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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.
Seeing Christ by his own practise, teache• us that the word of God written, beleeve• understood, & truly applied, is the most al• and all-sufficient weapon to resist the dive• how ought this to stir up all men to serio•• study of the word of God? How should move every man as he loveth his soul, to •• bor for a sound knowledge & understanding of the holy Scripture, seeing this is the b• weapon to foil the devil? If we knew th• any man had vowed our death and sough• our lives, how careful would we be to provi• the best weapons we could get, and also […] learn how to handle them and to use the• so as we might be able to defend our selves when we meet with our enemy? Well, we […] not be ignorant that the devil is the swo•• enemy of our souls, he lies in wait conti•• ally seeking our blood: oh then if men […] that care of their poor souls that they oug•• to have, how provident would it make the• to store themselves with this most sufficie•• weapon, even the true knowledge of the w•• of God! and therefore it must move all of v• ⟨p. 45⟩•eare the word continually, to study it, to lay •t up in our hearts against the time of need, •o resist the devil when he assaults us.