. . ........ 200 AgainJL Powers. on 706 1.) go to Gods ftore-houfe, and make tale of thefe irl fuch a fort, as no man can Rand before him; he can hurle the lea into fuch a commotion, that the depths (hall balk like a pot, and difturb the aire into ftormes and tempeffs, as if heaven and earth wouldmeet. 706/ children were buried in the mines of their houfeby a puffe of his mouth, yea, he can go to Gods ma- gazine, (as the former Author faith) and let off the great ord- nance ofheaven, canting fuch dreadful thunder and lightning, as (hall not only affright, but do real execution, and that in a more dreadful way then in the ordinary courfe of nature, If mans Art can fo fulalimate nature, as we fee in the invention of :powder, that bath fuch a ftrange force, muchmore able is be to draw forth its power. Again, over the fenfitive world his pow. .-er is great, not only the beafts, as in the herd of twine, hurried ty.him into the deep ; but over thebodies of men alfo, as in lob, whole fore boiles were not the breakings out of a diftempered nature, but the print ofSatans fangs on his flefh, doing that fad. denly, which in nature would have required more time to ga- ther and ripen : and the demoniacks in the Gofpel grievoufly vexed and tormented by him. But this the devil counts fmall game, his great fpite is at the foules of men, which I call the Intelle6tual world , his cruelty to the body is for the foules fake. As Chriits pity to the bodies of men, (when on earth) healing their difeafes, was in a fubferviency to the good of their foules, bribing themwith thofe mercies fuitable to their carnal defires, that they might more willingly recei/'Inercies for their fouls,from that hand which was fo kind to theif bodies, as we give children fomthing that pleafeth them, to perfwade them to do fomething that pleafeth them notggato fchool,learn their book: fo thedevil who is cruel,as Chrift is meek,and wifheth good neither tobo- dy nor foule, yet fhewes his cruelty to the body, but on a defign againft the foule, knowingwell that the fouleis loon difcompo- fed by the perturbationof the other, the foule cannot but lightly heare, (and fo have its peace and reft broken by the groanes and complaints of the body) under whole veryroof it dwells ; and then itisnot ftrange, if as for want of fleep the tongue talk idly, fo the foule fhouldtbreak out into fome finful carriage, which is thebottomof the devils plot on a Saint. And as-for other poor filly foules, he gainer lithe leffe then a God like fear and dread
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