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4.Sá`í.
ç.
That
the
true
Chriflian
may
receiue
com-
fort
by
feeling
thef/'iritrcall
con
flirt.
Iieuel.t
a.t
7.
6
That
all
the
godly
etre
a
f
farsltedwith tentatson:.
hath
a
cleere current
carieth
them whollie into
a fea
offinne
without
any flop or refiflance,and
therfore
no
meruaile they
feele
not
this fight,when the fpirit which
is
one
of
the
coma
batants hath
no
force nor
refidence in
them.
Secondly,Gods children who continuallie
feele
the
aft.
faults
oftheir
fpirituall enemies;
and
fee
the
breaches
which
are
made
in
their-fóules
with
the
continual' batterie
of
their
temptations,may
receiue
no
final1
confólation hereby,when
as
they
confider
that
all
who
profeffe
themfelues
Gods
fat=
uants, and
refolue
to
ferue
the Lord
in
holines°&
righteouf
nes,are thus
tempted and tried.
For
the
Dragon
is
Wroth
with
the
woman
(that
is,Gods Church)
and her
f
ede which
keepe
the
commandements
of
God,
and
haue the
tef
imonie
o
f
lef
u
Chriit
;
as
is
Rettel.
z.i
7.and like
atoring
lion
feeketh
their
deflru-
¿lion,becaufe they
haue
renounced him,and fight under
the
flandard
of
the
Lord
of
boils whom hec maligneth
:
and
hence
it
is
that
whileft we
liue
without
fenfe
offrn,
wee
Bate
and drinke and take
our
eafe
without
diflurbance,
but after
we make any confcience
of
our
waies
and cndeuour to
ferue
the
Lord,
then Satan
cafleth
again
-1
vs
the
firie
darts
of
his
tetnptations,and
we feele
manyconSs
betweene
the
flefh
and
the
fpirit; with
which
the worldly
man
is:neuer
trou-
bled.So
that
when
-we
are
thus tempted and
affaulted
by
Sa..
tan,the world,and
our corrupt
flefh,
it
is
a
firong argument
to-
perfwade
vs
that
wee are
intertained for Gods fouldiers,
and
hauereceiued
the
preffe
monie
ofhis
Spirit;
for Satans
kittgdome
is
not
diuided,neither doth hefight
as
infl
thofe
who
are his friends and feruants,but againfl thofe who
wage
warre againfl him
and
fightvnder the Lords flandard. True
it
is,
that
when
his
feruants
haue committed
fuch
abomi-
nable
and grieuous
f
nnes,
as
haue made deepe
wounds in
their
feared
"confciences,whereby
they
are
awakened
out
of
their fleepielethargic of,fecuritie, then Satan
filleth
them
with horror
and
c'efpaire,
that
hee may keepe
them from
true repentance,when he
can
hide from them
their-finn
es
-no
1o11gcr-;hand
the Lord
in his
-iuft
iudgement, and for the
ex-
maple
of
others,
doth
fuffer
Satan
to begin
in
them
the
tor.
scentsofhellin
this
life; but ifbee
can
by
any meanes
hide
their..
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