SS Demonologia Sacra; OR, A || TREATISE Saiain's Temptations. In Threé Parts; L By RicuAnrp Girtim 2 Gok. i, 11, P@ are vot Bnorant of bit Devices . , -BDINBURG A; Printed by R. FLenxiine, and fold at the Priming-hou® in Pearfor’s Clos; and by moft Booklellers in Town and Country: And at Landon, by Foln Oftnald at the Rafe and Crown in the Poultry near Stockr-market. 1735,ive . Toth READER... Apofile obtruded an empty Notion upon Belieyer 5; when be ponmended that obfervable Truth to them, Rom. ii, 98. He is né a Jew which is one qutwardly,, G50.) For their Sakes have Lunde: taken this Labour of collecting and iethodizing the grand Strata gems, and chief Pays of Deufiaa of ibe great Deceiver. - Z thefe Imuft particularly account for fame few FT} hings relating t this Dilcourfer ahi, . . ea 1. That J have fatisfied myfelf in the Reafons of the Publice tow of thefé Papers, and do not judge it requifite to trouble ai Sofa, as tq tell what thefe Reajons.are. They who defire tor Sit fuch an Enemy, and whofe Experience doth convitice ther that ail Helps are neceffary, will nat need them, and thofe, thx are Men of Scorn,. or of quowed Carlefnefs, will nat. regard thei though 1 foould declare then. ee | 9. To prevent the Mifapprebenfions (whieh paffibly fame me otherwife labqur withal) of a monftrous Produt “from one Tex gecaufe they may abferve one Text in the Front, and no ath mentioned throughout the Firft and fecond Parts they may knot that Imade ufe of feveral in the preaching of thefe Difcourfe as fuitable Foundations for the feveral Particulars herein me. tioned; but in the moulding up of the Whole, into. the Meibed aZreatife, for the Eafe of the Reader, Libought fit ta lay afi these Introductions, as alfa. many otber occafional Application which were proper for Sermons, and a great many Things whi were neceffary to be fpoken for Explication and Mhuytration thefe Points 19 a popitlar Auditory, aid have only prefented Subfiance in a mére clofe Connection ; because if there be a; dittle Obfeurity that may at firt appear to any, for Want of? riety of Words, the Treatife. bsing under their Eyé, will be \ Leifure to attend their Reuiew in a fecond or third Readin, rich however Pwould recommend earneftly to ibofe that, inthe Concerns, do really defign ta be. wife for chemlelves, 3. Neither foould.it feem ftrance, that have frequently ian ufe of Inflances from EHiftory, or other later, Relations. Whofaen fall confider the Mature of the Matter treated on, will not coi iain of this as a needles Trouble put upon them’s yet withal have been fo careful of doing any Perfans an Unkindneft, by ma ing too bold with them, that’ Z mentioned no Names duit Such, « upon fuch Occafions have been made Publick by others befor The reft [have only mentioned in the general, difcovering the Safe where it was ufeful, but concealing the Perfonr. “dy ft may perhapsfeem a Defect, that the feveral Direion Remedies or Counfels which are requifite to be obferued in. mea gTo thé READER: " ing Refiftance againft Satan, are not added, except fome few « "Fihats in the latter End of the Third Part, and fome other Things a that Part, inthe Applications of the feverad Dostrines theres in, (abich Z thought fit, upon good Grounds, to leave in the Or der of a preaching Method ) but fiuch may be pleafed to confider, thai feveral have performed that Part very idly, to whofe Lae Zour L had rather refer the Reader, than irouble bimwith a Re petition: Lt was only my Defign to endeauour a more full Difco- ery (though every Way fort of tbe Ching it Self) of Satan's Craft, becaufe the Knowledge of thir is fo necefjary, and withat athers bave done it more {paringly. Such ast is gecept, and improve for thy fpiritual Advantage 5 for that was the End of this Undertaking, by bim whl defires tbat thy Soul may profper. RICH. GILPIN;Chap. 1. "L HE Intvodyition ta the Lent, from a Confideration of the dijpes of the Souls of Aden, Lhe Texe opened, exprejiing Stan 5 Malice, Power, , oo Ch Crnchty and Diligence, z ac Of the Malice of Satan in particular. The Grounds and. Caufer of thit Malice. The Greatne/s of it proved; and. Inflaweos -of that, » Greatness given. © + ot . <, Chap. 3 OF Ssta's Border, His Podsed ata Angel eanfedeved.,. Dhak he loft not that Power by his Ball. _ His Power as a Deuil, Of hisCommiffion, The Extent. of his Authority. The Efficacy of bis-Pewers The da vantages iy of blinding Men, ~ Several Deceitst0' bring Men to that. ee o Chap. 14. Le OfSatan’s minintaning hisPeffefion. Bis fr fEagine for that purpofe is bis |" flalfoing of Sia, tw its Reiteration andAggravation, bis Policies hereize ~ ote a Ghapaige | . : Of Satan's keipistg'all in quiet, bck Pale fecond Engine for keeping. his Poffefion ; and for that purpofe, bis keeping us from going to the “Light, by-feveral Subtilties , Alfo of making usvife up againft the "Light; and by what’ Ways be doth ibat. ° ‘ : : Tee see wee ~ -Chape16. ° . Of Satan's third grand Polisy for maintaiding bis Polfefton; which is bis feigned Departure. 1.) By ceafing the Profecution of bis Defigus ‘gud the'Cafer in Which bedoth it. “(2.) By abating the Eagernefs of parfait, and baw be doth that. (3-yByrexchanging Temptations, and bis Policy therein. Ube Advantage he feeks by féeming to fly Of big (4) Stratagem for keeping bisPoffelfiin, which is bis Popping all Ways * of Retreat ; “and bow he doth thar. . a “ Chappe. 7, woe Satan’sDeceits againft religious Services and Duties. The Grounds of bis Difpleafure ragsinfE religions Duties. : His fieft Defign, again : ° Des” 1Te CONTENTS Dadlesy Us to prevent thera. His froveal Sulsittees fer thu Lnd, ty exte viel Hurtearces, by Indufecy Bedilt aed oe atuat, by Dif- cemragentents; the Ways 2b ie Dy Grcundts shereep 5 By jipbesireal drguings. Eis varicus Pleat Gauipe rhe Sstan’s fecond grand Defge agin Buhes, iste haf fers, C4.) It the MMasner of undactakint, and ios. be aftedte thes, bit the AB on Pevformanze, by Aiffeastang cetwardly ay ananidly, borcateccesePave by aig ihe Dety apele Hig be doe that. (gt afpter , tke “Manner abereef sreinn PART. IL Chap. ts Hist it ie Satan's qvand Defirn te covragt the Btinds of Aden with Error, ‘The Svidences that st it {85 wad the Beans of ba Epstestcsctrs that UP ay- Chaps 3 Of the ddoantaces sebich Spite Rath, acd afeth, fers athe Intredsd Ervcr. (14) Fears Lis our Peer of iberstaal Bafta dheress fish @ Power peeved froma Sopture, oi ct E rer B (al) Brome the Duper fect: af azplaieed. ge front 2 Becket Mind cp sae ofa brags Hs andshe Power of ther wen pow Under wonlirite “(gd rent Caney ofitge Cg.) Ercet at? aipisel Echan Lexy ef ie a Clare ye Of Sate pity Penge oclne test ddgsttares “er Brrr ra ae By dtheding ite as BT Eyer “ymarores Proton 28 faa By ap Bp ¥ cf te Pete fons wepseeing Ger rainy that Define Miracle He Cune af ere Cy) By Lset age nd Ty ay, aon Wee Be Chas, See Of Sztan’ 1 formed i He “ay of int nginths 2 Ped Lorie f Berets Dentaticns . euteen sk xeb A rsrcesss Deets, ot a By ef Tut, Tee Bef igfoemzes mes Boker the fei dtianh ide _The- CONTENTS. * fedlions U81b Retwayds,-on forcing thane by Fears. (7. By enghghig - Prideand” Anger, <8.) By adel sing Loon with he Ommatneate i of Truth LS , . pe ss Ghaps gs “ou? Satan's Attempts again the Peace of God's Children, evidenced (ny From “bis Adalice.” ( 2), Evovs the’ Concernment of Peace “180 God's” Childrens” What thefe Ooncerris ave, explained. (3.3 | Front the Advantages which he bath againft thein, by difquieting tbeip “~ Adinds,. 1 Corifuftoit of Mind. 2. Unftnefs for Duty, and how, 3. Rejettion of Duty, (4. A Stumbling Blick to others. “5: «Pree : paration of the Adind to entevtain vengmous Inspreffions, and what > they aver GiBodily Westkefs. Our Miferies Satan's Contentment Chap. 6. Of the wavions Ways by which be bindirs: Pace rf. Way, by Difcoms *pofisves of Spirit.” Thole Difcouspofuyes explained: By focwing, 3. What Advaneane he takes from our natural Kemper; and what Tempers give bing this Advantaze, 2. By what Occafions be works & iupon ourindtuyal Tempers. 3. With what Sugscafse. (As). Poofe siOccafions faited: £6 natural Inclinations, raife great. Difurbancte (Cay They bave a Tendency to foivitual Trouble. The Ching pii- ned, ankthe-Manney- hows difcoered. (3.) Lhefe~ Difturbances vane i atveys General and particular Confiderations . about that Power. aad : 4 ara wo 7 oe OCR gece we . ~ Of the fecond Way ‘shinier Boact Wp Sesame the. general Natisye “and Burden. of them, in feveral Payticulays. What ave the Ways by \ which be affrights. 16 Atheiflical Injections. Obfervations of his pro« coeding- in them. », 2..Blafphemous- Thoughts. 3» Affeighiful Sug . Seftions of Reprobation. Obferuations of bis Pyoceedings itt that Courfa . 2 ge Frightful. Adotions- to Sine 5.” Strong intmediate _ Ampraffions, of Fea. 6. Aprightfi. Sexsipale pty of Confeiemer, 5 a Bo Shape . By "Of bis third Way-tovbinder Peace by- pivitual Saduefs, .¥Vhevein, J» ~ "Of the “Degrées of fpivitual Sddnefsv 26Of the requency, of this " Probl, evidenced. feveral Ways. OF the Difference twixt God. and. ~ Satan in “wounding the Confoiete 3o- Of the folemm: Occafions: of this, Trouble: 4.-Ihe Hugines by-which Satan worksfpititwal Sad= uefs, ¥. His Sopbifivy. ‘His Copichy ‘enumerated andcexplaineds ue Scviptisres perverted: 2. Falfe Notions,» 3¢"Adifeeprefeniat ions of Gods 4. Sins 5 how he “aggvav. thent. 5. Leffening thelv " Gracet, “Wow he dith thik. 2, TLV fegeid Engindy:Péanjchuea be Chap? g. * : ‘ ". “forsuardé his’ Defign that Way. “OF bis fourth Way to binder Peace, "by jpirtinal Diprdfesct. Lhe, S Wature of thefe Diftreffes, The Ingredients and Degrees of then " Whether all Diftrelfes of Soul “wrife- fore Melancholye a0 Satan's Method. is working’ them, The “Occdfions be riakes feof. * The degamemts be wegetl, ‘The firengebning of there by Beaysi ee “4 , . Weg, woes,The CONTENTS: Wes BEb ind Barden, explained in feveral Particulars: Cogelodrp, Oautionse Cat ” nt ee . , PARTUM Ta ‘Chap. B eS est oye Sift Chichen ante of theCombar. Theiime awhenit happened: ° Whe two foleme Seafons of Temptation, The Reaforis-thereofa’ Chap. 2. vo The focond Cirewenftanee, Civifts being led Uy ihe Spirit. “What Hart the Spirit of God hath in Temptations ; avd of running into Tena ation when wot led into it. oar soe - ye og oo Ghap, ge ee be third Civcum fance. The Fle f the Combate. ‘The Advantage _ Sten to Temptations by Solitude. bce Hike fost Cireutaptance. . D i wherefore Chrift'avas Ted. into the idernefs. Holinefs, Employment, Privileges, exempt not from . Demptation, Of Temptations -that leave got Impreffions of Sine Behind them. Hoa Satan's Temptations are diptinguilbed from the Lofts of ow own Heart, , : "ABA : “| Chap. §. 7 von to "OF Cvif’s Tap 5 witb. rhe Difign theveh Of Satan's tempting tas énvifible Way. Of bis incefiant Importunities, and how be. files where Tilted. Of inward Lemprations with ontivard Applittions... Seas; wat Advantages Satan. bath by tempting im 'Aglitfions' © = toe. t 'Ghare 6. os Bo, hat Chrift's Zemptarions tere veal and noe in Visi That Temp- Bation is Satan's Exaployment-; with the Evidences and Inf ances - > thereof, Of Satan's ‘tempting viftbly 5 duithitbe Reafous therefo Beka. The general View of thefe Timmrations. OF Sibin's gradual Prose dling in Tonpractne Be vefeving a seat on Pe aa ed “a .great Temptation iss ta'abat Cafes to be.expetted. Of ‘hoor ufing 2 common Road, in-compaving thefe Temptations with ¢ oe inary Temptations of Aden, Of the Advantage Satan takes doe Suval Appetite, Senfe, and “Hffeifionss! 4 : “sag mi ein ee BE hape Bee et ued he Rife of Cbvip's fie Temptation. “Of Satan. fuisilgrbis Tonge Hons 20. tbe Comdidions of Beau's Of tenipring’\ Men open the Piet af Necegity. Ibe Redfonis arid Cheats oft but Plean- His Peetencel #f Evlendpoip in tempting 4 withebe Danger thereof. : “Assinar tmnt _ o Rettedan Con deraten Tenens Sates‘ Te0 EN. T'S; ‘ o ° Batam alpeilub igibidding bith than, Stynes inte, Brbad. CL Satae's “ inoving ito Things good’ or lasufuh Lhe End of fuch.a Adodions: How to know whether fob Motions are fier Satan, ov tbe Spirits PEI 18 tionitentale they be from Sarani “Of OIF UmaONE Ainis ts one Temptation. “What they.aig, apd of bis Policy therein, OF hid « artificial Contrivemenz of Metiots, to make ong bing infer anothers z fog , Chap. 10, . DF Sabaie’s chief Enit in this cps aed His Skill in making the Means 20 Six plaufible. The Reafons of that Policy, with bis Art therelit. < -ilders"s Tenor ance Dis: Advatitage. Of theL ferences ef § pres dottnades ‘ 2 rn wee o - Chap. rh. . ce 1 Df the, Telnpeation to, diftrupt, apon the Bailake of oidinary Menns.- OF ~ the Power of thar Lempration, and the Reafins of, its Prevailerc}. | Of unwarranrable Atteinpts fir Relief; aaath the Cafes thereof. Of waiting on God, antl Keepin Way. In whut Cafes # parti 1, euler Metcy, is tobe Texpotte : ° Cha i of Sos foip, from Lipvist .UbdeRcass. Enftdnces of the ih stone Depo +The. fons of this Un dertxking. Of Satan's Endeaviny to- weak . fivante - ani: Hopes, of Gorks (Childvem, Hii tgenerad 3 that Piciiofes * we a A . . Chap. 13. paw Lt ws , Uke Preparation t0 the fecond. Temprati his Nimabfenefs to catch os Advantages from cur dnfwers to Leinptat Thas Satan e “"Chrift in the Aly, Ofhis Power to molifh ithe Bodies’ of Go § Chil- . Bren. Heiy little the fippofed Holinefi ojePlaces privilegeth us frott Satan, “OQ, Policy ite feemi wmteninte ithaginary- De« fences. Of bis pietendeil Right in fuch Cafes; with the Reafont + of thaw Bolicys, Of bis improving. a Lomphation to ferve fevetal Edi, Of Satan's § That Pes fistnptiogs, wa. ting to Extreams, ~ fuming. Ther Frequency of 2 ptation " * Profeffors, in Hypocrites, in defpaiving Pevjons, ad. iti the Children "of God. Tbe Reafons of Satan's Induflny. ie this Defigm, - His de- -- eeitful Com ¢ in Wingig about this Sing. Piefervatives ageings eu dts aT Sons es ins in this Teinpt. . Hoa bé id upen wiBet Adeant ages. be uvgib ely, aid the. Ways theteof, OF aay aye Hocus. Chip, 16.00 , Of Pride, Satat's Chief Engine to tine’ on Prefimption. What Pride ‘fy dud how, it prepares Aden for finning-peefemptinudly. Con desasi~ . oO 7 : oes‘th CONTENTS. gainft Pvide. he Remedios for itsCure Pride » -Rindled : om 5 ae safes eof Privileges, and popular Applaufer ye Chap. i hap. 47. ° -Satan'is Subtilty in wvging that of Plal. xci...13 12, 46 Chit. OF Of Sat aig the Spirit of God in uavions Ways of teaching. OF Bis pretending Scripture to further Temptation Lhe Reafons of fuck Pretendings, avd the Ends to which be doth abufe it. Of, Satin"s Unfaisbfulae{s in managing of Swiptures.’ Cautions again that Deveit. Lhe Ways by which it may be. diftouered 00° oo + : . : apr 18, nat The Manner of Satan's foewing the Kingdéine of the Wopld, Of Saé “tans Broparations before the Motion of Sin, ; Of bis confronting the Abighiy by trefemptnous Imitation; and in What Cafes he dotk fo. OF bis beautifying the Objet of a Temptation, and tow. he doth af. His Way of engaging the Affettions by the Senfes. Of his feem~ ng Shyzefs. : . Chap. 19. * \eatan's End in tempt ing Chrift to fall dows and worfbip Bim. of * blafphensous Iniettions. What Blafpbemy is, Tbe Ways of Satan im that Temptation, with the Advantages he takes therein, and the Reafon of urging Blafpbemies upon Aden, Confolations to fuch as ave concerned in fuch Temptations. Advice. 