- ·~ Qo 7he Trial and SEtt 2~ the Faith: But bewarchfl1l, for he h2.th a Pai& from Chrift, elfe he could not come fo far as the Court of Guard, to dally with the Senfes, to hold , out an A pp le to Eve ; a \~ orld of I< ingdoms ' and Glery tC? Chrift :" Satan bath a Warrant to bid, when he cannot buy ; his Pafs will bear him to go to the more inner Works than the Senies, even tq_ th~ Chamber of the Fancy, to fend a Trurn~ter to the underftanding. 1. Yea to work rnediar~ly upon the Will and the Heart ofa Judas, ~nd to aa, but in a\\ ay of Diil:ance, upon ']]avid to number the People; but a counterfeit Pafs with a falfe Subfcription, cannot permit Satan to go on in real Motions again it: the will; the Chain holdeth him back, there 1s a refiraining Link that all the Powers in Hell cannot break: A f};l,Oral Tie and Link or the Law of Nature in the 13reafi of Devils, Satan can, and doth daily break ; beraufe he firmed from the Jieginning: :Bur the other Link of real Acring againfi the Dorp.inion of Providence, is impoffible to the · ftrongefl: of Devils, qr ofCreatures. 2. We our- · felves may put in Execution, a conditional pa{s,. of the Devil ; for certain it is, Sattm could but kncck at Eve's Door, and play the Orator or So· phiit, to delude: Mind ~hd AffeEtions, but he could not make the Kings Keys, (as we fay) a.nd violently .break up tht> Door, or force the \\111, but · up<'Jn condition t?at Eve fl1ould c<~n~ent to eat the f.orbiddenFr-uJt,by :t<eceffity of D1vme Ju- :ftice, Jhe muft turn the firfl: & c>ldefiDevil in the Flefh that ever was, to tempt Adam t~':fin, and • to eat; and tberefilre, if we be not car ftrl to ~eftft,we may fign the.Oevil'sPafs ofProv1dence, with pur moral c~nfent ' ; yield once to Satan's firft · De-
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