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Satans
temptations improouing
our
faith.
who
are
affeéually
called
againff,
their
faith
and
tliefe
are
of
two
forts
:
the
firft
whereby
hee
laboureth
to
perfwade
them
that
they haue
no
faith;
the fecond,
that
their
faith
(if
they
haue any)
is
fo
weake,
fo
imperfe6,
and
fo
mixt
with
doubting, that
it
is
altogether
infufficient
for their
faluationo
For
the
fit
il,he
will thus
frame his
tentation
:Though
thou
boafteft much
ofthy
faith, and therebyprefumefl
that thou
(halt
attaine vnto faluation, herein
thou
maiefl much de-.
ceiue
thy
felfe, and
altogether
faile
of
thy
purpofe; for
there
may be
in
many fhewes and fhadowes
offaith,
and yet
no-
thingin
them
but
infidelitie
;
there are
alfo
many kinds
of
faith,
and yet
but
one iuftifying
and fauing
faith
;
there
is a.
generali
or
hifloricall faith; there
is
a
faith
ofworking mira-
cles,
which
Was
had
as
wel
as
Per
;there
is
a
temporarie
or-
hypocriticall faith, there
is
a
dead
faith,
there
is alfo
carnali
prefumption,
w'herewi'.h many
who
haue made
gcodlie
fhewes
,haue
been
bewitched
and deceiued
to theirperditi
--
on
;
feeing
then there
are
many
falfe
faiths,for
one
true
faith,,
it
is
likely
that
thine
is
one
ofthe
greatef}number,
and
con
-.
fequentlie, no true
faith.And therefore doe
not
fla:
ter
and
de-
ceiue
thy
felfe
in
thy fond prefumption, by applying-vnto
thy
felfe
the
fweete
promifes and
gratiou,
confolations
of
the Gofpell,
for they appertaine onlie vnto thofe who
are
in-
dued with
a
true,liuely and iuflifying
faith,of
which
thou art:
altogether dellitute.
Sea
.2..
And thus
Satan
indeuoureth
to
perfwade the Chriflian.-
Satans
tefli-
exercifedin the combate
oftentations that
hee
hath
no
faith,
mcnie
no good
to the
end
that
he may def
roy
it,and
ifit
were poflible
bring
reafon
to prose
it
indeede
to nothing.
To
which tentation
wee
may
firf+
an-
ijeFaue
fweere thus generallie,
that.
Satans
teflimonie
is
no
found
no
John
S.44.
argument to proue that
we haue
no
faith,
nor
to
be beleeued
ofvs,feeinghe
is
not
onelie
a
malitious
murtherer,who
con
-
tinuallie
feeketh
our
dePeru
lion,
but
alfo
a falfe
liar
from-
the
beginning,
who bath not
feared
to belie
men onelie
but euenGod
himfelfe,accufing
him
ofvntruth,
enuie
and-
want
of
power
in
that
tentation,
wherewith
bee
affailed
and'
ouercameour
firfl
parents
:
-and
therefore
if
he
be
fo
audaci
oufly
impudent,
as
that
he:durfibelie
God
himfelfe,
we
may.
affure