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 /…

Lid. Let me not be ignorant of Satan's enterprises. How will he allure to sin?

Lid. Let me not be ignorant of Satans enterprises. How will he allure to sinne?

Paul. In this temptation, the devil doth wonderfully diminish and extenuate those sins which men are about to commit, partly by objecting closely the mercy of God, and partly by covering or hiding the punishment which is due for the sin. Besides, there are helps to further the devil in this his temptation: as first, the flesh which lusteth against the spirit, sometimes by begetting evil motions and affections, and sometimes by overwhelming and oppressing the good intents and motions, Gal. 5. 17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye cannot do the same things that ye would. 19. Moreover, the works of the flesh are manifest: which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness. 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies. 21. Envy, murders, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also have told you before, that they which do such things shall not ⟨p. 164⟩inherit the kingdom of God. Jam. 1. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed. Secondly, the world, which bringeth men to disobedience, through pleasure, profit, honour, and evil examples, Ephesians 2. 3. Among whom we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others. 1. John 2. 16. For all that is in the world, as the lusts of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the father, but is of the world.