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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.
Paul. Here Satan doth wonderfully aggravate the offence committed, and doth accuse and terrify the offender with the judgements of God. Mat. 27. 3. Then when Judas which betrayed him, saw that he was condemned, he repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief Priests and Elders: 4. Saying, I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood: but they said, What is that to us? see thou to it. 5. And when he had cast down the silver pieces in the Temple, he departed, and went and hanged himself.
Paul. Here Satan doth wonderfully aggrauate the offence committed, and doth ac•use and terrifie the offender with the iudgements of God. Mat. 27. 3. Then when Iudas which betrayed him, saw that he was condem••d, he repented himselfe, and brought againe the thirtie peeces of siluer to the chiefe Priests and Elders: 4. Saying, I haue sinned, betraying the innocent bloud: but they said, What is that to vs? see thou to it. 5. And when he had cast downe the siluer peeces in the Temple, he departed, and went and hanged himselfe.
Lid. What remedy is there if that I fall?
Lid. What remedie is there if that I fall?
Paul. The remedy is, a renewed repentance, the beginning whereof is sorrow, in regard of God for the same sin; the fruits hereof are especially seven. 2. Cor. 7. 9. Now I rejoice not that you were sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye sorrowed godly, so that in nothing ye were hurt by us. 10. For godly sorrow causeth repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of: but worldly sorrow causeth death. 11. For behold, this thing that ye have been godly sorry, what great care hath it wrought in you: yea, what clearing of your selves: yea, what indignation: yea,