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o ¡That
a
Pna
arid
veake
f
iitli
may
Lea
true
figitb:
nor we feare
the
paines
of
hel,we
cafe
our
(clues
into
them
by
falling into utter defperation;
as
ifaman
for
feare
of
death
fhould
cut
his
ovine
throate,
or for
feare
of
hanging
fhould
drinke
fornc
deadly,poif
on,
whereby they
are prcfen
die
tor..
merited
with that which
they fearefully
abhorred,
and
chofe
rather to
bee
oppreffed
with the
euill they feared,
then any
longer
to
indurethe
feareit
felfe.
Which
howfoeuer
it
may
carry
íome
Phew
ofreafon
in
vndergoing
a
motnentanie
and
temporarie
death,
wherein oftentimes the
feare
is
more
itn-
tollerable then the
paine
feared;
yet
it
is
extreatne
tnadneffe
to
plunge a
mans
felfe
bodie and
foule.
into
the
eternal' tor-
ments
of
hell, rather
then
fora
time to
indure the horror
thereof,
feeing
this
horror
and
feare
is
but
a fmall
fleabiting
in
refpe61
ofthofe
hellifh punifhments, and
as
it.
were
but
a
finoke
of>that_
eternal'
fire.
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CHAP.
XLVL
.
Satans
tentations
concerning
fin4blçj
ê
and
weakerefe
o
f
f
ait
h
an[
ered..
§:.
SeEI.
á,
7'here is
no
filch perfeft
faith,vvhich
is
n®t
a¡fiulted
yvith
d4+tb-.
3i.
Nd
fo
much
for anfwering thófe
tentations,whcr-
by
Satan
laboureth
to
perfwade
the
affli&ed
Chriaians
that
they
haue no
faith: wherewith
if
he
cannot preuaile,in the next
place hee
will
tell
them
that
their
faith
is fo
final,ifit be
any
atall,fo
overwhel-
med
with
doubting,
fo
vnfruitfull,
and
fo
mixt
with
imper-
fe6iions,.that it will
not
bee
of
feauall
and
futñcient for
their
faluation.
Which tentation
ifwe
would withfrand,
we
muff`
not
dreame or
imagine,
that
to
haue
a
true faith,i:s:to.hauea
perfe& faith
which
is
neuer
affaulted
with doubting
nor
fha-
ken with
any
temptations,
for there
is
no
fuch
faith
to bee
found
in
any
ofGods
children,
feeing
the
mof
perfect
are
partly flefh,andpartly
fpirit-;
and as
the fruite
of
the
fpirit
is
faith
and
affiance
in
God,
fo
the
fruit.
ofthe
flefh
is
doubting
.-and
infidelitie,and
there
continually
affault
and.ight
one.a
-
gainfl
another.
,Agailie,
we
are
toknow that
there'are.
diners degrees
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