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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 confuteth those which plead extraordinary callings,1 as those men who ca• themselves Elijah, John Baptist, &c. for if thes• were such men, and had such extraordinary callings, they should be endued with extraordinary gifts fit for their calling; but they are not, nay we see they be but ordinary men.
This confuteth those which pleade extraordinary callings,1 as those men who ca• themselues Elias, Iohn Baptist, &c. for if thes• were such men, and had such extraordinari• callings, they should be endued with extraordinarie gifts fit for their calling; but they are not, nay we see they be but ordinary men.
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Again, by nature we be all borne the children of wrath and enemies to God, but by grace are called to be Christians: now the• it behoveth us all to become new men, to lead new lives fitting and suitable to our holy calling, giving our selves wholly to the service and worship of God. Now if any aske• how Christ was furnished with these gifts: • answer out of S. Luke, that he was filled with the holy Ghost, chap. 4. vers. 1. If any further object, that if he were so filled after his baptism, then he was not filled before: I answer• ⟨p. 13⟩