30 fuch as are fo ied : tt Chap. 20 he Natuve of Edolatyy. Satan's Defign to corrupt the Worfoip o} # God, The eidences thereof, obi Recfons fach Breed His geneyal Defign of withdrawing the Hearts. of Men feom God to bis Service. Whe Proof that’ this is bis ‘Deflan, upon wheen be prevails. That Profefiens and Confidences ave-no Hvidences to the Contrary. His Deceit of. propounding Sin as «fmall Matter. The Evidences of that Method, and the Reafons thereof. Chap. 21. Df Worldly Pleafure. Proofs that this is Satan's great Engines What there is in Worldly Delights, that make them fo. Counfels and Cautions againft that Snare. Chap. 225 OF Chips Anfwer in the General. That thefe Temptations were upon Defign for our Infirnctions Of the Agreement betwixt Ephel. vis and Math. iv. ‘Ihe firft Diredion. Of conragions Refolves in ve- Gfting Temptations. - Its Confiftency with fome Kindof Fear, The iteceffity ofthis Courage. Wherein it confefis , and that there is Courage in mouening Spivits. a + . Chap. 23. he fecoud Divettion, that Teniptaticas ave not to be difpstede The. fever al Ways uf difputing a Temptation. In what Cafes it is con wewient and neclavy to difpate with Sdtawe Iu what Cafes incon tenteos azd the Reafons of tf ” ~ mee , She. tie. CON TEN TS © ee oe, a -_ "Chap ! : 3% ~ oe ‘We third Direltion. Of repelling a Temptation without Détay y bh * Necegiity of fo'doing. » What afpecdy Denial dorh contdine ~*~ ~ ap, ” The fouseh Diveltiom Of vepelling ¢ Temptation by Sctipitre rede * anénts. Of feveral Things ianplyt ie ‘the: Divedione "The Wecef= §it} of anfwering by Scripture Arguments’ The Exielleniy of the Re- whedy. Bow-Scriptube Argument dre torte managed: °° ~ ee’ pee yt Chap. 26, °° ~ as The fifeh Direttion of Prayer, arid ty the Sevionfue/s required of #Zafe Bhat expel the Advantage of Prayer. Of God's. heaving Prayey mobile. the Temptation ts comtinueds. Of forse that ave twonblad Bars, while they pray mores ee " mo : %D#MONOLOGIA SACR 4; OR, A Treatise of Satan’s Temptations. PARTI Containing a DISCOURSE of the Malice, Power, Cruelty and Diligence of Satan, Of his Canning in Temptation in the general, Of his Method of tempting to Sin, Of his Policies for maintaining his k cfletion. Of his Deceits for the preventing and foiling Religious Services and Duties. 1 Per. v. 8, Be fober, be vigilant ; becaufe pour Adverfary the Devil,as a roaring Liott, walk- eth about fecking chom he aoy devour.’ CHAP. £, The latvodution to the Tout, from a Confideration of rhe aefperate Ruin of the Souts of Afen. Lhe Tewr ofeurd, exprefing Satan's Malice,Power, C: rnelty and Diligence, HE Souls of Men are preciont, the whole World cannot repair their Lofss hence by God are all Men in particular charged wirh Cave and Watchfulnefs about them. He hath alfo fet up Watchmen and Overfeers, whofe Bufinels is to watch over Souls, and : in the moft fri&t and careful Manner, as Shofe that muft give an Accounts A Wher9} ATRIA TIsE of Part 1. What can mote ftir up Men to the Difcharge of this Duty, than the frequent Alarms which we have of the Affaults of fuch an Adverfary, whole Bufincfs *tis to deftroy the Soul? The Philéftines are upon thee Sampfon; he fights contine- ally,and ufeth all the Policy and Skill he hath for the Ma, nagement of his Strength. Befides, ’tis a Confideration very affecting, when we view the Defolatiows that are made in the Earth; what Wounds, ~ what Overthrows, what Cruelties, Slaveries, and Captivities chefe conquered Vaffals are put to. It was (as fome think) an inexculable Cruelty in David againft the Ammonites, when he pur chem under Saws, and Harrows of Iron, and made them paft through the Brickekitw, 2 Sam. xii. 31. But this fpiritual Pharaoh hath a more grievous Hone of Bondage, and Iron Furnace, Neither is this miferable DeftrnGtion ended, but will keep Pace with Time, and fhall not ceafe, aill Chrift fhall ac bis Appearance finally conquer him, and tread him down. if Xerxes wept to look upon his Army through the Profpeétive of devouring Time, which, .upon ani ealy Forefight, fhewed him the Death of fo great a Company of gallant Men; .we may well weep (as Da- wid at Ziglag) till we can weep tio more; or (as Rav chel for her Children) refufing to be comforted, while - we confider what a great Number of fucceeding Gene- xations, Heaps upon Heaps, will be drawn with him to a confuming Zophet, And could we follow him thither to hear the Cries of Aés Prifovers, the Rearings of his Wounded, where they curfe the Day that brought them forth, and themfelves for their Folly and Madnefs in heark- ning to his Delufions 5 the dreadful Qut-cries of Eternity, and then their Rage againft Heaven in Curfings and Blaf phemings, while they have no Mitigations, or Eafe, nor the Refrefhment of 4 Drop of Water to cool their Tongues, we would furely think we could-never fpend our Time better, than in oppoGing fuch an Enemy, and warning Men to fiy from the Wrath to come, to take Heed they come not inte his Snare; with what Barnefinefs would we endeavour to perfuade Men? What Diligence would we ufe to caft Wa- ter upon thefe devonring Flames, and to pluck Men as Brands out of theFire? °Tis true, if Satan had dealt plain- ly with Men, and told them what Wages they were to cx+ pest, and fet a viflble Mark upon his Slaves, or had mana- ged a vifible defirudlive Hoftzlity, Men have fuch natural, . gine eeChap. I. sataws Temptations. 8 Principles of Seifprefervation, and of Hatred of what ap - pears to be Evil, thar we might expect they would have fled from him, and fill have been upon their Guard? But he ufeth fuch Artifices, fuch Glights and Couzenage, that TMen are cait into a Sleep, ora golden Dream, while he binds them ¢ Chains of Darkurfs, they fee not ther Bud, the Snare, nor the Pit; nay, he intoxicates them with 4 Love of their Mifery, anda Delight in helping forward their Ruin; fo that they are Volunteers in hisService, and poffeffed with a Madneft and Rage againft all that will not be as willing as themfelves to go to Hell 5 bat efpecially if they pat forth a conapaffionate Hand to help any our of that Gulf of Avifery, they hate them, they gnaf upon them with their Teeth, and run upon them with utmoft Violence, as if they had no Haemice but hele compaifionate Sama- vitans. How great is this. Afyfery of Darknefs! Who {hall be able, to open the Depths of it?” Who fhall declare it fully to the Sons of Men, to bring thele biduen Chings ro Light? B- fpecially feeing thefe hetlih Secrets, which are yet undif- covered, are double zo thofe that have heen okferucd, by any that have efcaped from his Power: He only whofe Preroga~ tive itis to fearch the Hearts of Afen, can know, and make known, what is in the Hearr of Satan; he views all his Goings, even thofe Paths which the Pulrure’s Hye hath nor feen 5 and can trace thofe Foor fleps of his, which [eave na more Print or Tract behind them, then a Shep 2 the Sea; or a Bird in the Air, ot a Serpeat on a Stone. Yee notwith fending we may obferve mich of his Policies, and more would God dilcaver, if we did but humbly and faithfally improve what we know already. ’Tis my Defign to make fomeDiftovery of tholc Haunts T have obferved, 1f by that Means may be ufefil to you to qnicken and awae ken you. And firft I thall fer before you the Srrengrh and Power of your Knemy, before I open his Cunning and Crafe, ‘There arc found in him whatloever Lhe Tex eck may render an Adverfars dreadful. (Lhe Lext openers. As firh; Malice and Bamity; 6 Avid ig a Law Term, and fignifies an Adverfary a¢ Law,one that is againtt our Canfe; and the Test (as fome think) heigheens this Afalice, (1.\ By theArticle &, which denotes an atch Xnemy. (2.) The Name cudgon@ *, which fignifies a Slanderer or As Calum * Vide Leigh, Crit Sac,a 4 Preatise of Part I. Calumniator, (for the Word is twice inthe New Leflamenk ufed for a Glanderer) fhewing his Hatred to be fo great, that it will net fick at Lying and Falfhood, either in ace cnfing God to us, or ws toGod f. Nay, it particularly hints, that when he hath in Afalice tempted a poor Wretch to fin, he {pares not to accufe him for it, and to load him with alf ‘Things that may aggravate his Guilt or Mifery, accufing him for move than he hath really done, and for a worfe Bfiate than he is really in. Secondly, His Power, under the Metaphor of a Zioz, a Beaft of Prey, whofe innate Property is to deftroy, ahd is accordingly fitted with Strength, with tearing Paws, and a devouring Mouth 3 thatas a Lion would rend a Kid with Bale, and without Refiftance, fo are Men fwallowed up by him, as with open Mouth; fo the Word “xeravit * figni- . fics, he can fap them up ata Draught. Thirdly, His Cruetty, a roaring Lion, implying, not on- ty his innate Property to deftroy, which mult be a flrange Fiercenefs,but alfo that this innatePrinciple is Beighrned and whetted on, as Hanger in a Lion fharpens and enrages thar Difpofition, till he get his Prey ; fo that he becomes raving and roaring, putting an awful Majefty upon Cruelty, and frighting them out of Endeavours or Flopes of Refittance, and increafing their dgifeny with Affrightments and Trem- Blings. Thus Satan fhews a fierce and truculent Temper, whofe Power being put forth from fuch an implacable Ads: . dice, mutt needs become Rage and Fiercenefs. ot Fourthly, His Diligence; which, together with his Cra- elty, are Confequences of his Malice and Power; he goes about, and feeks 5 he is reftlefs in his Purfuit, and diligent, as one that promileth himfelf a SatisfaGtion or joyful Con- tentment in his Conquefts, “1 The Accufer of the Brethren. Rev, 12. 10. Gen. 3.3, Jab ae * a natalia. CHARChap. TY. Satan's Femprations: _ & CHAP. IL Of the Malice of Satan én particular, The Grounds and Cafes of that Malice. The Greatnels of it proved 5 aud Enfiances of that Grearmef given. [Shall J@rft give fome Account of his AMfulice, by which it Shall appear, we do not wrong the Devil in calling him malicious; the Truth of which Charge, will evidence itfelf in the following Particulars. Firft, The Devil, tho’ a Spérit, yet isa proper Sukjeth of Sin. We need no other Evidence for this, than whatdoth ° by daily Experience refult from ourfelves; we have Sins, which ou” SPzrits and Hearts-do aG, that relate not to the Body, called a Filthinefs of the Spirit, in Contradiftin@ion to the Fe/r+béneft of the Flefb. Tis true it cannot be denied, but that thofe Iniquitics which have a neceflary Dependence upon the Organs of the Body, (as Drunkennefs, Fornication, &J¢.) cannot properly, as to the Formaléry of the AG, be laid at Satan’s Door, {tho’ as a Vempter and Provoker of thefe in Mien, he may be called the Father of thefe Sins} yet the fore- mentioned Iniquities which are of a {piritual Nature, ara properly and formally committed by him, as Lying, Pride, Hatred, and Malice, And this Diftin@tion Chritt himfelf deth hint, fobs viii. 44. When he fheaketh a Lie, he foeak- eth of bés owas; where he afferts fuch fpiritual Sins to be properly and formally ated by himfelf. The Certainty of all appears in the Apithers given him, the wicked One, the aaclean Spérdts as alfo thofe Places that fpeak his Fall,7éev Rept not their firft Eflate, Jude 6. The Angels thas finned, 2 Per if. 4. Hf Sins fpiritual are ina true and proper Senfe attributed to the Devil, then alfo may Malice be attributed to him. ' Secondly, The Wickednefs of Satan is capable of Increase, a magis €9 minus, tho’ he be a wicked Spirit, and as to In- clination full of Wickednels, tho’ fo firongly inclined that he cannot but fin; and therefore, as God is fet forth to us,as the Fousstain of Holinefs, fois Satan called the Author and Father of Sin, Yet fecing we cannot ‘alcribe an Infinitenefy tohim, we maf admit, that (as to Adts of Sin at leaft) he roay be more of lefs finful, and that che Wickednefs of bis Heart may be more drawn out, by Qvcafious, Motives, and Ay Prove.6 4 TREATISE of Part 1. Provocations: Befides, we are exprefly taught thus muchs Rew. xii.1z, Phe Devil is come down, having great Wrath, Becaufe Lis Lime is fhort: Where we note (1.) That his Wrath is called great, implying greater than at other Times, (2.) That external Motives and Incentives, (asthe Shortnefs of his Time) prevail with him to draw forth grekter Adts of Fury. Thirdly, Whatfoever Occafions do draw out, or kindle Ma- lice to a Rage, Satan hath met with them in an eménent De: gree,in his own Fall, and Man's Happénefs(a), Wothing is more proper to beget Malice, than Hurts or Funifbments, Degradations from Uappinefs. Satan’s Curfe, tho” juft, fills him with Rage,and fretting agaéuf? God, when he confiders that from the State and Dignity of a bleed Angel, he is catk down to Darkneft, and to the bale Condition imaginable: For the Part of His Cutfe, (which concerned Satan as well as the Serpent) Upon rhy Belly fhalt than go, aud Duft hall be thy Meat, implies a State moft bafe ; as the Ufe of the Phrafe proves, they fhall lick the Duft of thy Feet. Thine Enemées fhall lick the Duft, Plal. lxxit. 9. They fhall lick the Daft as a Serpent, Micah vit. 17. Where the Spirit is fo wicked, that it cannot accept the Punéfemreut of its lniquity, fa. xlix. 23» All Punifhment is as a Poéfow, and envenoms the Heart with a Rage againft the Hand that infl:Qed its thus doth Sa- tan’s Fall enragc him, and the more, when he fees Man en- _ fated into a Pofibéléty of enjoying what he hath lof, The Envy and Pride of his Heart boils up to a Madnels (for that is the only Ufe that the wretchedly miferable can make, of the Sight of that Happinefs which they enjoy not; efpecially if having once enjoyed it, they are now deprived :) This begot the Rageand Wrath in Cadz againfl Abel, and afterward his Murder. The Eye of the Wicked is evé/, where God is good. Hence may it be concluded, that Satan ; being a wicked Spi- xit; and this Wickednefs being capable of aGting higher or Lower according to Occafions,and with a Suitablenefs thereto} cannot butfhew an unconceivable Malice againgt us, ovr Hap. piacft and bis Mifery being fuch proper Occafions for the Wickednefs of his Heart to work, upon. , Fourthly, This Malice in Satan muft be great: Firft, i we confider the Greatwefs of bis Wickednefs in fo great and coral an Apottacy. He is fo filled with Iniquity, , that (2) Quia inordinatam excellentiam aifeGando, ordinatam amiferunt, ideo de alio- yam excellearia dolebar, & ad eam oppugnandam makhvciolé ferebatur da, med, acti! , . - ve yy -Chap I patan’s Temptations. , 7 that we can expe@ no fmall Matters from hint, asto the - Workings of fuch curled Principles 3 not only is he wicked, but the Spixér and Extract of Wickednefs, as the Phrafe fignifies .a), Bod. vi. 12. ‘Secondly, The Scripture lays to his Charge all Degrees, Aéis, and Branches of Malice; as (1.) Anger, in the anpe- yuous Hafte and Violence of it, Rew. xii. great Wrath, Suu there fignifies Bxcandsfeentia, the Inflammation of che Heart and whole Man, which is violent in its Motion, as when the Blood with a violent Stream rofheth through the Fleart, and fets all Spirits on Fire 5 and therefore this Wrath fs not only called grear, but is alfo fignified to be fo, in its "Threatning aio tothe Inbabitauts of the Barth. (2) Tee déquation is more than Anger, as having more of a fixed Fury; and this isapplied to him, Eph. iv. 27. in that thofe that have this war.gps9p4, are Laid zo géwe Place to the Lice wél; which is true, not only in Point of Temptation, but alfo in refpett of the Refemblauce they carry to the Frame and Temper of Satan’s furious Heart. (3.) Hatred