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Atì.
Si,
5".
Pecl.I
I.
Now
Satans
fuggeflions
may
be
difcer-
tied
from onr
owne
flefhlie
104
Thé manner
o
f
Satans
fight.
.
w
and
immediat
caufe,
yet
hee
is
the
firft
and principal! caufë
ofall
finne
and wickednes. And
hence
it
is
that
in
the
Scrip
-.
tures
the
fame
wicked
motion
and
adáion
is
fometimes
ai=.
Bribed
to man, and
fometimes
to
Satan indifferently,as ap-
peareth,
A61.5.3.5.
«'herefirít
Peteraffirmeth
Satan
to
be:
the
author
of
Ananias
finne,
by
filling
his .heart
with
his
fuggef
}ions,
whereby
he.was
tempted to
lie
vnto the hoiie-
Ghof
},
and after
he
faith
that
Ananias had conceiued this
lie
in
his
owne
heart.
But though moil
commonlie
it
bee
verie
hard to
difcerne
betweene the
fuggef}ions
ofSatan,. and
ofourcorrupt
flehh,
yet
fometimes
they
may
bee
dif
}inguifhed
by
apparent dit-
ferences;
as
.firf}
when the
temptations
are
fo
cunning and
exceeding fubtill,
that
it
is
not
poflible
they fhould
be
the
thoughts ofa
filiie.
ignorant
man,
but
the apparant fuggc..,
fiions
of
the old wily ferpent.
Secondlie,
when
as
the
fuggefdion
is
vrged
with great
force
and violence,and leaueth behind it a
deepe
impreffìon,
.
which
feemeth
to bring
a
neceflitie
of
doing
that
which
is
euen contrarie
to
naturali reafon,whereas the fuggeflions
of
the
flehh
doe
rather
leade
and
intice
vs
then
draw
and
in
force
vs
vnto
finne.
Thirdlie, the
temptations
of
Satan
mooue
vs
oftentimes
to
fuch
outragions wickednes,and
helllifhimpiety,that
euen
nature corrupted doth condetnne
as
abominable, and
euen.
trembleth
with. feare
and
horror,
when they
are firft
fug
-
gefted.
Fourthlie, the
flefh'takethoccafon ofthingsprefent
and
fubiec`1
to
the
fentes
to
intice
vs
vnto finne;
but
Satans
fug_
..
gelons
fometimes
are farre
fetcht
and
fo
frange
vnto
vs,.
that
before the
infant
they
are fuggef}ed
we
neuer
thought
or
fo
much
as
dreamed
of
them.
Laftly,the things whereunto
we
are
temptedby
the,
fle{l
,
are alwaies delightful! and
pleafing,
vnto vs;but Satan temp-
teth
vs
alto
to thofe things
which.
,are
irkefomc and grie
uous
:
as
namelie
to fuperftitious abfiinence whereby the
bodie
is
almoft fiarued,topunifhing
of
our owne
bodies,as
be tempted
the
Saalitifh
priefts,to
cut.and launce
themfelues
before
.: