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Title:  The zealovs Christian taking heaven by holy violence in severall sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...
Author: Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.
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and instigations of Satan. The Devill acts not onely powerfully, but al∣so subtilly and craftily, he will endea∣vour to divert you from the performance of duty, he will perswade you to neglect it if he can; But it may be thou wilt say, thou wilt direct thy prayer unto God, and thou wilt have thine eye fixed upon God. Why now Sathan will fall in with you, he will jogge your arme, he will take off your eye from the marke, that you shall not be able to hit it. Thus he dealt with Abraham, as you heard before. Thus he dealt, Job 1. 6. Now there was a day whenJob 1. 6.the sons of God came to present themselves be∣fore the Lord, and Sathan came also among them. I am not ignorant that many In∣terpreters, by the sons of God, doe under∣stand the Angells, because the Angells are called the sons of God, Job 38. 7. but Job 38. 7. it cannot be so taken here; I will give but one reason to prove it; because the place where the Angells are, is in heaven, and if so, then the Devill must be in heaven, which is by all denyed; he never was in heaven, since he was cast out of it. And therefore Bolducius saith, that this day was the Lords day, and by the Sons of God are meant, the godly men, that lived in the time, and place where Jobived, the posterity of Seth. And you hall finde in Scripture this very appella 0