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AP.V
il,
§.
,o.
The Power of
Sathan
how
broken
by
Chrift's death,
17o he
deftroyes
and and
removes.
Now
all,that
is
of
this
kind, that
workes
ef-
fe&ually
and powerfully
for the alienating
of
the hearts
of
Believers
from
God, or
kecping men in
a
Bate
of
alienation from
him,
may be referred
un-
Gen.3.17.
to
two
principles.
i.
Sathan himfelfe.
2
His
Workes; The
world,
as
under the Curfe,
is
an
inffrument
in
his
hand, who
is
called
the God
there-
2
eor.q.q.
of,
to
allure, vex, and
mifchiefe us
withali; neither
hash
it the
leaft
power
Nath.4.9.
or
efficacy
in
it
felfe,
but
only
as
'tis
managed
in
the hand
of
sathan to
turne
men
fromGod. And yet
the Lord
Chriff hash
not
let
that
goe free,
John r6. 32.
neither without
its
deaths wound, but bids
his
followers
be
of
good
comfort,
051.1.4.
for
he
had
overcome
the
World;
that
is,
forthem, and
in
their
ffead
;
fo
that
it
ijohn
54'5.
ihould never be
ufed
nor heightned
in its
enmity
to
a
conqueft
over
them
51
meanea totall
and
finali
Conqueft,
fuch
as
might
fruftrate any intention of
God
in his
undertaking
for
them:
It
is
not our lotíe
of
a
little
bloud,
but
out
iofï'e
of
Life,
that
makes the enemy
a
Conqueror.
But
now for Satan.
3
r6.
I.
Firffheovercomes,deffroyes,
and breakes
him
in pieces,
with
his
power:
Heb:
2.I
4
by
death
he
deflroyed
him,that
had the
power
of
death,
that
is,
the Divell.
The
firft
thing
that
was promifed
of
him, was,
That
he fhould
breake the
head
of
the serpent :
Gen.
3.15. He
doth it
alto
in,
and
for the feed
ofthe
Woman
,
all
the
Fleet
ofGod,
oppofed to
the
feed
of
the Serpent,
or
Generation ofVipers.
In
purfuit hereof,
he
fpoyles
Principalities
and
Powers,
and
makes
a
Phew
of
them openly,triumphing over them in his
CrofJe, Cot. 2.
1
In
the
blond
of
his Croffe he
conquered,and brake
the power
of
the Divell,bind-
ing
that
firong
man Armed, andfpoyling his
goods,
making
a
thew
of
him
, and
them,
as
great
Conquerors were
wont to
doe with their Captives and their
fpoyles.
Now there are two
waies
,
whereby
the
blond
of
Chtiff thus
brake
the
power
of
Satan,
that
he
(hall
not
lead thofe
aiwaies
captive at
his
pleafure,
nor
rule
in
them,
as
Children
of
difobedience,
in
the
behalfe
of
whom
his
power
was fo
broken.
I.
Firff,
He
fubdues him
by
taking
away all
that Right
and
Title,
which
he had
by (inne,
to
rule over them:
I
fpeake
of
the
Ele&
of
God.
By
the
en-
trance
of
Fnne,
the
Divell
entred
upon
a
two
fold
rule
in
reference
to
(inners;
Firff,
A
Rule
over them with
the terrour and dread ofdeath
and Hell
;they
lieba.14,
are
in
bondage
by reafon
of
death,
all
their
daies,
Heb:
2.15. And
the
Divell
hath
the power
of
that death
upon
the World
,
whereunto they are
in
bon-
dage.
The
death
,
that
is
in
the
Curfe,
is
put
into
his
hand
to
manage it,
to
the dread and
terrour
of
(inners;
and
by it he
bath
al
waies
kept
many,
and
to
this
day doth keep innumerable
foules
in
unexpreffiible
bondage
:
putting
them upon Barbarous Inhumanities;
to
make Attonernent for their
finnesr
and forcing
fome
to
infli&
revenge and
deffru
&ion
upon themfelves,thinking
to
prevent,
but
really haftening
that
which
they
feare.
As
of
old
,
this power
Drat.
de
34
of
his
lav
at thebottome
of
all
the
Abominations, wherew,jth
men
provoked
God,
when they
thought to
Attone
him
as
by
burning their Children
in
the
Y
g
D v
><
fire,
and the like.
Mic.6. 7,
$. So
at
prefent
is
it the principle
of
all
that fu-
Levit.18.2!
perffitious
Will-worfhip,
and Religious
drudgery
,
which
is
fpread
over
the
Dent.
19.ío
Antichriffian
World:
yea
the inventions
o
men,
ignorant
of
the Righteouf-
2xinas 21.6.
Y
23.1o.
neffe
of
God, and
convinced
of
their
own
infufficiency
to
performe, worke
s
Chr.
33.6.
out,
and
effablifh
a
Righteoufneffe
of
their owne,
that
(hall
perk
fly
anfwer
30%32.
35
theexait
holy demands
of
the
Law,
as
far asto them
is
difcovered,to
deliver
themfelves from
under
tliis
dread ofDeath,wherewith he,that
bath
the
pow-
er ofit,terrifies
them,..
all
their dales,
are indeed
the
foundation, and
fpnng,
the
fumme and fubffance
ofall
Religions
in
the World,
and
the darlingofalt
Religious Perfons, in,
and
with whom, Chrift
is
not
all
and
in
all.
And
here-
in