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Satans tentations
rimming
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to delay repentance..
3
i
CHAP.
XXVII.
Satans tentations
whereby
heperfrradeth
men
to
delay
their
repentance,anfixered.
Nd
fo
much
concerning the
fubtill
tentations
of
Pella.
Satan,whereby
he
laboureth to
make
the word
Tbeteatatdon
of
God
fruitleffe
and
vneffe
&call for our
con-
aUur
ing to
ueruon,
wherewith
ifhee
cannot
preuaile
being
tañete
"Pen -
repelledby
the
meanes before fpoken
of,and
ifinen
by
their
hearing
of
the word
haue
learned thus
much
knowledge,
that
their cöuuerfionand turning
to God
is
neceffarie
to
fal-
uation;
then
he
will in the next
place
lab-
óur to perfwade
their
tò
deferre
then
repentance
fora
time, till
they haue
better
opportunitie
and
are
more
fit
for this
purpose.
Let
it
be granted(will
he fay)
that it
is tieceflarie
that
thou fhoul-
deft repent
and
turne vnto
God
;
yet thou mayen
deferre
thy
repentance
vntill
thine
old age,
or at
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till
the time
of
fickneffe,
for then
thou wilt
bee
more
fit
to
performe
this
dutie,
theft
in
the
flourishing
prime
of
thy youth, when
as
the
exercises
ofreligion
are
fo
tedious
and vnpleafant, and
the
pleafures
of
the world
fo
fweet and delightrull
;
neither
needefi thou to
feare
any inconuenience which will come
hereby,for
God
is fo
gratious
that
whenfoeuer thou retur
-
nefl
veto
him he will receiue thee
to
mercie,for
he
hath pro
-
mifed
in his
word, that
whcnfoeuer
a firmer
repenteth
"him
of
his finnes,
he will
blot
all
his
wickednes
out ofhis
remem-
brance:
And
therefore
thou
mayesl inióy'Both
thepleafures
of
this
life, and
the
life
to
come,
thou
"maÿëff
repent
-time
enough hereafter and liue
a
flriet and religious life,when the
beate
ofyouth
is
pall and old age drawës
on, which
is
farre
more
fit
for
.thefe exercifes
:
for
what
follie
is
it
ió
to
dote
vpon
the heauenly ioyes
to come,
as'
that
thóïi fhouldefl
de-
priue thy
felfe
of
thofe
worldly
pleafures:rwhich are-
piefent,
feeing
thoumain
inioy
both
i'
Againfl
which
tentá
on
it'
beheétteth
euerie man
"Mofi
rbit
tentati
carefullie
to
arme?hitrifelfe
as
beiiíg in
irfelfe
náoil
dange-
onr
xof
dam.
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