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couetou
neffe.
Ifhe
cannot
any
longer
keepe
s
afleepe
in
finne,by
rocking
vs
in
the
cradle
of
carnal
fecuritie,and
Ping-
ing veto
vs
the
f
Bete
tunes
ofGods
inercie and Chrifls
me-
rits,th
will he
labour
to
plunge
vs
in
defpaire,by
letting be-
fore
our
eyes
the
hainoufheffe
of
our
finnes,
and
founding
in
our cares
the
thundring
threatnings
of
the law.
Ifhe
cannot
any
longer nuzzle
vs
in
fuperflition, and
caufe
vs
to
place
all
our
religion
in ceremonies, and
in
reflraining our
felues
of
the
vfe
of
things
indifferent,he will draw
vs
to
the
other
ex-
trearne by
mouing
vs
to
thinke
all
ceremonies
vnlawfull,and
topraelife
al
licentioufnes vnder pretence
ofChriflian liber-
tie.
Ifhe
can
no longer
perfwade
vs
to
feeke for
iuflification
by the
workes
of
the law
to
the
end
wet
may
not
relie
on
Chrifls merits and
righteoufnes,
he
will
bring
vs
into
vtter
4
fluke
ofthis
do&rive, by
(hewing
vs
the abfurdities there
-
of,that
he
may
draw
vs
to the other extreme,namely,to
neg-
le&
good
workes,as
altogether
vnneceffarie
to
faluation
be-
caufe
faith alone iuílifieth.
Ifhe
cannot hide out
of
our
fight
the fhining
graces
ofGods
fpirit,
by calling before
our eyes
the cloud
ofour
fins
and
corruptions,then
he will
caufe vs
to
looke
on
them
thorow the
fpedlacles
of
felfe
loue and
affe-
¿lion,to
the
end
we
may
imagine them much
greater then in
truth they
are,and
fo
be
puffed
vp
in
pride, and
too
fecurely
refl in
thofe gifts
we
haue,not
feeking
for
increafe.If
he
can
-
Rot
perfwade
vs
to
diffidence
and diflrufl, he will moue
vs
to
tempt
God
vpon neceffarie
occafions
:
and thus
he
dealt
with
our
Sanniour
Chrifl,
for
firfl
he
tempted him to
diflruf}
Cods
providence, and to prouide for
himfelfe
by
turning
flones
into bread
;
but
when
he
could
not
fo
preuaile,he
mo-
ued
him to
make
an
vnneceffarie
experiment
of
his
proui-
Bence
and
care,by calling
himfelfe
down headlong
from
the
pinacle
ofthe
Temple,whereas there
were
ordinarie
mcanes
whereby
he
might
defcend.
Now
the
end
why
Satan vfeth
this policie,
is
more vio-
lently
to
call
vs
into
one
extrearne
of
finne,
when
with
fill
fwinge
ofwill
we
do
auoide the
other:
as
alto
to
make
vs
be
leeuc
that
the
latter temptation
is
the
motion
ofGods
fpirit,
feeing it
is
cleane
contrarie
to the former
fuggeflion
of
Sa-
tan,,