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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.
This may serve to reprove those men who say they care not into what company they come, for they persuade themselves that no company can hurt them: but let such men beware; for how can it be but they shall be infected with the sins of those whose company they usually do haunt and use?1 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be like unto them. He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled: and if sinners entice thee, yield not unto them.
This may serue to reprooue those men who say they care not into what companie they come, for they perswade themselues that no companie can hurt them: but let such men beware; for how can it be but they shall be infected with the sinnes of those whose companie they vsually do haunt and vse?1 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: but a companion of fooles shall be like vnto them. He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled: and if sinners intice thee, yeeld not vnto them.
- 1Pro. 14. 20. 1. 6.
Again,1 here we see that so long as Christ lived a private life at home with his father in his trade, all this while the Devil lets him alone; neither hath he these gifts of the holy Ghost: but after he was once installed to the office of a Mediator, presently the Devil sets upon him: and when he must now be another kind of man in teaching the people of God, he is led now by the spirit of God, and furnished for this high and excellent calling.
Againe,1 here we see that so long as Christ liued a priuate life at home with his father in his trade, all this while the Diuell lets him alone; neither hath he these gifts of the holy Ghost: but after he was once installed to the office of a Mediator, presently the Diuell sets vpon him: and when he must now be another kind of man in teaching the people of God, he is led now by the spirit of God, and furnished for this high and excellent calling.