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a.Pet,
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That
God
Pur-
nette
Satans
temptations
to
the
good
ofhis
ahildrett.
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3.08
Satan!
temptati®ns inaprocHtnet
our
redemption.
%o
hispleafure and according to
his
will, now
he
is
call out
by
the
prince
ofprinces,
as
it
is
Ioh.r
2.3 I
.and
ourSauior Chrift
bath cllablífhed
his
kingdome
in
vs,ruling
and
governing
vs
with
the iccpter
ofhis
word
and holy
fpirit.Whereas
he was
the firong man who quietly kept
his
poffeffion
in
vs,Luk.
r
r,
z!
our
Sauiour
Chrifi
ho
is
fironger
than
hc,hath
fpoiled
him
ofhis
armour wherein hee trufted,and bath thrufl
him
out ofhis
poffeffion.
Whereas
hee was
a cruell
tyrant
who
held
vs fact
bound
in
his
captiuitie,
our
Sauiour
Chrifl
hath
redeemed
vs
out
of
his
thraldotne,
fo
as
now
he
cannot
hurt
vs
thoughhee
neuer
ceafeth
to
affáult
vs;
and
though
he
go
eth about
like
a
coring
lion feekir
:g
whom
he may dcuoure,
yet now
wee
are enabled
by
Gods fpirit to
relíl
him fled-
fairly
in
the faith,
and
fo
armed
with
the coate-armour
of
Gods
fpirituall
graces,that
though
he may
with
the
violence
of
his
affaults
foile vs,yet fhall he neuer be able
to
ouercomc
vs.
God
doth
indeede
fuffer
this wicked enemie
to
make
warre again cuen his
dearefl
children, and
that
fometimes
after
a
flrangeand
extraordinarie manner,
not that
hee
will::
giue them ouer againe vnto
his
thraldome,out
of
hich
hee,
hath
purchafed
them with
fo
deare
a price,but
partly
to driue
them
hereby to
flie.vnto
him by earned
and
effeetuall
praier,
imploring
his aide
againfi
Satans
crueltie,
and that hauing
receiucd it
they
may afcribe
the whole glorie
ofthevietory
to
him
alone,
bywhofe
flrength
they
haue
ouercome; and
partly to
Phew
vnto them their owne
weakeneffe,
that they
may
not
relie
nor
ref+
vpon
it.
Sometimes hee
fuffreth
them
to
be thus affaulted,that
his
power
may
be magnified
in
their
weakeneffe; and fometimes
that
the
graces
which
hee
bath
bellowed
vpon
them,may
Thine
glorioufly
to
all
the
world..
Somtimes for
the confirmation
of
others
who (hall
hereafter
be tried with the like temptations, when they
haue in
their
brethren
often
experience
ofGods loue
and
power
and fa-.
therly
affìflance
;
and fometimes
the more to flrengthen
thernfe.lues
in
his
fpirituáll graces,
and
to
confirme them
more
fullyin
the
affurance
ofhis
loue and
their
faluation.For
as
a
citie
which
bath once bin
befieged and
not
facked,
will
tuer
after
bemore
firong
to
hold out
if
it
be
affauited by the
Like.
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