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Yentationr arrfing
from
bl
Piemosts
flaggejlion.r,anfwered.
committed,
but
extend
them
alfo
to
the
fame
Panne
corn
-
mitted
diuers times,
yea
to
all
finnes
whatfoeuer
of
which
we truely repent.
4:Sea.
t.
Ofthe
tempta-
tion
of
hlafphe-
tttiea.
C
HAP.
X
I.
Hoir
Satan
labonreth
to
hinder
and
difcourage the
we*
Chrifltan
in
the courte
o
f
fanUtif
cation,
by
caging into his
mind
61afphemosts
fuggeflions.
Nd
thus haue
I
anfwered
Satans
temptations;
drawee
from thofe
finnes
which
the weake
Chriflian hath indeede
fallen
into
;
but
if
hee
-$
cannot
fo
preuaile,then will
he falfely
and
ma-
litiouflie
accufe
them
of
thofe
fnnes,
which
they
neuer
committed,
or
at
leaf}
not
in
that manner and
meafure
as
he
chargeth them. And
thefe are
principally
of
two forts;
the
firf}
are
impious
fúggef
}ions,
and
horrible
blafphemies,
direly
againf}
the
Maieflie
of
God
himfelfe;
the other
is
that
vnpardonable
Panne
againfl the
holy
Ghoft.
Concerning
the
former;
when
as
Satan cannot ouercharge
the
confcience
of
the weake
Chrif}ian,
by ripping
vp
and
aggrauating
thofe hnnes which
lie
hath
in
truth committed,
nor
caufe
him defperately
to
defif}
from
going
forward-in
the
court
of
fandlification
;
then
hee
fuggefieth into his
mind horrible
blafphemies
againf}
Gods
Maieflie, and
con
-
tinuallie
turmoileth
him
with
mot}
impious
thoughts,that
hereby hemay
difira.óf
his
mind
from holy meditations,
and
vtterly
dif'courrage
him
in
all Chrifiian
exercifes.
And
as
the
King
ofMoab
when
he
could
nor
breake
through
the
forces
of
the
Iirae'ites, nor
make them
furceafe
their
vidorious
fight,prefented veto their
view
an
horrible
and
abominable
fpedlale,
f:crificing unto his
Idols
vpon
the
wall
his
Beare
fonne
and.heirecf
his
kingdoine, that being not
able
to in-
dure
fuch
an
inhumane
murther
they
might
flee
the fight
thereof,and
glue
otter
their vidlorious
court;
fo
when
the
prince
of
darkcnef
eis
foiled in the fpirituall
fight,by
our
re-
foluedproceeding
in
the:courfe
of
godlines;
for his
laß
re-
.fuge