is yet higher than Wrath or Indignation, as having deeper Roots, a mote confirmed and dmplacable Refolution ; Anger and Indignation are but fore Furies (b), which like a Tand- Good are foon down, tho’ they are apt to fill the Banks on & fudden s but Hatred is lafting, and this is fo properly the De- vil’s Difpofition,that Cate in baring bis Brother,is (xtfoba iit. x2.) faidto be the proper Offspring and lively Pidture of that wicked One, who is there focalled, rather than by the Name of the Devil, becaufe the Apoftle would alfo infi~ nuate, that Hatred is the Afaffer péece of Satan's Wicked- nefs, and that which gives the fillet Charatter of him. (4.) All Byfedés of his Cruelty arife from this Root; this makes him accufé and calumniate ; this puts him upon breathing after thofe 2farders and Deftruétions which damned Spirits are now groaning under. Thirdly, This Malice is the Refulz of that Cenfe laid upon Satan, Ger. Ui. 15.7 wellput Eninity betwict thee and, the Woman, berween her Seed aud thy Seed: Which im- plies (1.) A great Enmity; and fome render it, anémicité as zmplacabiles, implacable Enmities. (2.) A fafting Enmity, Tuch as Should continue as long as the Curle fhould lal. (3.) That this fhould be 22s Wark and Exercife, to profe- gute and be profecuted with this Enmity 5 fo that it Shows, 7 the 4 (a) Tiveuparize # qopuetas, (b) fra brevis faroxe$ ‘ ‘A TREar ise of Part £. the Devil’s whole Mind and Defire is in this Work,and thae he is ceherted on, by the oppafing Enmity which he meets withal, it is the Work of his Curfe,of his Place, of his Re- menge, and that wherein all the Delight he is capable of, is placed. In that Pare of the Curfe, Dull foail be rby Meat 1s implied, (if fom interpret right) chat if Satan can be faid to have auy Delight ot Bafe in his Condition, “tis in the eating of ¢bis Duft(a), the Bxercife of this Enmi- ty: No Wonder then if Chrift {peak of his Defires and Solli- eltations with God, to have 4 Liberty and Commiffion for this Work 5 Satan bath defired to have thee, that be may win- now thee. ‘That this Curfe relates not only tothe Sergeat who was the Faflrument, but alfo to Satan who was the Agent, is agreed by all almofl, that ic was not the Serpent alone, but the Devil {peaking by it, is evinced, from its peaking and veafoning 3 and that the Curfe reached further than a 2a- tural Enmity twist a Serpent and a Man, is as evident, in that Chraft is exprefly held forth, as giving the full Accom- plifhment of this Curle againtt Saran, 1 John iti. 8. The Devit fianerh from the Beginning: For this Purpofe was tke Son of God manifofted, thar he might deftroy the Works of the Devils which is a clear Expofition and faraphrafis of the Woman's Seed braifiog the Serpent's Head. Fourthly, 1 thail add to this fome few Inflances of Sa- ton’s Malice, by which it will appear to be great, Firff, That Malice mutt needs be great, which Shews it. felf, where there ts fuch a Load of Anguifh and Horvor that Ties upon him 3 he is now referved in Chains of Darkuefy tu Hell, 2 Vee. ti, 4. he is.dz Hell, a Place of Torment 3 of which is all one, Hels iy dn him, he carries it about him in his Confcience, which’ by God’s Decree binds him to his Horror like a Chain. "Tis fcarce imaginable that he fhoald have 4 Thought free from the Contemplation of his own Mi. fery, to {pend in a malicious Purfuit of Man. What can we think lefs of ie, than a defperate Madnefs and Revenge a. gaintt God, wherein he thews his Rage againgt Heaven,and and whea he finds his Hand too fhort to pull the Almighty out of bis Thrones he endeavours (Panther-like) to tear his Image in Maa, and to put Man, created after hig I. mage, upon blalpheming and dilhonouzing his. Maker. Secondly, (2) Vid. Poot Synop, in loc,Chap. 1. Satan's Temptations. 9 Secondly, That Malice mutt needs be great, that Seeker its own Fewel, and provides or begs its own Occafions 5 and thofe, fuck as give no proper Provocation to his Anger. Of zhis Temper is bis Malice 5 he did thus with fob, he begs the Commiffion, calumniates Fob upon anja Surmifes, preffeth Hill for a farther Power to hurrhim, infomnch that God exprefly ftints and bounds him, (which fhews how boundlefs he would have been if left to his own Will) and gives him at Jaf an open Check, Yob li, a. wherein he lays open the Malice of his Heart in three Things. (1.) His own prefling Urgency, Thon moved(t me. (2) His deftra. ive Fury, no lefs would ferve, than ‘Fol'y utter Deftru- Ekion. (3.) Fob’s Inmocency + AH rhes cadebout Canfe, rbot movedft me to deftroy bin without Canfe. Thirdly, That Molice muft needs be great, that will purfue a finall Matter. What {mall Game will the Devil play, rather than altogether fit up? If he can but trouble, or puzzle, or affrights yet that he will do, rather than no- thing, if he can (like an Adder inthe Path» but bie the Heel, tho’ his Head be bruifed for it, he will notwithfand- ing bufy himfelf in it, Fourthly, That Malice muf be great, which will pur it felf forth, where it knows ir can Preutdl working, but is cer- tain of 2 Difappointment. Thus did Satan tempt Chvifts thofe Speeches, If rhou be the Sox of God, do net imply any Doubt in Satan; he knew what was prophefied of Chritt, and what had been declared from Heaxen in Teltification of him; fo that be could nor but be certain he was Ged and Man; and yet what bafe unworthy Temptations doth he lay before him, asto fall dows and worfhep him? Was it that Satan thonght to ‘prevail again him? No furely, but fuch was his Malice, that he would put an Affronr up- on him, tho” he knew he could net prevail againgt him. Fifthly, The Malice of wicked Afen, is an Argument of Satan’s great Malice ; they have an Aardparhy againft the Righteous(as the Wolf againft theSheep} and upon that ve- ry Ground, that they arecalled ons of the World 5 how great - this Pury is, all Ages have “teftified. This hath brought forth Difcord, Revilings, Slanders, Imprifonments, fpoiling of Goods, Baniihments, Perfecutions, Tottures, cruel Deaths, as Burning, Racking, Tearing, Sawing afunder, and whatever the Wit of Man could devife, for a Satisfa&tion to thofe im- placable, furious, murtherous Minds; and yet all this is done teye - A TREATY Se of Part 1 to Men of the fame Image and Lineage with themfelves, of the fame Religion with themfelves (as to the ntaing ) nay, fometime to Men of their own Kindred, their own Flefk and Blood, and all to thofe that would live peaceably in the Land. What fhail we fay to thefe Things? How come ‘Men to purona fawage Nature, to a& the Part of Lions, Leo pards, Lygers, ifnot mach worfe? The Reafon of all we have, Fobu vill. sq Ve are of your Father ihe Devil, he was @ Murderer from the Begénning 5 as alfo Gen. iil. 1 5. T wilh Put Eamity between her Seed and thy Seed: So that all this dhews what Muliceis in Satan’s Heart, whourgeth and pra. vokes his Inftruments, to fuch bloody Hatreds. Hence who. ever are the Agents, Rev. ii. 10, in imprifoning the Saints, the Malice of Satan in ftirring them up toit, makes him be some the Author ofits Satan fhall calt feme of you into Prifon, CHAP. UL Of Satan?s Power, His Power as an Angel confidered, "Chat he lott not that Power by bis Fall. His Power as a Pevil. Of bis Commiffion.” The Butent of hes An. thority. Lhe Efficacy of his Power. The Advantages which he hath for the Management of at, from the Number, Order,, Place, and Knowledge of Devils. "THaz Satan's Power is great, is our next Enquiry = Where, Féirft, We will confider his Power as an Angel, In Pal. cil, 20. Angels are faid ro excel in Strength ; and in werf. 21, as allo Lf, cxlviti. 2. they are called God's Hoft ; which is more fully expreffed, 1 Kings xxii.ig. I fae the Lord fisting upon his Throne (a), aad all the Hoft of Heaven (b) ftanding by Bim on his right Hand and on Bis left 5 which Phrafe; tho’ it import their Order and Ob- fervance, yet undoubtedly the Main of its Totendment is, so fet forth their Power, as Holts are the Strength of Kings and Nations. God himfelf ip putting on that Title, Tie Lord of Hofts (c), makes it an Evidence of his incompre~ henfible Power, that fuch Armies of ftrong and mighty Creatures are at his Command. But this only in the gene~ gal. That which comes nearer to a particular Account of their Strength, is that Notion of a Spirit, by which they ate © Hels. TSABA, () Hin, SHAMATIM. () dtein, TOEBAOTH,Chap. HL Satan’s Temptations. Tt are frequently deferibed, He maketh Lis Angels Spirits, Bid Minifers flaming Fire, Pf. civ. 4. The Being of & Spiric is the higheft our Underftanding is able to reach 3 and that it fhews a Being very excellent, ig manifett in this, that God is pleafed to reprefent himfelf to us under the Notion of a Spzrét3 not that he is ¢ruly and properly fach, but that this is the moft excellent Being that falls un- der our Apprehenfion. Befides, that the ‘Perm Spirit raifeth our Underftanding to conceive a Being of an high and extraordinary Power; it doth further tend to form our Conceptions to fome Apprebenfions of their Nature. (1) From the Knowledge that we bave of our own Spirits that our Spiric is of a raft Compredenfion and Akivets, our Thoughts, Defires, Reafonings, and the particular Under- takings of fome Men ofa raifed Spirit, do abundantly evi- dence. (2.) In that it reprefents a {pivitual Being, freed from the Clog and Hinderance of Corporeity 3 our own Spi- ¢its ave Zémdted and reftramned by our Bodies, as Fire, an a> Give Element, is retarded and madé Quggifh by Matter un apt to ferve its proper Force, as when ‘tis in an Heap of Farth; which is alfo fafficiently pointed atin that Oppotitir on betwixt Flefh and Blood, and Principdlities and Powers, Giph. vi. thewing that Flefh and Blood are a Difadvantage and Hindrance to the Aéfivity of a Spirit. A Spirit then, as éncorporeal, may be conceived to move cafily without Mo- jeflation, guéckly, zmpercepribly and érrefiftibly. ( 2.) This > Ge yet further illuftrated by the Similitude of Wand and Fire, which are (to the common Experience of all) of very great Force. And ’tis vet further obfervable, that the Scrip. tare fometimes {peaks of the Power of Angels in the 4b- (firaét (a), chufing rather to call them Powers than power. “ful, Col. i, 16, clearly fhewing, that Angels are Beings of ‘vait Strength, as indeed the Actions done by them do aban- dantly teftify 5 fach was the deflroying Seanacherzb’s Hot in a Night, the opening the Prifon-docrs for ‘Peter, the car- eying PDiiép in the Air, and fuch other As, which tend to the Prote@ion of the Faithful, or puaithing of the Wicked., Tho’ this| may fully fatisfy us, chat Angeld excel in Strength, yet the Scripture, fuggefts another Confideration selating to the Office and Imployment of Angels, where theix Commiffion fhews not only a Léberty for the ‘Exercife of this Powers but alfo doth imply fach 2 Power as is jv to be , . : . conan (2) "BF eclax2 A TREATISE of Part. 7 commiffionated to fuch A&s 3 thefe invifible Beings are cal- fed Livones, Dominions, Princtpalities, Powers, Col. i. 16, ’Tis indeed a Task beyond a fober Undertaking, to diftin. guith thefe Words, and to Tee their true Boundsand Marks of Difference. This Auguftin acknowledged (2), yet may we hence conclude, (1.) That thele Words imply a very great Authority in Angels. (2.) A Power and Strength iuitable to their Imployment, and that God farnifhed them with Power anfwerable to the Work which he intended for them, in his moving the Heavens,and governing the World, £3c. However, in fome Cafes, God works by Inffruments e- wery way difproportionable to the Service, Phar rhe Excel- Eency of the Power might be of Gods yet in the ordinary Way of his working, he puts an tunate, fnitable Force in Creatures, for the A&s to be done by them 5 as there is an innate Power inthe Wind to blow, in the Fire to burn, in Herbs and Plants tor medicinal Ules. Thus may we con- ceive of Angels, that God ufingthem as bis Aloft, his Minz- fiers to do bis Pleafure, he hath endowed them with anin- nate natural Power for thofe great ‘Things which he doth by them; which muft not be fuppofed in the leat deroga- : rary to the Power of God, in his ways of Mercies or Jadg- ments, fecing all the Strength of Angels is originally from God, Hence is it that all the Names of Angels which we sead of in Scripture carry this Acknowledgment in their Siguification Michael thus unfolds itlelf, Who gs like God ? Gabriel thus, Tée Glory of God s and therefore may we fuppofe them not fo much the broper Names of An- gels, but (as Caloén noteth) Nomina ad capenm e0fEr tv endita (b) Names implying God's great Power in them. Such a powerful Spirit is Satan by Creation. But becaufe it willbe doubted, le@ his Fall hath bereaved him of his Excellency, and caft hin down from pis Strength, I thail evidence that. he fill retains the fame zatural Power, ‘To which Purpofe ‘tis not unfie ta be obferved, (x.) That the Jame Terms and Names which were given to goed Anzels; to fignify their Strength and Commiffion, Col. i. 16. andi, x0. are alfo given to Satan, Eph. vi. x2. Devils are called Principalities, Powers, Rulers 3 and Co}. if. a5. they have the fame Names which in Perf, 10. were given to good An- gels, oD Ovid inter f diftant quatuor ia vocabula, dicant qui poffant, fitamen pot fant probare que dicunt, ego me iftaignorare coniiteor, Luchivid. ad Lauren}.¢ $8. Cb) Infis Live 4. § @ .Chap. II, Satai’s Zemptations, 13 gels, be psiled Principalities ana Powers. (2.) The Scripture gives particular Inflances of Satan ‘s Power and Working, as his raifing Tempefts in the Air, commanding Fire from Heaven, both which he did in Profecution of his Malice again Feb; his carrying the Bodies of Men in the ‘Air, as he did with Chri, hurrying him from the Wil- dernefs to the Mountain; from thence to the Pinacle of the "Temples his breaking Chains and Fetters of Iron, Afark v. 4. His bringing Difeafes, Infiances whereof were that crocked Woman whom Satan had bowed together, Luke xili.16. and the Zunatick Perfo, Luk. ix. 31. witha great many more. (3.) "Tis alfo obfervable, that notwithitanding Satan’s Fall hath made an Alteration as tothe Buds, Ufes, and Office of his Powers yet neverthelefs God makes ufé of this Strength in him, not only as an Exceutdoner of Wrath againgt his Enemies (as when he vexed Saul by this evil Spirit, « Sam, xvi. 14. and through this Iyiwg Spirzr, gave up Abad to be deluded into his Ruin, | Kiagsxxii. 21.and jnflifed Plagues upon Egypr, by fending evz! Angels among shen, Yfal. lxxvili. 