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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
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.
Lidia. How is this resistance confirmed?
Paul. To confirm this, these preservatives which follow are very necessary. 1. When you are tempted to sin, do not only abstain from it, but earnestly love and follow after the contrary. John 8. 44. 2. Never yield or consent to Satan's words, whether he speak the truth, accuse falsely, or flatter dissemblingly. John 8. 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he hath bin a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him: when he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own; for he is a liar, and the father thereof. Mark 1. 24. And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus the son of the most high God? ⟨p. 151⟩And Jesus said, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. Act. 16. 17. She followed Paul and us, and cried, saying: These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation, &c. August. serm. 241. 3. One temptation is to be looked for after another, and then especially when our enemy after he hath set his snares, is at rest: for the devil never maketh an end of his malice, 1. Pet. 5. 8.
Paul. To confirme this, these preseruatiues which follow are very necessary. 1. When you are tempted to sinne, do not only abstaine from it, but earnestly loue and follow after the contrary. Iohn 8. 44. 2. Neuer yeeld or consent to Satans words, whether he speake the truth, accuse falsly, or flatter dissemblingly.