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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.
Nay, the devil is so skilful by the experience of so many hundred years, that he will be prying into mens complexions, and the very constitutions of their bodies; and finding what humour doth most a bound, he can give a shrewd guess, to what sin a man is inclined. As if he perceive a man to be of a choleric complexion, then the devil will stir him up to quarrelling, fighting and killing. If he find a mans complexion to be sanguine, then he seeketh to allure him to be delighted ⟨p. 32⟩with vain and ungodly mirth and wantonness, or at the least with immoderate mirth. […] a man be subject to melancholy, then he wil• fear a man with heavy & dumpish thoughts and great fears and cares in his mind. And thus he dealt with the poor man that wa• lunatic:1 for the Devil took occasion by the course of the Moon, and the humour of hi• body, to move him to cast himself into the fire and into the water. And in a word, look• how many infirmities & weaknesses we have we do as it were give the devil so many dar• to wound us withal: for we give him the matter of all his temptations, and he taketh advantage of our weakness and infirmities▪
Nay, the diuell is so skilfull by the experience of so many hundred yeares, that he will be prying into mens complexions, and the very constitutious of their bodies; and finding what humour doth most a bound, he can giue a shrewd guesse, to what sinne a man is inclined. As if he perceiue a man to be of a cholericke complexion, then the diuell will stirre him vp to quarrelling, fighting and killing. If he find a mans complexion to be sanguine, then he seeketh to allure him to be delighted ⟨p. 32⟩with vaine and vngodly mirth and wantonnes, or at the least with immoderate mirth. 〈…〉 a man be subiect to melancholy, then he wil• feare a man with heauy & dumpish thoughts and great feares and cares in his mind. And thus he dealt with the poore man that wa lunatick: