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Satana
temptati"on.r
impagning
the certainty
of
our
eleE-tion.
T8 y
r.
.._..,
CHAP.
VI.
Sàtans
temptations
whereby he
moueth theweahe
Chrillian
to
doubt
of
his
eléEtion,anfwered.
Nd
thefe
are
the temptations
wherewith
Satan
4.Set
É.g.
affaulteth the
worldling:but
ifhe
haue
to
deale
The caujea
with
a
true
Chriftian,who
is
indeede
eleóled
of
which
moue
God,and
fheweth
the fruites
ofhis
eleetion,by
satin
and
his
defiring and
endeuourina
to
feaue
the Lord
in
in
i,fmne
the
holineífe
andrighteoufües,then
he
perfvvadeth
him
to doubt
k,eakechrifiì-
of
his
election, and to hang
as
it
were wauering
in
the ayre,
an
to
doubt
of
fometime
lifted
vp
with
hope , foinetime deieóted and call
hiseletiitot.
downe with
feare,
till at lafl
he
being
wearie
and tired
with
his
doubtful thoughts,and hauing no where to
refl
himfelfe,
is
fwallowed
vp
of
defperation. Like vnto
a
Tillie
bird which
,,
flieth ouer
the
maine
Ocean,and
one
while hopeth to
attaine
vnto the land,
another while feareth,feeing
no place
where
to
light,till
at
Taft
being
fa weary
that
fhe can
flie
no further,
The
falleth downe and
is
drowned
in
the
fea
:
So
thefe
one
while hope, andfoone
after finding
their
owne infirmities,
and
not
feeing
where they may
refl
their wauering minder,
doubt and
feare
,
till
at
lait through
wearinelfe
they
fluke
downe
and
are
(wallowed
vp
in
the
gulfe
of
defperation,
where
they
are
drowned
and
deflroyed,
if
it
doe
not
pleafe
the Lord
talift
them
vp
againe, and to
Phew
them the
firme
Rocke
Iefus
Chrif},
whereupon they may
ref}
their
wearie
mindes, and refresh
their fainting foules;-which
he alwaies
doth performe
to thole
that
belong to
his ele&ion
;
for it
is
impoflible
that
any
of
them fhould perifh,though
Satan
and
all
the
power
ofhell
feeke
their
ruine
and
del}ruólion.
But at this marke
Satan
aimeth
though
he neuer
hitteth
it,
and though
he neuer finally
preuaile, yet
to
this doubting,
and
in
the
end
despairing,
he
laboureth
to perfwadethe
true
Chril
}ian;
neither doth he content
himfclfe
with
the
forces
ofhis
owne
temptations,but
he
ioyneth with him the world,
which
is
as
ready
as
Satan himfelfe
to
oppugne the certain
-
tie