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THE
EPISTLE
DEDICATORIE.
mightie power, yet doe
they
exceedingly
with
their
affaults
and
temptations,
foyle,
vexe
and trouble
them
by working in force, forgetfulneffe
of
God
and
of
themfelues,
fecuritie,
and
careleffe
retchlef-
ncffe;
and
turwoyling
others
with
horrible
feares,
defperate
doubting,
aid
bitter agonies.
Whereby
it
commeth to
pafle,
that
the one fort
fecurd
ly goe
on
in
finne,
forgetting
the
end
of
their
creation,
re-
demption, and holie
vocation, vnto which
God
bath
called
them,
vntill with
Salomon
they haue
found
in
the
end
oftheir
worldly
delights,
nothing but
vani-
tie
and vexation
of
fpirit
:
and the other
are
fo
of
frighted,aftonifhed,and continually tormented with
doubtings,
feares,
and the
continual'
.affaults
of
their
fpirituall
enemies,
that they goe
mourning
all
the
day
long,
pining
away
in
griefe
and
anguifh
ofmind,
tillat
lait
they grow
wcarie
of
their
hues,
thinking
their
foules an
intollerable
burthen
to their bodies,
and theirbodies to the
earth.
The
confideration
of
which
lamentable and too
too
miferable
effeets,
as
it
fhould moue
al
Chriflians to
hand
vpon
their guard,
and
to arme themfelues
with the
fpirituall
armor,
that they
may
not
be ouercome
oftheir
temptations,
and
fall
into
thefe
great
mifchiefes
:
fo
fhould
it
moue
Gods
faithfull Minihers
(whole dutie
it is,
not onely
themfelues
to
walke
in
the
waies
of
righteoufneffe,
but
alfó
as
fpirituall
guides
to
leade
others with
them)
in
difcharge
of
their confcience before
God,
and
in
Chriflian
commiferation and
compaf
ion
to-
wards
their
brethren,
to
vfe
all
good
meanes
both by
fpeaking
and
writing, whereby
they
may
bee pre
-
ferued
and freed from
there fnares
which their
fpi-
rituall
enemies
doe
lay
to intrap
them;
by beating
If
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