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EPhefian.r,Chap..G.
VER.IÓ.
authority tinder them,to execute
Gods
fpirituall
judgement
of
finne
and
curfe,
and have
power
of
tempting theSaints.
Now tke
third
word
Both
compre-
hend
both the
former,
os
the
genera
dab
the kindesunder
it:
For
bath
the
Princes
of
this world, Princes
national, and
powers
inferior
to
them,all
are
worldly
governours.
Now
he
openeth
the
foundation
of
this
their power
;
left
they
Ihould be
thought
governours,fuch
as
are
the fonnesof the molt High,
and
have received magiftracie for
the good
of
men;
he faith,
they
he
rulers in
theworld, by
reafon
of
the
darkeneffe
in it
:
or by the
world,
I meane the
darkeneffe
of
Crime,
all
kinde
of
curfes and fpiritual
I
tem-
ptations. The
fecond thing they are defcribed
from,
is
their
nature.
Firft, they
arefpirituall:
that
is, Intelligences
that
cannot be
feene
with
eye; fubtle
and
powerful!. z. For their qualitie, wicked;
fuch
as
have
at
lcaft
eminently
in
them
all wickedneffe.
The
third thing
is
the place;
the dottrine
of
which, you
may remember
in
thefe three conclu-
clufion.
Firft, they are
caft
out
of
heaven; which was their
firft
habitation,
Jade 6. Secondly,
the
place
appointed to them all (and where fome
are
referved
to the
laft day)
is
hell,
or the
deepe,
2
Pet.
z. 4.
For
if
God fpared.not
the Angels, &c.
Luke
8.
3r.
And they
befought
him
that
he would not command them to goe out into the
deepe,
that
is,
into
hell.
For
thefe guilty perfons
are
imprifoned before exe-
cution.
Thirdly, that Gods
juft difpofrtion
is
fuch,
that
for executing his
fpiritualljudgements and curfes on the wicked, and trying with temp
-
tations hisowne children,fomc
of them
are in
the earth. v9poc.I
2.12.
For the Devill
is
come
down
in
great
rage.
lob
t.
The
Devil! com-
paffeth
theearth.
Someare
in
the ayre,
as
in this place
to
hinder
the
faving hearing
of
Gods
Word;
and
in
the
ftorÿ
of
lob,
they flirted
up
tempefts.
Now
then the fumme
of
thefe words, may more largely
in
this
manner
be unfolded. You have good
reafon
to
put on
the armour
of
God
:
for
all
of
us
who
have received to
heleeve,
and have
through
faith our hearts
purified
to obedience; what
is
our
life,but
a
continual)
confliet
(wraftlee) andwho
are
thole
that encounter
use
Not
flelh
and
blood,
for then we
needed
not
armour
of
fuch high
proofe,
forged by
God
himfelfe.
But
thefe that
ftrive
with
us,
are
fuch,
as
if
you
Tooke
at
their authority,
they have
a
kingdome amongft
men,
the Prince
of
the whole world;
under him national!
Princes;
thefe have
principali-
ties,
and
fecondary powers under them. Thefc principalities
and
po-
wers, thefe all
of
them
are
greatgovernours
in
the world,
doc
all
of
them
refit}
us,
yet
I
would not have you
take
them
fuch
as
have
a
magiftracyóver the outward
man, for the good
of
them,
as
worldly
Princes;
who
are
therefore
called
gods
:
But
the
regencie
they
have
amongft men,
is
by reafon
of
darkeneffe.
Gods
Spiritual!
judgements,
curfes
which
God
will have executed, and temptations wherewith
God
will
have
his
children exercifed; governours
of
the
darkeneffe
of