Luk, 13. 27. 2 Cor. a I. 14, I$. 2 Thef. 2. 93 10. 7he Secret soothfayer, or in the leafy, when they have done never fo much, but Hell is .their due , and their portion foi all this ; therefore depart frommeye workers of iniquity. And this day of the Lord will come on a fudden when neither men, nor all their Magicians , nor Southfayers , nor their Sorcerers, nor all their W'itchcrafts, that delude the .eyes of the underflanding, halls be able with all their wifdome and cunning to put it off, but they themfelves hall be cut off and def?royed, though they have ttfed their utmcf devices to delude the feule, and carry it captive, and won them to a liking of their wayes : and though Satan bath fo deludedpeople, that he appears not aDevil andfeducer as he is, but bath transformed him(If into an Angel of light, and bir iinifers into Miniflers of rir4hteoifrzeJe. And for proofe of this, confider but of two or duce places of Scripture and you hall fee it clear. As Firil, the Apofile in 2 Thef. 2. 9, io. fpeaid g of Anti- chrif and his workings in man, faith, he "halt be revealed and made known, and confisnted with the fpirit of theLord, and with the bright-n(1( ofhis coming ; even f-le, whofecoming is after the working ofSatan, with allpower and lignes, and lying won- ders, and with all deceivablenef je ofunrighteoufneffe : Though they feem Saints, and to be endowed with power, yet they are but lying wonders ; and thongh they feem tohave righteoufr:effè, yet it is deceivable ri hteou_fi ofe : righteouf nefTe wrought by the power of Inchanters and Sorcerers, and Magicians to deceive and blind the underftanding ; for there. is nofuck thingbut the contrary ; for tis no other but the power ofSata;n, and the working of Satan, and they are his figes and lying wonders : And , in that day of the Lord all thefe things hall be difcovered and made na- ked. Nay farther, that Satan may hide himfelfe, and not be known to be Satan, he hath this farther policy and in- chantment, hecan cry down an Inchantrnent in one form that he may be more fecuce hi another, and yet be Satan Rill, and all to conceale himfelffiom being known ; for if he be difovered, and the day of theLord reveal bin!, thenye (hall
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