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Rich. Gilpin.
DÆMONOLOGIA SACRA: OR, A TREATISE OF Satans Temptations
The First Part.
CONTAINING
A Discourse of the Malice, Power, Cruelty and Diligence of Satan. Of his cunning in Temptation in the general. Of his Method of tempting to Sin. Of his Policies for maintaining his Possession. Of his Deceits for the preventing and spoiling Religious Services and Duties.
By R. G.
2 Cor. 2. 11. We are not ignorant of his Devices.
London, Printed by J. D. for Richard Randel, and Peter Maplisden, Booksellers in New-Castle upon Tine, 1677.
A TREATISE OF SATAN’S TEMPTATIONS.
PART I.
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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.—1 Peter V. 8.
CHAPTER I.
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The introduction to the text, from a consideration of the desperate ruin of the souls of men.—The text opened, expressing Satan’s malice, power, cruelty, and diligence.
The souls of men are ‘precious.’ The whole world cannot repair their loss. Hence by God are all men in particular charged with care and watchfulness about them. He hath also set up watchmen and overseers, whose business it is to watch over souls, and in the most strict and careful manner, as those that must ‘give an account,’ [Heb. xiii. 17.]