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Some devils then are not so 〈◊〉〈◊〉, politike, vile, villainous, as others: so neither 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 men all alike wicked; Some stigmaticall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 face the heavens, burden the earth, please not God, and are contrary to all men. Others are more tame and tractable, as the young* 1.1
man on whom Christ looked and loved him. Yet, as when one commended the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Legate at the Councel of Basil, Sigismund the Emperour answered, Tamen Romanus 〈◊〉〈◊〉: So though the de∣vil or his slaves seem never so fair conditioned, they are neither to be liked nor trusted: he is a devil still, and will do his kinde: they are wicked still, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 proceedeth from the wicked, as saith* 1.2 the Proverb of the Ancients. I have read of one that would 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, theatres and whore-houses in London all day, but he 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not go forth without private praier in the morning, and then would say at his departure, Now devil do thy worst: and* 1.3 so used his praiers as charms and spels against the weak, cowardly devil. This was not that praier and fasting our Saviour here speaks of; men must not go forth to this spirituall fight, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, with their break-fast, as the Grecians in Homer, but praying and fasting from sin especially: for otherwise they do but light a can∣dle afore the devil, as the Proverb hath it.
1 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 15.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 Sam. 24. 13.
M. 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉, p. 23 a.