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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.
In two cases men may ask a sign of the Lord. First, when the Lord gives a man ⟨p. 82⟩commandment to ask a sign, then we may ask it lawfully: and thus the Lord bid• Achaz to ask a sign,1 and he sinned in refusing to do it.
In two cases men may aske a signe of the Lord. First, when the Lord giues a man ⟨p. 82⟩commaundement to aske a signe, then we may aske it lawfully: and thus the Lord bid• Achaz to ask a signe,1 and he sinned in refusing to do it.
Secondly, a man may ask a sign of God, when it is necessary for the confirmation of a man in some extraordinary calling: as we see in Gideon being extraordinarily appointed of God to be the Captain and deliverer of Gods people; he being not fully persuaded of this his vocation, desired a sign of God, not of infidelity, but the better to resolve himself of Gods calling him to that business. And so it was in Hezekiah, to persuade himself of Gods extraordinary deliverance from an extraordinary disease.
Secondly, a man may aske a signe of God, when it is necessarie for the confirmation of a man in some extraordinarie calling: as we see in Gedeon being extraordinarily appointed of God to be the Captaine and deliuerer of Gods people; he being not fully perswaded of this his vocation, desired a signe of God, not of infidelitie, but the better to resolue himselfe of Gods calling him to that busines. And so it was in Hezechiah, to perswade himselfe of Gods extraordinarie deliuerance from an extraordinarie diease.