I 40 The Trial and SERM. ) the Goipe1, that we may negotiate with Heaven, and have Peace with God. Unctean Spirit J This is the ~ality of this Devil: An unclean D~vil. Now, whether he be called fo, becaufe he tempted the Maid to fome prodigious AB:s of Uncleannefs, or becaufe in ge1neral he tempteth to U ncleannefs of Sins;' f() as Unc~eannefs is but a general .Epithet of all the Devils, I profefs my Ignorance; however, all Devils pave this general Name, Unclean Spirits, becaufe of their fpiritual Uncleannefs : 'Tis certain, Devils are, I. Black, now they being fail en in a fmoalCy Hell, and kept under the Pow~r and Chains of :Darkn~(s, they are but Lumps of blac~ Hell a~d ,Darknds, whereas they were created fa1r Angels. I, Truth is the faireft Thing that is, Obedience to God is Truth, .7ohn 3· z. r. Sin is the moft ugly, ~nd deformed Thing in the World; and therefore Sinners can have no Communion \vith God, while they be ~afhed~ 2. Devils ~ere once pure and dean Spirits, th~ir Underftandmgs were made clear, to fee God and his Beauty; now theie fair Spirits are darkned, for their Fellow-Ar.., gels who finned not, ~re yet Seraphims, and Lamps of Light, and thefe Angels (faith Chrift, Matth. 18. 10. Vo atwa,.Ys behold the Face of my Father ~bicb is in Heaven. Then the rnore Grace of Chrift, ,the more Clearnefs offa ving KnowledQe and found Reafon ; Grace maketh more folid W ifdom than Art or Learning; by this ~avid excelled all his Teachers, and the ancien t Ones: In Satan's Fools the right Principle of Wifdom is extinguifhed; the Prophet fpake it of Statefmen, or rather Statejoots, Jer. 8. 9· Lo, tJ.:ey have rejeBed the Jford of tbe Lord, and rwbat .. . . Tf1filot.'l-
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