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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.
The third point in the devils preparation,1 i• the occasion whereby the devil was especially moved to tempt Christ, which was his hunger. Such was Satan's malice against the Lord Jesus, that when he could find no sin in him▪ then he takes advantage of Christs infirmity, and seeing him now hungry, begins to tempt him to unlawful means to satisfy his hunger.
The third point in the diuels preparation,1 i• the occasion wherby the diuel was especially moued to tempt Christ, which was his hunger. Such was Satans malice against the Lord Iesus, that when he could find no sin in him▪ then he takes aduantage of Christs infirmity, and seeing him now hungry, begins to tempt him to vnlawful means to satisfie his hunger.
- 1The occasion of Satans assault.
Now then seeing the devil takes occasion to tempt Christ, even from the infirmity of his humane nature, as he was man: hence we learn whence the devil hath the ground of all his temptations, namely from our selves▪ and from our own nature, and we our selves afford him the matter of his temptations; h• brings the fire and bloweth it, but we afford him the fuel to set it a work. The devil observeth the nature of men, their dispositions ⟨p. 31⟩inclinations and behaviours, and continually prieth into their dealings, and like unto a prudent Captain, who besieging a city, marketh where it is most weak and of least resistance, and there he bends all his forces, and placeth his greatest ordinance, Even so the devil watcheth us and our behaviours, to observe unto what sin we be most addicted, and by nature most inclined, & then he follows our humour and feeds us in our own vain. As if a man be impatient of poverty, he will egg him to stealing, and to unlawful shifts to help himself: if a man be covetous, he will help to prick him forward that way, that he may by hook or crook enrich himself: and so in other sins according as he finds men affected, he will fit his temptations.