Ag4infi Powcrs. A............" 197 roaring lion,, which beaft commands the whole forreft ; If he roares all tremble,: yea, in fuch a manner, as Pliny relates, that he goes amongft them, and they nand exanimated while he choofeth his prey without refinance; filch a lion is Saran, who. leads fanners captive at his will, 2 Tim. 3. 26. He takes them a- live, as the word is, as the Fowler the bird, which with a little (crap is enticed into the net ; or as the Conquerourhis coward- ly enemy, who has no heart to fight, but yields without conteff.. Such cowards the devil finds finners, he no boner appears in a motion, but theyyield ; They are but a very few noble fpiries and thole are the children of the molt High God, who dare va- liantlyoppofe him, and in ftriving againft fin refift to blood. He is call'd the great reddragon, who with his taile, wicked men his inftruments, fweeps down the third part of the flars.of Hea, yen. The Prince of thepower of the aire; becaufe as a Princecan mutter his fubjeds, and draw them into the field forhis fervice, fo the devil can raife thepore cceli aerii. In a word, be is call'd- the God of this world, 2 Cor. 4. 4. becaufe (inners give him a Got-like worfhip, feare him as the Saints do God him- Rife. Secondly, thedevili nat*e fliewes his power : 'Tis Bleffe the Lord,ye bis Angels, that excel in flrength, PIA; 1o3, 2o. Strength is put for.Angels, .Pfod. 78. 25. They did eat angels food, Heb. the food of the mighty. In two things the power of Angelical nature will appear ;, In its Superiority, and in its Spirituality. Firft; its Superiority,. Angels are the top Of the Creation; man himfelf made a little lower then the Angels. Now in thc works of Creation,. the Superiour hath a power over the In, feriour ; the beans over the graffe and.herb,man over the beat's, and Angels over man, Secondly, the Spiritualityof their nature. The weakneffe of.. man is fromhis fiefh: his foule made for great enterprizes, but weighed down with a lump of flefh, is forced to rowewith a. firength fuitable to its weak, Partner ; but now the devils being_ Angels have no fuch incumbrance,no fumes from a &filly part to cloud their underftanding, which is clear and piercing; no clog at their heele to retard their motion, which for fwiftneffe is let out by the.winde and flame of fire. Yea, _being fpirttual they,' C e., 3,, can 2,..
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