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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.
So then we may see, that temptations are necessary for the Ministers of the word, that they may both know what they be, and also learn how to comfort others in time o• temptation. Also to teach us the true use ⟨p. 7⟩of the word of God, and the force of it in resisting temptation. For certain it is, that temptations teach men many things which they could never learn by bare study. So that one said well: Reading, meditation, prayer, and temptations, these four make a Divine.
So then we may see, that temptations are necessary for the Ministers of the word, that they may both know what they be, and also learne how to comfort others in time o• temptation. Also to teach vs the true vse ⟨p. 7⟩of the word of God, and the force of it in resisting temptation. For certaine it is, that temptations teach men many things which they could neuer learne by bare studie. So that one sayd well: Reading, meditation, prayer, and temptations, these foure make a Diuine.
The second point to be considered, is, what was the cause which moved our Saviour Christ to go into the wilderness: which was the leading of the Spirit: Jesus was led aside of the spirit: Luke. 4. 1. or as the word signifieth, he was carried apart, Mark. 1. 12. not by a forced, but a voluntary motion. This was not a local transportation of the body of Christ, as that of Elijah, and of Philip from the Eunuch: but by the inward instinct of the holy Ghost he was moved and made willing to go,1 as the word which