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Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested /…Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested /…
Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Master William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set down the temptations of a Christian.Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.
London: printed by Richard Field for E.E., 1604
SATANS SOPHISTRY ANSWERED BY OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST.SATANS SOPHISTRIE ANSWERED BY OVR SAVIOVR CHRIST.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is our duty to seek to be as unlike the Devil as possibly we can, because he is the pattern of all evil. Now we see it is the divel• study to hinder men from the kingdom of heaven, and so to bring them to hell: then o• the contrary, seeing he labours to draw me• from serving of God, we should quicken up our selves in the service and worship of God▪ ⟨p. 29⟩and to be more careful to seek the kingdom of God our selves, and to draw others to the same.
It is our dutie to seeke to be as vnlike the Diuell as possibly we can, because he is the patterne of al euill. Now we see it is the diuel• study to hinder men from the kingdome of heauen, and so to bring them to hell: then o• the contrary, seeing he labours to draw me• from seruing of God, we should quicken vp our selues in the seruice and worship of God▪ ⟨p. 29⟩and to be more careful to seeke the kingdom of God our selues, and to draw others to the same.
We must beware, that we be no means to draw any from embracing of true religion, and from the service and worship of God; for if we do, we become even devils incarnate. When Christ went up to Jerusalem to perform the work of mans redemption, Peter he begins to dissuade him from it, and bids him favour himself:1 but Christ turneth him back, and saith, Get thee behind me Satan.