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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.
Lid. Give me here some preservatives, that I may resist.
Lid. Giue me here some preseruariues, that I may resist.
Paul. The preservatives are these. 1 To account no sin light or small. Gal. 5. 9. A little leaven doth leaven the whole lump. Rom. 6. 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 2 To avoid all occasions of sin. To these rather agreeth the Proverb used of the Plague: longè, tardè, citò: that is, aloof, slowly, quickly. 1. Thessal. 5. 22. Abstain from all appearance of evil. Jud. v. 23. And other save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, and hate even the garment spotted by the flesh. 3 To accustom thy self to subdue the lesser sins, that at the last, thou mayest also overcome the greater. Rom. 13. 4. 4. To apply thy self to thy appointed calling, and alway to be busily occupied about something in the same. 5 To oppose the law, the judgements of God, the last judgement, the glorious presence of God, and such like, against the rebellion and looseness of the flesh. Pro. 28 14. Blessed is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart, shall fall into evil. Gen. 39. 9. There is no man greater in this house then I: neither hath he kept any thing from me, but only thee, because thou art his ⟨p. 166⟩wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and so sin against God?