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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 any say,1 It seems we must live only by the word of God, & without meat or drink, even by the scriptures and the written word. I answer,2 No: but we must live and preserve our lives by every word, that is, every decree that God giveth out to preserve the life of man: so that without the special decree and blessing of God, nothing could preserve and maintain the life of man: our meat could not nourish us, our apparel could not warm us, &c.
If any say,1 It seemes we must liue onely by the word of God, & without meate or drink, euen by the scriptures and the written word. I answer,2 No: but we must liue and preserue our liues by euery word, that is, euery decree that God giueth out to preserue the life of man: so that without the speciall decree and blessing of God, nothing could preserue and maintain the life of man: our meat could not norish vs, our apparel could not warm vs, &c.
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Now let us see how this answer of Christ is applied to the devils temptation. The devil had laboured to prove that Christ was not the ⟨p. 48⟩son of God, his argument was this: If th•• be the son of God, command that the•• stones be made bread; but thou canst no make these stones bread, therefore thou […] not the son of God.