Chap .4. acco rd ing to St M A T T H z: vv. 77 head Chrift we overcome beforewe fight, and are Pure ofvictory, Revel.I2.r. Hare apagefit, Diabole, d. tela tua in hoc femen mulieris converte : hoencfi viceris, me quo viceris, Paid one, De- vil,doe thy worft to Chrift :'conquer him and take all. For it u written] This two-edged fword our Saviour had found to be metal' ofproof, and therefore holdshim to it. Only theScriptures fcare the devil, as only faithful' praier can charm him. Athanafus- writeth that evil fpirits may be put to flight by that 68. Pfalin, Let the Lord arife,andhisenemies be confiunded. But this is true of the whole word ofGod,which is armour ofproof againft the devil. Than fbalt worfhip the Lord thy God.] Thou (halt far the Lord thy God, faith Mofes. So illatth. 15.9. with Ifà. 29. 13. See Pfl.2.Ii, yofh.24 I I. Heb. 12. 27. Solomon Pets the fear ofGod as the bafe and beginningof Gods work and worship, in thebeginningof his works. And again, in theend of them,makes it the end andupfhot of all. For they th,tfiar the Lord will keep bis Covenant, Nah 103. 13 --- -18. Yea, they will work hard at it, as afraid tobe taken with their tasks undone, A0.10.35.They will give himboth the {hell of ourward adoration, and the kernel' ofinwarddevotion; truly, without halting, and totally without halfing; truly, both formatter and manner ; totally, both for fubjedand objet; as David who did all the will of God, and with all his heart, all the daies of his life. The Gentiles could fay, that God muff be worshipped either to our utmoft, or not at all. And Plutarchcompares our duty to a cer- tain fifh, which eaten fparingly, hurteth ; but being eaten up all, is medicinable. Andhim only ,/halt thou ferve.] With inward wor {hip, as before withoutward. And fo Godonly is to be fervcd ; for is fuppofeth omnifcience, omniprefence and omnipotence, which are in noneelfebut God. Seant qui colendi verbum, ivnò s r.o)na r tnv, diEïtem volant, c, gtaód plerun4, Dei hominon4 cultua cumadulatione & hypocrifi eft coojunEhoí. Sic a ?esreoveav, Gal- licum c'noftrateflatter. Sicadorare quidamdiîíum voltentab ore, tumetfi mente magic, quam ore verafiat adoratio. Quinetiam adorare antiquia idem fait goodagere. Verfe 11.. Then the devil left him.] IfChrift command him away, there's no abiding for him. Herehe was foiled and quel- led, and, as it were,, caft down and ,killed by Chrift our Cham- plon. Solomon G. nerus apud Melch,danr. Ira :6,t6. i-raier is called tG'it`? a Chipr:nT ProV. t .?. Eecic'r.,x f3 DeUYn fiGt!!3 *arùm metu.f, valdè conre:a- nit ; kZ;jcte qui rcar, rnEmar at b:r,efrr.entiam, aver tniu,iay:, Fill ,ens. 6,6ut7cc, AO. 13. Stuchius defa erifie Gen'ilir't Charles 8. in his expedition againfr ríanles, came into the field like Own- der and light- ning,but went out like a1nufl more then a man at fiat, lefle then a woman at fall. Guiccivrd.
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