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Temptatiow
taken
from
the ekillitses
of
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thinke
all
Gofpell which the Miniflers
teach,
that
all
truth
comineth from their mouthes, and
that
there
is
not
a
more
cafe
way
of
attaining to
euerlaíling life, then
that
which
they thew
veto
thee?
why,do
but
Tooke
vpon themfelues,and
thou
íhalt
find
their
hues farre
di%nant
from
their words,
that
whilefl they exhort thee
to
firicktnes,they take their
li-
bertie,whileíl
they
diffwade
thee
from
taking
thy pleafure,
affeSing honors,fetting thy heart
vpon riches, themfelues
in
the
meane time
arc
as
voluptuous,ambitious,and couctous
as
any
other
;
and whilefi they indeuour
to
make
(inne
to
ap-
peare
vnto thee
as\blacke
as
hell,themfelues imbrace
it
with
pleafure and
delight
as
though
it
were the ioy
of
heauen.
Who
therefore
can
imagine
that
they
think
as
they fpeake,or
that
they
are
perfwaded
that
heauen
gate
is fo
ílrait,
and
the way
fo
troublefome
and
hard to
find,as
they go about
to
perfwade
thee,fceing
themfelues take the
leá1
paines in
wal-
king
in
this
way
which they
prefcribe
vino others
?Or
if
it be
the truth
which they teach,then
furcly
they
are
not worth
the hearing,who
in
their
hues deny this
truth
which
in
their
words they
profeffe;for
what hope
caníl
thou
haue
that
it
wil
be powerfull to worke
grace in
thee,
feeing
it hath
no power
to
worke
it
in themfelues
?
or
that
they
can perfwade thee
to
that
holines,to which
themfelues are
not
perfwaded
?
And thus
doth
Satan fecke
to
keepe men from
hearing
of
Gods
word,thatfobeingweakned
and
hungerílarued, for
want ofthis
heauenly Manna,hee may vanquifh them at
the
Ertl
onfet,and
leade
them captiue
vnto
al
finne;and
being
flit
hoodwink
t
with the
thick
vaile
of
ignorance,
he may leade
them the dire&
way
to
hell and
vtter
deflruaion
:
and there-
fore it
behoueth
cuery one
to
arme'thetnfelues,
that
fo
they
may
beate back the violence
of
this
temptation.
Firíi
there
-
fore,whereas hee faith
that
the
minif1ers
fpeake
not
as
they
thinkc,bccaufe they do
not
as
they ipeak;we
are
to know
for
the anfwering
ofthis
temptation;thatminiflers
arc fubie&
to
the
fame
corruptions and infirmities which
are
incident
veto
other
men,
and
though
they
are
called
in
the fcripturesAn-
gels,in
refpe&
that they
are
Gods
meffengers
to bring and
publifh
the glad tidings
ofthc
Gofpell, yet
are
they
not
An-
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