468 VE 'B.S.7• A11 Exps.ftti.on, "With Notes CHAP·4• our underRanding and affeCl:ions. Tht:'Scriptures every where iR– timate that great heighth of undcrfianding and policy which is in the evil Tpirits; therefore we read of their Snares, 2 Tim. 2. 26, Method1,Ephe[.6.II. Devifes, voup.a-1ct, zCor.z.II. Allwhidi words imply agre~t deal of c~nning and dexterity, which is much encreafed by expenence and obft!rvation; He conjidered job, Job 2.• 5. They obferve and confider us,and know how to fuit the bait, partly byfuppo/ition andconceit,as imaginiAg by what corrupt aims mofi men live; partly by externalftgns, they obferve our prayers, difcourfes, paffions, the motions of the bodily fpirits; can interpret the filent language ofa blutb, a fmile, a frown, a look, the glance of a lufiful eye, the gate and carriage of che body. Now to work upon us, they ufe fomecimes the Minifiry and fubferviency ofmen, as our · . nearefi friends; fo he made ufe ot Peter toCbrifi,Mat. I 6. z. ~· or of curfed Deceivers, 2 (or. 1 1•. 9. Sometimes he makech ufe of our own bodies; by the outward commotion of the humot-trs he fiirreth up to revenge,u·ncieannefs, paffion, and all fenlualluf.l:s ; and _ · therefore you had need keep the body in.agood frame, that the hu– mours of it be not armed againfi your Souls. Sometimes by pre– femiqg the object: As he dealt with Chrifi,reprefenting the worlds glory to him in a Map or Land-skip; ·fo he flirrech np lu£l by the eye; 2 Pet.l. 14. E]ts full of adultery: in the Original, fl.~xct;.,iJI€·, ofthe Adu!tere(s : Objectsare firf.l: prefemed, then he cau– feth them to dwell· upon the fancy, till the heart be .enfnared. Sometimes through the immijfion of thoughts, through the help of fancy ; this mu£l needs be one way, how fhould the D~vil elfe tempt to de(pair? or tofpiritual fins? or blind the mind by carnal imaginations and conceics, and obfiinate prejudices aga-infl: the Truth? And thefe thoughts once immitted, may be continued into adifcourfe or difpute, and the Devil ,gueffing at the Anfwer, may come on with aReply ; therefore we find that he fetteth on Chrifl: with new tempt.at~ons, bccau{e he had received fo .full an An– fwer. Secondly, The. next Quefiion is to fhew, what it is to-refill him. 1anfwer, I. Negatively, We muft rJot fear him i che Devil hath no enforcing power,.but only apetf~ading flight: DifirufHul -fear gi:.. vec),l him advantage; We are to reji ft him j1edf;~Jt in the faith, i fet.5.10. And·again, we mujl not give place tfJ him; ·Epbef.4• "-7·· Anger ~ay, l1lake way £o~ ~alice ;. and ~h~~ ~~~ ~rfi rifin~f
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