[Footnote f:  Iaquerius in flagello hereticarum fascinariorum,
    cap. 20.]

[Footnote g:  Ceolcenus +dokimazetai he hemetera orthodoxos pistis ei hedraia esti kai page prosmenousa to kurio, kai me huposuromene hupo tou echthrou, dia ton phantasiodon teraton kai satanikon ergon, ton prattomenon hupo ton doulon kai hupereton kakias.+]

Third, Wee are admonished alwayes to stand in a readines, and be armed for to fight, prepared to withstand the diuell, knowing that God doth oftentimes giue him leaue to assault vs.  Therefore we haue need to be furnished in all points, for we wrastle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkenesse of this world, against spirituall wickednesses in high places, Ephes. 6. 11.12.  And 1.  Pet. 5. 8.9. be sober and vigilant, because your aduersary the diuell as a roaring Lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure.  He [h]is no weake assaylant, and therefore heere by the Apostle are noted in him foure things:  First, his power (a Lyon):  Second, his hatred, and wrath in the word (roaring):  Third, his subtilty (walking about) obseruing euery oportunity and occasion to hurt vs:  Fourth, his cruelty (deuoure) no contentment but in our ruine and vtter destruction.

    [Footnote h:  Strigelius in explicatione locorum Theologicorum
    Melanthonis parte 3. titulo de cruce & calamitatibus.]

Fourth, God would haue vs get the victorie against Sathan, and take knowledge, that Christ on our side fighteth for vs, through whom we triumph, and so are made more vndoubtedly assured of our saluation; and this is that which hee promised, The [i]Seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the Serpent, Gen. 3. 15.  And the Apostle confirmeth, God shall tread down Sathan vnder your feete, Rom. 16. 20.

    [Footnote i:  Augustinus de Genesi ad literam, l. 11. c. 22.]

God suffereth the diuell to preuaile against the wicked, yet in the most Holy there is no iniustice 2.  Chron. 19. 7.  But First, [k]Herein is the declaration of his iustice, whereby hee punisheth obstinate sinners, & those who prouoke him to wrath, and will not repent:  And thus it is sayd of the Aegiptians, whom no plagues could soften, that hee cast vpon them the fiercenes of his anger, and indignation, and trouble, by sending euill Angels among them, [l]_Psalm 78. 49_.  And when Saul had neglected the commandement of God, an euill spirit from the Lord troubled him, 1.  Sam. 16. 14.  Thus Ahab seduced by his false prophets descendeth into the battaile, and is slaine (contemning the words of Michaiah) in[m] whose mouthes the diuell was a lying spirit, who sent of the Lord, perswaded him and preuailed, 1.  Kin. 22. 22.23.24.

    [Footnote k:  Hyperius in locis Theolog. lib. 2.]