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 /…

Seeing that our Saviour Christ begins his prophetical office of teaching the Church of God with temptations:¹ this should admonish the Ministers of the word of God, that they of all other men are subject to Satan's temptations, because they be the Lords Standard-bearers, and his Lieutenants, against whom Satan and all his soldiers bend all their forces, as soldiers often do against the standard-bearer. When as Jehoshua the high Priest stood before the Lord, Satan stood at his right hand to hinder him, Zach. 3. 1. He was a lying spirit in the mouth of four hundred false Prophets:² and this old red Dragon, Reu. 12. with his tail draweth down the third part of the stars of heaven: he desired to winnow Peter, and to try him by temptations, Luke 22. And as the king of Aram said of Ahab: ³Fight not against small or great, but against the king of Israel: so Satan fighteth not against any so much, as the Prophets of Israel, the Ministers of the Church.

Seeing that our Sauiour Christ begins his propheticall office of teaching the Church of God with temptations:¹ this should admonish the Ministers of the word of God, that they of all other men are subiect to Satans temptations, because they be the Lords Standard-bearers, and his Lieutenants, against whom Satan and al his souldiers bend all their forces, as souldiers often do against the standard-bearer. When as Iehoshua the high Priest stood before the Lord, Satan stood at his right hand to hinder him, Zach. 3. 1. He was a lying spirit in the mouth of foure hundred false Prophets:² and this old red Dragon,