49.) but alfo for the Zréa/ of his ownSer- vants, Thuswas Job afflitted by Satan, and Pan? buffet ted by his Meftuger. Secondly, This Power of his, as a Dewzi, falls next under eur Confideration, wherein are divers Particulars to be noted: As, Firft, Wis Commiffioe and Authority. If any put that Queftion to him, which the ews did to Chrifl 5 By what uthority doft thou thefe Things? ox, Who cave thee thes Authority ? We have the Anfwer in Fob xti. 14. and xvi- za. where be is called the Prence of rhis World; and ac- cordingly the Scripture fpeaks of a two fold Kingdom of Light and of Darkuefe 3 and in this we hear of Satan's Seat or Throne, of his Servants and Subjeéts. Yea, that which is more, the Scripture fpeaks of a Kind of Deity in Satan 5 he is called the God of this World, 2 Coy. iv. 4. Which doth not only fet forth the intolerable Pride and Wurpation of Satan in propounding himfelf as fuch, fa drawing on poor blind Creatures to worfhip him, but alfo difcovers his Power, which by Com- Zancheus. mifsion he hath obtained over the Children of Difobedience. Hence doth he challenge it, as a Kind of Right and ‘tue from the poor Americans and others, that they fhould fall down and worfhip himgs and upon this Sup- pofitioni¢ 4 TReariseé of Part f Pofition was he {o intelerably prefumptuous in offering the Kingdoms of the World to Chrift for fuch a Service and Worhhip. , Lueft. Uf it be queftioned, What Satan’s Authority is 21 fhalf anfwer it thus. oO . Ant. Firf, His Authority is aot abfointe or unlimited 3 he cannot do what he pleafeths and therefore we do find him begging Leave of God for the exerting of his Power in particular Cafes, as when he was a Lying Spirit in the Mouth of déab’s Prophets, snd in every Affaule he made upon Fob; nay, he could not enter into the Seoéve of the Gaderens, till he had Chrift’s Commiffion for it. : Secondly, Yee bath he a Commifiion in general, a (land. tag Commifiion, as petty Kings and Governors had undet the Romaz Emperor, where they were authorized to exer- cife an Authority and Power, according tothe Rules and DireGions given them 5 this is clearly fignified by thofe Expreffions, they are Captives gt his Will—and géver up to Satan, as Perfons excommeanicated ; and when Men are converted, they are {aid to be tranjlared from his Power, and put under another Jurifdi@ion, in the Kingdom of Chreft, All which would have been highly émproper, if a Commiftion for Satan, and an Authority for thofe Works of Darknefs had not been fignified by them. ° Next, Let usview the Zxtenr of this Authority, both as to Perfons and Fhings, lnrelation to Perfons, the Boundary of bis Kingdom reacheth ds far as Darkneft 5 he rules in the dark Places of the Earth, or the Darkuofs of thés World 3 and therefore his Kingdom is hence denominated a Kingdom of Darknefs. This exténds (we may well imagine) as far as Heathenifin reacheth, where he is worfhipped as God, as far as any Darknefs of AMabometanifin feetcheth isfelf, as far as the Darknefs of Infidelity and Blindnef’ upon the Hearts ofuncanverted Men, which if fummed wu together, muft needs take, up the greateft Part of the World by far ; which is acknowledged, not only by that jarge Expreflion, World, Prince of thas World, &c. but alfo by that Prophetick Speech of Rew. xi. 25. Cée Kingdoms of this World, are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and és Chrzft s which acknowledgeth they had nat been fo be- fore, in the Senle wherein we now fpeak. Weither is his Kingdoin fo Lotmded, but that healfo cari (when allowed) aiake Bisarfiods aid Intoads iitto the King- : ORR. Chap. UE Satan's Temptations. 18 dom of Chrift, fo far as to moleft, difturb and annoy his Subjeéts : As the Kings of any Nation, befides the Power which they exercife in their proper Jurifdiation, may moleft their Neighbours. And Chritt fo far permits this, as is afefulto his own Defigns, yet fill with trait Referves and imitations to Satan, and 4 refolved Refeue and Conquett for his own People. . . : If we enquire the Extentof his Power in relation to FhZngs, we find the 4ér in a peculiar Manner permitted to him, fo that he is named by it, as by one of his chief Royalrzer, the Prince of the Power of the Airs we find alfo Death, with the Powers of ir given up to him, fo that this is 4 Peraphrafis of him, He that hath the Power of Death, Heb. ii. 14. And if we take notice of hts large Proffer to Chrift of the Kingdoms of the World, AU rhis will I géve thee 5 we may imagine that his Commiffion reacheth jar this Way, as Rewards and Excouragements to his Ser- vice; which we will the readilier entertain, when we find that by God’s Allowance, wicked Men have thelr Portiow a2 this Life, and that thefe are called rheiy good Chings. Thirdly, Let us proceed a Step further to the Bficacy of this Authority 5 which alfo, Firft, Upon wieked Aven is no lefs remarkable than js his Commiffion 5 he is called the flrowg Jfan in reference to their Hearts, which he fortifies as fo many Caffles and Garrifons againtt God: Healfo rules é2 them without Con. troul; his Suggeftions and Temptations are as Laws to them 5 4éfs v. 3. he fills their Hearts with his Defigns, and raifeth their Affeétions to an high and greedy Pur- fuie of thems; he works in them, and by an inward Force doth hurry them on to atchieve his Enterprifes, Eph ti, 2. Xn_all this enfoaring and captivating them at Ais Lleafure, 2 Tim. ii. 26. Secondly, The Sainrs, which are Subjeds of another Kingdom, are Mil) fearézg, complaining, watching, pray- ing, and fpreading out their Hands, with lifting up thei Syes to Heaven for Help againft him ; they complain of ‘Violence and reflefs Afaults from him; they are fenfible that he can fugeeft evil Thoughts, and follow them with inceffant Imporrunities ; thar he can draw a Darknels upon their Underftanding, by bribing their Wills and A ffeGions again them 5 that he can diilurb their Duties, and that &ecaule of him they cannot do the Good they would ; Many . 3 Fear16 4 Treatise of Part 1 a Fear doth he beget in their Hearts; many a difguiet Hour have they from him 3 their Flefh hath no Ref, and hap- py are they if they efcape from him without broken Bones: ‘Many excellent Ones have been caft down by him, and for a Time have been like dead Men, ’Tis fad to fee fo juft a Perfon as Zor under his Feet 3 fo choice a Saint as Devoid wounded almoft to the Death 3 fo high en Apoftle as Perer by Force and Fear from him, to open his Mouth with Curles and Imprecationsin the Denial of — his Saviour ; to fay nothing of the Buffetings of others, which was fwfficiently wearifom to Paul, and defcribed by a Thorn in the Flefb, 2 Cor. xii. 7. which (if a leamed Man (2) think right) is compared by a Metaphor, tothofe harp Stakes upon which Chriftians were cruelly {pited and * burnt : Thirdly, His guéck and ready Accomplifhment js a fay. ther Proof of the Bficacy of his Power. No foaner had God given him a Commuiiffion in reference to %ob, but he quickly raifeth the'Tempeft, brings down the Hovfe, flys his Children, brings Fire from Heaven ; and (which would feem ftrange) hath the Troops of the Sabeans and Chaldeans at his Beck, as if they had been lifted under his known Command 3 fo that in a little Time he puts his Malice into A&. Fourzhly, Uf any would flight all this, as being the Force of Préncipalitier and Powers againtt Flefh and Blood + We may fee he hath fo much Strength and Confidence, as to grapplé with an Augel of Light, as he did in the con- tefting for Mofes his Body, ude ver. 9. This was a created Angel, elle he dari not fure have brought a vailing Acct fation; butin thar he flrove, and railingly accufed, it thews he wanted nota daring Boldne& to fecond his Commiffion and Power, . Fourthly, te will be alfo requifite to lay open the Asvae- tages he hath in the Management of all this Power, which are great: As, . Farfl, The Multécude of Devils : That there are many, is notdenied, upon the Evidence of feven catt out of Marg Magdalen, and the Legion which were feitled in one poor ‘Manat once. It may be we may not credit the Devil’s own Aiccount of his Strength fo much, as to believe that theiz Number was exaflyanfwerable toa Roman Legion, whie®. Gs a) Baroy trom, Trad, Sacre. ta, 5. Sa . t * "Chap, 00: Satdn’a Temptarioni, 2F (if fome fpeak right) was:s666 : Vet there being fo plain an Allafion to a Reman Legion ; and the Scripture in the Recital favouring it fo far, as to confent toa Truth in that Pare of the Story, we can do no lefs than conclude that tho Number of Devils in that Perfon was a very great Number, and fo great, that the Similitnde of Legion was proper cc exprefs it by. Befides, if the Scripture had beon filent in this Particular, our Reafon would have clearly drawn that Conclufion from fuch Promifes as thefe, That he is the God of the World, and mles in the Children of Dilebedience 5 for whatfoever we conceive of his Power, we cannot think him Ozsnipotenz, ox Omniprefent, thefe being the incom municable Attributes of the great Creator of all Things, in which no Creature can hare with God, Being ‘then affured that he isthe Tempter of all Men, and that he can. not be in all Places at once, we muft needs apprehend the Devils to be many, as is dignified by that Exprefiion, the Devis and bis Angels. Secondly, We hath alfo an Advantage for the executing of his Defigns, from that Order, which from the fore mentio- ned Grounds we nuit be forced to conceive to be among Devils. I know the bold Determination of the Order of Angels by Dyonifins id juftly rejeded, not only by Ercnans and Auguftin (a) but alfo by the Generality of Proteftants, who upon that, and other Grounds of like Prefumption, do reject that Author as not being the true Dyonifius the Areo- Pagite. Neither do fome ofour Protefant Authors (as Cha- sneer and others) admit the Government of Angels to be Monarchial(b), (which Suppofition the Papifis would glad~ ly make ufe of, asa Foundation whereon to eftiablifh the untverfal Headbip of the Pape) being a Thing which Dyge nifins bimfelf, (as Chamier affirms) neverdream’dof: Yee do none of thefe Authors deny an Order among the Angels, but wiilingly grant it, as clearly implied from the Term: Arch aageluled by Paul, + Thefl. iv. 16. (¢) and from: their being celled God's Haft or Army, where Order ie ne« ceflary for the right Management of their Strength, and Confufion the Wayto the Ruin of their Defigns: The Thing they diflike‘s, the bold and peremptory Determination of the parricular Orders among them (a),-and the -Afienmeut of the feveral Charges, Imployments and Stations to cach 5 , B whic (a) Lib. 2. Enchir c. 58) Poni. Vol. 2.1. 9.0.34. (ch Selates im loos (a) Cal, Bilin, 1. ag § 8x8 A TREATISE of Past I. which whofoever fhall do, muft needs beguilty of garruding nto Théxgs which he bath not feen. At would upon the dame Score be a prefumptuous Folly to make fuch a Deter- Mnination of the feveral Ranks and particular Imployments of Devils : Yet this hindereth not, but with awarrantable Sobriety we may believe in the general, that there 18 47 Order araong the Devils. (4) Not only do thefe Expref- flons (Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils, the Devil and his ~Aageit, and in that they are called, Principalities and Powers) warrant us fo to think; but the fore-mentioned (Confiderations about the Multitude of Devils, will force our Reafon to an Adent: For if they mot be many, be- caufe all Mankind is fenfible of their Affgults, they mu have alfo an Order in the Management of theis Temp- tations ; without which, their Nefigns of Craeiry and Malice muft (ar leaft in great Part) fall to rhe Ground. Weither do I know well, how thofe Authors may be juitly blamed (2), who proceed a little further in their Suppof- tions, to tell us (as mot probabic) That thefe infernal Spi- its do hare the World among them, and are allotted to feveral Countries and Places, as their own proper Charge and Jurifdidtion ; for whar other Interpretation thofe Paflages in Dan. x. 13. can receive, I cannot fee, Fhe Préuce of tbe Kingdom of Perfia withftanding the Augel one aad zwenty Days; and his Help in chat Oppofition from AZzcb-zel, cannot (if Things be well weighed) be properly underftood of Cambgfes the Son of Cyrus, ora Conteft with any Man However if we let this go, as a Thing uncertain (¢), (becaufe this Interpretation is denied by fome) yet that which is fpoken of rheir Order in the general, and the Advantage thefe Spirits have againg us upon that Confideration,feemste be paft Denial. Thirdly, The Advantage of Placeamong Armics is recko- nedmuch. Satan feems to have fomething this Way as an Advantage of Growud, in that he is Riled {pirtual Wicked- nels in high Places(d). What Advantage high Places may be to Devils and Spirits, we cannot further imagine, than taat they being thus above us and about us in the Ale, fee and Know our Ways and Aétiéns, and fo receive Information from thence for their malicious Proceedings agginit us. Fourthly, But his greatef Advantage isfrom his Know- Jedge, which Lfhalla litle explainin the following hapter. : CHA P: (2) Vid Baye on Ephof. vi, 12, @) Bayne, ibid. (6) Calvin in loc. (dp ‘Ry roils Savegyiow. tepnel, vis idsChap. {V. Satan's Temptations CHAR Iv. That Satan hath a great Meafure of Knowledge, proved, Ly comparing him with the Kuowledge of Adam ta Ti~ nocency, and by has Titles. Of his Knowledge Natvral, Huperimental, aud Acceffory. ” Of is Knowledge of our Thoughts. How far he doth not know them, and how far be doth, and by what Means. Of his Knowledge of _ things fusure, and by what Ways he doth conjecture them. fhe Advantages in point of Lemptation that he hath by his Knowledge. N the Dilcovery of Satan’s Kzowledge, 1 fhall fir give Evidence and Demonftration thereof. Tio which Pur. pofe, (1., Let us confider the Knowledge of Adam in In- nocency ; which being found to be great, it wil! thence be eafily conclu ted, thar Satan’s Knowledge: is far greater: Two notable “ifcoveries we have of Adam's Knowledge, the one was his giving of Nemes to all Creatures, Gen. ti, 29. Which was not only a Sign of his Domizion, but alfo a notable Inftance of his Vaderftanding, fecing the Names were given according to the Natzres of Creatures 5 where- of Bochartus gives a large Account (2), as the Camel is called Gamer, becanfe tis aps cto repay Injuries; the Kite, Raan, from its Sharpneis of Sight; the Pelicaz is named Kaan. from its ufual Vomiting, &¢. The Con fideration of the Aptnefs of Names impofed on Creatures, made Piao acknowledge, ‘Thar it was a Work above erdi- nary Capacity. The other Difcovery of Adam's Knowledge, was his Knowledge of the Orégézal of Hue at firtt Sight Gen, ii, 23. he faid, Lhes és now Bone of my Bones, and Flefh of my » lefa, &c, This Inftance Lather made ule of to prove the Knowledge that we fhall have of one another in Heavens which fhews that Adam's Underftanding was then fncomparably more fuolime than ours, and ofa nearet Approach to the Knowledge which « State of Glory hail farnifh us withal. To this might be added a farther Proof from, the rare Zvveutions, and excellent Difcoveries’ that fome railed its have made, of Things that have lain deep, and far out of the View of common Capacities, As allo thofe Views. Sights, and more than ordinary Comprchen- Sions which the Souls of Men have bad, when they wee Ba a litte Xs) 4 (a) Hicrozsieon, ut Part,ao A EREA TITS of Part. 7 “a little freed from the Clog and Hinderance of the Body, either in Avtafies, ot by approaching Death 3 aff which _put together, will go far to prove a very great Meafure of ‘Knowledge in Satan, if we take along with ws this Foun- dation, That in all the Works of God, we find the bigheft Knowledge in the nobleft Being: Living Creatures are more excellent than Gtones of Trees, and therefore hath Ged furnifhed them with Senfes, and hath alfo diftinguifhed them by higher Degrees of Sagacity, according to their Bx- cellency above others: Thus the Ape, Fox, Elephant, Se have {uch Abilities above tho Worm and “Fly, a that fome have queflioned whether they had not fome Tower Degrees of Reafon s+ Yet as thefe are below Man, fo doth his Reafon far excel their greatef® Quicknels of Senfe, Angels are an higher Being than Man, (for he wade him lower than the Angels) and confequently their “Knowledge is proportionably greater, So that if Adam in Innocency