;76 7he Trial and SEtt. !S linhapf!y, for our Reformation had bren as an untimely Birth, if fo it had been : How blelfed Jhould I have been (aith another if I had been rich & learned ? Yea, rather,you .fhould have difhonoured God in that Condition. The Catholick & Mother Sin is, God muft be ,d~pendent, we indepen dent. 4· Ufo. A11 ,;f us have need of aDevil, one or other, to exercife and humble us : But we go wrong to Work, when we thin}t to make good riur Party againfl: the Devil by our own Strength. This Woman yokedChrift c.nd the Devil to_gether, and woulq not Yoke with him her alone, and the Succefs is bleffed : We go to difpute with Temptations otJridves by Reafon, you Jhall not difpute .Satan to' Hell with all your Log 'ck; nor can Potit:y and State-~wit calm the Prince of the bottomlefs Pit, who is let loofe now in thefe thre-e Kingdoms to kill with th~ Sword :The Ho:feman, . upon the red and bloody Horfe, and h1s Footman, q)eath, are pofting through the Kingdoms. More Wrdl:ling by Pr.ayer, the putting of Satan in Chrifl '·\ Grips, by Fa,ith ejj'e8uat by Love, ~md fl ncere H Clmiliation fhould create Peace ; for Peace is a Work of Creation ; 'T'her~'s but one , only can create; l mean, God by, or at the Exercife <if thefe Grace$, fJ1o.uJd create Peace : We ly bleeding and dying under our Lnfh:, becauie Chritt was not entrufted .with Mortification: If we gave in a Bill ~f ComDlaint againft our Devils, as this Vi om~n did, ! Chrjit fl10uld Joofe Satan's \Yorks, and help us. fie it unto thee] Faitb obtaineth the moft ex· ceHent Favours, refil}ed :Mercies ; and thefe. a~ 'immediate Favours~ Acts of immediate Ommpo- ~ncy ; ChriH fent an imme<hate :Pofl: to the D~- vll~
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