686 / 772
g.sec7
.7.
2. That this
tentatión of
bla;phemies is
:common
to
af-
fidied
Chrift;-
MY
*.
s.C3r,zo.
z
3.
660
T'ersx
"lion'
4rifsng
fro
htlafphemous
fuggellionfonfwered.
rightpef1e:of heart
defre
to
feare
loue
and
ferue
the
Lord?
Secondlie, they may
bee difcerned
to
be
Satans
.
fL,ggeflions,
by the
inThner
of
their
iniedion
;
which
is
not
voluntarie,vpon deliberation
and
choice, or
feldome,
as a
mans owne
thoughts
vfuallie
are,but
fuddaine like
a
flafh
of
lightning,with
fuch
vnauoidable
violence,
that
they cannot
by
any
wit
or
flrength
ofthe
partie bee preuented,
and
that
contiuually,ene following
in
the necke
of'
another.
Lafllïe,,
'whereas
a
mans
owne
thoughts being
naturall,worke
no
ex
traordinarie
perturbation
ofmind;
contrariwife
thefe
blaf..
phemous fuggef
}ions
flrike
a
mans
heart
with
filch
horror
and feare,
that therewith the
vnderflanding
is
aflonifhed,
the
heart quaketh,the mind
is
diflraól
ed, the ioints tremble,
and
the haire
ofthe
head
flandeth
an end
;
whereby
it
plain-
lie
appeareth,that
feeing
thefe
fuggeflions
are fo
contrary
to
nature,and worke
therein
fuch
grievous and
bitter effeas,
they
are meerely fupernaturall and diuelli
fh
and do
.not
a-
rife
from our
owne
corrupt lufts,with
which
they haue
fo
lit-
tle familiaritie and agreement.
Secondly, let
fuch
as
are vexed
with
there
fuggeflions
know to their comfort,that
howfoeuer
Satan
to
make
their
eflate
more defperate,perfwadeth
them
that neuer
any
that
belong
vnto
God
haue
fuch
blaf?hemies
call
into their
minds
:
yet
the
truth
is
that
there
is
no kind
oftemptations
more commonly
incident to Gods
dear.°
feruants
affli
&ed
in
minde,
and exercifed
in thefe
fpirituall
conflicts,
then this
tentation
of
blafphemous
thoughts.
Yea,fo ordinarily
doth
Satan
fight with
this
weapon,that
he
durfi
affault
therewith
ourSauiour
:lefus,Chrifl,
howfoeuer hee
was
the vnfpotted
lambe
ofGod,in
whom there
was no
man-ex
of
Gnne,
no
not
fo
much
as
the
leaf}
degree
of
carnali concupifcence; for
what
more
horrible
blafphemie
coúld be
imagined, then
to
renounce God,
and
his
pure
woríhip
and feruice,and like
Sa-
tans
deuoted
vaffall,
to
fall
downe
and
worfhip
him
?
And
therefore
Peeing
no
tentation hath
taken
hold
of
vs
which
appertaineth
not
to others, and feeing
many
of
Gods
fer-
uants who
haue
been
thus
tempted,are
now by
his grace
de-
livered from this
tormenting
furie, and
in
rt
oftheir
con
-
fcicnce