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 /…

It is lamentable to consider how poor ignorant people deceive them selves; they •ooth themselves, and say, they defy the devil, they spit at him: but alas, what if two men that be enemies meet together, the one well appointed with weapons of death, the other having nothing in his hand to defend himself, but defies his enemy, spits at him; will this do him any good, will not the other wound him and kill him? And so though poor ignorant people say they defy the devil, & spit at him, he will show them no pity, but give them their deadly wound, and they shall never know who hurt them till it be too late.

It is lamentable to consider how poore ignorant people deceiue them selues; they •ooth themselues, and say, they defie the di•uel, they spit at him: but alas, what if two men that be enemies meet together, the one well appointed with weapons of death, the other hauing nothing in his hand to defend himself, but defies his enemy, spits at him; wil this do him any good, will not the other wound him and kil him? And so though poore ignorant people say they defie the diuell, & spit at him, he wil shew them no pity, but giue them their deadly wound, and they shall neuer know who hurt them till it be too late.

Now follow the words of Christs answer: Man shall not live by bread only, &c. This answer of Christ is taken out of Deut. 8. 3. where Moses shows the children of Israel, who were now in great extremity, pinched sore with famine, and had nothing to eat, that the Lord fed them with Manna, to teach them that man lives not by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Now follow the words of Christs answer: Man shall not liue by bread onely, &c. This answer of Christ is taken out of