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The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation
The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation. / By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1657
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5. Hath not God vanquished Satan for you*? When the Devil hath tempted to infidelity, to self-murder, when he would make you believe either, that your graces were but a fiction, or Gods promise but a counterfeit bond, now that you have not been foiled by the Tempter, it is God who hath kept the garrison of your heart, else his fiery darts would have entered. Here's an experience to meditate upon.
5. Hath not God vanquished Satan for you*? When the Devill hath tempted to infidelity, to self-murder, when he would make you beleeve either, that your graces were but a fiction, or Gods promise but a counterfeit bond, now that you have not been foil'd by the Tempter, it is God who hath kept the garrison of your heart, else his fiery darts would have entred. Here's an experience to meditate upon.
- *Satan nihil non molitur contra Sanctos, scutum fidei aggreditur, his tentationum arie tibus sic porest copium obsi dear & in tantas dubitationes pra•pitareout deum expavescat, ei irascatur & aliquando blasphemet. N•que tur•a, neque Caesar unquam tanto impetu pessunt civitatem aliquam oppugnare, quam Satan aliquando conscientias piorum, Luther in Ps. 118.Satan nihil non molitur contra Sanctos, scutum fidei aggreditur, his tentationum arie tibus sic porest copium obsi dere & in tantas dubitationes pra•pitareout deum expauescat, ei irascatur & aliquando blasphemet. N•que tur•a, neque Caesar unquam tanto impetu pessunt civitatem aliquam oppugnare, quam Satan aliquando conscientias piorum, Luth•r in Ps. 118.