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THe time against which the forenamed Armour is pre∣pared is next to bee handled. It is here termedb 1.1 the euill day. By euill is meant not so much sinne as trouble: and day is put for any continuance of time. Some take euill day for the whole time of a mans life, yea for the con∣tinuance of this World, all which time Satan assaulteth vs, but no longer.
This I take to be too large an extent of this phrase, for in the originall there is to each word adioined an article, that day, that euill day, which implieth some set and distinct time; wherefore other restraine it to the day of a mans death: but that I take to be too strict a restraint: there are many other daies and times wherein vse is to be made of Armour. Wherefore in the meane betwixt both, I ex∣pound the euill day to bee that time wherein Satan shall any way set vpon vs and assault vs, whether by outward afflictions, or otherwise. All his temptations tend to euil; and therefore the time wherein he assaulteth vs may well be termed an euill day.
Quest. When commeth that day?
Answer. It is no more knowne before hand then the day of death, or the day of iudgement. Whensoeuer the Lord letteth loose the raines to Satan, then is that euill day. That time wherein the Diuell depriued Iob of all he had, smote his body with sore boiles, vexed him by his wife and friends, were euill daies to Iob.