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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 that which here befell the Devil, shall befall all wicked & impenitent sinners if they will not now obey the commandment of Christ, to repent and believe the Gospel, they shall one day in spite of their teeth be constrained, will they nil they, to obey that commandment at the last day of judgement, Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. The consideration of this one point, should […] all men now in the time of grace, to yield hearty and willing obedience to the voice of Christ, in repenting and turning to God, le•• one day we be constrained to yield to our eternal confusion.
And that which here befell the Diuel, shall befall all wicked & impenitent sinners if they will not now obey the commandement of Christ, to repent and beleeue the Gospell, they shall one day in spite of their teeth be constrained, will they nil they, to obey that commandement at the last day of iudgement, Depart ye cursed into euerlasting fire, prepared for the diuell and his angels. The consideratiō of this one point, should 〈…〉 all men now in the time of grace, to yeeld hearty and willing obedience to the voice of Christ, in repenting and turning to God, le•• one day we be constrained to yeeld to our eternall confusion.
Luke 4. 13. he saith, When the devil […] ended all the temptation, then he departed. Where we may note, that before the Divel• left our Saviour Christ, he employed all […] might, skill, subtlety and fraud in tempti•• of Christ. And from this malicious pract•• ⟨p. 131⟩of the devil, we may gather, that Christ was tempted with no small and easy temptation, but that he was tempted in the highest degree that could be: for the Devil made an end of his temptations before he left him, and had his will in tempting of him, and therefore no question, in these three main temptations that we have spoken of, he tempted him as much as he could, and showed his greatest extremity and fraud. And this may appear, in that the Angels were fain to come & comfort our Saviour Christ: so that he was not tempted with some light and ordinary temptations, but in most extreme manner, so as his heart within him was in perplexity, anguish and grief, yet without all sin.