ndir'.irtitres oldie the Samtsfuvr-perfecutión, and now the Devil is call'ci°the Prince of this world, and he prevails in this world much : the world is 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,furely while he bath fo much to do in the world as he hath, all the Saints of God mull needs .eaped hard things. Secondly, This poyfon of the old Serpent it is fuckt up by wicked and ungodly men yen: 3. I ç. i will put enmity be- tween thee and tI e wom sv, and between thy feed and her feed : ::There is a natural enmity betweenthe Godly and the wicked; a fcc:et antipathy, now antipathy is the greaten oppofition,the fironZ eft, the moth fecret and deadlyefi oppofition, and con - iant oppofition, and fuch an antipathy there is between the Saints and wicked and ungodly men I read of 7ygers, that they are put into a rage by the finell offpices;and the favour of- the graces of God in the Saints, will put the 7'ygu s of the world into a rage. There is in the hearts of men an oppofition to Godlineffe that is beyond all kind of reafon: for 'tis an anti- achy : 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 fhoulcl b e fuch a terrible creature,not fearing ehn neighing of Horfes, nor the beating of Drums, nor rattling 'of fpears,and yet that the crowing of a Cock fhould fcare him, and fo between the Elephant and the Moufe, that no reafon un 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- - yen : Some men if fuch a dith come to a table, they are ready to flint, but they can give no reafon of it, and foit is between the wicked and the Godly, and therefore the Apoltle Paul after his converfion, he could Tay and acknowledge in his per - :fecutina of the Saints he was a mad man, Aits 26. I I ..And being exceedingly mad agaisrftthem Why Paul there was a time thou thonghteft it to be reafon what thou didít ? I but now Paul looks upon it as madneflè, there is an antipathy be- tween thehearts of the wicked and Godly men, and antipa- thyeson'nevdr be cur'd without the death of one,and certain -. 'y,
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