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the shape and habit of Eminent ministers of God. So did he to appear to M.Earl of Colchester in the sickness of M.Liddae, a Holy man of God, and to the Turkish Chuous Baptized at London Anno 1690 pretending to be M.Dury an excellent minister of Christ. And how often hath he pretended to be the Apostle Saul or Peter or some celebrated(t) Saint? Ecclesiastical histories abound with instances of that nature. Yea, sometimes he has trans- figured himself into the form of Christ. It is reported that he appeared to (r)Saint Martin, gloriously arrayed as if he had been Christ. So Sikenise to (s)Secundelley and to another Saint, who suspecting it was Satan transforming himself into an Angel of Light; had this expression. "If I may see Christ in Heaven, tis enough for me not to see him in this world", whereupon the Specter vanished. It has been related of Luther, that after he had been fasting and praying in his study the Devil came and pretended to be Christ, but Luther said "Away thou confounded Devil. I acknowledge no Christ but what is in my Bible". Nothing more was seen, thus though the Devil is able to (by divine permission) to change himself into what form or figure he pleases. "Omnia transformat fefe in miracula rerum". A third scripture to our purpose is that in Rev. 12:10, where the Devil is called "the accuser of the Brethren". Such is the malice and impudence of the Devil as that he does accuse good men of

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