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Wicked men
ruled
by
the
fpirit
óf
dai1Znefs.
641
z Chap.
a
t
verfe.
But
he
that
hateth
his
brother,
is
'in
dark
aefs,
and walketh
in
dar
,nefs,
and.4
wweth
not
whither-
hegoetlz.,
heca'fc
that
darknefs
hath.blinded
his
eyes.
He
walkes in
the
wayes
of darknefs, and
his
workes
are the
workes
of
darknefs,
and he
Humbles at
every thing
, he
thimbles
at the
wayes
of
God,
every
fcandall
that
falls
it
makes him diliike
the
wayes
of
God,
and.every reproach
that
is
caft
out,
it
makes
him to
judge
evil!
of
Gods wayes.
Man
naturally is
in
a
difinall con
-
dition,
he
may
think
he
bath
comfort, but
.certainly he bath
none, he,may think
he bath
lighr,'but
he
is
Sarre
from
it he
hath no
more then
a
child that
is
in
the
'boétom`of
a
Dungeon,
and
was
borne
there,
fo
is
wicked.man
in
a
naturall
eaate,
he
may
think that
he
fees
fpiritually,
but
his
eyes are carnali
;
and
againe
their
wayes are
dangerous, they
doe
nor know what
ihall become
of
them the next.tlep they
goe,
but that
they
may fall
into
perdition.
Further,
they are
ruled
by
the fpirit of
darkneife,-by
reafon
of
the
darkneffe
that there
is
in their
own
fpirits
;
hence
the
fpiric
of
darkneife and
their
fhirits come
to
fait
one with ano-
ther more,
whether the Devill
would fo.much
as
tempt
any
o-
ther
way,
but
by
propounding
of
outward
.ob;,e&s,
were
it not
for
the
finfulnefle
of our
hearts,
were
very
Queflionable
when he came
to tempt
Adarn when
he
was in
innocency,
we
onely reade he came
by
Serpents,
and
firth
like
,ftiggeflions
when
he
came
to
tempt
our SaviourChrifc, he came nor
t0
tempt
him fpiritually
,
but outwardly taking
him up
to
the
top of
the
mountaine,
and fuch
like temptations, therefore
where
there
is
no
fin,
the Devil!, that is,the fpirit of darknefs
cannot
fute himielfe
to the fpirit,
but
onely
lay
outward things
can
prefent that
which is
evil!,
but
tho.e
that
are in darknefs
and have
their
fpirits full
of
darknefs, they
can
be futed
to the
Prince of darknefs, that
he
doth not onely
propound outward
óbje&s
to
wicked
men,
but he doth
as
it
Were
mingle with
their fpirits,
and
this
is
the mifery that naturall men
a
e
in.
Lally,
All the world are
fo
in
darknefs
that
if
they
be
left
to
themfelves they
will have
their
portion
in
everlaaing dark-
nefs;
it
may
be
many may
think
that
they
are
iaotin
darknefs.;-
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