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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 thou wilt fall down and worship me.] Here is the second part of the temptation: namely, the condition, and the main drift of the Devil in these words, is to bring our Saviour Christ to manifest Idolatry, even to worship the Devil himself.
If thou wilt fall downe and worship me.] Here is the second part of the temptation: namely, the condition, and the maine drift of the Diuell in these words, is to bring our Sauiour Christ to manifest Idolatrie, euen to worship the Diuell himselfe.
First, seeing the Devil durst be so bold to tempt our saviour Christ to Idolatry, and to worship himself; hence we see that the main scope of the Devil is especially to deface Religion, and the true service and worship of God, and therefore he assaults the Church of God, and tempts men to bring them to embrace heresies, schisms, idolatry, that he ⟨p. 103⟩might destroy the church of God: and thus he became a lying spirit in the mouth of four hundred false prophets at one time.1 And when Joshua the high Priest came into the Temple to perform the worship of God,2 he stood up to hinder him, when he was praying for the good of the Church. And so doth he in these days stand up and seek by all means to hinder Gods Ministers in the building up of Gods Church. When Christ hath sown good wheat,3 then the Devil soweth tares; and when Paul would have gone to preach the Gospel to the Thessalonians,4 the Devil hindered him; and it is his special study to stop the ministry of the Gospel: and therefore it is said that the Devil cast many of Gods ministers into prison,