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Why
Godfief
ereth
bis
feruantl
tabe
tempted.
9
with euery finali
temptation,
wee
learn
to
haue
a
more
'humble conceit
of
our owne
abilitie, and to
depend
wholly
Mutts.
and
vpon
the Lord.And this
end
is
fet
dove
n,Deut.8.2.and
i3.3.
Fiftly,the
Lord permitteth
Satan
continually to
affaile vs '
3.3
t6th
his
temptations, to the
end
we
may
continually buckle
unto
vs
the whole
armour
ofGod, that
we
may
be ready
for
the battaile.For
as
thofe who haue no enemies
to encounter
them,caf}
their armour
afide
and let
it
ruft,
becaufe
they
are
fecure from danger
;
but
when the enemies
are
at hand and
found the alarum,theyboth
wake
and
fleepe
in
their armour
readie for
the
affault
:
fo,if
we
fhould
not
continually skir-
mifh with our
fpiituall
enemies, we
would
lay
afide
the
fpi-
rituall
armour;
but
when
we haue continual!
vfe
of
it,
both
day
and
night
we keepe
it
faf}
buckled vnto
vs,that
being ar-
med at
all
points,we
may
be able
to
make
refif}ance
that
we
be
not
furprifed
at
vnavu
ares.
Laf}ly,
by this conflict
the
Lord flrengthneth
and increa
feth
all his
graces in
vs
:
for
as
by
exercife
the
f}rength
of
the
bodie
is
preferued and
augmented,&
in
fhort
time decaicth
.
through
idlencife
and floth;fo the gifts
ofGods
Spirit,faith,
afance,hope,patience
and the
ref}
languifh
in vs,
if
they
be
not
exercifed'with
temptations.
For
tribulation
bringeth
forth
Rom..5.3.4
patience
,and
patience experience,
and
experience
hope,
and
hope
maketh not
afharned, as
it
is
Rom.5.3.4.5.
For
when
once
we
haue been
tempted
and
tried,
and the
Lord
hath mercifullie
delivered
vs
from
the
temptation,afterwards being
fo
affaul
ted
we
patiently
endure
it,hoping
for the Lords
afflflance,
,belecuing
and alluring our
felues that the Lord who
hath
dciiuered
vs
will againe deliuer
vs,
as
it.
is
Pfal.27:9, More-
t.Sam,
T7.
;7.
ouer,when
we
fee
the great need
ofthe
.graces
ofGods
fpirit,
Pialn.a7.9.
this will
be
'a
f}rong
motiuc
to
intice
vs
to
a
careful!
vfe
ofal
good
meanes
whereby
we may
attune
vnto them,
whereas
ifwe
were free
from this fpirituall
conflieó,wc
fhould
not
fo
cIeerely
fee
nor
apRrehend
the
vfe
and
neceffìtic
of
them.
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