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2.
Deil.
Ephefians,
Chap.6.
V
E
R.IO.
before the
eyes
of
the
minde, and fo the facecovered
:
If
one doe
live
inunrightcoufneffe and unholineffe, hound with
the
bands
of
many
trefpatfes
(whofe
fins
you
(hall
loofe:)
If
one
lie in
the little
cafe
of
an
evil!
confcience,
whether
he
be
in a
drunken fleepe
and feele
nothing,
or
if
he be
waking, fuch
a
party
is
in
the
power
of
Satan; for the Devil
is
but the Jayler
and
hangman to the Juftice
of
God.
Wherefore
let
us
examine our
felves, and
confider how it
is
with
us
:
for
we would
bleffe
our felves, we would be loth
to
have
one
mere
us,
come into
fuch condition for
the outward man,fo
fhamefull,
fo
miferable
:
but
let
us
looke our foulesbe not
in
worfe hands.
It
is
fo
with
us,That
the
eye
fees
nor, the
heart
dreadsnot
;
yea we count
our chaises
and
imprifonment the only liberty
;
and
to know nothing,
nor to
care
for any thing
in
matters
of
Religion, the pleafant
life. Mcn
love darkneffe
better then light
;
and bccaufe
they
have ever
beetle in
this hell, they think there
is
no
other
heaven
:
but
if
you
be thus impri-
foned
in
darkneffe
of
undcrftanding,
in
unrighteoufnefiè under Gods
dilplcafure
5
know this, there
will
come
a
day
of
execution too
Toone
upon
you.
Secondly
,
we
muff
ftirre
up
our
felves
to thankfulneffe, who
are
nowmade light
in
the Lord
;
for if the Devils territories reach no
further then darkneffe,we
are delivered
from
his
kingdome, who
have
received the light
of
underftanding
and holineffe
in
any
meafure.
This
made the Apoftle,
co/.1.r
z.
breake out
into thankfgiving.
Is
it
not
a
merry time when the gaole- delivery
comes,
when their
fees are
payed,when their
Irons are tooke
off, and
themfelves difcharged,that
they
now
may walke
at liberty it
is
merry with them, though they
halt
a
little after
:
fo
with
us
,
though
wee limp
by
reafon
of
the
chains we carried
fo
long,
we fhould tell this treafure often.
The
fourth thing
to be marked from hence
is,
that the
devils are
called fpirituall wickedneffe, or
fpirirs
of
wickedneffe,
that
As
we
will
have
nothing
to
doe
with
the
¡mill,
fo
mint
we
flee
from
his
wickednefc
if
we
let
in
bite
wickedneffe
we
cannot
brat
give
him entertainment
:
for,
the dcvill
cometh unto
us in
fuegeftions
of
unrighteoufnefiè
;
if
wee
content to them, we
enterta`ne the devill. Ananias and.Iudzs
,
when
they contented to
the wicked motions
the
devil! infp:red into
them
;
the
devill
is
laid
to
fill
the heart
of
the one,
and to enter into
theother,
Lithe
a
2.3. Alls 5.3. And
not oncly
ofthefe
enormous finners, but
of
all
that
walke
in evil!
:
and
for
the
devil! he
bath
a
dwelling
in
them
;
The
ftrong
man
armed keepeth the
houle,
chat.
t
z.
yea,the
godly
if
they
liften
to wickedneffe
,
they
give place
to the devill,
Eph.4.
For
Tooke, as
when God knocked)
at our hearts
by
a
holy motion,
if
wee
open
in
obeying, the Lord
Both come, and
further dwell
in
us,
Apoc.
3.2
r.
So when thefe wicked (pints doe reach out their
wickedneffe
unto
us,
if
we confent
to
it
,
the come to
poffeffe
us
after
a
fort
, and
have
adwelling
in
us.
But
you will
fay
then,
Who
hath not the
devil!
dwellingwith
him:'
for, who doth not often yeild to
evil!
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