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1

'

Satan

aggrauateth

the

finne

oft

he

f

úthtuIt. 04

t

hath

but

frnall

proceedings,

if

we

hunger

after more perfe-

}ion,and carefullie

vfe-

the meaneswhereby

we

may

attaine

to

truc

holineffe.

.

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CHAP.

SIX.

"Satan,

temptations

:rherebybeaggraurteth

our

linnet

in

generail,aVivered.

Nd

fo

much

concerning

-thole

temptations

of§

;1.

i

Satan,

which

he

groundeth

upon

our naturali

Hvge msarart

corruptionsandour

finali

meafure

of

fanéifi-

tervijiabthe

cation.

Now

wee

areto

fpeake

of

fuch

as

hee

Chr;

fïrans

cor,

-.

fuggeíleth

after we

haue

committed

fouie

ac-

tual] finnes

:

and thefe

are

either

in rcfpe&

of

cur fnnes

in

gz~ne.

n

gcnerall,

or

els

form

íj;eciall finne

into

which

wee

haue

fal-

len.

Concerning

the

firfi,

when

The

wake

Chriflian (who

bath

a

tender

confcience, and therefore

cannot bee perfwa-

-ded

to

lie

fecurely in his finne)

hath

through

the

Prength

of

his owne

corruptions,and

violence

of

his

temptations, com-

mitted

any

finne

againli

his

knowledge

and confcience,

then

doth the tempter (who

before

his

fall

ex:eedingly

ex-

tenuated

and minced

his finne,

now

after

that

he

is

fallen

in-

to

it)

out

of

meafure aggrauai,e

the

grieuoufneffe

and hai-

noufnes

ofhis

offence,

partly

in

refpeóó

of

the nature

and

qualitie

ofthe

finne

it

felfe,

and partly

in

refpeái

of

the`

cir-

cumliances,

as

being

committed

after

his

calling, againli

his

knowledge,

in

fuch

a,

time

or

place, and by

fuch

a

perfon,

as

God

is

thereby

moli diíhonoured,and

his

brethren

offended

by

his

bad

example.

And thus hauing

as

it

were

ftrctched

out

his

finne

vpon

the tentars

of

his

temptations,

and

with

the blaflsofhisfalfe

fuageitionsmade ofeuerie

final' drop

great bubble, then doth

hee alfo fet

before him the

curfe of

the

law,

Gods

fearefuil

iudgements,the

plagues and

punifh-

ments

ofhis

life, and

eucrlafling death

and-

condemnation

in

the

life

to

come, continually accufing

and-

terrifying him

as

being

guiltie

of

all

thefe

fearefull

euils,'by reafon

ofhis

flumes,

to

the

end

that

hereby

being vtterly

diicöuragcd,hee

-T

t

may