48 / 772
2
0
Of
SamnI
m
dice.
Num.
zs.r.a.
them.
As
wemayffee
ifwe
compare
Num.25.r.2.with
the
and
;
r.16.
3
I chapter and
i
6.verfe,
and
Apoc.2.14. And
thus alto this
Apoc
z.á4,
wild
boare would haue broken downe
the hedge which
de-
fended
(o6,by
tempting
him
to
blafpheme
God..
And
thus
our
fiibtill
enem,ie Sinon
-like
inticeth
vs
with
deceiuing
al-
lurements,
euen
with
our
ovcnie
hands to breake downe
the
wall
of
our
defence,
and to make
an open
paffage for
whole
troupes
of
Gnnes
to enter
and
furprize
vs, while(!
we (ouer_
come
with
a
falfe
ioy)glut
and make our
felues
drunke
with
the
cup
ofvoluptuous
pleafures,
and
lie
fnorting
in
the dead
fleepe
ofcarnall
fecuritie,
not
fo
much
as
once
dreaming
of
our approching
ruine and deílru6 ion.
And
hereofhe hath
the
name
of
tempter giuen him,
yea
hee
is
not
onelie
called
a
tempter,but,
xs.
?
oxta,
ó
Preset
kthe
blatth.4.z. tempter,
becaufe he
is
a
temperoftempters,
and
ásit
were
a
t.Thef
34e..
tempter by profeífìon.Mat.4.z.
I.Thef.3.5,
The
confideration
whereof
Ihould make
vs
moll
careful!
to withftand
alJ
his
temptations,whereby
he allureth
vs
vnto.
finne. For
ifwe
yeeld
vnto them, he will
furely difarme
vs
of
Gods
favour and
protedion,and
fo deadly
wound
our
fouler
when
he
hath
made
them naked.
There
is
no
wife man
will
put
offhis armour and
cafl
away
his
weapons in the prefence
of
his cruell enemie,
though
he perfwade
him thereto
with
many flattering
fpeeches
and faire promifes; and
flu'
we
let
Satan difarme
vs,becaufe
he allureth. vs.thereto, by promi
fing fome vnlawfull profit or vaine
pleafure,efpecially feeing
we
know
him to be
an enemie
no
leffe
treacherous
then ma-
litious
?
But
as
he
is a
tempter to
intice
vs
vnto
finne,
fo
alto hee
is
our
accufer
after
that
we
haue
finned,
requiring
ofGod that
he
will
execute hisiuflice vpon
the
offenders
who
haue
de-
ferued
purifhment..Of
this
there neede no
further.
proofe
Ich
3.
..
then
his ovine tef}imonie,
Iob.
Y.7.
where he
profeffeth
that
he
had
been compaffing
the earth
about;
like
a
promoter
to
fpie
out faults,that
hee
might
informe
againf}
the
offenders.
But
becaufe
we will
not
refl in
his
tellimonie,who
is
the fa-
ther oflies,
weewill adde
thereunto
another
of
vndoubted
.poc.t
z.ao.
authoritie
;for.Apoc,
i
2..
i
o,it,is
faid,that the
Saints
reioyce,be-
caf