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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.
Lidia. These indeed are sure effects of sanctification, but even these are weak in me as the former.
Lidia. These indeed are sure effects of sanctification, but euen these are weake in me as the former.
Paul Are they so? Then know that God tameth you, yet so as you must not therewith be dismayed: for it is certain, that if you have faith but as a grain of mustard-seed, and be as weak as a young infant, it is sufficient to ingraft you into Christ: and therefore you must not doubt of your own election, by reason of your weakness. A child holding a staff in his hand, holdeth it as well as a man, though not with so much strength; and you ⟨p. 181⟩laying hold upon Christ by faith, though you do it never so weakly, it will suffice for your salvation. Nay, if one have not yet felt these effects in his heart, he must not conclude, he is a reprobate, but must rather use the word of God and the Sacraments, that he may have inward sense of the power of Christ drawing him unto him, and an assurance of his redemption by Christs death and passion.
Paul Are they so? Then know that God tameth you, yet so as you must not therewith be dismaied: for it is certaine, that if you haue faith but as a graine of mustard-seed, and be as weake as a yong infant, it is sufficient to ingraft you into Christ: and therefore you must not doubt of your owne election, by reason of your weaknesse. A child holding a staffe in his hand, holdeth it as well as a man, though not with so much strength; and you ⟨p. 181⟩laying hold vpon Christ by faith, though you do it neuer so weakely, it will suffise for your saluation. Nay, if one haue not yet felt these effects in his heart, he must not conclude, he is a reprobate, but must rather vse the word of God and the Sacraments, that he may haue inward sense of the power of Christ drawing him vnto him, and an assurance of his redemption by Christs death and passion.