125 / 772
44'4%.
Of
the
manner
of
fight.
97
Is,that
foul times he
fetteth
upon
vs
immediatly in
his
owne
perfon,&
fornetinies
mediatly vfing
for
his
inffruments
the
world
&
the flefh.Of
the
fira
we
haue
anexatnple.t.Chro.2i,
z.where
it
is
faid
that
Satan
preuoked
amid
to
number If-
rael.So
Ioh.i
3.2.
the Euangelifl (heweth
that
the diuell
did
put
in
the heart
of/tau
Ifcariot
to betray
ChrifhAnd the
A-
poflle
Peter.A
&.5.3. telleth
Ananias that
Satan
had
filled
his heart
with
his
fuggeflions
that
he
fhould
lie
vnto the
ho-
lie
Ghofl.
And
thus
alfo he
tempted
our
Sauiour
Chrifl im-
mediatly
forty
daies
together
in
the
wildernes,Mat.4.When
he thus fighteth againfi
vs
in his
owne perfon, he giueth
the
afrault either-in his
ovine likenes, or
els
tranfformeth
hiinfelf
into
an
angeli
°flight.
When
he
incountreth
vs
in
his
o
r
ne
likenes
and like
a
diuell
indeede,then
he
doth
as
it
were pro
-
.claime
open
wanes, tempting
vs
not
onelie
to
thofe
firmes,
which hauing
forne
apparance-ofgood
in
them,
our
corrupt
,
confcience
doth
approue
of,or at leatl,can
without
any
great
terror
winke
at,
but
alto
to
all
outragious
wickedneffe
and
hellifhimpietie,which
euen
a
ciuil
worldlir:g would abhorre
to
thinke
of;
namelie,
to
Atheifine,Idolatrie contempt
ofall
Teligion,blafphemies againfi
Goti,periury,
facrí`ledge,perfee
cuting
the
knowne truth ,herefie,murther,adulterie,and
fuck
like
:
all
which
at
the
firfl
fight
may
eafilybe
difcerned
to be
the
fuggeflions
ofSatan,
becaufe
this hellifh
brood dee re-
femble
their
wicked father
in their
verie
countenance
and
outward
apearance.
And therefore
Satan
who fubdueth
more
with the
ferpents
wiles
than
with
the lions
force,doth
feldome
yfethis fight againfi any which
haue
but
the
ciuill
reflraining grace
ofGod,vnleí
a
he
intice them
theruntoby
degrees(as
before
I
haue
filmed)
or except hee
finde
them
exceeding
ignorant,
to the end
he maymake
them beleeue
that
his
fuggeflions
are
their owne thoughts
;
but
hee
praéli-
Leth
thefe
temptations, for
the
moil part, againfi
thofe
who
haue
euen
foldthemfelues
to
worke
wickednes,hauing
their
hearts hardned and
confciences feared
with their
cufloma-
ble
finning.
And
therefore moil commonlyhee tranfforrneth himfelfe
4
into
an
angeli
oflight,tempting
vs
to finneby
vfing
friendly
H
perfwafions,
That
satis
a(fauiteth
vt
forattime tüm-
fel/e,and ¡tine-
time
by
his
ina
fEeamentt.