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to
ReaFons
to
encourage
vs
tofight
in
this
fpiritdtallCOn
CHAP.
III.
.
Arguments
whereby
we
maybe
encouraged to estterinte
tM
fßirituall
confli
Tt.
Nd
thus
haue I-fhewed
that
al
that
wi1
be
Gods
feruants
mull fight
his
battailes
againf
his and
our
fpirituall enemies, and the
caufes
why
the
Lordpreffeth
vs
to
thisferuice.
Now that
wee
-tray go
couragiouílie
into
the field,letvs con-
fider
of
forne
reafons.and
motiueswhich
may make
vs
refo-
lute and valiant.
The
fir!
}is
the
iuílneffe
ofour
caufe
:
For
though
fouldiers be
newer fo
thong
and
wel
furnifhed,yet
if
their
confciences
tell
them
that
they fight
in
a-
bad quarrel!,
it
will
much
abate their courage,
and make them cowardiie
and timerous. But our
caufe
is
moll
Mil,
and
our
Warm
moil
lawfull, for
God
who
is
iaflice
it Idle
hath
proclaimed
it
by
his
Heraulds
the
Apoilles.So Ephef.6.1
o.Finalll_
my
brethren
be
firong
in
the
Lord, and
in the
power
of
his
might.
t t
.
Put
on
the
whole
armour
of
God,that
ye
may be
able
to
fland
againfi the
a
,Taultsofthediauell,
&c.
AndIatn.4.7:
Re/ff
the
diuelland
he
tvillf
ie
fromyou.And
t.Pet.5.8.Be
fóber
and
watch, for
your ad
uerfarie thediuell as
a
raring
lion
waketh
about
fee,ing
whom
he
may
dcr-toure :
9.
Whom
refif?fledfafl in the
faith.
Secondlie,
the
caufe
of
our warre
is
of
great
weight,
as
namely
for
the glory
of
God
and our owne foliation
;
for
in
all Satans
skirmifhes,
hee
feeketh
to
impeach
'Gods glorie
with
falle
imputations,
and
to bring
vs
to vtter
defiruó
ion.
And
this may
appeare
by
his
firfl conflie}
with
otir
mother
Eue,
Gen.3.4.5.where
he
accufeth
God
ofa
lie,Who
is
truth
it
felfe
;and
ofimpotencie
and
enuious
difdaine,faying,that
the
caufe
why
he
(lid
forbid
them
to
cate
of
the fruite
of
the
tree
of
the
knowledge
of
good
and euill;
was
not(as
he
had
.
faid)becaufe
theyfhouid
die,butbecaufe he knew
that
when
they fhould
Bate
thereof,
their
eies
fhould be
opened,
and
they fhould be
as
Gods knowing good
and euill.Where
fitíl
he feeketh to
dimme the beanies
ofGods
glorie
by
accufing"
hint
;
§.Sca.
i.
EphcC6.zo.
Iam.4.7.
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