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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.
The Devil tempts men with sundry blasphemous, horrible, and unclean thoughts. Now that we may discern them, and keep our selves from despair when we find them in us, we must know that in the mind there be many cogitations which arise of the flesh, and from our own corrupt hearts, and these be sin. Besides these there be other cogitations conveyed and suggested unto us by th• Devil, and these be the Devils temptations▪ but no sins to us, unless we entertain• them, receive and approve of them: they b• indeed our crosses, but Satan's sins: fo• Christ was tempted by the Devil, but with standing and repelling his temptations, an• not giving the least approbation of them, h• was free from sin, and remained holy aft•• ⟨p. 19⟩he was thus tempted.
The Diuell tempts men with sundry blasphemous, horrible, and vncleane thoughts. Now that we may discerne them, and keepe our selues from despaire when we find them in vs, we must know that in the mind there be many cogitations which arise of the flesh, and from our owne corrupt hearts, and these be sinne. Besides these there be other cogitations conueyed aud suggested vnto vs by th• Diuell, and these be the Diuels temptations▪ but no sinnes to vs, vnlesse we entertain• them, receiue and approoue of them: they b• indeed our crosses, but Satans sinnes: fo• Christ was tempted by the Diuell, but with standing and repelling his temptations, an• not giuing the least approbation of them, h• was free from sinne, and remained holy aft••