A Commentary upon the Gild el Chapa. P(al y;, any of the generation of the :pa7, that ever did its That God who kept them, will (if we look up to him) doe as much for us. Only we muff fat againk this bloudy temptation with Gods arme, and with Gods armour. The word and prayer are the ordinances and power of God , and (by his might) doe extinguifh all the fiery darts of the devil. Op- pole the commination to the temptation. Herein Eve faultred (in her, left ye die though the held the precept) and fo fell. For it is Written.] A vile abufe of facred Scripture, to f Tien, ,8. perfFvade thereby to fin, or plead for it : yet what more or. 7eprrf riFt. dinary with men ofcorrupt minder and reprobate concerning the advert baret. fnitñ, cedem Scriprurarum facitent ad materiam 'ham, asTer- ja n,Y treatilè rrs/lian fpcaketh : who murther the Scriptures toCave their own of the divinity ofes ? But of this more elfewhcre, of the Sei i- p urp peures,cailed, He !hall give hid ei3'ngels charge over thee.] Hitherto the The true Trea- old liar fpcaketh truth. But, Satan etfi femel videatur ve- fare rax, millies eft mendex, & femper fallax, faith one. Satan Lucto'cer though he may fometimes feem a true-fpeaker, yet be is a thcufand times for it a liar, and alwaics a deceiver. Becaufe our Saviour had alledged Scripture , he altar would doe the like , in a perverfe, apifh imitation, but marres the mafctiline 1nifa no/tru, fenfe, by clipping off that claufe , They fall /keep thee in all thy auxin præ "p° Waies ; that is, in thcfe courfes that are appointed thee by God. But as the 7fraelires in the wilderneffe, when they went out of Gods precin&s, were out of his proteaion Prov. 37,8, So arc all others. 41 a bird that Wandereth fens the Heft ; % is a man that Wandereth from his on'n place, faith Solomon, Acut,tta.tr, God made a Law that none fhould =left a bird upon her neti. Doth God take care of birds ? A King undertaketh the fafety cf his Subje5is, whilef't they travell within due hours, and keep the Kings high -way , elfe not : fo Both God. He bath given his Angels charge over us, whiles we hold his way, which is like 7acebs ladder , where the Angels were afcending and dcfcending. Oh the dignity and fafety of a Saint, in a guard fo full of Bate and tlrength 1 Well might prat. ;4.7,8. David (afierhe had faid, The angel of the Lord pitcheth his tent round about them that fear him) prefently fubjoyn. Tale and feehowgracioue the Lord is, in allowinghis children fo glorious an attendance, And
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