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Of
the
Flefli.
mie
;
we
cannot
famifh our
e.nemie,
but
we our
felues
!hall
pine with
hunger.
Who
would
not thinks
the
eflate
ofthofe
citizens
to
be mofl
dangerous, who being befieged by for-
raine forces,
harbour
amonga
them
more
traitors which
arc
hourely
in readines
to
open
the gates and
betray
the citie
in-
to their
enemies
hands,than truefrtbieéls
and
loyall
citizens
to 'land
in
their
defence?
But this
is
our
cafè,we are
befieged
with
forraine forces,the world and the diucll;and
we
nourifh
-in vs
fecret traitors,euen the
flefl-i,
with whole legions
of
the
luí
#s
thereof,
Which are
continually readie
to
open the
gates
of
our
our
fenfes
of
feeing,hearing,touching,ta-
fling,finelling,wherebywhole
troupes
of
temptations enter
and
fitrprize
vs.
The confderation whereof
fhoul-d
make
vs
moll
watch
§.sea,
3
fully
to
(land vpon
our guard,
and to
vie
fuck
Chri(lian
poli-
Hevv the
fiefh
cie
to withfland
our enemies,
and prevent
their
treacherous-is
to
be
vveak
.attempts,as true-hearted
citizens would
vfe
in
the like
cafe;
nod.
who
if
they were befieged
with
forraine forces,
and knew
that
they harboured traitors,
whofought
all
opportunities
of
betraying their
citie
into
their
enemies
hand,
they
would
ifthey
were
ílrong
enough
lay
hand
on-them,
-draw
them
to
the
place
of
judgement,
condemne and put them
to
death;
but
if
they found them too
great
and
flrong
a
partie, then
they would
vfe
all
good
policie
to make them weaker,by
de-
priving them
of
their
foode and prouifion,weapons,
armour
and munition, and
all
other
meanes
wherein
confifled
their
chiefe
flrength;
and then they would let
vpon
them
being
thus
difabled, and proceede in the
courfe
of
iuflice
before
mentioned
:
fo
we
being
in continual! danger
to
haue
the ci-
tie
of
our
foules
lacked
through the
treacheroufneffe
of
our
fiefh, rnufl,
if
we
be
thong
enough
and
powerfull
through
Gods fpirit,mortifie,
kill,
and
abolifh
the flefh,.and
the
lulls
-thereof;
but
if
we findé
the
fpirit weake and
the
flefh
ílrong,
we
are
to
difable
it
by falling
and.watchfulnes in prayer,
by
withdrawing
from
it
the foode with which it
is
nourifhed,
that
is,
voluptuous
pleafures
and worldly delights;
but
efpe-
cially
being
weake
in
our
felues, we
are
to
implore the
aide
and
aflïflance
ofGods
fpirit,
whereby
we may be
flrengthe-
p
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