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'0f
the
malice
of
our
fpritsidlenemie SAW.
2
+
that it
is
moil
malitioufly
bent
againfl vs,'fo
that
there
is
no
Salass'sill
hope
of
truce or reconciliation
with
him,
though
wee could
m
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144"4"(4°-
find
in
our cowardly hearts
to labour and
fue
for a
difhono-
table
peace
with
Gods
and our
en.emie.
For
his malice
is
not
newly conceived
but
inueterate,euen
as
ancient within
a
few
daiesas
the world
it
l'elfe,
and
much more durable
;
for
the
world
(hall haue an
end,
but
Satans
malice
to mankind
is
endleffe, becaufe
the
caufe
thereof, namely,the loue and fa-
uour
ofGod
toward
the faithfull(whofe
eflate he
doth
enuy
and
maligne,
himfelfe
being
eternally reprobated) (hall be
endleffe
and eternal'. And
this appeareth
in
the
example
of
our
firfl
parents,who
were no fooner placed in the
garden
of
pleafüre,
and
poffeffed
ofParadife, but
Satan
being
almoft
burft
With
enuie
to
fee
their
happie
eflate, neuer
idled
til he
had difgorged his
malice, and
difpoffeffed
them
of
that
hap
-
pineffe
which theyenioyed: Neither doth
he
leffe
maligne
and
hate.
thole
who being fallenin
Adam are
railed
vp
in
Chriti,
and
haue
the
fee iimple
of
euerlafiing
glorie, purcha-
fed'by
Chrifts
merit
Pealed
and
allured vnto
them by the
Spi..
ritof
God
and
a
liuely
faith. And
hence
it
is
that the Lord
(knowing
Satans
malice
towards
his
children,and
that whe-
ther
he fawneth
or frowneth,he
aiwaies feeketh
their
deflru-
&ion)hath
proclaimed
open warres betweene.
vs,Gen.3.15.
Gen.'
a S.
that
we may aiwaies fiand upon
our
guard,and
not
bJ
furpri-
fed at
vnawares
that
alto
we
may
not
entertaine
a
thought
ofpeace,though
Satan
offer
it
on whatfoeuer conditions:for
what
peace can
there be betweene the children
ofGod
and
the
children
of
Belial,
betweene the
feede
of
the woman
and
the
feede
ofthe
ferpent,feeing
God
hitnfelf from
the
begin-
ning bath put
enmitiebetweene them
?
But
as
the
malice
of
Satan
is
inueterate, fo
alfo
it
is
mor-
Seci.2ro
tal
and
deadly,
not
to
be
fatisfied
by
offering a final'
iniurie,
tans malice
by
taking
away our
goods
and
good
name, or
affliciing
vs
i°yned
vvitb
with
fickneffe,
no not
by
taking
away our
lines;
for
nothing
violence.
will
fatisfie
him
but
our
finall
deflruóiion
ofbody
and foule.
And
this his malice
is
liuely
deciphered
vnto
vs
by
diuers
names which
are
giuenhim
in
the Scriptures.Forhe
is
called
Satan,that
is,
an
aduerfarie,
full
readie
to
croffe vs
in
all
dur
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