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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 victory we are to observe two things: First, that the Devil departed from him: Secondly, the Angels ministered unto him.1 In this departing of the Devil from Christ, we may behold the unspeakable goodness of God to his Church, for that which befell Christ, befalleth the Church of God. Now the Devil having tempted Christ in three several and sore temptations, he encountered him in all three, and resisted the ⟨p. 126⟩Devil in all his temptations: and then the Devil leaveth him, and goeth his way. Wherein we see the endless love of God, in that he puts an end to the afflictions of his Church, though they be many and sore, yet they shall last but a time and have an end. So the Lord speaketh of Solomon: 2If he sin I will chastise him with the rods of men and with the plagues of the children of men: such as should not be too extreme, but that he should be able to bear. So the Prophet Habakkuk, he in the first chapter breaketh out into impatient speeches, for the afflictions of the Church: but chap. 2. vers. 3. the Lord bids him wait, and tells him, it shall be amended, and that he will put an end to their miseries: the Lord hath promised that he will not suffer his children to be tempted above that they shall be able to bear, but shall find a blessed issue of their temptations. The two Prophets which were slain for doing their message,3 and for the testimony of Jesus, lay unburied three days and an half: but after the Lord puts into them the spirit of life again, and they revived, and stood up before the Lord, and they that saw them shall be afraid, and see them ascend up into heaven. So that we may see, the Lord ⟨p. 127⟩in mercy puts an end to all the afflictions of his children.
In the victorie we are to obserue two things: First, that the Diuell departed from him: Secondly, the Angels ministred vnto him.1 In this departing of the Diuell from Christ, we may behold the vnspeakable goodnesse of God to his Church, for that which befell Christ, befalleth the Church of God. Now the Diuell hauing tempted Christ in three seuerall and sore temptations, he encountred him in all three, and resisted the