2 8 Againfi Powers. moft got in peace, plenty and profperity, and they never recover their whiteneffe to Inch a degree as when theycome from under Satans fcouring. ivedo too littlemot to feare Satan,we fhould comfortour (elves with the ufefulneffe and fubferviency of his temptations to our good. All thing: areyour', who are Chriffs. He that hath given life to be yours, bath given death alfo. He that bath given heaven for your inher,tance 'Paul and Cephas, his Minifters andOrdinances to help you thither ; bath given the world with all theafflietir.ns of it, yea. the Prince of it too, with all his wrath and power in order to the fame end. This indeed is love and wifdom in a riddle, but you who have the Spirit of Chrift can unfold it. 4444401,04.:00141,0444:+004411444004 CHAP V. Of the time when, the place where,and the fiibjeUs whom Satan rules. Againfl theRtelers ofthe darkneffe ofthis world. or Here words contain the third Branch in the Defcription of I our great enemy the devil ; and they hold forth the proper feat of his Empire, with a threefold boundary ; he is not Lord o- ver all, that is, the incommunicable title of God, but a Ruler of the darknefe of this World, where the time, place, and fubjefts of his Empire are {tinted. Y. The time when this Prince bath his rule, In this world, that is, now, not hereafter. 2. Theplace where he rules, ln this world, that is, here below, not in heaven. 3. The fubjeas or perfons whom he rules, not all in this lower world neither: and they are wrap's up in rhefe words : The darkneffe of this world. Piet, of the HI boundary. SECT.
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