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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.
If thou be the Son of God] What moved the Devil to move this question unto Christ rather then any other?1 Ans. First,2 because the Devil knew right well, that if Christ were the Son of God, then he was that promised Messiah and Saviour of the world; and if he were that promised Messiah, then he knew it was he that should bruise the Serpents head,3 Gen. 3. 15. Now of all things the Devil could not abide to hear of that, and therefore he makes choice of this question before all other, to prove, or at least to go about to prove, that Christ was not the Son of God.
If thou be the Sonne of God] What moued the Diuell to moue this question vnto Christ rather then any other?1 Ans. First,2 because the Diuel knew right wel, that if Christ were the Son of God, then he was that promised Messiah and Sauiour of the world; and if he were that promised Messiah, then he knew it was he that should bruise the Serpents head,3 Gen. 3. 15. Now of all things the Diuell could not abide to heare of that, and therfore he makes choise of this question before all other, to proue, or at least to go about to proue, that Christ was not the Sonne of God.