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Motiues
toperfivalle
vs
to
Wen
our
repentance.
redouble
his
malitious diligence
in
working our
deflru..
lion
when
as
hee feeth the time draw
neere
wherein bee
muflattaine
his
purpofe,
or
elfe for euer faile
ofhis delre;
what,therefore
will
now our malitious powerfull
and
moll
fubtillenemie
leade
vnattempted? what
violence will
hee
not
now
offer
?
what
policie will hee riot
affay
to
draw
vs
from
God to
his
kingdome
of
darkeneffe?
Wee
know
that
when
enemies
befieging
a citie doe heare
that their
liege
is
íhortlie
to.
bee
raifed
by the approching
ofmightie
fuccours; or within
a
while
will become vaine and
boote-
leffe,
by
reafon
that
the citie will
bee more
flronglie man-
ned and
.
better
viElaalled,
how they
will .bend
all
their
ordinance againfl the wall
to
make
a
breach, how
fuci-
ouflie
they
will
giue the afláult, and
how
defperately
they
will fight
that
they
may
not
bee
difappointed
of
their hope
and
lofe
all
their
former
labour
;
and
fhall wee
thinke
that
Satan
who hath
long
befieged
vs,
defiring
nothing
more then to
facke
our foules,and
to
fpoile.them
ofall Gods
graces and to leade them captiue
to
hell and
dearuaion,
will
vfe
telle
politicke
furie in affaulting, vs
with
all
"his
en-
gines
of
batterie
when hee
feeth
the time
approch when
as
now
or neuer hee
is
to
accomplifh his delire? But
let
vs
confider
moreouer
how
able wee are
to
indure his
affaults
ifwee
doe
not
prepare
our
felues
before
the
-time
of fick
neffe,
arming our
felues
with
the whole
'armour
ofGod;
furelie wee
are
naked and
lie
open
to
all
his violence,
being
deflitute
of
the girdle
of
veritie,
the knowledge
of
Gods
truth,
neither armed with
the
breafl-plate
of
righteoufnes,
nor
hauing
our
feete-
íhod
with
the
preparation
of
the
Gofpell ofpeace, whereby
wee
might bee
inabled cheare-
fullie
to
march
in the
,atili
ed way,
which
is
full
of
the
.thornes and
briars,
of
tribulation
and
ali6lions,
wherein
we
mull
trauell
if
wee will
goe
to
Gods
kingdome;
neither
yet
hawing,
the fhield
of
faith whereby
wee
might
quench
.thefirie dartes
ofthe
wicked
one, nor
the
helmet
of
falua-
tion,
nor,
yet
any skill
to
vfe
the
E
ord
of
the
Ipirit,.
the
word
of God;
either
for
the defending
of
our felues,
or
the.
offending
of
our
enetmie. -And
whereas we
may
;hope