3} o The S^atvrall and Moral! 



dndfctmjchairevfon tilth* ftarres of heaven , and I wilt 

 fit vfon the toppt ojthe Firmament'* and in the fides of the 

 Ndrthjmttafcend above the height ofthecldudss, andrviS. 

 fa {fa to fa mojl High. And in Ezechiel , Thy heart rvaf 

 lifted 'vp, and thw> haft fad, I am Cod , and have fit in the 

 chaireofGed intbe midjl of the fea. Thus doth Sathan 

 continually peffift in this wicked de-fire, to make him- 

 felfeGod. And although the iuft and (were chaftife- 

 mcnt of the moft high hath fpoiled him of all his 

 pompe andbeautie, which made him grovvprowd, 

 being intreated as his fellonic and indifcrction-had 

 defervcd,as it is written by the fame Prophcts^yet hath 

 he left nothing of his wickednes and perverfe pracfti- 

 fes, the which hee hath made manifeftbyallmeanes 

 poflible,likeamaddogge that bites the fword where. 

 with he is ftrucken.For as it is written,the pride of fuch 

 as hate God, dothalwaiesincreafe. Hcncecomesthc 

 continuall and ftrangc care which this encmie of God 

 hath alwaies had,to make him to be worlhipt of men , 

 inventing fo many kinds of Idolatries, wherbyhe hath 

 fo long heldthe greteft part of the world in fubie&ion- 

 fo as there fcarce rernaines any one corner for God & 

 a.it. his people of ifrael. And fince the power of the GoC 

 9 fyd pel hath vanquifliedand difarmed him,and that by the 

 ^ force of the Crofle, hee hathbroken and ruined the 

 moft important and puiflant places of his kingdomc 

 with the like tyrannic , hee hath begunne to aflaile the 

 barbarous people and Nations fartheft off, ftrivingto 

 maintaine amongft them his falfe and lying divinitie, 

 the which the Sonne of God had taken from him in 

 his Church, tying him with'chainesasinacagcor pri- 

 ibn, like a furious beaft to his great confufion, & reioy~ 

 cing of the fervants of God,, as he doth fignify in lob. 



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