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'Mat
all
thegodl
are
aff
tulted
with
to;
tatïon-i
Whofoeuer
therefore
refolue
to
be
Gods
feruants, mufr
make account
to be
his fouldiers
alto;
and
whilefc
with
Ne-
bemiae
followers,with
one hand
they performe the workes
Nehen
4
I7
of
their
callings and
Chriflianitie, they
tnufl
with
the
other
hand hold their
weapons
to
repell
their
fpirituall enemies,
who continually labour to hinder the Lords
buildings
for
no
boner
doe
we
become
friends
to
God,
but
prefently
Sa-
tan
affaulteth
vs as
his enemies
;
no
fooner doe
wee
receiue
the
Lords
pre(%
mony and let foote
into
his campe,
but
Sa-
tan
aduanceth
againfa
vs
his
flagges
of
defiance,
labouring
both
by fecret treacherie, and
outward
force,
to fupplant
and
ouercome
vs.
Here therefore
is
inflru6lion
for
fecure
worldlings; and
4.Sea.2,
confola
tion
and incouragcment for
Gods children.Worldly
The twofold
men in
fiead
offighting
the
Lords
battailes,fpend their time
vfe
Afihi
dad
in
chambering and
wantonnes,
in
lulls and vncleannes,
in
arise
Muficke and
dalliance,
in
furfetting
and
al
voluptuoufhes,in
couetoufnes
and idlenes,
as
though there
were
no
enemie
to
affauit
theni,and
as
if
Satan were
fome
meeke
'Lambe
and
not
a
roring lion
readie
to
deuoure them;
fo
that good
Mo-
fer comming
neere
them cannot
heare
the
noife
oftheni that
haue the
vióIorie,nor
the
noife
of
them
that
are
ouercome,
but
the
noife
of
Pinging
and
meriment, for they
are
not
flgh-
Exod.
;s:
ting
the battailes
of
the
Lord
of
hofls,
but folemnifng
a
Sabbath
to
the
golden
Calfe,
fitting down to
Bate
and
drink
and
riling
vp
to play.
The
fpirituall Cananites
are
quite
for
-
gotten,and
they remember
not the
bleffed
land
of
promife-,
-
whereunto
like pilgrimes,they
fhould bee trauailing,
but
make this
world, this
wildernes
of
fin,
the
place
of
their ioy
and
delight.In
a
word, they
flourifh
in
their outward
(later,
and neuer.in
their
minds
feele
any vexation
ofSatans temp-
tations. And
what
is
the
caufe
ofall this
?
Ifyouaske them,
they
will
fay,
that
they
haue fuch
a
flrong faith and
peace
of
rhdttb
ngs
confcience,
that
Satans
temptations haue
no
power
ouer
peaceQs.occe-
them
;
neither were they
euer
troubled with
any
ofhis
en-
t'etlitast f-om
counters.
And
not content with
thefebragges
of
their
ovine
f
renatb
but
happie eílate,they
cenfure
and condemne
Gods
children,
tar
"U1
accounting their
(late
troll
defperate
who
are
molefled
with
curiae.
B z
Satans.