46 / 772
8
Of
t
he
malice
efaarfprritsiall
enemle
Satan,
Zach.;.i.
fuites:
which
we make
vnto
God,
as
he
did
leheAtta
the
hig5
Match.:3.39.
Prieft,
Zach.3.i.He
is
called an
enemie,Mat.r
3.39
and that
a
malitious
one
;
for where Chrift the
good
husbandman
foweth wheate,
there he foweth teares,
thatis,hypocrites
a.
mongf} true profeffors,
to the difhonour
ofGod,the
difcre-
dit ofthe
Gofpell, and
the reprock
of
the
true
profeffours
thereof.
And
1ef{we
fiouldthinke
that
hee
is
Tome
mild
natured
enendie
who
will be
fatisfied
with
fume
finall
reuenge,
hee is
called
a
murtherer
and axnanflaier,
as
though
this were
his
profeffionand
occupation. And
leftwe
fhould
imagine him
to
be one lately
fallen
to
this
trade,our
Sauior
telleth
vs
that
john
&44.
hehath
been
fo
from the beginning,fo
that
like an old
hang-
man
he
is
flefht
in
bloud and
crueltie
;
and therefore
feeing
we
can
hope
for no
mercie
at
his
hands,
let
vs fo
much
the
more couragiouflie
oppofe our
felues
againft him.
But
far
as
much
as
the
moft fauage man
hath
fotne
re-
liques
ofhumanitie
left in
him, therefore the holle Ghoft
compareth
him
to
b.eaits,that we may expeoì
nothing
from
him
but
brutifh
crueltie;
as
firfl
to alion,yea
a
lion roring
after
his
pray, who
is
fo
hungrie and
rauenous,
that
he
deft_
reth nothing
more
then
to
leaze
vpon
that
which hepurfu-
z,Pe;.
;J.._
eth,i.Pet.5.8.Now
who would
not
be
moft.carefull
to
keepe
himfelfe
out
of
the
pawes
offuch
a rauenous
bean?
or
if
het
were incountred
byhini,who
would
not
refit}
him
if
he
had
anyhope ofvi
&orie
?
But
in
truth
Satan
is
faire
more
crueIl.then
the roring
lion, who
(if
wee
may
giue credit
to
hiftories) fpareth thofe
that
fall downe.flat
before
hima;
whereas
if
he
fhould
get
vs
at
filch
aduantage,
he
would proudly
trample
vs
under
foot,
and
make
vs
Pure
for
euer
rifmg;and
thereforeleft
weft-mulct
...
looke
for
any
mercie
at his
hands
by
fubmiffion,
the
h-olie.
Apác.t2.3
Ghoft-calleth
him thegreatrecldragon, Apoc.11.3. which
beaft beareth
fuch
naturalimalice
to
mankind,
that
bee
de-
uoureth
them not onely
for hunger,
but alfofar.ffort
or
hat,.
tred,in fatisfying.whereof
heetakethgreat
delight;
fueh
a-
beat}
is
our
enetnie,
who
is fo flefht in
bloud
and crueltie,
a
d
fó ouetcaried
with
malice
and hatred,
that
he
efieerneth