underitood the Natureof Things, how much more ~exaGly and fully muft we imagine Satan to know them ? Secondly, But the Froof js more full and dire&, from thofe Appellations and Titles which the Scripture, and the Experience of Men, have pat upon him; his ufual Name *Aaiuor, which (in Matt, viii. 31. Mark v. 12. Rev. xvi. 74.). we tranflate Devil, properly fignificth one that is ai/?, knowing, or skilful. And however the Wickednefs of that Spirit hath fo far difhonoured this Word, that ’tis always (as fome think) ufed to fignify wnclean Spirits 5 yer fill it carries an Evidence of their Nature in reference to Know- ledge, that though they are wicked Creatures, yet are they wife and knowing : "Tis faid, Gen. iii. 1. The Serpent was guore fubtile than any Beaft of the Fields which though itbe true literally of the Serpent, whofe Wifdom and Sub- ailty, Naturalifts have abundantly noted, yet that Expreffion hath an Eye upon Satan, who was the principal Agents and the Serpent there is called subrile, as énfluenced by Sa- tan, whofe Inflrumenc he-was: Which we may believe, not only upon the Credit of duftiz and Lyra (a), but more Securely upon the Teitimony of other Scriptures, which name him the Old Serfent, Rev. xvii. 9. and impute all that Craft in the Management of that Temptation, toa pat- ticular remarkable Skill and Subtilty of Satan 5 Live Ser~ peut beguiled Eve through Subsilty, 2 Core xi. 3. and (if . Bexa * Quali Aaijven (a) Principaliter ad Diabolyym referenda eff callidicas,’ Chap. Iv. Satan's Temptations, | 2B Bea conjecture right) the Appellation Aaiuey doth fo’ fitly fait this Hiftory of the Tree of Knowledge, that the Title of Knowledge feems to be given him for this fingular Matter piece of Craft. . Thirdly, That Satan hath great Knowledge is by thefe Arguments difcovered 5 but if farther Enquiry be made into-the Narure of his Knowledge, we fhall be nearer toa Satisfaction in this Particular. And’ here we may obfetve a threefold Knowledge in Satan. sf, A natural Knowledge, which the Schoolmen. have diftinguithed into thele Twa (id An Evening know: ledge (a), which he received from Things created, whereby the Species of Things were imprefled upon his Mind, and fo received, being a Knowledge a pofteriori, from the Ef fects of Things 3 which becadle it is more dark and obfeure than that.which arifech from the Canes of Things, they- termed Huewing-knowledge.. (ai) The-other is - Moruing- Knowledge, which isa Knowledge of Things in the Power and Wifdom of God, in which he faw the Ideas and Ima+ ges of all Things. This Knowledge they prefer before the other, as Lines and Figures are better known from Aiathema- tical Laftra€tion, than by their bare Trad,as written in Dutt. . adly, Befides this ke hath an experdmeutal Knowledge, which is che Improvement of that natural Stock, by further Acquifitions and Attainments 3 and indeed Satan had very high Advantages for an Incregfe of Knowledge, he had @ great Stock to begin withal, be hath bad fit and fuicable OljeG#s to work upon in his Contemplations; fo that by comparing Things with Things, in fo large a Field of Mas séety, and that for fo many Years together, it cannot be but that he fhould be grown more expericnced‘and {ubtile than he was at firft; and the Scriptare doth fairly counte- nance this Suppofition, by telling us of his Devices (b), 2 Cor. ii. ix. of Bis Wiles (c), Eph. vi. xx. and of hes Depths (a), Rev. ii, 24 ALL which Phrafes imply, That Satan hath fo findied the Point of Temptation, that he hath now, from long Experience and Obfervation, digefted dt into an Aré and Merhod, and that with fuch Exaétnels, '"B3 that (a) Cognitio vefpertina & matutina. Barth, Sybilfe Otium Theol p. 36x, Avg. bh 3 Gen. & divine. Dei. lib. 12. .. Dr. Tenifon, Height of Iiradi's Edolatry, po 72. Tpfara ceegsuram melius iki, hoc ef, in Gpienia Deijtanguare io arte qua Lidia eff, quam in ea ipta (Cinnt, aug. civit. Dei, ibid. (0) Nongara. (¢) MsSedidas, (4) BddsSB A 'TREAatise of Part T. that it fs become a Ayftery and a Deprh, much covered and concealed from the Notice and Obfervation of Men. - 3dly, To both the former may be added another K.now- edge, which, becaufe ’tis from another Spring, I may call it an accefory Knowledge, confiting in occafional Difcoveries made to him, either when God is pleafed to make known fo much of his Mind and Purpofe as he imploys him {as an In- Arument or Servant) to execute, as he did in the Cale of Fab and Ahab; or when he ézformshimfelf from the Scriprures, og catcheth Hints of Knowledge from the Church, and the Ordinances thereof. If good Angels bave an Increafe of Knowledge this way, as is evident they bave | For to Pre. sipalities and Powers in heavenly Places as made known by the Church the manifold Widom of God, Eph. tii, 10.) we cannot but imagine that Satan hath fome Addition of Knowledge from fuch Difcoveries. While we are upon this Point, it will be neceflary to offer fome Satisfaction to two Queftions. : « Quett 1. Whether Saran knows our Thoughts? Aafin.1. "Tis undoubtedly God’s Prerogative to know the Thoughts; le knows them éutaétively, which is beyond the Power of any Creature, Jer. xvil. 9. Who can know et? ‘This is 4 Challenge to all, implying the utter Lmpoffibility of it to any but to God alone; Like Lord fearch the Heart; he knows the moft award Thoughts, Rev. ii. 23. Zam be. which fearcheth the Reins, aud the Hearts he knows them evédently and certainly, 4 Things are naked and open before him with whom we have to do, Heb. iv, 13. Thofe fecret Thinkings and Intendments which are hid from others, and which we ourfelves cannot diftinctly read, becaufe of theirfecret Intticacyor Confufednels, yer the ve- xy (a) Infide and Onrfide of them are uncafed, Zyeut up and - guatoméxed by his Byc; in all which Expreffions God is care- ful toreferve thisto. himfelf, Izhe Lord do it, or J am He that fearcheth, and fignifies, chat none elfe is able todo the like: Anfoli, Yet Satan can do much this ways for if wecon« fider how he can come fo wear to our Spirits, as to commuiée edte his InjeGtions to us, and that he often entertains a Dey Puce with us in this fecret way of Accefs that he hath to our Thoughts; if we obferve his Arguzngs, his Aufmers and Replies to our Refulals, fo dire, fo Pertinent, fo conté- nucd, we {hall be conftrained to grant, that he cando mere this (2) Pourd. (b) Tezeannaiauina,Chap. IV. Satsu’s Zemptations. 23 this way than is commonly imagined. That I may explain this with a due Refpe€ ta God’s Prerogative of knowing the Heart, I fhall, , ; Férfl, Shew, that there ave ¢wo Things which are cleat ly out of Satan’s Reach, (1.) Our future Thoughts, be cannot tell what fhall be our Thoughts for Time co comes he may poflibly adventure to tell what Snegeftions he ren Jolues to put into our Hearts 5 but what fhail be our Re- folves and Determinations thereupon, he knows not. This is fingled out as one Patt of God’s Prerogative, that he knoweth the determinate ‘urpofes and Refolves of the Heart aforchand, becaufe he turneth the Heart as be pleal eth, Prov. xxii 1. (2.) Our prefent formed Thoughts, the immediate and immiment Aéts of the Mind he cannot direéily fee into: He may tell what floating Thinkiugs he hath put into our Heart, but our own proper Thoughts, or formed Refelves, he cannot diretly view; this is alfo par- ticularly infifted on as proper to Gad alone, Sfobu i 24,256 Chrift kuew all Men, (o diveCtly, that he weeded mot that any fhould teftify of Maz, (this Satan fands innced of; he fometimes knows Men and their Thoughts, bat he weeds & Sign ov Wotification of thefe Thoughts, and cannot Zmme- diately look into them; ) the Regfon why Chrift needed not this,is render’d thus: For he knew what was in Man, Math. xii. 25. that is, guredrdvely he knew his Thoughts, and could immediagely read them, Secondly, 1 fhall endeavour to explain ow much, or how far he can fry into our Thoughts, Several Things are granted, which argue Satan can go a great Way toward a Difcovery : As, iff, That he knows the OljeGis zu our Fancy (a), o¢ Phantafms, and this as clearly as we do behold Things with our Eyes; and the Proof given hereof is this, That there are Diabolical Dreams (6), in which the Devil cannot create weqv Species, and fuch as our Senfes were never aco quainte. withal a9 to make a blind Man dream of Colours) but that he can only call forth and fet in Order thofe Ob- jets, of which out Imagination doth retain the Shadows or Impreffionss and this he could not do, if hedid not vifibly behold them in our Fancy. adly, Tis certain he knows his owa Suggeftions, and Temptas (x) Dr, Jenifon’s Heigh rd 5. id. i ca of Ligh _ és eight of Ijrachs Idolatry, p. 33. (8) Vid. Goodwin's2a A TREATisE of Part L Temptations darted into our Minds, upon which he can at Dprefent know what our Thoughts are bufied upon, 3dly, He knows the feeret Workings of our Paffions, as Love, Defire, Fear, @e. becanfe thefe depend upon, or are in @ Concomitancy of the Motions of the Blood and Spirits, which he can eafily difcern, tho’ their Motionsand Workings may be kept fecret from the Obfervation of all Byfanders. * athly, Some go farther (as Scotus, vreferente Barthol. Sybitia) fappofing that he knows what is in our Thoughts at any Time, only he knows not o whar thefe Thoughts éucline (a) 3 bet 1 leave this ta thofe that can determine it certainly, inthe mean ‘Time I proceed, Thirdly, To thew what a gueffing Faculty he hath of what he doth wot divedly knows be hath fach Grounds and Advantages for Canjefure, that he feldom fails of finding our Mind: As, xf}, His long Luperiewce hath taught him what ufitally Men do think, in fuch Cafes as are commonly before them; by a cunning Ob/ervation of theis Aionsand Ways he knows this. adly, He by. Study and Obfervation knows our Temper and Inclination, and confequently what Temptations do moft fait them, and how we do ordinarily entertain them. 3dly, He knows this the more, by taking Notice of our Prayers, our Complainings and Mournings over our De- feGis and Mi(carriages, 4thly, He is quick and ready to take Notice of any ex- werzor Sign, by which the Mind is fignified, as the Puife, the Motion of the Body, the Change of the Countenance (B35 all which do ufually thew the Affent or Diffent of the Wind, and at leaft tell him what Entertainment his Of- fers have in car Thoughts, sthly, Being fo quick Sighted, he can underftand thofe pars ticular Signs which would efcape the Obfervation of the wifeft Men; there are fome Things fmall in themfelves (and therefore unoblerved) which yet to wife Men are ve« ry great ?udécia of Things. ‘The like may be faid of us, in reference to our Inclinations, ovr Acceptance or Refiftarice of Temptations, which yet he hath curioufly marked our. 6thly, No doube bus he hath ways to pur us upon aDifeo- : very THM, p: 392. Demones cognoftunt cogitationes_nofteas, quantum ad fu um, objectum & affeftum, non autem quantum ad finem, Sciant guid ec. His, sed ignorant ad quem finem. (> ++ Dsp-vbendas animi tormenta laigatis ex segrozorum facie. Seepe tacens voo-m, vervaqué vultus haber, . - (a) Quel. p‘Chap. IV. Satan's Temptations, 25 of our Thoughts, while we conceal them, as by con- cating and profecuting Temptations or Suggeftions, call our ‘Trouble or Paffions do fome way difeover how it is with us. By all which it appears, that his Gueffings and Con- je@ures do feldom fail hin. Tisnow Time to fpeak to other Queftion, which is. ; eke § Whetker and how far Satan knows Things me % " Spas. To this I fhall return Avfwer in thele two Con- clufions. . . Concluf. t.] Firft, There isa way of knowing future Things, which is beyond the Knowledge of Devils, and Proper only to God. Ifa. sli 25. there God puts the Com- ‘petition “twixt Hinslelf and Idols, about the Truth of a Deity, upon this Iflue, That he thar can foew the Things that are io come hereafter, he is Gods which becanfe they cannot do, he doth hereby evince them to be no Gads. If Satan could truly and properly have done this, he had had a Plea for a Godhead. in Divine PrediGions two Things are to be confidered. (1.) The Afacter foretold, when the Events of Things cowtingenr, and (8 to fecoud Caufes ) ca- fual, depending wpon indetermiwate Caufes, are foretold. (2) The Ifanner, when thefe Things are not nuecertaduly, or coujeduraily, or darkly 3 but clearly, certaiily, txfallibly and fully prediG@ed. Of this Natureare divine Preditions, which Satan cannot perform, nor yet the Angels in Heaven. Couclaf. UL] Secondly, Yet Satan hath fuch Advantages for the Knowledge of future Things, and fuch Means and Heiys for a Difcovery of them, that his Conje@ures have often come to pafs. Firft, He knows the Caufes of Things, which are fecret to us, Upon which he feems to foretel many Things ftrange touss asa Phyfician may foretel the Betts, Workings, and Iffues of a Difeafe, as feeing them in the Caafées, which would pals for little lefs than Prophefy among she Vulgar. ‘Thus an Aftrologer foretells Etelipfes, which would be ta- ken fora devine Excellency, where the Knowledge of the Ground of thefe Foretellings had not taken away the Wonder, Secondly, Many Things are made known to him by da mediate divine Rewslatioa: We know not the Intercourfe betwixt God and Satan in the Matter of Fob 5 Satan (hav- ing obtained his Commiffion to affi& him) might have made along Prophecy of what should come to pals in Reference q te26 4 TREATISE of Part Ee to Fob, his Children and Subftance 3 how many fuch Pre- ditions he might make, we little know. Thirdly, Hehath « deep Iefighe in Affairs of Kingdoms and States, and fo might /from his Experience and Ob{fer= vation) eafily conjecture Afutatiot#s and Alterations. AL Po- Titician may do much this Way For ought we know,Sacan’s Prophecy (in the Likenels of Samuel) to Saul, of his Ritts and the Tanflation of his Kingdom to David, might be no more than a conjeftural Conclufion, from his comparing the Order of the prefent Providence, with former Thre at~ nings and Fromifes. Fourthly, He hath a Seater Underitanding of Seriprarve~ | propbefies,than ordinarily the wifeft of Men have sforhat at Second band he might be able to forerel what fhall come to pals. Whilft we that do not fo clearly fee into Scripture= predictions, may not be able to find out the Matter. Hence by Oracle he foretold Alexander of his Succefs 2, which he knew from the Prophecy of Dandel, Chap. xi. long before. Fifehly, He bach Advantage from his Nature as 4 Spirals by which he overhears and fees the private AGings, Cons~ plortings and Preparations of Men in Reference to certain Undertakings, and can eafily, by his Agents, communicate fuch Counfels or Refolves in reveote Countries and King- doms, which muft pafs for real Predi€kions, if the Event anfwer accordingly, Séuthly, He can foretel Cand with Probability of Succefs} fuch Things as he by Temptations is about to put Men upoits efpecially feeing he can chufe.fuch Infttaments, as he (from Experience) knows are not likely to fail his Enterprife. Seventhly, To this may be added, the Way aud Master by which he expreffeth him(felf, either in doubtful ov enig- matical Terms, or in gexeral Expreffions, which may be. applied to the Event, what Way foever ic fhould happen 2). OF thefe, Authors have obferved many Inflances, which were fuperfluous to enumerate, Satan’s Knowledge being thus explained, it is eafy to imagine what an Advantage it is ta him in the Manage- ment of his Temptations : For, . Férft, He by this Means knows our empers and Difpoit- tions. . Secondly, And what is moft likely to prevadl with us. Thirdigr, {¢) Tnvittus exis Alexander. Plutarch in vit, Alexandsi. (6) Non non fupex. abit Gallus Apubim. Ibis yedibis nunguam per bella pexibis,Chap. V. Stan's Temptations. 