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arifrrg
from6laJphemdus farggegisns,anfix'ered.663
fuffereth Satan
to fcourgethé
with this three
-
fringed
whip,
that
they
may
be
mooued hereby
to
flee
vnto him
by ferious
repentance
;
and
to difcharge
againft them
thefe canons
of
molt
fearefull
tentations,
that
hee may awake
them out
of
their
deepe
fleepe
offinne,and
mooue
them through this ex-
tremitie
of
danger,
to
buckell
vnto them the
fpirituall
ar-
mour,whereby theymaybe
enabled
to
make
refiflance,not
onely
againil:
thefe blafphemous fuggeflions,
but
likewife
all
other
fatanicall
tentations,
which either
draw or allure
them
to
any
(trine.
More particularlie,when they
haue
not
made
that
confcience
which
theyoought,
of
their
finnefull
and wicked thoughts,either not regarding them
when
they
are conceiued,or
not
repenting ofthem
afterwards:the
Lord
doth
oftentimes
correa
this negligence in his children,
and
by
thefe heauie
croffes
moucth
them,not
onely
to
let
a
watch
z-
before their
lippes,
that
they
offend
not
with their tongue,
Pr
P
alm39
011.4.23.
and
carefully
obferue
their
ae}ions,
that
they
doe
not
fcan-
dalouflie
tranfgrefí'e his
commandements,but
alto
that
they
keepe their hearts
withal
diligence
left
they
offend
the Lord
in their
fecret
thoughts.
But
it
may
the
affli&ed
Chriítian will
further complains,
§,Sec
/.I
T_
that
he
fo
much reuolueth thefe blafphemous
tentations
in
That
though
his
mind,and Lath been
fo
negligent
and flow in
reieCling
our corrupt
nted
ofthem,that
he
greatly doubteth
left
he
hath
yeelded
untob
thcfe
them
fome
liking
and
approbation,
and
left his finneful flefh
blaff
hernies,
be fornewhattainted with them,
as
being
the
diuels
infiru-
yet there
is no
ment,either
in
admitting
or
entertaining them.To
this I
an-
a
re
f
de-
fwere,that
as
there
is
nothing
more vfuall,then
for
a fecure
f1
confcience
ro
excufe,
when it
is
guiltie
:
fo
nothing
is
more
common,then
for
an affiieted
confcience
to
accule
when
it
is
innocent,and
to
lay an
heauie
burthen
vpon
it
felfe
where
the
Lord giueth
a
plaine
difcharge.
Butt
we
may imagine
the wora,let
all
thefe accufations
bee admitted
as
true
and
iuft,yet there
is 'no caufe
why they
fhould'be
thus defperate-
lie
difcouraged
:
firít,becaufe
their
finne
being committed
through
infirmitie
is
pardonable, and
therefore
if
they
vfe
the
tneanes
of
true
repentance,
as
namely,
tobewaile
their
corruption,
to
hate
and abhorre
it,
to
firiue
and
endeuour
to
-:v
mortifie