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666Tentations
etrifing
from
Ala
phemous
fuggeflions,aȂwered,
cation
by
fatans
fuggeflions
to
be more zealous and diligent
in
Gods
feruice,then
he
being
fruflrated
ofhis
ends
will take
no
pleafure
to labour,not
onely
in
vaine,but
to
Joffe;
but wil
voluntarily
put
an end
to
his
owne
tentations.
And herein
our
Sauiour
Chrifl,hath propounded
himfelfe
as an
example
for our
imitation
;
for
when
he was
tempted by
Satan
to fall
downe
and worfhip
him,
he
did not
onely
repell inflantliie
this blafphemous
fuggetlion, faying,
auoide
Satan,
but
alfo
tooke
occafion
hereby
to
be
put
in remembrance
ofthat
true
worfhip and
feruice
which
hee was
to
performe to
his
hea-
uenly father,
as
being properand
peculiar
to
him
alone,fay_
Matth.q.to.
ing,Iris'tritten,
thouJhalt
worfhip
the
Lord
thy
Çcd,
nd
him
only
'halt
thou
[rue.
4.Sea.15.
But
here
the
afllieled
Chriftian will be readie to obie
,'
That
our
unfit-
that
howfoetter this
were-a
good
courfe
indeede for
men
of
nejfe to holy
ex-
quiet thoughts
;
yet
it
would
little
auaile him
who
is
fo
di-
ercifes
mujt
not
flra6
ed in
all
holie duties
with
thefe
blafphemous
fuggefli-
difcourage
vs
ons,and
fo
molefled and
troubled
in his
mind,:
that
hee can
,rm
the
vfe
of
neither pray,nor reade,nor
conferre
with
any
fenfe
or
vnder-
fianding;
but
euer
and anon
he
is
diflurbed in
thefe
holy
ex-
ercifes
with
thefe
hellifhtentations;fo
that
his hearing,prayy,
ing
and
reading, doe
not
only
become vnprofitable,
but
all()
are
turned(as
he
feareth)into
fin.
I
anfwere,
that
howfoeuer
they cannot
perfortne thefe duties
as
they
would,
yet they
mull doe them
as
well
as
they
can;
yea
and
the
more they
are
incuinbred and
troubled,
the more
earnef}
and
inflant
mull they
bee
in
doing
of
them.
Forthefe
exercifes
are
our
bell
fpirituaIl
weapons,whereby
wee repell
the
force
of
the
enemie:and
therefore
let not
Satan
perfwade vs,
to
call away
our
weapons
in
hope
of
peace,
becaufe we
cannot
manage
them according to
our delire, for
then
being
vtterly difar-
med,he
will
obtains
an ealic-vi6torie,
and make
vs
his
flaues.
They
are
the ordinance
of God,
and
meanes
of
faluation,
which
he
hath inioyned
vs
to vfe; and therefore
though
we
find
no prefent
good,nor
haue
any
other
reafon
to
mooue
vs
to
fpend our time
in
them,
yet let this be fufftcient,thatGod
bath
commanded them, and confequently
letting
allele
all
manner
ofdifputation, let
vs
bee
diligent
in
performing
Of
them