29 Thirdly, Wow inclivable we are upon any Motion made to us, and whae Hope to gain upon us. Fourthly, Fle knows fit Témes, Seafons and Advantages againg us. Fifthly, He knows how to purfue, Suggeftions, and can, chufe frong Reafons to urge us withal. “ Sixtbly, He knows how to delude our Senfes, to difturh our Paffions. Soventhly, He knows all the Ways and Arts of Ajright- ments, Vexations, Difquietments, Héederaaces and Diftur- bances of Duty. EFightly, He by this Means is furnithed with Skill for. his publick Cheats and Delufions in the World, how to a mule, aftonifh, and amaze Men ipto Errors and Miftakes, which he hath always endeavoured with very great Succefs in the World, as we thall fee hereafter. CHAP, V. Taflances of Satan’s Power, Of Witcherafr, what it is. ‘satan's Power argued from thence. Of Wonders. Whe- ther Satan can do Miracles. An Account of what be can do that Way. His Power argued from Apparitions ang voffelfions. pone add in the fifth Place, fome particular Tnflances of his Power, in which I Shall infif@upon thefe Four, Wireb- craft, Wonders, Apparitions and Poffiffions- L. Wérchoraft affordsa very great Dilcovery of Satan’s Power: Bur becaufe fome give {uch Interpretazions of Witch- craft as (if tree) would holly take away the Force of this Infance, I {hall fir endeavour to eftablith a zrne Notion of Witcherafts and fecondly, From thence argue Satan's Power, Firft, Tho" the being of Witches is not direfly denied {becaufe the Authority of Scripture, Bwod. xxii, 18.4 ent. xviii. xo. Fe. hath determined beyond Contraverfy, that fuch there are;) yet fome will a]low no other Interpretation of the Word, than a Skill and Prattice ix the Art of Poé- foning (a), becaufe the Sepeuagine doth interpret the He. érew Word Macuswzruam by gdpeaner, venifican, ge ppre= a) Scot, Diftovery of Witcherafe, 136. 6. 1s33 @ 'TREATISE of Part f. Apprehenfion they frengthen by the Authority of Fofé- bas (a), who giveth this Account of the Taw, Let mone of the Children of Ural ufe any deadly Poifon, or any Drug wherewith be may do Hurt, &c. *Tis eafy to ob- ferve, that this Conceit arifeth from a great Iuobfervaucp of the Reafon of the Application of thefe Words, caeuax@- -and veueficus to Witchcraft, in Greek and Larén Authors. Witchcrafts were fuppofed to be helped forward by the Strength of feveral Herbs, and thefe by Izcantations and other Ceremondes at their Gathering, imagined to attain 2 poifonous and evil Quality or Efficacy for fuch Effects, as were intended to be produced by them, as appears by O- wid, Virgil, and other Authors (hb). Hence was it that the Word seevan became applicable to any Sort of Witch- exaft. Tothis may be added, that fuch Perfons were refor- red to, for Help againkk Difeafes, Vid. Leigh. Crit. Sac. in Voc. As alfo that they ufed Wuguents for Tranfportations 5 Hence Godwin, Few. Antig. lib. 4.6. 10. renders capudines Unguentarios. Diafcorides, Cap. de Rhamno, hath an Expreffion to this Parpefe, Thac the Branch of that Tree, being placed before the Doors, doth drive away r4r gugudaar nakepyiae, Witcherafts; it were ridiculous to fay, it drives away oifonings, which is a fufficient Evidence that the Grecians ufed that Word to fignify another Kind of Witchcraft, than that which this Miflake would eftablifh. Befides this, the Scripture doth afford tava flrong Arguments againit this Interpretation of Witchcraft. (1.) That this Word is ranked with others, (as being of the fame Alli- ance) which will carry the Apprehenfions of any confides rare Man, to Effects done by the Help of Satan, in an sn- ufual Way, as Deut. xviti. to. There fhali not be found among you, any that maketh bis Son or bis Daughter to pals through the Fire, (his is not the confuming of their Chil- (a) Antig. 1. 4.6. 8. () --~ Medeides Herbe miftags cum magicis merla venena fonts. Ovid. Art. Amandiil.2. Has Herbas atque hec Ponto mihi tedtz Yencua. Ip dedit Mi. his ego faepe upum fieri & fe condere Sylyis Ma: ‘rim, fepe animas iis exirve Sepulchris. Virg, Eccl, 8, . Gapuakia, Philtrum, & magicas ations que in imaginibus, & ciracteri. bus, certis verbis, ac fMnilibus confiftun-, fignificat, “Unde pharmaceutria appels Tarur Idyltiurn Secund. Theocriti. 8¢ Eclog. 8. Virgilii & antiquos edam ‘vocab um oapuvaxtas, pro ori veneficii genere, qua vel hominibus, vel jumentis, vel frugibus, feu carrning, feu aliis modis necetur, accipere, manifefte patet ex atone lib, 10.deLegibus, Bt apud Aviflot. HIB, Animal. cap. 25. geeuakides nominantur. Et Apocal.c. 18. gagucnla pro preftigtis & impoftura furniture, a+ Dan.Sennert, Tom 3. lib, 6 ptt 9. Cap. 2. . aChap. V. Sataws Zemptations. 29 Children to Moloch (a), but by VVay of Zuftratiow a Mock baptifn, a Piece of Witchcraft (b), to preferve from violent Death) or that ufeth Divination, an Obferver of Times, or an Inchanter, or a Witch, &c. The very Neighbout- hood of the Wirch, will tell us that this Witch muft be @ Diviner (c), Divination being the gezeral Term, com- ptehending the fevew Particulars following : It would be an harfh Straining to put in the Poifoner, (in the Senfo of our Oppofites) among the Diviners. Yet the fecond Argument is more cogent, which is this; that among thofe whom Pharaoh called together to encounter with Adofer, Exod. vii. r1.we find Wirches or Sorcerers exprefied by the fame Word Mecasnzruim, which is ufed in Exod. xxii and Deut. xviii, What can more certainly &x the Interprera~ tion of the Word than this Place, where the End of ‘Pha- vaoh’s calling them together, was not to poifon Agger and Aaron, but by Huchantment to ouruy them in Point of Mi- yacles. Which will thew that Vircheraft is not poifoning, but the doing of ftrange A&s by the Aid of Satan. Nei« ther was this the A&t of one Man, (who might poffibly, ta- gether with that prefent Age, be under a Miftake concerns ing Witches, tho’ it be a Thing not to be fappofed) but long afterhim, Nebuchaduexzar in Dan, ii. 4. being afto- nifhed with his Dreams, calls for the Sorcerers or Witches, and Afagiczazs (d), to give him the Interpretation; which had been a Matter very improper for them, if their Skill had Iain only in mixing Poifons. . When we have thus filenced this Imagination, we have yet another to encounter with, and that is of chofe that think thefe Witches, of which the fore-cited Texts do {peak, are but mere Cheats, and by fome Tricks of Delufion and Ze- gerdemaix, pretend they can do Things, which indeed they cannot do at alls and yet finding Death threatened to fuch, which (ina Bufinefs of mere Jugling) would feem too great aSeverity,they have framed thisAniwer to it,that the Meath is threatned, not for the jugling (¢), but for their prefump» ruous and Llafphemous undertaking to do Things that be- long to a Divine Power, and for taking his Name in vain, Or (as others are pleafed to/f) fay) tho’ they have ao real Power, they are juftly punifhed for the Belzef they have, thas (a) Fuller Pilg. Sight. 1. g.6.7. p. 128, (0b) Madmon vid. Peck in Joc. (Gad: ~ win Fews duty, 14. c. 10, Poof inloc. (4) irgherage reckoned at ae aek from Murder, in Gals. 30, 01. Ce) Seon Witederaft, Ge 3. Uf) Hob’s Le: ‘Biath. Gs BD Fy30 ATrearsse of —— Part f, dthat they can do fuch Mifchief, joined with their Parpofe to do it, if they can, . ; . In Anfwer to this Apprebenfion, T fhall not much inf upon thefe Reafons, which yet are fafficiently weak, (the fatter accufing God’s Laws of wnreafouable Severity (c), and the former accufing them of unnceefary Redundancy, feeing enough in other Places is provided again Blafphe- mers) but fhall offer a Confideration or two, which T judge will be of Force to rectify the Miftake. Firft, Tho’ it cirmor be denied, but that a great many Cheats there have been in all Ages, by which Men have ens deavoured ro raife the Repute and Efteem of their own Skill and Excellencies, or for other bafe Ends; yet from hence to conclude, that ald thefe Things thar have been done um - der the Name of Witcheraft were fach, mut be an ons fufferable Piece of Infolence 5 not only denying that Credit which all fober Men owe to Hiflory, to the conflane Belief - of all Ages, to the Faithfulnefs and Wifdom of Judges, Fu- rors, Watnefes, Laws and Sanétions; but alfo dangero ily overthrowing all our Seufess fo that at this Rare we may well queflion, Whether we really eat, drink, move, fleep, and any Thing elfe that we dos this Reafon is urged by grave and ferious Men: 2). : Secondly, It cannot be imagined that fuch Things are merely delufory, wheve the voluntary Confeffion of {0 mas ny, have accufed themfelves and others, not of Thinking or Jugling, but of really fing, and doing fuch Things 5 with fuch Circumftances as have particularized Fime,Place, Thing, and Manner. Thirdly, The real Effeéts done by the Power of Hitch. craft, thew it not to be Delufion (¢}: Such are the Tran{por- tation of Perfons many Mules from their Rabitations, and leaving them there ; their telling Things done in temote Places; raéfing of Storms and Tempetts; Vomating of Pins, Needles, Stones, Cloth, Leather, and fuch like 3 and thefe fome (a) Tene jou Hob's Creed. exam. Art. ¢ p.64. Gy Baxter's Sin dgainf the Hol Ghofl, p. 83. J. Glanvil. Confiderat ions Uy Witokeratt. p. 6 ee a ain Hobs, Art. 4. p99. (e) Via Epi. D. Balthajaris Han, M.D. in valce, Tom. 3. oper. Dan. Sexserti de foemina fafcinati, in cujus cute, literse N. B. note Crucis +a capite ad calcem, cum Aftronomicoram & Chymicorum caract ibus, Rofee figura in dextra & twifolii in finiftrd, arcificiose pidta cum anno ChriGi 2635. cor Servatoris telis transfixum, & imago ftulti cum verbo Germanico Narr, procumbebant, [Dr. More.] Mr. Baxter ut fapra, Daw. Sexuertus Torn. cs Lib. 6. pars 9. Varias hifforias enumerat de iorbis incantations indudis, Ey Fo. Langie, dlew, Beneditto, Cornet. Gemma, Forafia, & ais, .Chap. V. Satan's Temptations. 35 Some of them attefted by fober and intelligent Perfons whe were Kye witmeffes, Large Accounts you have of thefe in Bodinus, Sprengeréius, and feveral others that have ber- sowed thefe Relation: from them. The Notion of Poifonings, or delufory Juglings, being below what the Scripture intends to fet forth, as Witch- craft; itis evident that Witcheraft is a Power of doing great Things by the Aid of the Devil, By which our Way is open to improve this Inflance, to demonftrate (which was the fecoud Thing promifed) that Satan’s Power. muft be great: For, Firft, "Tis acknowledged thar a great Part of thefe Things ghat are done in this Matter:a, as concurrent with, or . helpful toward the promoting of foch. Aéts, are Satan's proper Works, as the troubling the Air, raifing Storms, ‘Apparitions, various Shapes and Appearances, Tranfporta- tions from Place to Place, and a great many more Things of Wonder and Amazement, all which exceed human Power. Secondiy, Many Things of Wonder done by fuch Perfonss to which (fome f{uppofe , the fecret Powers of Herbs, or Things, contribute their natural Aids or Concurrence, are Evidences of Satan’s deep Knowledge of,and Infight into a- tural Caufes, Of this Nature is thar Ozwtment with which Witches ave faid to befmear themfelves in order to their Tranfportation : ‘The Power and Bfficacy whereof, is by fome (b; imagined to confift in this, that it keeps the Bo» dy tenantable, and in a fie Condition to receive the Soul by Re-entry, after fuch Separatons, as (by all Circumiftances ate concluded) have been really made in Purfuit of thofe vifionary Ferambulations and“Traufadions. Which Things if they be fo, (as they are not improbable) Witches have them from Satan’s Difcovery, and they are to be aferzbed to his Power. Thirdly, Vhofe A@ions that are moft properly the Ps. shes ownAGions, and in which the Power of Hurting doth (as fome (uppofe) refide, are norwithftanding, eicher awe- kened or influenced by Satan: So tho* we grant (what fome (¢) would have) that the Power of Hurting is a natural Power, (a) Helment. Magnets Vuln. cura. $87. (6) Dr. Move. Death confifis nor fo much in au atual Separation of Soul and Body, as in the Indifpofition and Onfitnefs of the Body for vital Union. Whar is the Meaning elfe of that Exc preffion, [Whether in the Body, or out of the Body U cannot tell] excepr the Soul may be feparated trom the Body without Death. J. Glanvil, Wireborafe, ps 15, 48, “(c) Belmont ubi fupra. dricenna. vi arthol. Sydjila. Perig. aunt. BP. 401. Netcio quis tenexos osules, Ge, Glanvil Wireherafi, p. 24. ©32 C2 TREATISE of Part ¥, Power, and a venomous Magnetifin of the Witch, and that her Imagination, by her Bye, darts thofe malignant Beams which produce real Hurts upon Men, (after the Manner of the Imagination’s Force upon a Child in the Womb, which hath (as by daily Experience and Hittory is confirmed) produced Marks, Impreffions, Deformities, and Wounds) and that Satan doth but cheat the Witch into a Belief of his Aid in that Matter 5 that with a greater Advantage he may make Ufe of her Power, without which he could do nothing (4) 5 yet even this fpeaks his Ability, in that a jeaft he doth awaken and raife up that magical Force, (which otherwile would lie afleep) and fo puts the Sword: into their Hand. Yer fome attribute far more to him, wet, the Infufion of a poifonous Ferment, (by that AGtion of fucking the Witch in fome Part of the Bady) by which not only her fnagézation might be heightened, by poifon ous Streams breathed in, which might infe& Blood and Spirits with a noxious Tinture. 2. Won "The Id grand Jnftance of his Fower, ¥ fhall ders. ptoduce from thofe Adtions of Wonder and A- fionifhment, which he, fometime perforny, which indeed have been fo great, that they have occafioned that Queftion ; Q. Whether Satan can do Miracles? A. 1..To this we anfwer 5 (1.) That God alone can work Miracles, A Miracle being @ real At, done vifibiy, and above the Power of Nature (b). Such Works forme have ranked into threeHeads t 3 1. Such as created Power cannot produce 3 as to make the Sun Qand MM, or go backward. 2. Such as are in themfelves produceabie by Nature, but not in fuch an @rder,as to make the Dead to lives and thol that were born blind to fee, which is Rrongly argued Fobn ix. 32. to be above human Powers and Yobn x. 21 to be above the Power of Devils. 3. Such as are the zfu: al Works of Nature yet produced, above the Principles and Helps of Nature,as to cure a Difeafe by a Word or Touch. Things that. are thus truly and properly miraculous, ate peculiarly Works of God 3 neither can it be imagined, that fince he hath been pleated to justify bis Commands, Ways, an (a) Helmont ut fapra, § roz. Satan itaque vim magicam hane excitat £ fecus dormicniem &z fcientia exterioris hominis impeditam ) in fuis mancipiis...... Chin, Witeheraft, p.18, (0) Polanns 1632, + Tha, Cont. Gent, lib. Be o. 10k, sired by Salavex gu aThef 2.Chap. V. Satan's Tbatpiations. 33 And Mefixges, by fuch mighty A&ts, 2 Cor. ati. 12. Heb. ii* 4. Foha x. 38. and alfocthath been put to it, to juftify him- felf and his fole fupreme Being and Godhead, from faife Competitors, Zfal. Ixxxvi. 10. and Ixxli. 