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LR.
o,
ephf
anr,Chapi,6,
None
but doe-fornetime give place
to
him
,
yet he dwelleth not
alikein all. Thofe
that
with
full
content
of
heart
receive his fuggefti-
ons, he hath
full
hold
in
them
:
but the
godly
when
they
give
place
to
him,
they let him come into
the
fuburbs
and
our-parts
:
but
becaufe
Chrift
dwelleth
in
their
hearts by
faith; the tower,being
kept,
he
is,
by the renewing
of
their faith
and repentance, forced
to
retire.
This
therefore
is
to
be
marked, that
teeing
the
dcvill
is
nothing but
a
fpiriti
of
wickedneffe,that by confenting to
wickednefie
we
let in
the
de
vili
unto
us.
Now
then
take heed
:
men will
fpitat
his
name,
and blefïe
them
-
felves
from having
to
doe with him,
but
if
you
give place
to wrath,
ftomachfulnelfe, contention, pride,good fcllowfhip,
and
the
fugge-
ftions
of
this kinde, you
receive him into
your
bofume,
and
are no-
tably foolifh;
likeas
men fhould
be
afraid at the name
of
fire,but
care
not to
be
burnedwith
theheat
of
it. You mu
¬
conceive
of
the
de-
vilt as
of
fome hideous
!lrape, as
if
he lhould
come
like as:you
dreffe-
him
in
May games
and
Pageants, with homes
,
in an
oxe-
hide,
and
.
cloven feet, fquirting
fire;
no
faith he,
I
will
goe to
fuch a
one,
I
will
be
a
fpirit
ofuntruth,.I
will
bea
fpirit
of
error,
r
Reg.ult.zz.
afpiric
of
covetoufnelfe,
of
pride,
of
malice ;
I
will
fuggelt thefe things
:
Con-
tent
to
thefe wickedneffesand you
receive
the
fpirit which
prompteth
you with them, to yourunderfianding.
And
the Lord
teach
us
to hatc
.
wickedneffe,even
as
the
devil!
that
is a
fpirit
of
it
full
ofit,and
labou-
ring
to
fill us
with
it.
Laftly, that they
are in
high places,
are
abovests;
Hence learne
cir-
cumfpe%tiou
:
for,
feeing we
lie naked
to the
view
of
them,
we
mutt-
be
careful!,
that they
fpie
nothing
in
us
to their
advantage
t
Againe,
what
arc
they
a
not
onely Lion
-like
tnemies,
but
malicious
promo.
ters.
Now ifa
Promoter, that
fhould
beare
us
no goodwill,fhould
Rand
ver our
heads, would we
not
be
watchful!; knowing, that every fault
would
be
informed
againft
us
t
to the
devill
is
no
other
then
a malici-
ous acculer
of
us; and
thefe fpirituall wickednelfes hang
hovering
over our heads
:
wherefore we
had need be circumf
pat.
[ver.
r 3.
and
for
thiscaufe.] Nowfolioweth
the founding
of
thealarumafecond
time by
the Apoftleto
us,
the
ufe
of
all
this great defcription
oldie
power
of
darkneffe :
which though
far
fubftance
it
is
all
one with
verse
i
e.
yet the
confiderations
in it
are divers
:
for the holy
Ghoft
Both
in
repetitions inforce circumftances
different
;
both
for our
fur-
ther
delight
and
inlruétion,
as
the
fame meat makcth divers dillies if
diverfly
cooked.
The
words
are plaine,
the
parts are
the exhortation
to
our duty (grounded on the words before)
and
the ends
of
our
du-
ty
:
he exhorteth
to
the one,
leading
to theother.
Fieft,
refittance amplified
from the
circumftanceof
time
,
in
the
.
evil!
day; that
is, in
the
houresof
temptation,
of
attiaions,of
the pow-
er
of
darkneffe.
Secondly, perfeverance, let down
by the
antecedent,
That
having
finifhed
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