31° f Chn speople have a n'arre tofight. ERSE 3. i.113001.walass001,..... men, and materialsofthis evil! world. By theexamples, the threats, the interefis, the power, the intimacie, the wit, the tongues thehands, the,exprobrations, the per- fecutions,the infinuations and fedu6tions ofwicked men. By the profits,the pleafures,the preferments, the accep- tation, credit andapplaufe ofthe world. By all which meanes Satan inofl importunately pur- -fueth oneofthefe twoends,either tofishers thegodly by drawing them away from Chrift to apoffacie, formali- tie, hypocrifie, fpirituall pride, and the like, or elk to Dijcomfort them with diffidence, doubts, fight offinne, oppofitionof the times, vexation of fpirit, and the like affii6tions. And thefe oppofitions of Satanmeet with a Chriflian in every refpe61 or confideration, under which hemaybe conceiv'd : confiderhim inhis/pipit:idelate, in hisfever411pares, in his temporall relations,in his AM- ems or ixoployments; and in all thefe Satan is bufie toover- turn the Kingdome of Chrift in him. In his fpirituall ellate , ifhe be a weake Chrijliass,he affaulteth himwith perpetuall doubts and feares touching his ele6fion, con- verfion i adoption,perfeverance,chriflian liberty, ftrength againflcorruptions, companies, temptations, perfecuti- ons, &c. ifhe beaftronsChrigianshe laboureth to draw himunto feife-confidence fpirituall pride, contempt of the weake, negle61of further proficiencie, and the like. There is no natorAllpart or facultie which is notaimed atlikewife by the maliceof Satan, for Chriff when hee comes,takes poffeffionof the whole man, and therefore Saran fets himfelfe againft the whole man. Corporeal' andfestfitive faralties tempted either to tinfoil reprefen- taim, letting inand transmitting theprovilions of luff unto the heart,bygazing and glutting thernfelveson the objeccts of the world : or to fixfullexecutions, finning and letting our thole hiffs whichhave beene conceived inthe heart.. Thephastafie tempted by Satanical' inje- 6ions and immutations to be the forge of look, vain, unprofitable,
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