18. by his mira- eulous Wotka : It cannot be imagined, I fay, thar he would permit any created Beings, (much lefé Satan) to do fuch "Things. j Go Tho’ Satan cannot do Things méraculous (a), yet he can do Things svouderful and amazing. -And in this Point Les the Danger of Delufion, as Chrift foretells, Afat. xxiv, 24. Palfe Chrifts fall arife, and thew great Signs and . Wonders,—tn 2 Thef. ii. 4. the Apoftle tells us, Fhe com ang of Antithrift [ball be with all Power, and Stens, and Wonders 5 that is, (as fome (J) interpret) with the Power of Signs and Wonders 5 which however they be zug, both in Reference to the Delign they drive at, (which is to pro- pagate Error’) and alfo in their ows Nature, being truly iuch, In Refpeé of their Form, fulfes as Afiracles, being indeed no fuch Matter, but jugling Cheats: Yet notwith- ftanding there isno {mall cunning and working of Satan in them, infomuch that the Uncautious and Injudicious are de- veived by thofe Wouders that he bath Power to do, Rev: xiii, 13. In this Mateer, tho’ we ere not able to give a particular Account of thefe weder-ground AG@ions; yet thus much we may fay, Féirft, That in maty Cafes, his great Ads, that pals for Miracles, are no more but DecePtons of Senfe. Narura- fis have fhewn feveral Feats and -Kwacks of this Kind: Yo. Bap. Porta (c) hath 4 great many Ways of fich De- - options, by Lamps, and the feveral Compofitions of Of/r, by which not only the Colours of Things are changed, bar Men appear without Heads, or with the Heads of Horfes, ec, The liké Deceptions are wrought by Gia#zs of various Figures and Shapes, If Art can do fuch Things, much more can Satan, . - Secondly, He can mightily work upon the Fancy and T- faagindtions by which Means Men are abufed intoa Be- Hef of Things thar are not: “As in Dreams, the Fancy pres fents Things which are really imagined to be done and laid, whenas they are Vifions of the Night, which vanifh whea the Man is awake 5 or as in melanebolty Perfons, the Fan- cy of Men doth fo ftrongly impofe upon them, that they . : c believe: (4) Mixanon miracula, () Sclater inloc, (c) Magia nattowlis, Lac. exe4 34 A Tredvise of Part. 1, -betieve frange abfurd Things of themifelves; that they have Horns on their Head, that they are made of Glaf, that they are dead, and what not: If Fancy, both afteep and awake; may thus abufe Men into an Apprehenfion of impoffibls Things, and that with Confidence, no Wonder if Satan (whole Power reacheth thus far, as was before proved) doth take this Advantage for amufing of Men wich ftrange Things. Nebuchadzexzer his Judgment, Daz. tv. .25, whereby he was dréven Srom Men, and cat Grafs as Oxen, was not a Metamorphofis, or real Change into an Ox 5 this _all Expofitors rojeé as too hard 3 neither feems it to be on ly his aetream Neceffity, and low Eftate, whereby he feen- ed to be little becter than a Beaft, (tho? Ca/ué2 (2) favour this Laterpretation ) bur by thac Expreffion, Verfe 25. Eeben my UOnderflauding came to me] it feems-evident, (as matt Commentators-think) that his Undertlanding was fo chazg'd in that Punifhment, that he dmagined himfelf to be a Beat, and behaved himfelf accordingly, by eating Grafs, and ly- ing in the open Fields, ‘Phére are feveral Stories to this Purpofe of frange Transformations, as the Bodies of Men into Afes, and other Beafis, which Auguftiwe (4) thinks to be nothing elfe but the Devil’s Power upon the Fancy. Thirdly, There are wonderful Secrets dz Nature, which _ if cunningly ufed ahd-applied to fr Thzngs and Zémes, mut needs amaze vulgat Heads; and tho’ fomeof thele are known to Philfophers and Scholars, yet are there many fecret Things lock'd from the wifeft Men, whofe Powers and Ne tures, becaufe they know not, they may alfo be deluded by them. Augu/tine (c) reckons up many Inftances, as the Load flone,the-StonePyrites, Selenites,the Fountain of Epirusthat can kindle a Torch, and many mores and determines that many ftrange Things are done by the Application of thefe natural Powers, either by the Wit of Alan, or diabolical Are. To this Purpofe he (d)-gives an Account of an ua extinguifoable Lamp, ina Temple of Veaus, which allure ed Men. to worfhip there, as to ah ungqachionable Dezzy, when. in, Truth the-Thing was but an zugenéous.Compafiti- on from the Stone Aiheffon s of which Pliny makes Ment. on (e\, that -being kindled, ic will not be quénched with Water, Of this Nature ‘were-thofe amps found. in feve- . oo : zo} oral . 5 she Eye we r ee Stel » toe os *) Catrinieclog:" Oy Civie Daly hs 8618, () DeGivit. Dai, bans ory G Cd) Adav > dsbioS, . Ce) Blin, lib. 28. tyeChap. V. Satan's: Zeaptations. 38 sal Paulos accompanying the A thes of the Dead, referved ‘there in Urns, both in Bzgiand and elfewhere f. Tt Men by fuch Helps find fach:eafy Ways to delude Men, what Ex- aGnefs of Workmanfhip, and feeming Wonders may be €x~ pected from Satan upon fuch Advantages? . . aed : Fourebly, Many.of hisVonders niay challenge an Bégher Réfe.. Satan, knows the fecret. Ways of Nature's Operaté- ous, and the. Ways of .acceleraténg. ox retarding thole Works... So that he cannot. only do what Nature, can dos by a due Application of aéfive to Paffive Prinaiples (a), . and the Help of thofe feméaal Powers that ate.in Things, but he may be fuppofed to perform them inva quicker and more expeditious Manner: This Worms, Flies, and Sex- pents, that are bred of Putrefaétion, Satan may fptedily pre: ~ duce 3. and who can tell how far this Help may reach in his Works of Wonders?. - . - Lt ke Ft . Fifthly, The fecret Way of Satan’s Afovings and Affings is no fmall Matter in thefe. Affairs... How many Things da common Fuglers by the fife Morious of their Hands, that feem incredible? Thus they make the By-ftanders believe they change the Subftances, Natures, and Forms of Things, when they only, by a Poedy Conveyance; take thefe’ Things away,-and put others in their Room. . They that fhall con- fider Satan.as a Spirit/fubtile; impefceptiblé, quick of Me~ tion, Jc. will eafily believe him to be more accomplifh’d for {uch Conyeyanées than all the Men in the World. . Having now feen the Way of his Wonders,,let us, next confider the . Advantage he hath by fuch.A@ions. If we Jook upon Simon Afagus, AGs vill. ro, 11. we find, thar he by thefe Ways, had a general Influence: upon the Reople, Lo Lim they all. gave Heed, froms the leaft.to the greatefts , and thar his AGions were reckoned no lefs than miraculous, as done by the mighty Power of God. If we go from hence to the Afagicians of Pharaoh, xod. vii. ur..’tis laid, Phey did fo with their uchanements, whick (howfoever the Matter was) prevailed fo with Pharaoh and the Court, that they Gaw no Difference *awixt che Wenders done by Afofer and them, fave ,that (it may. be) they thought Jfpfés the more skiful Afagisian. Bur beGdes this, if we confider what they did, ir willargue much for his Power, if we can imagine (as fome (4) do) chat they torn~ 2 ed 3 Vids L. Vives Comment. in lib. at, @. 6. De Civit. Del. (a) Detersnina: » Whee ad det rannata pallive apphicunde, 4) Thy Capra bee SRROA RS36000, «© ATREArts of . Part kL “ed thele, Rods tite veal Serpents, the Power is evident ¢ “And there if this that favours that Opinion, it is faid, they -could. wor wake Lice, which feems to imply, they really did the ether ‘Things, and it bad been as aly to delude the Senfes in.the Matter of Lice, as in the Rods, if-it had ‘béed ‘no imore than a Delufion; neither are fome a-wanting éo give’a Reafon.of fuch a Power, véz- Serpents, Lice, ec. being thé Offspring of PutrefaGtion, by his dextrous Appli- gation .of the feminal Principles:of Things, he might quick- dy produce ‘them. If we go lower, and take up with the Opinion of thofe (4), that think they were neither mere Delufions, nor yet true Serpents, but veal Bodies lzke Ser- pents, tho” without Life, this willargue a very great Power: ‘Or if.we fuppofe (as fome dof that Satan took away the - Rods, and fecretly conveyed Sexpents in their Stead, or (which is the loweft Apprehenfion we can have) that Phz-. raoh’sSight was deceéved: The Matter is ftill far from be- ing contemptible, for as much as we fee the Spetators were not able ro difcern the Cheat, _ . Appariié. > TIL, The next Juflance produceable for evi: 1. 6S dencing his Power, ia that of 4¢paritions, le : cannot be denied, but that the Favey of me- fancholick or timorous Perfons, is fruitful enough to create a thoufand Bughears. And allo that the Pellany of fome Perfons hath been defignedly imployed to deceive People with Atcck-apparétéons 5 of which Abundance of Inftances might be given from the Kuavery of the Papifts, difcover- ed tothe World beyond ContradiGion 3 but all this will not conclude; that there are zo veal Appearances of Spirits or- Devils. Such fad Effedts in all Ages there have been of - thefe Things, that moft Men will take it for an undeniable Truths - , *. Jaftead of others, let the Apparition at Zzdor to Sant come to Examination : Some (2) indeed will have us believe that all that was but a fubrdle Cheat, managed by that old Woman ; and that neither Samuel nox the Depeh did ap- pear, but that the Weman, in azotber Room by herfelf, ‘ox with 2 Coufederate, gave the Ainfwer to Saul. But who- {devet thall read that Story, and fhall confider Sani’s bowing _ and Difcourle, and the Anfwers given, mutt acknowledge ‘ thas ait Barthe Sybia Rexeg. Quast. p. 372 Rivers. @) Seo, Witcheraft, qeChap. V. Satan's Zemprations. BF that Sail thought, at leatt, he faw and fpake with Satine: and indeed the whole Tranfadtion isfuch, that fuch a Cheat cannot be fuppofed. . Satisfying ourfelves then that there was an Apparition, we muft next enquire whether it was true Samuel, or Satan: It cannot be denied but that many (a) judge it was true Samuel, but their Reafons are weak, . . (1.) That Proof from Hecleflafticus xlvi. 23. ts not caua nical with us. : . _ a.) That he was called Samuel is of no Forces Scrip+ ture often gives Names of Things according to their Ap- pearances. - (3.) That Things future were foretold, was but from Cons je€ure; in which Satan yet (all Things confidered) had ‘ good Giound ‘for his gueffing. . . (4.) Phat the Name Fehousd is oft repeated, fignifies no® thing, the Devil is not fo fearce of Words 3 Felus Tknow, faith that Spirit inthe Ags. 7 (5.) That he veproved Sin in Saul, is no more than what the Devil doth daily to affitted Confeiences in order ta defpair, I muft go then with thofe that believe this was Satan in Samuel's Likenefs, (z.) Becaufe God refufed to anfwer Sau) by Prophets ot Prim. Andtis too harth to think he would fend Samuet from the Dead, and fo anfwer him in an ewtraordinary Way. (2.) This (if it had been Samuel) would have given toa guch Countenance to Witeberaft, contrary ta thar Check to Abasiah, 2 Kings i. 3. Is 2¢ nor becaufe there is uot a God in Hiael, that ye go to engnare of Baalzebub. (3.0 Phe Prediétéon of Saci’s Death, tho’ true for Sub- flance, yet failed as to the Ewxadluefs of Time, for the Battle was not fought the next Day. (4.) The Acknowledgment of the Witch's Power [7¥by haf thou difguieted me?] thaws it could not be true Sz- snuel, che Power of Wérchcraf?t not being able to reach Souls at Reft with God. . (5.) That Expreffion of gods afceuding out of the Earth, is evidently fufpicious. The Reality of Apparitions being thug eftablifhed, Sa- tan’s Power will be eafily evinced from it. To fay nothing af the Bodies in which Spirits appeat; the haunting of - C3 : Places (4) Vid. Poal’s Syaoys ts Hey38 A TREATISE Of Part-I. Places and Perfons, and the other Effects done by fuch Ap" Pearances, {peak abundantly for ite ee E oy = IV. The laf Inftance is of Pogegions, the Pofifions, Reality of which cah no Way-be queftioned, td becaufe the New Zeflament affords fo much for its I fhall only nore feme Things as concerning this Head. Ag! OT br Férjt, The Afultirudes of Men poffeffed: Scarce wag there any hing id which Chrift had more Opportunities to thew bis Aythority, than in cafting out of Satan; fach Ob- jets of Compaffion he met with in every Place. L “ Seoondly, Che Maltrisudes of Spirits in ong Perfon, isa Confideration not to be paffed by. es : Thirdly, Thefe Perfons were often firougly ated, fome time with: Féerconefs and Rage, Afath, viit, 28. fome live dng without Gloaths, and without Hout, Luke viii. 27. fomo by an incredible Strength éreaking Chains and Fetters, Mark x Big wien wot a ee cote ‘+ Bourthty, Sometime the Pofleffed were fadly vexed and - afflifted, catt dato sheFire and Water, &c, Totes i Rafhly; Same were firangoly inflnenced : We read-of one, “Adds xvi. 16. that had 4 Sperit'of Divination, and told many’ Ghings’ tovcome, which'wermay fuppofe frequently game to pals 5 elfe the,could have brought 226 Gadz to her Mafler-by South faping, Another we hear- of; whofe Poffel: fion- was with a Luudcy, and had Fits -at certain’ Times cand Séalons.::'The peflefed Perfor with whom Mr. Roth- geal difcourfed, (within the: Memory of fome living) could play ‘the €gitéck in the Hebrew Banguage (a). - 1 Stwthiy, In fome the Poffeffion was fo: ftrong, and. fo frm- dy: feated; that oxdivary Afeans and Ways couldenot dilpof: fefatchem:? This Kind comes not out but by Prayer aud Fajliniy “Match: 22011. 2t- whieh fhews thet all: Pofleffion + was-noe of ope Kiindand Manver, for.alike liable to Bjetion. iTa all thefe.may -be.added OBjeffions :. Where the Devil affliGs the Bodies of Men, difquiets them, bauhts thems of Strikes ih wich their méjancholy Temper, and fo annoys by hideous and black Reprefentations. «Thus was Saul vexed “by én duil Serie from the Bord; whith fas-molt conceive) wag-the Devil working in his melancholy Humour. That he Dew fhould sake Pofleffion of the Bodies of Men, . ve gd ' . . (0 Vid, Clark's Lives, rChap. VL Satan's Temptations. — 39 and thus att, drive, trouble and difirefs them 5 fo diflort, diftead, and rack their Members; fo feat himfelf in their Tongues and Minds, that a Man cannot command his owo Faculties and Powers, but feems to be rather changed into the Nature of @ Devil, than to retain any Thing of a Man; this thews a Power in him to be trembled at. oF Satan’s Power being thus explained and proved, 1 fhalt next {peak fomething of his Cruelty. CHAP. VI. Of Satan’s Cruelty. Inflances thereof in hés dealiag with wounded Spirits, in ordinary Temprations of the Wicked aid Godly, in Perfecutions, Cruelties th Worlkip. His eruel handling of bis Slaves. : B that fhall confider his Malice and Power, muff una- % voidably conclude him to be cruel. Afalice is always fo,where it hath the Advantage of « proportionsble Strength and Opportunity for the effe@ting of irs hateful Contrivances :, It. banifheth all Pity and Commiferation, and follows only, the Diate of its own Rage with fuch Fiercenefs, thatic is only limited by wanting Power to execute. We may then fay of Satan, That gccording to his Malice and Power fuch is his Cruelty. Tho Truth of this will be abundantly ma- nifefted by Inflances: As, .. Firft, From his defperate Purfuits_of Advantage, upon thofe whofe Spirits are ewourded. The Anguish of a di- fiefled Confcience is unfpeakably great, in fo much, that many ate (as Heman, Plal. Ixuxviil, 15.) even diftvaded, wbile they fufier the Perrors of the Abinighty. “t hefe tho” they look round about them for Help, and invite all that pafs by ‘to pity them, Lecanfe the Haud of the Lord hath touched thems yet Satan laughs at their Calamity, and mocks at them under-their Fears, and doth all he can to aug- ment the Flame: He fuggétts dreadful Thoughts of an in. cerifed