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fromblaf
hemom
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fuge
he vfeth this
diuellifh
policile;
to
prefent vnto our
co
.
gitations
moll
odious and hellifh blafphemics,
that
fj
bee
may
poffeffc
our minds
with horror
and feare, and may caufc
vs
to
make
a
flay
in our Chriflian race,and to
turne our
backs
in
the
fpirituall
fight,
that
fo
wee may
auoid
thefe
horrible
fuggeflions,and
mofi inhumane impieties.
Now
thefe
his
hellifh
fuggeflions are
of'
two
forts;
firfl,
Sef.2.
fuch
as
feeme
to
haue fome
ground
in
corrupted reafon, for
o
fb1aj
hemous
the fuggefling
whereof
he
oftentimes
vfeth
our
f
nfttll
llefh
fergc(iions
as
his
wicked inflrument. And
there
arife
fomtime from ouer
vvhich
jceme
great
profperitie,whereby
men
are
not
onely
brought
to for-
to
bauclome
get
and
neglec`1
the Lord but
euen
like pampered
honks to
wlJCrtce
$
b
;
p
p
tiieyrije.
kicke
againfl their mafler
who
bath
fo
bountifully
fed
them:
fotnetimes from the grieuoufhcs
ofafl?iaions,whereby
men
are mooued
to
murmur
againfl
God,
and
to
repine
againfl
his iudgements
:
fotnetitnes from Ionic
offence
vniufily
ta-
ken from
Gods
word
or workes
;
as
namely from the hmpli_
citie
of
the
Scriptures,
the
foolifhncffe
of
the Gofpell prea
ched,the vnequall adntiniflrationboth
of
Gods
benfits
and
punifhments;
from whence
are
fuch
temptations,
as
the
-fe;
that
there
is
no
God,
or
ifthcre
bee, yet
no
particular prom
dente;
that
he
hath
not:
eies
to
fee
all
things,
nor power
to
rule
them; that
Lee
'is
not
iuft
in his
iudgements, bùt
an
ac,
cepter
ofperfons; that
his
word
is
not
true either
:in
his
pro
miles
or.threatnings; that
hee
maketh
little
account
ofver-
tuetoreward
it,
or
of
finne
topunifhit;
-neitheryet hath
provided either
a
hcauen
for
the
godly,or
a:heli
for
the wic-
ked:,that
Ict men take
what
courfe
they-
will, yet in the
end
either
all
or
none
£hall
b.e.e
faued,
and
a
thoufand
fuch
like.
For
the.vitliflanding
ofwhich
tentations
wee
arc
totake
this
courfe;lríl
we
are
as
footle
as
they
arc
fuggefled to
reie
&
them
as
abotninable,fa ying
in
our hearts,
Godforbid that
I
lhould
entertainc
filch
a
blofphemous conceit
of
the.
mofl
mighty,
wife;
ilia
,and
moil-
gratious
God
of
heauen and
earth;
efpeci
ally
hauing
no reafon
to perfwademe
hereunto
but
the
falls
fug;
eflion
of
the
di
uell,
who
is
a
liar froth
the
l
eg
nning;and
by,htslies
fceketlh
my
defirulion;
orthe
fln-
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vvc
azâ
te
refi(i
the
former kind
a$
blalphemaus
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