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Yenta,
ions
'wiing
fròtnbbtrhe
s
feggellions,anfrered.óhl
fciences,and
affurance
ofGods
loue,do him
faithfull feruice,
and
glorifie his
name by
their.
holie
life
and
conuerfation
:
yea teeing our head
Iefus
C
iÌ
r
t
was
the
felfe
fame
manner
Heb.4,c
tempted
like
vs
and
is
therefore touchedwith the
feeling
of
our infirmities,
let
vs
not be
difcouraged
by
thefe
fuggefti-
ons,but
the more
that
latan feeketh
to
difhonour
God
in
our
hearts,the
more zealous
let
vs
fhew
our
felues
in feeking the
aduancement
ofhis
glorie
;'arid
the more
furiouflie
he affaul-
teth
vs,the more refolutely
let
vs
make refiflance,and with
al
the
powers
of
our
foules
repell thefe hellifh blafphetnies,and
then
we
may allure our
felues,that(like other
ofGods
Saints
who
haue
gone before
vs)
we fhall haue
an
happie
iffue
out
ofall
thefe
tentations,and jnioy
a.calme
peace
after
all thefe
dangerous
flortites
and
blufteriug
tempefts.
Thirdlie, let them
know,that it
is
not
a finne
ftnplie to be
4,Sec
.g
tempted,ifwe
do
not
yeeld
to the
tentation,butreßfl it with
3.rhatis
isnot
all
our
power.It
is
no fault in
a
chafle perfon
if
a
filthie
harlot
a
Ante
to be
f
ntice
him to
vncleanhefí'e,
nor in
a
mercifull man
ifhee
bee
tempted
to
prouoked to commit
fome
horrible tnurther;
fo
long
as
they
mié
ve
re=
real
tentations,
and
thew
their
vtter deteftation
of
fR
tbetenta
thefe
f
nnes
:
and
fo
in like manner,
when
as
Satan
be
xtg
a
tion.
fpirit,doth
after
a
fpirituall manner,inwardly
fuggeíi itnme-
diatelyby
himfelfe
into
our
imagination
or vnderflanding
his wicked blafphetnies againft
God,
as
his euill
inftruments
fuggeft their tentations,
accordin
g
to their kind by the
out-
ward
fenfes
;if
we
withftand
and
abhorre
them
as
wicked and
diabolicall,fhewing
no
kind
ofliking
of
them,they
fhall
ne-
uer.be imputed
veto
vs as
our
.finnes,
but
vnto
Satan who
is
the
author
of
them.
For
euen
thrift
himfelfe was
tempted
after the
like
manner,
but
was
free
from finne,becaufehee
withflood
the
tentation
and repelled the tempter.
Neither
doth
our
gratious
God
who
is mot}
iuft,
moll
merciful!,
re-
quire
any
thing
at
our hands
vAich
is
and euer
hath
been
im-
pofïìble
vntovs;but not
to
be
affaulted
with
Satans
aloft im-
pious tentations,was
neuer
in
our
power,
no
not
in
the
hate
ofinnocencie,
before the
fall; and
therefore
thelord
loth
not require that
wee fhould
not bee tempted at
all,
efwhich
himfelfe alone
hath
the abfolute
power and-na creature;
but
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