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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.
And thus Satan tempted our Saviour Christ to tempt God. For having now set him on the top of the temple, in a dangerous place, he persuades him to cast himself down: and he addeth, that he may be bold to do so, because God hath given his Angels charge to look unto him, that he take no harm. But our Saviour Christ answers him; That were to tempt God, seeing he had the lawful and ordinary way to go down by the stairs, and therefore he had no reason to cast himself down.
And thus Satan tempted our Sauiour Christ to tempt God. For hauing now set him on the toppe of the temple, in a dangerous place, he perswades him to cast himselfe downe: and he addeth, that he may be bold to do so, because God hath giuen his Angels charge to looke vnto him, that he take no harme. But our Sauiour Christ answers him; That were to tempt God, seeing he had the lawfull and ordinary way to go downe by the staires, and therefore he had no reason to cast himselfe downe.
In a word, all those tempt God, which either refuse the ordinary means God hath appointed, or do wilfully cast themselves into danger, being not called thereunto of ⟨p. 85⟩God: as Peter having no calling of God, went and thrust himself into Caiaphas hall, to see what became of his master: & the three Worthies which ventured through the host of the Philistines to fetch water at the well of Bethel for David, whereas he might have had it without danger at home.
In a word, all those tempt God, which either refuse the ordinary meanes God hath appointed, or do wilfully cast themselues into daunger, being not called thereunto of ⟨p. 85⟩God: as Peter hauing no calling of God, went and thrust himselfe into Caiphas hall, to see what became of his maister: & the three Worthies which ventured through the hoast of the Philistims to fetch water at the well of Bethell for Dauid, whereas he might haue had it without danger at home.