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 /…

Lastly, seeing this is a devilish and satanical §3practise, in alleging the Scriptures to deprave and corrupt them, to leave out and put in at his pleasure, it must warn us, that when we are lawfully called, we do speak and utter the words of other men, even all, & no more but all, neither putting to them nor taking from them, and that without changing their words or the sense and meaning of them.

Lastly, seeing this is a diuellish and satanicall §3practise, in alleaging the Scriptures to depraue and corrupt them, to leaue out and put in at his pleasure, it must warne vs, that when we are lawfully called, we do speake and vtter the words of other men, euen all, & no more but all, neither putting to them nor taking from thē, and that without changing their words or the sense and meaning of them.

He shall give his Angels charge over thee] The true sense of the place is this, that the Lore had a special care of his people; and when he sent any judgement upon the Israelites, he gave them this comfortable promise, that in the middest of all their troubles he himself would protect them. And as this ⟨p. 74⟩promise was made to them, so it is general to the whole Church of God, and belongs to us. For in all common judgements and calamities, the children of God which walk in his ways, shall be sure to have protection and security: for the Angels of God, by his appointment, do hold them up, as it were in their hands. In which words there is a comparison taken from nurses, who having children committed to their care, do hold them very charily and tenderly in their hands, and dare not let them go out of their arms: even so the Angels of God by his appointment▪ become even as nurses to his children in all their lawful ways,¹