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chat
tie
Gaaînot
ittdge
oforn
elate
in
the
time
of
tehtatíon.
167
To
this
e
anfwer,that it cannot
be
denicd,but that Gods
corrections
doe
corre1
and amend
his
children, and
that
af-
flicStions
ferue
to the
increafing
of
their patience, faith
and
other
graces
;
but
yet let
vs
know that
Satan playeth
the
falfe
dcceiuer, when
he mo-oueth
vs
to
looke
for
the
affurance
of
Gods
loue
,
and
for our
amendment and
increafe
of
Gods
grace,
in
the
very
time
\A
hen the
hand
of
God
is
upon
vs,
whileft the
confli6c
lafteth, and
the
temptation
grieuoufly
fhaketh
and
battereth
vs
:
as
ifhe
fhould
come
to
a
man
who
hath
endured much and
tedious.
fckneffe, and
fhould
fay
vnto
.him,
thou
diddeff imagine thy
(elfe
a
while agoe
very
beautiful! and exceeding
ftrong,
but thou
waft much
decei-
tied, for
if
thou
-lookett in
a
glafle
thou (halt prefently per
-
ceiue
that
thou art
leane, pale,
and
deformed, and
if
thou
tnakeft
triall
of
thy
ftrength, thou (halt
finde
that it
is
fcarce
fuflcient
to
fitftaine
the
waight
of
thine owne body.
Now
who
would
not
deride
fuch
fond reafoning
?
Who
could
not
eafily.anfwere,
that
iudgement
is
not
to
be
taken
of
the
beautie
and flrength
of
the
bodie
in the time
of
ficknes,
but
in the time
of
health
?
but
this
is
the
very
like
cafe,
and thus
fottifhly doth
Satan
conclude, or rather delude
Gods
chi!
-'
dren
in
the time
of
temptation
;
for
he faith
thus
vnt-o
them,
thou
diddeff perfwade thy
felfe
that
thou art the childe
of
God,and
in his
loue and fauour,
that
thou art indued
with
faith,patience,and other graces,and
daily increafeft
in
them;
but
now thou art
come
to
the
triall
it
proueth
far othcrvvife;
for
thy-faith
is
turned
into doubting
or infidelitie, and
thy
patience
to
impatiencie
,
and
therefore there
is
no
likeli-
boodethat
thou art beloued
of
God,for
then thou wouldeft
profit
byafieiions,and
increafe
in
grace
&
flrength,
whet
e-
as
thou
bcwrayelt
nothing but
thy manifold corruptions.
But
we are
to know
that
we
are
not
to iudge
of
our grace
and ílrength,in the
time
of
temptation
and
of
the fpirituáll
conflift,
when
as
our
foules are
g ieuoufly
ficke
with
the
fenfe
of
finne
andapprehenfion
of
Gods
hcauie
difpleafùre
incurred thereby,
when
as
the
fire
of
Gods
faint
is
couered
with
the
afhes
ofour
corruptions,
and
the
f
uires
`and
graces
thereof
nipped with the
coide
winter
and
boyttercus
blafts
M4
of
7bat
it is
no
fit
time
to
iudge
ofcur fin)
'if
ira
grace's in
the
confhtl of
temptations.