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How Satan
molted) men
to
reft
in
a
co'
feit repentance.
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nifeflifthey
recouer
of'their
fickn e.
And therefcre
feting
there
is
fach
great
diflimilitude and difference
in
their
pur-
pofes,liucs and courfes
it
is
not
probable
that
they
will
euer
be like
in their conuerfion,death
and faluation.
CHAP.
XXXI.
Satans tentations
mooing
men
to
reft
in
a
counterfeit
repen-
tance,anfwered.
Nd
fo
much
for
the
anfwering
of
thofe
tentati-
pea.
1.
ons,whereby
Satan
laboureth to
make
vs
delay
That
she pro
-
and
deferre
our repentance from day
to
day
:
mifesefthe
with which,ifhe
cannot preuaile,both becaufe
Gofpcll
are
wee
fee
the
neceffitie
of
re
entance
veto
falua_
made
on .y
to
p
re-
tion,and
alto plainly perceiue
by.
the
former
reafons
that
de-
thofe
pent ferio
re-
laies are
moll dangerous, then
hee
will labour
in
the next
place
to
perfwade
vs
to content
our
felues
with
a
finali
mca-
fure
ofrepétance,orrather
in
truth with
a
counterfeit mock
-
repentance, which
is onely in-outward
thew
and neuer
pear-
ceth the
heart;
making
vs
beleeue,
that ifwhen
we
fee
our
finnes,hauing our
cònfciences
conuinced out
of
Godsword,
wee
doe
in
force
generali
termes
confeffe
that
we
are
all
(in-
ners, and
define
God
after
a
formali
manner to
haue mercie
upon
vs,
if
wee
can fome'time
firaine from
vs a
broken
figh,
and be
content to
leaue
force
of
our
leaf+
pleafing
finnes,our
repentance
will be
very
acceptable to
God,and
f
efficient
for
our
faluation.
And with
this tentation
Satan
deluded'
and
deflroyeth
innumerable
men
in
thefe
our
daies, and
therefore it
behoo-
ueth
cuery man
to
prepare himfelfe for
this incounter. And
to
this end
wee are
to know,that
the
mercie
ofGod,and
me-
rits
of
Chrif},
doe
not belong
vnto thofe who thus flubber
otter
their repentance; neither
doth
Chrift
Iefus call
vnto
him
fuck
as
flightly forrow for
their
fumes,
and
thinke
the
burthen ofthem light
and
eafie
to
bee
borne, but
fitch
as
labour
and
are
heauie
loaden
as
appeareth
Matth.I t.2S.
Come
unto
me
all
yee
who
are
wearie
and
heauie loaden,and
I
will
Matth.t
i,ßò,
cafe