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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.
True it is,1 men say they defy the Devil, and spit at him, but alas if we consider their dealings, we shall see the Devil sits in their hearts, and rules there as God. Do but cast your eye upon the three main Religions of the world, the religion of the Turk, of the Jew, and of the Papist; and it will appear that most men worship the Devil and make him their God: because the Turk he is ignorant of the true God: the Jew worships God the Father, but not by Jesus Christ, whom they deny: the Papist worships a false and counterfeit Christ forged by themselves, and never read of in the word of God: for they make him a Saviour in part, & a Priest to be creator, or the maker of his Creator.
True it is,1 men say they defie the Diuell, and spit at him, but alas if we consider their dealings, we shall see the Diuell sits in their hearts, and rules there as God. Do but cast your eye vpon the three maine Religions of the world, the religion of the Turke, of the Iew, and of the Papist; and it will appeare that most men worship the Diuell and make him their God: because the Turke he is ignorāt of the true God: the Iew worships God the Father, but not by Iesus Christ, whom they deny: the Papist worships a false and counterfeit Christ forged by themselues, and neuer read of in the word of God: for they make him a Sauior in part, & a Priest to be creator, or the maker of his Creator.
- 1Answer.
That it may appear, that these three sorts of people do not worship the true God, but even the devil himself, let us mark these 2 principles. First, that all doctrines set down and invented by man, concerning Gods service and worship, being against the word of God, they be the doctrines of Devils: so saith Paul