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Sa
tarn
tefnpt4tions
impugzzing
the certainty
ofour
&M
en.
tie
of
our
ele
&ion, and
our
owns
trayterous
flefh
which
is
eafily
moued to
doubting
and defpaire, when
as
it
feeth
no-
thing
in
it
felfe
whereupon
it
may refl.
In the
world hee
ma-
keth
his choice
not
of
fillie
ignorant
men,-
but
of
the
moff
fubtill
Sophiflers and
learned DoStors,
the true
fiucceffors
of
the
Scribes ánd
Pharifies,
cuen
the whole
rabble
ofthe
Po-
pi
fh
clergie
;
who
Hand
onSatans
part
floutlie
fighting
his
battailes, being
perfwaded
and
cuercome
by
thattempta,
tion
which our
Sauiour
Chrifl
withflood,
ei1ll
this
grill
I
gale
thee.
For
to
what
end
(I pray you) doe
thefe
great Do6tors
fo fliflie
(land in the
defence
of
Satans caufe,
perfwading
men might
and maine to
doubt
of
their
election,
and
con
-
fecluentlie
oftheir
faluation
?
Surelie
that
by emptying
mens
minds
of
all
true
cornfort,they
may
fill
their
own
cheffs,
and
ger
the trcafures
of
the earth
into their
pofi
ff
ions.
For when
the
weake
confeience
auere
th
&
doubeth
of
his
elect
}ion,
and not
finding
any true
confolat on
whereupon
it
may
refl,
con
imeth
vntothetn
for
fcxne
comfort and
better
affiarance;
they
behaue
themfelues like
unto
vrigracious Suageons,
a,,
ho
intending to
make
a
pray
oftheir
patients,
.acç1
ro
get their
gaines
out
of
theirpaines
and
tortures,do
-one
day
heale,and
the
next
day
hinder the
cure,
making
the
Wound
worfe
than
it
was
whc they took it
in
hand,til
at lati they
haue
fo
poy
f
ned thefore that it
is
pail
their
cure,whereas
they could eafi-
ly
haue healed
it,
if
they
had
not regarded
their
profit
more
than their
own
credit,or their
p.
ti
is
health;
or like
unto de-
ceitful' Lawyers,who
fometimes
f}
Bake
i
rtheir
clients
caufe,
and fometimcs
betray
it, going
about
in
a.
tedious
circuit,
whereas the
direst
«'aylieth
open
before them,
that
fo
their
clients
caufe
being
made more
doubtful'
&
tedious,&
them-
felues.impatient
of
dclaies,
are faine
to
double
and trebble
-their fees,
and
yet
oftentimes
to no
purpofe,
becaufe
the
more they receiue,the
fitter they
thinke them
to be
their
per
-
petuall Clients.
So
doe thefe
Popifh
Chirurgiotis and
loo-
tnifh
counfellers
deale
with
their
Patient
&
Client;for
(hew-
ing
hiswounded.confcience,
and defiring
force
comfort.
at
theirhadds,they-
Willnotmake
any
foueraigne
falue
of
the
Pimples
which they
might
gather out of
Gods word,
wherby
he