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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.
In the text of scripture alleged by Christ, note two points: first, what this worship and fear is: secondly, to whom worship is due.
In the text of scripture alleaged by Christ, note two points: first, what this worship and feare is: secondly, to whom worship is due.
First, worship taken generally, signifieth the giving of honour and reverence to another. Now this honour is either civill or divine. Civill honour is that outward reverence we give to men, by prostrating of the body, or bowing of the knee; and the end of this civill worship is, that thereby we might acknowledge another to be our superior: & therefore it is given of subjects to Princes, or of inferiors to those that by some means are their superiors. And thus Jacob worshipped, that is, gave civil worship to Esau seven times, Genes. 33. 3. This reverence Abraham gave to the Hittites, Gen. 23. 7. & Lot to the Angels bowed himself to the ground, Gen. 19. 1. where he gave them only civill worship and honour. So then it is manifest by these examples, that we may lawfully bow and bend the knee and kneel to Princes, to give them this civill honour, thereby showing we do acknowledge them to be placed above us in authority and dignity in the world by God.
First, worship taken generally, signifieth the giuing of honor and reuerence to another. Now this honour is either ciuill or diuine. Ciuill honour is that outward reuerence we giue to men, by •rostrating of the body, or bowing of the knee; and the end of this ciuill worship is, that thereby we might acknowledge another to be our superiour: & therfore it is giuen of subiects to Princes, or of inferiours to those that by some meanes are their superiours. And thus Iacob worshipped, that is, gaue ciuil worship to Esau seuen times,