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remptatío?
s
hindring
v,r
from
hearing
Goce
word.
le;
9
earneftly and
fincerely
labour after the knowledge
of
the
truth,and with
good
Cortrelius
continually
implore
the
aft
fiance
and
direelion ofGods:fpirit,wee
(ball bee lure to
ob.
taine our
deLire,
for the
Lord bath
promifed
it,and
bee will
vadoubtedly
be
as
good
as
his
word.
CHAP.
XXV.
Satan'
temptations taken
from
our vn:rorthinef
e
and
vnfiteet
to
heare,anfwered.
Nd
fo
much concerning the temptations
ofSa
tan,which
he
draweth
fr6
the Miniilers,to.dif-
credit the Gofpell, and to
diffwade
men from
...,
the hearing
thereof; but
if
he
cannot
thus
pre-
uaile,hee
will Ieaue
the Miniflers,
and come
to
the parties themfelues,fuggefling
into theirminds
that
they
are
vnworthie,in
refpeCÌ
ofthe
innumerable number
of
their
fins,to be hearers
of
the Gofpell, which
is
fo pure and excel-
lent;
and
that
their corruptions
are
fo
great,
their
vnderflan-
dings
fo
blind, their
memories
fö
flipperie,
their
wils
fo
per
-
uerfe,their heart and affcilions
fo
wicked andprophane,
that
it
is
to be
feared inrregard
of
this their
vnfitnes
to heare,
that
the
word ofGod,w.hich
in it
felfis the
fauour
oflife vnto life,
will become
vnto:thé
the
-
fauour
of
death to their
more deep
condemnatiorî For
the
anfwering
of
which
temptation,wee
are
to
knov',ftrfl, that
our
fins
and vnworthines
fhould
befo
farrefrQM
hindring
vs
from
the hearing
ofGods
word, that
they.fhould
rather
ferue
as
forcible arguments to moue
vs
r
more
attentiuely
and
diligently
to
heare
it
:
becaufe
it
is
the
meahes
ordained
ofGod to
pull
vs
out
ofour
fins,to
purge
vs
from our
corruptions, to worke
in
vs
true fane}ification, and
to
make
vs
ofthe
Ions
ofwrath
the children
bfGod.
Moreo-
ucr,
though
wee
want faith and
all
other
fane2ifying graces,
yet
we
are
to
heare
the
word
ofGod
:
for
therefore
the
-Lord
bath
.ordained-the
miniflerie
ófÿ word,
nor only
to
increafe
grace where
it
is
begun,but
alfatò
beget
andbeginit
where
t
is
wanting;
fo
that
we!manor
only hearé-becaufe
we are
¢.scff.r.
That
our
fnres
and
vnwinth{-
neJftfhouldaot
Eiinder
vs
from
hearing Geds
werd.