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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
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.
❧To the right Honourable Sir William Russell, Lord Russell, Baron of Thornehaugh, younger son to that most Christian and Honourable Earle, Francis Earle of Bedford, with the virtuous Lady his wife: Grace and Peace.
❧To the right Honorable Sir William Russell, Lord Russell, Baron of Thornehaugh, yonger sonne to that most Christian and Honorable Earle, Frauncis Earle of Bedford, with the vertuous Ladie his wife: Grace and Peace.
RIGHT Honourable, as John the Baptist was in one desert,1 so our Saviour Christ he was in an other:2 but as these two differed in their being in the world: so did they not accord in their being in the wilderness. John was with some men, Christ with none; John was with wild men, Christ with wild beasts; John was preaching, Christ praying; John was baptizing, Christ fighting; John was feeding, Christ fasting; John was encountering with Devils incarnate, Christ did encounter with the Prince of those Devils. From John preaching in the desert, learn we ⟨image 3⟩diligence in our callings: from Christ tempted in the desert, see we troubles at our calling: aMany are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of all.
RIGHT Honorable, as Iohn the Baptist was in one desert,1 so our Sauiour Christ he was in an other: