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idolatric: itfollowcs that we treate of their Religion, 

 or rather Superftitian 5 which they vfe in their facrifi- 

 ces,temples,ceremonies 5 and the reft. 



How the Di'vdl hath labored to wake himfclfe cquall 

 unto God y ^nd to imitate him in his Sacrifices ,Ri- 

 bgion, and Sacraments. CHAP. n. 



Efore wee come to this point, we ought to confi, 

 cfe one thing, which is worthie of fpcciall re 

 gard , the which is, how the Divell by his-pridehath 

 oppofed himfclfe to God- and that which God by his 

 wiieciqme hath decreed for his honour and feryice, 

 and for the good and health of man, the Divell ftrives 

 to imitate and to pervert, to bee honoured., and to 

 -caufe man to be damned : for as we fee the great God 

 hath Sacrifices , Priefe , Sacraments, Religious Pro- 

 phetSjand Minifter^^dcdicated to his divine krvice and 

 ; holy ceremonies > fo the Divell hath hi* fecrifices, 

 priefts,his kinds of ficraments,his minifters appointed, 

 his fecluded and fained holinefle, with a thousand 

 fortes of falle prophets.. All which will bee pleafint to 

 vnderfland , being declared in particular, and of no 

 fmall fruitc for -him that fliall remember, how the Di- 

 veil is the father of lies , as the truth iaieth in the Gat 

 pel- 1 , and th erefo-re hec feekes to vfurpe to himfelfe the 

 glorieof God,anU to counterfaitthe light by his dark- 

 n.es; TheSooth-faiers of Egipt taught by their mafter 

 Nathan, laboured to do wonders, like vnto thole of 

 tjtfofes and ^4ron y to be.equall vnto them. We reade 

 in the Bpokc of ///4^>ofthat3//V^,Priefl: of the vainc 

 Idoll,\vhich vfed the lame ornaments which were vfed 

 in the Tabernacle of the true God , as the Ephod, the 



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