A09462:309
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.
Men commonly think they have done enough if they come to church on days appointed, listen a while to the word, receive the Sacraments; they think this is all the worship of God that he requires, though they want the fear of God in their hearts: but alas all this is to no purpose, if men want the fear of God, & practise injustice in their particular callings. Read the first of Esa. vers. 14. The Lord hates all the service and worship which the Jews offered him: not simply, because these things were unlawful in themselves,1 for the Lord had commanded them: but because they joined not ⟨p. 124⟩to the service of God, the fear of God, but their hands were full of cruelty & injustice, and they practised no mercy to men: and whatsoever men profess in the worship of God, and show not the fear of God, & conscience in their particular callings and dealings with men, all is but hypocrisy.
Men commonly think they haue done enough if they come to church on dayes appointed, listen a while to the word, receiue the Sacraments; they thinke this is all the worship of God that he requires, though they want the feare of God in their hearts: but alas all this is to no purpose, if men want the feare of God, & practise iniustice in their particular callings. Reade the first of Esa. vers. 14. The Lord hates all the seruice and worship which the Iewes offered him: not simply, because these things were vnlawfull in themselues,1 for the Lord had commaunded them: but because they ioyned not ⟨p. 124⟩to the seruice of God, the feare of God, but their hands were full of crueltie & iniustice, and they practised no mercie to men: and whatsoeuer men professe in the worship of God, and shew not the feare of God, & conscience in their particular callings and dealings with men, all is but hypocrisie.