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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 Christ in this place changeth the word, not mistaking of it, but rather to expound Moses; for whereas Moses saith, Thou shalt fear the Lord, he meaneth that religious fear whereby we fear God, and worship him. Now our saviour Christ he saith, Thou shalt worship, showing Moses meant that fear whereby we do with reverence and bowing of the body and adoring of God worship him, moved thereunto by religious fear, either in praying for some mercy we want, or giving thanks for some benefit received.
And thus Christ in this place chaungeth the word, not mistaking of it, but rather to expound Moses; for whereas Moses saith, Thou shalt feare the Lord, he meaneth that religious feare whereby we feare God, and worship him. Now our sauiour Christ he saith, Thou shalt worship, shewing Moses meant that feare whereby we do with reuerence and bowing of the body and adoring of God worship him, moued thereunto by religious feare, either in praying for some mercy we want, or giuing thankes for some benefite receiued.
Again, Christ in alleging this text of Scripture, he adds a word, yet so, as he doth it without any fault: for though this word (alone) be not in Moses his text expressly set down, yet it is included, and in sense it is understood: for where he saith in the thirteenth verse, Thou shalt fear the Lord, and ads no more; in the fourteenth verse he saith, Thou shalt not walk after any other gods; so that a man may easily perceive he did in sense include it, though not express it in words: and thus we see our saviour Christ cleared.
Againe, Christ in alleaging this text of Scripture, he addes a word, yet so, as he doth it without any fault: for though this word (alone) be not in Moses his text expresly set downe, yet it is included, and in sense it is vnderstood: for where he saith in the thirteenth verse, Thou shalt feare the Lord, and ads no more; in the fourteenth verse he saith, Thou shalt not walke after any other gods; so that a mā may easily perceiue he did in sēse include it, though not expresse it in words: and thus we see our sauiour Christ cleared.