7-be HiddenSorcerer, difcovered. I47 to blizzards, ( as fuch) and to fuch as Peep and Mutter, and that they knowdeal with the Devil : but of neceflicy, thefe words are fpokcn fecrety in the hearts of men, and there they hearken and obey the Counfel and Wifdome of the fl.fh : There is thechiefMagick wrought whichSatan ufeth, in deluding and drawing away the fouleof man, to hearken to thefe Inchanters , who can Counterfeit the Graces and things of Chrift, that fo they may be taken for Members and Minifters ofJefus Chrift ; And that thofe who truely have his Life and Power, may be counted Deceivers : this is one ofSatans greateft depths ; as we may fee in the Pro- phet Jet.. 27. 9. when he had told the people of Mod and Ammon and. 7yruc the wordof the Lord ; that they fliould ]er. 27.9. go intoCaptivity, and therefore fhouldfubmit andput their necks under theyoakof the King of Babylon ; Now there were others that pretended that they were Prophets alto, and brought the word ofthe Lord, and told them they fhould not content to fervehim. Saycs the Lord in that ninth verfe, Hearkenyenot untoyour Prophets, nor to your Diviners, nor Vert. g. to your Dreamers, nor to yourInchanters, nor toyour Sor- cerers which (peak unto you, faying,je Jhall not ferve the Kingof Babylon ; For whatever they prophefied was but thedevices of their ownheart, and therefore they fhould not hearken to them; but that which he threatned, bccaufe it was the word of theLord, that fhould and mutt come to paffe. And the Apoftie ufeth the farne word in Gal. 3. z. which Gal. 3, r° includesall thofe words of Sorcery, Inchanting, Witchcraft, &c. O foolifh Galatians, who bath bewitchedyou, ghat you /hould not obey the truth, before whole eyes Jefus Chrift 'bath been evi- dentlyfet forth crucified amongyou? Which word Bewitched, is the fameword in the Greek which fignifieth witchcraft, Sorcerie, Charming, or the like ; therebyjignifying that what ever it was that was let up in man tocaufe him to miftake Jefus Chrift, or is let up in the roomof him, was Inchant ments, Witchcrafts, Sorceries;though they werenever fo like him if they were not Him, and turned us away from the Drue Jefus Chrift, they arcFoolifh andWorldly rudiments; and areyefofooliJh (fayes he) in the third verf. that having ibid... 3. V 2 begun
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