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f
the manner
o
f
Satan'
fight.
9
g
vs,
and ranfacketh
vs
ofall Cods
graces, and cafleth
vs
ouer
boord into the
fea
ofdeílruólion.And
therefore
it behoueth
vs
with no
leffe
care
to
withfland
Satan
when
hee
fawneth,
then
when hee frowneth.; when hee
fighteth
by
ambufh-
ment,then when
he affaulteth
vs
by
open violence
;
when he
offereth
to
flab
vs
to
the
heart,then
when
hec
doth
but
(as
it
were)pricki'
a
veine,letting
vs
blood to
death
without
fenfe
ofpaine
;
when
hee
tempteth
vs
to outragions
finnes,
then
when
he
inticeth
vs
to
fecret and
hidden
finnes
;
when
he
al-
lureth
vs
like
a
friend to commit
finne,
by
offering pleafure,
riches, or honours,
then when
like an
enemie,a
roring lion,
or
cruell
dragon
hee
rangeth about
and
rageth againil
vs;
Nauseam
deleftabile proponit,
molest-tom
fupponit,c
aura
vngtt
p:ungit;
He propòundeth things delightful) to
bring
vs
to
griefe andmiferie,he
fawneth on
vs
that
hee may
bemire
vs,
and killeth while
he ernbraceth
vs.Neither
doth
man
knol, his
Ecc!eC.9.
r:r.
time,
but
as
the
fifties which
are
taken
in
an euill net,and as the
birds
mhich
are caught
in
the
fnare,
fo
are
the children
ofrnen
fnared
in the
euil
time
,when
it
falleth
upon them
fuddenly,as
it
is
Ecclef.9.
i
2.
Nay,
feeing this fight
is
farre
more dangerous,
becaufe bee
couereth
his
hooke with
an
alluring
baite;
and
thofe
mares
of
finne
more pernicious
which
lie
hidden, then
Temptations
thofe
which
lie
in open
view;
feeing
wee are
more
eafily
onto
¡few
fins
tempted to
thofc
fumes
which
are
fecret and difguifed in
the
molt
dame.
habite
of
vertue, then vnto
thofe
groffe finnes which.
haue
"us'
their
naines
as
it
were
branded
in
their foreheads;
feeing
al-
to
we can
more hardly repent
ofthem,
both
becaufe
they do
not
appeare
fo
horrible and grieuous vnto
vs,
as
the other
o-
pen and
outward
finnes,
and
alfo becaufe
they worke in
vs
no fhame
after
we
entertaine and hue in'thcm,neither
can
a-
ny
of
our
Chriflian
brethr6 admonifh
or rebuke
vs
for
them,
they
being
fecret and vnknown.:therfore
is
Satan made more
audacious to
tempt
vs,
and wee
more
bold to
admit
of
his
tcmptation;and after wee are fallenwe
kicke
meanes
to raite
vs
vp againe
by
vnfained
repentance, for
our'felues doe
ap-
prooíie our
finnes,and our
brethren know
them
not
:
which
Bernard
well difcerning,
vttereth
this
fpeech
fit
for this
pur-
pofe
:
Extimef
o
raagis
occulta
peccata qua
clam commttt?
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