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Saints

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tl

eDevil

is

call'd the Prince of this world,:

and

he

prevails

in

this

world

much

the

world

it

is

in

captivity

to

him,

he

rules,

and he

is

call

'd

the god of this world,now he

hating-God and

his Saints

fo

much,iurely while he

hath

fo

much

to

dom

the world

as

he hath,

all

the

Saints

of-God muít

needs

epee

hard things.

Secondly,

This poyfon

of

the

old Serpent

it

is

fuckt up

by

wicked and

ungodly men (fen:

3.

t

5.

I

will

pm

-tw

enmity be-

een

thee

andt

tl:ewoman,

and

between

thy

feed and her feed

;:There

is

a

natural enmity

between the Godly

and

the

wicked;

a

fec'et

antipathy,

now.antipathy

is

the

greatea

oppofition,the

firongeit;

the molt feeret

and

deadlyeft

oppofition, and con-

Rant

oppofition, and

fuch an

antipathy

there

is

between

the

Saints

and wicked and ungodly men

:

I

read

of

7

ygers,

that

they

are put

into

a

rage

by

the fineli of fpices;and the

favour

or

the graces

of

God

in

the

Saints,

will put the

Tyro

of

the.

'w

rid into

a

rage.

There

is

in

the

hearts

amen

an

oppofition

to

Godlineffe that

is

beyond

all

kind

of

reafon: for

'Lis

an

anti-

pathy

:

Now-an antipathy. you

know is

an oppofition

of

one

creature

againft

another,

that there

can

be

no

reafon

given

of

it,

as

that

-a

Lyon fhoulel

be

fuch

a

terrible creature,not

fearing

thn

neighing of Horfes, nor

the

beating

of

Drums,

nor

rattlin:,

ipears,and

yet that

the

crowing

of

a Cock fhould

fcare

him,

,and

fo

between the Elephant

and

the

Moul

,

that

no

reafon

can

be given for,

fo

it

is

in

the

oppofition

between

the wicked

and

the

Saints,

let Godly

men

walk

never

fo

inotfenfively,

yet

there will be

an

oppofition though-

there

can

be no

reafon

gi-

-

ven

:

Somemen

if

fuch

a

dial

come

to

a

table, they

are

ready

to

faint;

but they

can

give no

reafon

of ir,

and

foit

is

between

the

wicked

and

the

Godly,

and

therefore the

Apoitle `Paul

after

his

converfion, he

could

Tay

and acknowledge in

his

per-

fecutina of

the

Saints he

was a

mad man,

OAlh 26.

it

a.

And

`being

bxceedinglymnel

againft them

:

Why Paul there

was a

time thou

thoeghtelt

it

to be

ritafon-

what

thou

didft

?

I

but

now

Paul

looks

uponit

as

madnef

e,

there

is

an

antipathy

be-

tween

thehearts. of the wicked

and

Godly men,

and antipa-

thyescan'nevér be

cur'd

Without

the

death of one,and.certain

-.

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