
draw her forward
in
the
courfe
ofgodlines.If
he thus
farre
preuaile,then he
tetnpteth
him
to
winke at
their
fins
which
in confcience
bee
condem-
neth,that
he may
fill
inioy his
pleafure and
profit, or
conti-
nue
in
their loue and
fauour; then
in
the
next
place
bee
mo-
ueth
him
to thinke them tolerable
finnes
which they
corn-
mit,
and
nothing
fo
outragious
as
others
fall
into; andavhen
he
bath
made this
progrefîe;then
heinticeth
him
to
tafle
of
finne,which he
fo
fweetneth
with
the fugred delights
ofthis
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