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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.
2 The number of them.1 It is not said, there came one Angel, as in the garden: but, the Angels came unto him: showing there were mo then one. And we find in the word, that our Saviour Christ had sometimes one, sometimes mo to attend upon him. And so the ⟨p. 138⟩wicked Angels come sometimes one alone as here in Christs temptations: sometimes many, as when Christ was on the cross, Colossians 2. 15. And so it is likewise with the good Angels of God: sometimes they come one alone, sometimes moe together.
2 The number of them.1 It is not said, there came one Angell, as in the garden: but, the Angels came vnto him: shewing there were mo then one. And we find in the word, that our Sauiour Christ had sometimes one, somtimes mo to attend vpon him. And so the ⟨p. 138⟩wicked Angels come sometimes one alone as here in Christs temptations: sometimes many, as when Christ was on the crosse, Colossians 2. 15. And so it is likewise with the good Angels of God: sometimes they come one alone, sometimes moe together.
- 1Luk. 22.
Mow if this be true, then that opinion fa• leth to the ground, which holds, that every man hath his two Angels: an evil Angel to tempt him, and his good Angel to defend him. But if God so please, he hath a legion of bad Angels to torment the bad and ten thousands of good Angels to comfort the good.