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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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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 John, 1. John 4. 1, 2, 3.
Hence we may by this practise of Satan learne to discerne false teachers.1 There haue bene many both excellent and learned men, which haue denied Christ to be the sonne of God, as Ebeon, Cerinthus, and others, onely affirming that Christ was an excellent man, and a worthy Prophet. Now seeing they denie Iesus Christ to be the true Son of God, they shew themselues to be false teachers, and such as be the diuels scholers, for so saith the Apostle Iohn, 1. Iohn 4. 1, 2, 3.
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Again, in that the devil seeks to persuade §2Christ that he is not the son of God, (though God by his own voice from heaven had immediately before proclaimed him to be his Son:) hence we may perceive the impudent malice of Satan, who seeketh in all things to contradict God himself. For if the Lord pronounce a blessing upon any man, the devil he will presently pronounce cursing and damnation. If God testify to a mans soul that he is the child of God, the Devil he will labour to persuade him that he is not the child of God.