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'Clfthe
runner
of
Samns
fight.
103
gular
Toile;
but if
hee
bee repulfed,yet this
is
no hindrance
unto him,why
hee may
not
intrap
them
in force
more fecret
ambufhment.Hence
it
is
that though
he
begin
his
fight with
cunning
policie,taking
vpon him the perfon
ofa
friend,and
transforming
himfelfe
into
an
Angell
oflight
;
yet this
is
no
,-
impediment
but that
he may afterwards
againe appeareand
violently
aflàult
vs
in
his owne likenes
;
as
hee
Iffiulted
our
Sauiour,hril with
fitb
till and fecret
temptations)ike
a
friend
and
welwiller
;
and when
he
could
not
fo
preuaife, hee
doth
not
flicke
to
appeare
like
himfelfe,
tempting
him
to outra-
gious
groffe
idolatrie,faying,All
this will I giue thee
if
thou
wilt
fall
downe andworfhip
me.
And
contrariesife
though
he
begin
his
affault
like
a
dine]'
and profeffed
enemie,this
is
no
hindrance
but that
heemay end
it
like
an
Angell
oflight,
and
a
flattering treacherous friend.
So
when
he
bath inticcd
vs
to
one
excreme
andpreuaileth
not,
this
is
no
impediment
but that
foone after
he may
allure
vs
to the
cleane contrarie
;
becaufe
though
wee
thinke
-the
firfl
motion to be
his
fugge-
flion,yet
we
may imagine
the other
to be
our
own
thought,.
or(as
Ifaid)the
motion
ofGods
fpirit,becaufe
it
is
quite
con
-
trarie to the former.
Seeing
therefore the matter
flandeth
thus; how
may wee
refifl
Sacan,confidering
that
wee
cannot
difcerne
his
fugge-
flions from our owne
cogitations
?
I
anf
vere
;
wee muff
bee
skilful
in
Gods word,
&
thereby
able
to
iudge what
is
good
and
what
is
euill,
to
difcerne
what
is
vertue and
what
is
vice,
what God
bath commanded, and
what
hee
hath forbidden,
which
be the
motions
ofGods
fpirit, and which the
fugge-
flions
of
Satan, and the
thoughts
of
our
corrupt
flefh;
and
then
are
wee carefully to imbrace
that
which our
confcience
approoueth
as
good, being
informed by
Gds
word, and
to
auoide
and reieát thofemotions which
wee
know to bee
euill,
whether they
doe proceede from
Satan,or
from
our
felues
;
for
it
is
not
greatlymateriali to know who
is
the au-
thor
ofthem,fo
we are
affured
that
they
are euil
and wicked;
neither
is
it
any
dangerous error
to
afcribe Satans
fugge-
flios
to
our corrupt flelh;or
to attribute
the
wicked
thought
of
our
owne
flefh
unto
Satan
:for though
he
be
not
the next
H
4
and
4.Se`.ro.
How
we
may
auoid danger,
thougb
we
can-
not dfcemne
Satans temp-
tationsfrom
our
owne
lulls.