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The Power
of
Sathan,in and over
menHow
dearoyed
by
Ch,
C.
V11.4:27.
in,have the
Papifis gon
one notable
(kip
beyond
all
their
predeceffours in
fit-
171
perftition and devotion: for
whereas they univerfally
contented
themfelves,
with
facrifices,
purifications, purgations, luftrations,
fatisf1Etions,
recompen-
fes
to be
in
this life
performed,
thefe
latter,
more
refined,
filblimated
mer-
curiall wits,obferving
that
nothing, they could here
invent,
would fettle
and
charme
the
fpirits
of
men
haunted with the dread
of
death
we
fpeake
of,but
that
infiantly they came againe
with
the
fame difquietneffe
as
formerly, &
renewed mention
of
finne,
upon
the
infufficiency
of
the Attonement
fixed
on
for
its
expiation, they found out
that
noble expedient
of
the future
Purgato-
ry,
which
might inaintaine the
foules
of
men
in
fome hopes in this
life,
and
fecure themfelves from the cryes& complaints
of
men, agamft
the
infufficien-
cy
of
their Remedy,
which
they
doe prefcribe
2.
As
he rules
over
men by
death, and
hell
that
followes
after,
fo
al
Co
he
rules in
men
by finne, he
ruleth in the children of'difobedience. Eph,2.2.
And
to
this
end, to
fecure men
to
himfelfe, he being
thatfiring
man armed,
who
hath
the
fir(t poffeflìon,
and labours
to
keepe what he hath
got,
in
peace,
he
Mach.
r2, 9;
lets up
flrong holds, Imaginations,
and
high
things, againíl God.
2
Cor.
45.
Mar
Ìi.2í.
Now
this
twofold power ofSathan,
over men
and in
men,
do both
arife
from
finne
:
whereby men are
firft,
call out
of
Gods Love and care, becoming
ob-
noxious
to death.
And fecondly
are alienated from
God,
in
willing fttbje
&i-
on to
his
Enemy: And
both
thefe
parts
and branches
of
his
dominion,
are,
in
reference
unto the
Ele
&,
call downe and deftroyed and taken
away.
For
Firft, Chrift
by
his
Death
Cafheires
the
Title
and
Claime,
that
Sathan lay'd
4.17
to
the
exercife
of
any
fuch
power
in
reference
unto the
Ele&.
When
men caft
downe any-from
Rule,
they
may
interrupt,
and put by their
exercife
of
any
power,
but
they
cannot
take
away
their
Title,
unleffe
it be
of
their owne
giving;
Chrift by
his
Death,
takes
away the
very
bottome, foundation,
and
occafion
of
the
whole power
of
Sathan.
All
the power
of
Sathan
in
the
firft
Gen.3.3
fence, confiffs
in
death,
and
thole
things
that
either conduce
to
it or do at-
Dan.
27.29.
tende
it.
Now death entred
by
finned
and
there
withal! the power
ofSathan.
Korn° 5.12°
The
Lord
Jefus
taking
away
finne,
and puting
an
end
thereunto,
as
was
mani=
2,i
felted, the
whole
Title
of
Sathan
falls and comes
to
nothing.
And this was
15.
4
really done
in
the
Croffe:
its
manifeftation
by :the Gofpell enfuing
there-
Col.2.15.
upon according
to
the appointment
of
God.
Tirr3
Secondly he takes away
the
exercife
of
his
power, and
that to the
utmoft.
4.
is.
For
I.
He
binder
him
with
bonds,He
binds7the firong man Armed
Math,
i
2.19.
And
he
brea4s his head.
Gen,
3:15.
Then
leader
him
captive.fa1.68.
i8.Trinmpha
over
him.
Col
°
1°
16. Treads
him
down
under
the
feet of
his.
'Rom.
16.20.
as
the
Kings
ofCanaan were
trod
downe under
the
feet
oftheChildren
of
Ifrael
;then
John
to.
24.
defiroyes
him
Heb, 2.1q..
What
exercife
of
power
is
left,to
a
conquered.bound,
wounded, captived,triumphed over, trodden downe, deftroyed
Caytife
?
Think
yee this
wretch
fhall
ever wholy prevaile againft
any
one
of
them, for
whole
fake, all this
was
done
to
him
?
Neither
can
this with
any
colour
of
reafon be
Paid
to be done for them, or with
refpe&
unto them, towards
whom the power
ofSathan
remaines
entire
all
their
dayes, whom
he leades
captive and rules over
at
his
pleafure, until! death take full dominion over
them.
2.
As
he deftroyesSathan,
fo
he
doth
his
workes;
For
this
caufe was
he
manefelled,
even to de
gray the
worl¿es
of
the Divell.
a
`John
3.8. He
doth
not
only binde the ftrong man
armed, but
allo he
fpoiles his
Goods. W
hatfoever
Lnk,12.21.
is in
men, that
followes
from
that corrupted
principle
of
nature,
is
reckoned
Z
2
to