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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 first of all seeing the Devil doth thus arm himself,1 and comes prepared three times, in three several temptations, it should teach us all on our parts to prepare our selves continually, and to be ready to resist his temptations.
And first of all seeing the Diuell doth thus arme himselfe,1 and comes prepared three times, in three seuerall temptations, it should teach vs all on our parts to prepare our selues continually, and to be ready to resist his temptations.
- 1Doct.
In the Devils preparation note two parts: first, he taketh him to an exceeding high mountain: secondly, he shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.
In the Diuels preparation note two parts: first, he taketh him to an exceeding high monntaine: secondly, he shewes him all the kingdomes of the world, and the glorie of them.
But how could the Devil carry our Saviour Christ to this high mountain?1 I answer,2 he might do it two ways: first, by vision: secondly, by real transporting of his body from Jerusalem to this mountain. Some think that this was only in vision: but I rather think our Saviour Christ was carried locally and really; for our Saviour Christ his temptations are not imaginary, but true and real temptations; and the words import no less, but that he was really and locally transported from the city to the mountain.