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Of
Satansmalii.e..
Neither
is Satan
only
an
accufer
and flanderer,
but
alto
an'
executioner or hangman,readie
with
all
alacritie
and foliage
crueltie
to
inflió
that
punifhinent
.the
'which
the Lord
ad-
iudgeth
vs
vnto,as
we may
fee
in
the hifierie oflob
;
and
this
alfo
fheweth
vnto
vs
the:
extreame
malice
of
our
enemie,
whichmaketh him
to forget that
glorious
fiatewherein
hee
was created,
&with
al
willingnes
to
execute
fo
bate an
owe.
4Se7.5.
By all
which appeareth
that
our eneinie Satan
is
mofi
ma.
Ephcfs.,s.
litious,
yea
malitioufneffeit
felfe,
as
hee
is
calledEphef.6.ia.
that
is,the father and author
ofall
malice
andenuie,who
la-
boureth
might
andmaine
to dilhonour
God
and worke our
defiru&ion.
The confiderationwhereoffhould
ronze
vs
out
()four
carnali fecuritie
(whereby
men
behaue
themfelues,
as
though
either
they had no enemie
at
all, or
elsfuch
a gentle.
natured
one,that
they
may haue peace
-with
him
at
their own
pleafure)
feeing.:
there
is
no hope
of
peace
and truce,
vnleffe
wee
can
bee
content to
liue in his
thraldome to
our
vtter
de-
ílru&ion
:for
whomfoeucr he keepeth
as
his
prifoners
inthis
life,he wil
at the
houre
of
death and
iudgement bring
out
to
execution.
Let
vs
therefore
oppofe againft Satansmalice,
Chrifiian
refolution;
fiedfafflypurpofing &'endeuouring to
continue
our fight
in
refifling Satan
to our
liues
end,
how trouble
-
Tome
foeuer
it
feemeth
to
flefh
and
blond. For
teeing there
is
no
truce
to
be hoped for,
nor to be
defired
ifit
were offered;
by
reafon
of
the enmitiewhich is.betweene
vs
and our ene-
mie;
feeing
his
malice isle,
i
nueterate and
mortall,that there
is
no
merde
to
bee expedied,
but
all
barbarous and
raging
crueltie;
Peeing
alto wee
fight the
Lords
battailes, who
bath
affured vs
of
viólorie in the end:This fhould make
vs fo
refo-
lute,that-
though
we
be foiled,wounded,
and
as
it
were
bea=
ten downe on
our
knees,
yet
wee
fhould
neuer yeeld;
but
make refiflance
euento
the
lafi gafpe.
Forwhatmore
hono-
rable
death then to
die
in fighting the
Lords
battailes?
What
death
more
profitable,
Peeing
by dying
we (hall ouer-
come and obtaine a
finall
vic`lorie
ouer
all
our
enemies,
and"
receiue
the
Browne
ofglory
,euerlafiinghappineffe,promifed
to
all
thofe
who fight
valiantly in this
combat vnto
the
end
?
CHAP,