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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.
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Another reason may be this: since the divel• fell, and for his pride was cast down out of heaven, he bears a deadly hatred against the• Lord God himself, and we shall see that […] this question he doth notably bewray hi• spite against God: for when as the Lord ha• spoken from heaven, saying, This is my […] ⟨p. 37⟩beloved Son in whom I am well pleased: here the Devil comes and contradicts the voice of God, nay, goeth about to prove God a liar, in that he would make Christ believe that he was not the true Son of God.
Another reason may be this: since the diuel• fell, and for his pride was cast downe out of heauen, he beares a deadly hatred against the• Lord God himselfe, and we shall see that 〈…〉 this question he doth notably bewray hi• spite against God: for when as the Lord ha• spoken from heauen, saying, This is my 〈…〉 ⟨p. 37⟩beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased: here the Diuell comes and contradicts the voice of God, nay, goeth about to proue God a lier, in that he would make Christ beleeue that he was not the true Sonne of God.
Hence we may by this practise of Satan learn to discern false teachers.1 There have been many both excellent and learned men, which have denied Christ to be the son of God, as Ebeon, Cerinthus, and others, only affirming that Christ was an excellent man, and a worthy Prophet. Now seeing they deny Jesus Christ to be the true Son of God, they show themselves to be false teachers, and such as be the devils scholars, for so saith the Apostle