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.Hòty
the
ChiVi6tx
being
foiled
may be
rai
f
d.
flïeleth
the
wound
we apply
the cure,it
will neuer be
mortar
vnto
vs
;
but ifwe
let
the poyfon
of
his temptations
runne in
our
mindes and neuer
thinke .ofany remedie,though
at
the
firfi
it
feemed
but
a
finall
fcratch,
it
will
fo
inflame
our con
-
fciences
with fcorching
heate,that
they
will afterwards
very-
hardly admit
of
any cure.
When
therefore.
Satan
doth
call
into
our
mindes his
temptations, let
vs
repell
them,
and
in-
deuour to
quench
them
whilefl they
be
but
finall
fparks
-:
for
Our
corrupt
mindes
are
like vnto tinder,
and
Satans
tempta-
tions like the
-fire
:-and
therefore
if
in
(lead
ofputting
them
out
we
blow
vpon
them, though
theybe but
as
a fmall fpark
at
the firft,within
a
while
they.will.increa.fe
to
an
unquench-
able
flame
which will torment our
confciences
with
fcorch-
ing
heate:
neither
is
there
any
thing
but
the
blood
ofChrifl,
and the water
of
the
fpirit
which will extinguifh this
wade,
fire,
when
once
ithath
taken
dupe
hold.on
vs..
,..:.._.._.__.._..._..,._..__.._.,_
CHAP.
XXIII.
Roty
the
Chriflian
being
foiled
by
Swans
temptations
may bee,
raifed
againe.
Ndthefe
are the meattes
whereby the
Chrifliarr>
fouldier
may be fir.engthenedand
incouraged
to
fland
in
the
conïba-te
of
temptations.
Sut
fometimes
it
commeth to
paffe
that by
reafon
they negle&
thefe meanes, or
elfe
doe
not
fo
carefullyvfe them
as
they íhould, they
are
foiled by Satan,
-ouercome
by
his,
temptations; and
led
captiue
vnto
finne.
How. therefore
mull the Chriflian
thus ouertaken behaue
himfelfe
?
furely he
is
not
defperatly
to-call
away
all
hope
of
vi
&prie, and cowardly
to
yeeid
hiinfelfe
to
bee the
flaue
of
.
Satan, lying
-
contentedly in the
chairres
of
finne, without;
a.nydeliire
or
indeuour-
-of
comming out
of
his -captiuitie
but
being
fallen
hee
is
to
labour andflriue
that
hee may
rife
againe,
and
being
taken prifoner
by
finne
and
Satan,
hee is
.
not
willingly
to remaine
in
their
bonds,
but carnally
to
de-
--
fire
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