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e,mtion:
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fing
from
fiegefr
iorr
r,4Yfr-ered.
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may teach
vs
how to confute there temptations
;
and
when
we
cannot
finde any
cafe
by our owne rncanes, wee
are
to
difcouer our
infirmities
to
the fpirituall phyfcions
of
Ott"
foules,
who
may reach
and applie
vnto
vs
ÇÇcciall
remedies
for euery particular
temptation,
when our
ovine weakeeeffe
will
not
fuller
vs
to
take
and
vfe
them.
The other kind
of
blafphentous fuggcflions
are fuch,as
434,17.4.
are
without
all
fhew
of
reafon
or appearance
of
truth,fenfe-
of
1F,,
fe
bla
r
is ly
abfurd, and no
lcffe
admirable for
their
fottifhneffe,
phcn:ourtenta.,
then
for
their ccllifhimpietie
there
are
feldome fuggefled
fromzibieb
are
into
the
minds
ofciuill worldlings,or ofany other
w
ho re- potusá
d
maine
he
vaffals
of
Satan,
vnleffe
it
be
fuch
as
match
them-
gaite
veide
of
felues in impious malice
again(}
God;
for they
are
abouc
the
reajon.
pitch
of
naturali
corruption,and
appeare
odious and abomi-
nable
euen
by the
light
ofnature
;
they
firike
horror
& fcare
euen
into
the heart
ofa
naturali
man,
and
feemc
ftrangelie
wicked to thole who
are
wholly
fwaied
with
the
flefh
and
the
lulls
thereof.
And
therefore it flandeth
not
with
Satans
policie,
to
fiuggefl
fuch
abominable
thoughts into
the
minds
ofordinarie
(inners,
and
fecure
worldlings,
left
hereby
lice
fhould
waken
their
fleeping confciences, route
vp
their
dead
hearts,
and
left
hauing
vnreliflable occafïon
to
fee,
miflike
andbewaile
there
horrible blafphemies, they fhould hereby
be mooued to repent,
not
onely for
thefe,but
alto
their other
finnes.
But
there
hellifh blafphemieswhich cannot
without
trembling be
thought
on,much
lefle named
by
a
Chriflian,
he
vfually
cafleth
into themind offuch,as endeuour
to
come
out
of
the power
of
darkeneffe, and to
ferue
the Lord
in
vp-
rightneffe
of heart;
not
vfing
herein the
helpe
ofthè.flefh,
as in
other tcntations,it being
no
fit
infirument
for
this
im-
ploiment,
becaufe
there blafphemies are
fo
horrible
wic-
ked,
that
they
are
aboue
the conceit
of
corrupted nature,
but
cafleth this hellifh wildfire
into
the-mind with great
rwiftneffe
and
violence
by
his ovule'
immediate fliggefli-
on.
Now
Satans
maine fcope
herein;
is
not
to
moouc or per-
4.Sec1.5.
(wade
the Chríflan,to
giueeaffen:and
approbation vnto
there
Satans morns
horrible
blafphemies (althoUgh
fuchishisimpudencie
and
;eeptinpiaeb.
audacious