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Teltatiow4rifil
from
li
fpbem
w
fuggetiónr,anfiwered.
only
that being
affaulted
by
the
diuell we:make
refifance;
iam.4.7.
and
that
-
putting
on
the
whole
fpirituall
armour,we
fight va-
Ephcf:6.to.
liantly
in this fpirituall
confli
:t
againfl the
enemies
ofour
fauation.
Neither
hath the
Lord
promifed
that
we fhall
not
'be tempted(yea contrariwife
he hath
giuen
vs
manifold war
-
ning
of
the malice,furie,anddangerous
affaults
ofour
fpiri-
tuall
enemies)
but
onelie
that
hee
will giue
a
good
iffue
to
the
tentation,
and
not
fuller
vs
to
bee tempted
aboue
our
r.Cor,1o.t3.
power.
§Se`9
But here
the
weake Chriflian will be
readie
to
demand,
Hovv
vve
tray
how he
may
be
affured
that
bee
hath
refitted
thef
blafphe-
be a(Jured
that
mous
fu
eftions
and
not
faintly
eelded
veto
them
feein
vve
rcfft
thrfc
gg
y
g
blafpherús,
his
mind
is
continuallie
troubled
and molefled
with
them
?
I
anfwere,
that
inrthe
outward
man wee
reff
`them, when
as
we doe
not
Ib a4Iually yeeld
by our words or
deedes,as
that
our
yeelding.is
fubiee}
to
our_lenfes;
and inwardly we
refifl
them,whenwe
neither
approue
them
in
our
iudgement, nor
incline
veto
them
in.
our
affeelion,
with the
leaft.
liking
or
delight.
And
-therefore
when in our iudgement wee con
-
demne there blafphemous
fuggettions,
as
falle
and
damnably.
wicked,
and when
in
our
affeeiion wee
abhorre
and
detefl
'-
theiii and
are
much vexed
and grieued
that.
fuch
horrible
tentations fhould enter into
our minds,when
we are
affrigh-
ted
and aflonifhed at, their
firft appearance,
and delve aboue
:211
things
in
the
world to bee
freed from
them;
then doe
wee make
that
couragióus
refilance
which
God requi-
reth,
and (hall in
the
end
find
that
gratious promife vere-
fled
vnto
vs,
that
thus
ref
fling
the
diuellhee
wí1
flee
fromvs,
Tam
4.7
Iam.4.y.
Lafllie,
let
them
know to their
comfort,
that
there fata-
4. That
!held
nicall
fuggeflions
with
which they
are
fo
much
,vexed
and
b14fphemou5
-
nnolefled,howfoener
they
are
to
Satan
mofldammnable
and
fnggeflions
tae
outragious
finnes,
yet
to
them who thus refill them they are
not
frnner to
not
euill;
or
(if
euill
at
all
the euill
of
unifhment and
not
the
faitbfall
p
JJut
irojiis,
the
euill
of
finne,
which the Lord
in his infinite wifedome
and
goodieffe
turneth to the
good ofhis children.For
when
thofe
w'ho
belong
to
Gods
election,
fecurely liue
in
their
-.fi!ntes,
and
put off
the
time
AD'
taue
conuerfion;the
Lord
fuffereth