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THE
FIRST
BOOKE
INTREATING
OF THE
POWER
and
policies
ofour
fpirituall
enemies,and
ofthe
meanes
how
we may withf}and
the one
and.defeate
the other.
CHAP. I.
That
all the
godly
are
affaulted with the
linrittsall
enemies
of
their
fabsation.
HE
Apoftle
halting (hewed the
myflerie
,Sec`!.
x.
ofour
faluation and the
caufes
thereof;
for
the
confirmation
of
our
faith,
in
the
three
firf+
chapters
of
his Epifile.
to the
Ephefians,aud afterwards in
the other
chapters
hauing
fet down diuérs duties
both
generallie
belonging to
all
Chri-
iians,and
alfo
particularly appertaining
to
men
offundrie
conditions,
that
he
might
moue
them to
repentance
:and
a.-
mendment
oflife
;
in
the
next place,like
the Lórds
Centinel,
doth
difcouer
and gibe
vs
warning
of
the approch
of
mighty
enemies,
willing
vs
to
arme our
felues
it
all
points in our
ovine
defence, and couragioufly
to
(land vnder
the flandard
ofChri(t
Iefius,that we may
be continually
in readines
to
en-
dure
the encounter,chap.6.10.1
i.
&c.Whereby
he
giueth
vs
ll
thatrvill
to
vnderftand,
that
as
foone
as
we
feekc
for
affurance
of
fal-
Niue
Hu
Gods
nation
in
Chrifl,and endeuour
to
ferue
the Lord
in
a
hohe
pecparYettoem
and
a-Chrifhan
life,
we
are
to
prepare
our
felues
for
a corn-Blues
fgrthe.
bat,vnleffe
we
would
fuddenly
be
furprifed
;
for
the
fpiritual
/7irituali
tetra+
enemies
of
our
faluation
bandie
thcmfelues
againfl
vs
as
bit.
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