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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 here we may behold the great goodness of God, who hath exalted mans nature which was most vile by reason of sin, to be far more excellent then any Angel in heaven, as it is joined to the Godhead in the person of Christ.
And here we may behold the great goodnesse of God, who hath exalted mans nature which was most vile by reason of sinne, to be farre more excellent then any Angell in heauen, as it is ioyned to the Godhead in the person of Christ.
So then the Angels minister to Christ not as simply man, but as God-man, or God and man: and so they minister to all the true members of Christ Jesus, which are truly coupled and united unto his mystical body. Christ is that ladder of Jacob, whereby the Angels of God do ascend and descend, ⟨p. 137⟩to do service to all those which are truly joined unto Jesus Christ, Gen. 28.
So then the Angels minister to Christ not as simply man, but as God-man, or God and man: and so they minister to all the true members of Christ Iesus, which are truly coupled and vnited vnto his mysticall bodie. Christ is that ladder of Iacob, whereby the Angels of God do ascend and descend, ⟨p. 137⟩to do seruice to all those which are truly ioyned vnto Iesus Christ, Gen. 28.