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§:Seti.
5.
T'nat
tre
art
to
aunide
the
for-
me(
temptati-
on
by
keeping
vs
in the
gol-
e
dai
meaxe.
T.
Holy
Satan
maned)
vs
to
propound bad
end,
to
goad
aillons.
wf
96
Or
Soots
jfr
tagemt.
tan,whereas in
truth
they
are
butvnlike
children
ofthe
fame
father.
The
danger
of
which temptations
ifwe
would auoid,we
mutt
keepe
vs
in
the golden meane,auoiding both
extremes;
and becaufe we are
ignorant
and
vnskilfull
in trauelling
the
flrait path which leadeth
to Gods
kingdome,
and euerie
houre
readie
to
take the b7waies
oferror
which
leade
to
de-
flruóiion,
let
vs
vfe
the word
of
God
for
our
guide
:
and.ac
the
Israelites
trauelling towards the
land
ofprotnife,
were
dire
&edby
the cloud and pillar
office,
going
forwardwhen
that
went before them, and
pitching their
tents
where that
flaied;
fo
let
vs
confiantly and boldlie trauaile
in
our
Chri-
flian
pilgrimage
fo
long
as
we haue
the word
of
God
for
our
direthon,not
flaying where it
biddeth
g
oe, nor
going
when
it
flaieth.
Let
this bee the touchflonc to
difcerne
the golden
truth from the
droflie extreames on
either
fide
Met
it
be
the
line to leade
vs
out
of
this
laborynth
of
errors; let
it
:bee
the
flarre
ofBethlehem to
conduól
vs
in our tedious iourney
ve-
to
the place where our
Sauior
Chrifl
is,
not
now
lying
in
the
armes
ofhis mother,but fitting
at
the
right
hand ofhis
father
in
all
glorie,power
and maieflie.And
becaufe we
ire
vnskil.
full
pilots
in
failing the
dangerous
sea
of
this tempefluous
world,
readie
to
fall
vpon
the
rockes while wee auoide
the
(ands; let Gods
word
bee our
Card,
to dire&
vs
to the
hone
land
:
otherwife
Satan
will
raise
againfl
vs such
flormie
tent.
pefls,and contrary
blafis
oftemptations, that
our
foules
will
fitffer
fhipwracke
vpon the rockes
offinne,and
bee
drowned
in
a
fea
ofdeilruolion.
CHAP.
XX.
O
f
three'other
ffratagems
which
Satan
vfeth.
Fourth policie whichSatanvfeth
tointrappe
vs
in
his fecret ambufhments,is this
:
When
by the
vio-
lence
ofhis
temptations
he
cannot alrogcther
re-
flraine
vs
from
doing
t?
at
which
is
good:
then
he will
tempt
vs
to
doe
good
âions_to
bad
ens.
In
giuing.
of