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Of
Satan'
Irf
tageml:.
vaine
wnorl
(that
he
f
valloweth
it
downe
with©tut
all
loath-.
'
fomneffe,
and
neuer
talleth the
bitterneffe thereof,
till the
heat
ofGods
fpírit doc
caufe
it worke
in
his
confcience,fo
as
he
is
neuer
at
mil tit he haue call
it
vp
againe by
vnfained re-
pentance. Otherwife
if
hee be
not
preuented
thus
by
Gods
fpirit,Satan
will
by
this
meanes
caufe his
confcience
to
fw<aI-
low
and to
digef+ filch
loathfotne
finnes, which
in
former
''"
times
he
abhorred
to
fee
others commit. And
as
thofe
who'
from their
infancie
are
accuflonied
to
take
poyfons
in
finall
quantities,doe
enable
their
f+omackes
to
digef+
more,,till
by
long
cuflome
and
increafing
the quantitic
by
degrees,it
be-
contmeth
fo
familiar to their flomackes,
that
in
Read
ofpoy-
foning
them they
are
nourifhed thereby,as
Hiflories doe re-
cord
of
force
of
the
Indian
Kings
:
£o
Satan
inticeth
vs
to
fwailow downe
the poyfon
of
finne
at the
firfl in fuch finall
quantitie,that
our confciencesmay
not
be
ficke
thereof: but
hauing
well digefled the
leaf+,
he
increafeth the meafure till
by long
cuf+ome
he
hath
made
it
fo
familiar
to
our confcien-
ces,
that
thofe
fins
are euen
meate and
drinke unto
vs,
which
t
th.e
lira
we
loathed
as
deadly
poyfons.
Now
if
wee.would
defeate this policie
of
Satan,
wee mull
eontinuallie watch euer
our.
owe
hearts,
and pull
them
backe when
wee
fee
that
they
but
incline
vnto
any
finne
;
we mull
not lightly
efieeme
of
any finne, nor
willingly giue
intertainment
to
the
leaf+
wicked
thought
:
for
though
in
it
felfe
it be
not
hainous,
yet
ir:will inlarge our
confciences
and
Make
róotne
for
a
greater,tilat
lafi
we
keep open
houle,
readie
to
receiue
all
wickednes which
offereth
it
felfe
vnto
vs;
and
as
wee are
careful!
to
auoide the
finnes
thetnfelues,fo
with
as
much
diligence
wee
are
to fhunne the
occafions
and
meanes
by
which
we
might
be
drawne,or
indeed thereunto.
bap.
i
But
ofthis
point
more hereafter.
§.Sea.
2.
A
third
policie which
Satanvfeth to
circumvent
vs,
is
to
Satans
third
bring
vs
from one extrea
me
to
another.
For example, when
policie
in
we
fee
the
vileneffe
of
prodigalitie,
fo as
wee will no longer
aîrawinn men
o
®utofone
p
e offeffed
of
that
vice,then will
Satan make
it
as
odious
as
ex-
t
3rcame
into
c
he
an,& indeuour
to-bring
vs
into
extreame hatred
thereof,
nnothero
that
fo
he may the more
eatily
draw
vs
into
the
contrary
vice
of