36 8 The Evil o fEvils,Or the they deludedandbefotred that fell themfelves to the devil ? Certainly everywicked man and woman in the world, when fin groweth to the height, fell themfelves to thedevil. Sixthly.and laflly, Sin when itgrows toaheight, it cloth turn the Soul into a Devil; it makes men and women to become Devils, when it grows once to a height : TheScripture is very clear in that; you know what is faid concerning Judas, John, 6.70. Have not ichofenyou twelve, andoneofyou is a Devil? and foordinarily the Scripture fpeaks in this kindofphrafe, Revel. 2.10. Fear noneofthefe thingsyoufh.allfuffer, behold the Devil thane formeo you into prifon : why? is theDevil come to be a Purfevant, or an Officer, or togive Warrants to cafiinto prifon ? No, but it is fpokenofwicked Perfecutors that theDevil fets on work, they be calledby thename ofthe Devil. Sin when it comes to a height, it makes the finners to be fuch, that they arepronounced to be Devils : the Devil(hall cafi fome ofyou intoprifon; an one ofyou is a Devil that is a firange metamer- phoGs. We reade of flrange Fi&ions, of foxne Creatures turned into other. Creatures; but this, for theCreature to be turned into aDevil, is the flrangefl; metamorphofis that canbe. Bre- thren., what made theDevil a Devil ? they were once glorious Angels, more glorious Creatures thanmen and women, but what is it that fhould make them devils now ? Nothingbut Sin ; it is Sin that bath made Angels to be Devils : and thereforedo not fomuch wonder that finfhould make men and women to be devils Incarnate. Do
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