Majelky; begéts terrible Apprehenfions of infinite Wrath and Damnation; he aggravates all their Sins,to make them: feen: unpardondble + Every Asizon he calls St, and exery Siz. he reprefents as a wilful forlaking cf Gods and every deliberate Tranfgreffion he tells them isebe Sia againft the -Hely Ghoft.. He bagves them in their Prayers and Ser oe Cs VaCKS,as - A TREATIsE of Part £ jces,. and then accufeth their Duties for intollerable Pro. fanations of God’s ines and if they be at laft affriphted | from them, he then clamours that they are forfaken of God, becaufe they have-forfaken him: He (as 2 réght Baatuebub) gakes in their Wounds, as Fliegare ever fucking where there isa Sore. Their Onteries and Lamentations are fuch Mo. + fk to"him, that he gives them no Refts and with fuch | Triumph doth he tread upon thofe that thus ly in the Duf, : that he makes them fomietimes accufe themfelves for that . which they zeger did, and in Derifion he infults over them in their greateft Perplexities, with this, Where is now thy God? and who fhalt deliver thee out of my Hand? This were ‘enough tq-evidenge hira altogether yoid of Compaf. on, But, ~ Secondly, He fhews no lefs Cruelty in his Huge of thofe that are his Slaves, TheService that he exaétsot thofe that are his moit willing Servants, is no lefs than the higheft Cry eltys and pot only (2) In regard of the Mifery and De fraction which he makes them work out for themfelves, (which is fax greater, than where Men are forced by the hott brutifh Tyrants, to buy their owa Poifon, orto cut, their own Fhroats; becaufe this is unfpeakably lefs than the endlefs Miferies of eternal Torments:) But (2.) Alf in regard of the very Slavery and dragging Foil of the Ser vice ‘which heexadts from them ; he is not pleased that they fin, bat the véleft Iniquities, mot contrary to God, and meft abominable to Man, as the higheit Violations of the Laws of Nature and Reafon, are the, Things which he will put them upon, where there are no Refttaints in his Way: He drave the Heathens (as Paul tedifies Row. i.) to Affe tions fo wile and loathfom, that in their Way. of fnning, they feamed to a& rather like Brutés than Men, their Minds becoming fo zajudicions, that they loft all Senfe of. what was fit and comely. Neither (3.) Dath this fatisty his _ Cruelty chat the. wotft of Abominations be practifed, bus be urgeth them to the: higheft Defperarenefe in the Manner of Performance, and fo draws them ont to the Front of the Battle, thatthey might contemn and-ows dare God to his. Face 3 he will have them fin with an high Hard, and inthe highet Bravado of Madnefs to ruth into Sin, as the Horfe gute the Battle. This Cruelty of Satan: wore yer the lela: if he only Broughe them forth prefamptuoufly, in fome oie or too set Battles upon Peadal Occafions; But (4.) He would . ‘ : haveChap VL satan’s Temptarions: qi have this to be their coufian? Work, the Task of every. Day 5 upon the fame Score that Achitophel advifed Abfalom, to an open and ayouched Defilement. of his Father's Concu- bines, that fo the Breach *twixt them and God might be fived by a refolute Determination sand confequently, that ‘heir Hands might be rong, and their Hearts harden ‘ed in Rebellion againft God. And (5.) That Sgtan might mot come fhort of the utmoft of what Cruelty could do: We aay yet further obferve, that tho’ Sinners offer themfelves willingly enough, to confli& againit God in the high Pla- ges of the Field, yet as not fatisfied with their Forwardnels, hhe lafbeth and whips them on to their Work, and fometime _ over-drives them in their awn Bameftnels, Haman was fo- hurried and overborn with violent Hatred again Afordecaé. and the Yews, Bith. v.13. that his own Advancement, and, ahe Marks of fingular Favour from the King availed him, mot, asto any Satesf2iiiox and prefent Contentment, Shah, tho’ King of Frael, is fo vehemently urged in his Defires for Naborp’s Vineyard, that he covered his Face and grew fick upon it. Thus, as Gally.Sieves, were they chacued to their Oar, and forced te their Work beyond theixs own Strength. res . . Thirdly, There is alfo a Cruelty feen in his zncefunt Pro- _Mokings and Force upon the Children of Ged, while he urg- eth his loathed Temptations upon them againft their Will, When I confider Pazi’s Out-cry in this Cafe, (Rom. vile 5, 19.) Chat which Ido, Lallow not, the Hyil which ¥ would nor, that do £, &c. my Thoughts reprefent him to ame, like thofe Chriftians that were tortured in the Zroxgh, where Water was poured by a continued Stream upon their Mouths, till the Closd thar lay upon their Tips was forced down their Throats 3 ot like thofe that had ftinking Puddle~ swater by a Tunnel poured into their Stomachs, till they were ready to burjt; and furely he apprehended humfelf to be under Very cruel Dealiag by Satan, when he cried ont, @ wretched Man that 1 am? Who foail deliver me? if we ferioufly confider the Mind and Endeavours of thofe Children of God, that are fréving again Sin, and bave cat it off as the mot doath/fom abominable Thing, when Satan uigeth them to Kvil with his inceffant Emportunities is igas if they were forced to eat their own Excrements, of tofwallow down again their own Vomit 3 fox the Devil dotha3 ‘ATrReatiseof | Pat i doth but (as it were) cram thefe Temptations down theie ‘Throats againft their Will. se : Fourthly, If we cat our Bye upon the Perfecutéons of all Ages, we fhall have thencé enough to charge Satan with. al, in point of Cruelty:; for he, wha is filed a Murderer from she Beginning, {et them all on Foot; ‘tis he that hath filed the World with Blood and Pury, and hath in all Ages, ia one Place or other, made ita yéry Shambles and Slaughter. boufe of Nien. “(1.} Cin we reckon how often’ Satan hath been at this Work ? that’ is impollible. His moft pudlick and general ‘Attempts of this “Kind are noted by Héftories of all Ages. The Perfecutions of Phardob againt Lfract, and of the prevailing Advéifaries of Ifracl and ‘fudab, again{t both or either of them, ‘are recorded for the moft Part in Scripture: The Perfecutiorg of the Roieau Hinperors againft Cheiftianity are, fufficiently known, dnd what is yet tocome, who can tell? A great Retlecution by Actéchrift was the general Belief and Expedtation of thofe chat Lived in Auflén’s Time, and long before (4) 5 but whether this, be one more, to the ten former Perfecutions (that {fo thg Parallel betwixt thefe, aad-PLaraob’s Ruin in the Red- Sea after his ten Plagues, might run even) be only to be looked for, or that others are alfo to’be expected, he thinks it would be Prefymption and Bafhnefs to determine: But. however, his particular Affaults of this Nature cannot be nuimbred : How bafy is he fill atthis Work, in all Times and Places? infoniuch, that bé that will live godly én this; World muft fuffer. Perfecutéon.:. But (2,) 1f we withal con-. fider what Zaventions and Devices of Cruelty and ‘Torture, he hath found oui,’ and what: endlefs Variety of Pains and- ‘Miferies he hath prepared, (4 Catalogue whereof, would fila great Deal of Paper) wecan: do no lefs than. wonder, at the mercilefs:Fary, and implacable Rage of-himn .thae contrived them, Satan the greatiFgéveér, doth but give us the Picture of bis Mind’ in‘all thofe Iuftraments of Deftruétion,. And when we feé among Tyrants, Ways of tortaring-every Afember of the Body, and Arts of mulsi~ plying Deaths, that fo thofé that perifh byztheir.: Hands, inight not have fo much as the Mercy of a fpeedy Difpatchs but that they might feel themfelves.to dies. we .may .te% Rect it upon.Satan, in Facob’s Words to Simeonand Levis Curfed ba his Auger, for is is fierte, and bis Wrath, for Yen se ee C9) De clit, Del fk 2 cosa,Chap: VL Satan’s Temptations. 43 it is cruel. (3.) But if we confider what Fnflraments he ufeth, and agaznft whom, swe fhall fee Cruelty in an bzgher Exaltation: Had be uled fome of the Beafts of the Earth, or fome of his apoftate Afociates, to perfecute and afflict the innocent Lambs-of Chrit, it might have been much excufed, from the natural fufizzéf or curled Ansipathy of fach Agents: Orhad he 'ufed only the oéleft of the Chil- dren of Men to a& his magical Fury, the Matter liad been Jefs + But as not confent- with common Revenge, he perfe- cutes Mew by Men, though all of one Blood and OF pring, and fo -peryerts the Huds of Wature, making thofé that fhould be" the: Gomforrs and Support of Men, to be the greateft error and‘Curfe to them 5 2 Thing which Wa- ture infelf abhors, and in regard of which, (that the lm. preilions of Pity might be more “permanent and efficacious) God forbade Hirgel to fyth a Kad ia the Afother’s AGIR 5 nay; he hath prevailed with fome of good duclinations, aad rare Accomplifbments (for fach were fome of the per- fecuting Experors) to be his Deputies, for authorising the Rack; for prowidiug Fire and Faggot; and (which is flrange) hath prevailed fo far with them, that they have been willing to ofex their Eats tothe moft palpable Lies, the groffeft Forgeries, the mott unreafonable Suggeftions that known Malice could invent 5 and then after all, when they were drawn out to Butchery, and Slaughter by M{ul- titudes, they have made fich’ Spefacles (which might make Ineprefitons upon an Jvog Breatt, or an Adamant? Heart,) only Advancements of their Follity; and as Nere npon the Sight of faming Rome, took his Harp and made Melody : St have thefe tormenting Furies fired Cby the Help of combuftible Matter) Mualtitudes'of fach harmlels Creatures, and then taken the Opportunity of their Ligh, for their Night-/ports. And yet (methinks) the Devil hath difcovered a keeaer Fury, when he hath made them rage againft the Dead, and dig their Graves, and revenge theni~ felves updn their fen(lefe dfhes, and when they could do no more, feek to pleate themielves by executing their Rage againf their Pi@ures or Statues; which Aftions, though they might be condemned for Follies, yer are they Evidences of kighe? Fury, which commonly defttoya the Sudgemenr; and factificeth 2, Reafon, and Honour, upon the Atar of Revenge. That the Devil fhould fo foifon Man's Na- ture, thar he fhould thus rife up againgt his Fellow, that ‘ . carrier:4a A TREATISE of Part. f garties the fame fecdfick Being with himfelf, -fhews gnough of his Temper againf&t Man, but never more than whenhe prevails againft the Engagements of Kindueft,. Blood, Af, fiaity, and Relation, to saife a Man's Enemies out of his gum Houfe, the Father againft the Son, and the Sonagaing the Fathers the Daughter againft the Mother, and. the Mother againft the Daughter : For this is little lefs than an uinatural Mutiny of the Members againft the Body. .. Fifthiy, We have yet a more vitible Inftance of his Graelty, in his bloody and tyrannical Superftitions, Look bat into the Rites and Ways of his Warthip, among tho Heathen, in.all Ages'and Places, and you will find nothing but vile and rédéculous Fooleries, ot gufolent and defpight. ful Ulages, In the former-he hath dtiven Men to wéllanons Delaucheries, in the latter to ewecrable Crueltées. Of the fater T fhall only fpeak, (though in the former, by des pafing Man to be his Laughing-flock, he is cruel in his Scorn and Mockery : ) Here I might mention his tprannica Ceremonies of the lower Order, fuch as touch not Life; fuch weve their tedious Pilgramages, 29 in Zedlan theit painful Wippings ; as of the Youth of Lacedemon at the Altar of Déaza; of thei Pricts, and that with Aaotted Gords upon their Shoulders as at-Mewico, and New Spain; gheir_harth Ulages in tedious Faftings, flinking Drenches, hard Lyings upon Stones, eating Earth, ftriét Forbearances gf Wine, and Commerce, their Torturings and Afauglings of their Bodies by terrible Hancings and Cuttings (2), fer the Effafion of Blood ; their difmembrin themfelves, pluck ing out their Eyes, mangling their Fiefh, to caft in the Idol's Face, factificing their own Blood, as did the Priefs of Belowa and Deafpria (b) 3 fo did the Kings of New- Spain at their Ele&tion, as Mozrzcuma the fecond Ce) who lacrificed by drawing Blood from his Ears, and the Calves of his Legs. In Nerfinga and Bifaagar, they go their Pilgrimages with Kyiues flicking in their Arms and Legs, till the wounded Flefh fefter’d (d@). Some caft themfelves under the Wheels of the Waggon, on which their Idol is drawn in Proceffion, Yet are all thele but fmall Matters, in Consparifon of the bloody Qut-rages gommitted upon Mankind, in the abominable Cuftom of oo : : os "facie ; fa) 1 Kings xviit. 28. @) Tertul. Apolog. cap. 9, B » Pilgeiva, Part tf Be G10. Cd) Ider, a a beg, e. a Pe GD Taxetiag itgcion PepeChap. VL Satan's: Temptarions: aR factificing Men tohim (4). Of this, many Authoss give uo a large Account, the’ Lacedamonians, to avert the Plague, facrifice a Virgin 3 the Athenians ¢by the Advice 6€ Apolte’s Oracle ) feneyearly.to King Minos feven Males, and fo many Females to be facrificed to appeafe the Wrath of the Ged, for their killing of Androgens (b); the Car. ahaginians (being yanguifhed by Agathocles King of Sicily) facrificed two. hundred Noblemens Children a¢ once 3 the Romans had every Year fuch Sacrifices of Meh and Women (of each Sew swo) fora long Time; and this was fo common among the wifer Pagan Nations, that whenfoever they fell into Danger, either ‘of War, Sick: neffes, or of any other Calamity, they prefently (tovex- piate their Offences againft their fappofed incenfed Gods, and to clear themfelves of their-prefent Mifériés‘or Dangers} factificed fome mean Perfons (¢ ), who for this Reeafon were called xaepuare, Expiations 3 and ‘to:this- doth the Apofile allude, in 2 Gor. iv. 13. (as Boileus, Stephanus, Grovius, and many others think) as if he fhould fay, we are as much defpifed, and loaded with Curfings, as thofe that are facrijiced for publick Expzarion. But what cruel Ulage may we expe for the poor barbarous Nations of the World, where he had. all poffible Advantages for the Exer- cife of his bloody Tyranny? Many fad Enftances of this Kind are collected by Parchas in his Pilgrimage, in his Difcourfes of Virginia, Peru, Brafilia, Mexico, Florida, and ‘other Places, whofe Stories of this SubjeGt are fo terrible, and oc- cur fo frequently, that they are almiof beyond all Belief 3 all which for Brevity’s Sake I omit, contenting my felf to note one Inftance or two out of the Scripture, 2 Kings din 27. The King of Joab rook bis eldeft Son that fhoulg have reigned iu his flead, and offered him for a Burnte offering upon the Wail: This he did (according to the Cuftoms of the Phandcéans and others,) being reduced ‘tc great Straits, as fuppofing by this Means (as his Jatt Refuge} to turn away the Wrath of his God. Of baz 'tis recorded, 2 Chron.xxviii.3. Lhat he burnt bis Children éuthe Fireafiey the Abominations of the Heathen. That this was not a Fan Siravion, or Confecration. of their Children (tho’ that alfo was ufed ) but a seal facrificing, is without Doubt to So- Peis, (a) Iphigenia facrificata, de qua: Sanguine placaftis ventos & virgine owls Virg, (4) Plut, Paral. c. 66," (c) Goodeola's Motes and Aaron, 1b. 3. ¢, &Chap, VI. Satan's Zemptartons. atbly, Ix fome Places the Devil brought them to fe? Times fox thole Offerings 5 fome’ were shourhly, fome ait nual. The Latins facrificed thé tenth Child; the ananal Drowning of a Boy and a Girl in the Lake of Afewiéos the, cafting of Two yearly from the pons Melozus at Ronie inte Tybet, dre but petty Inftances in Compatifon of the reft. gthly, We cannot pale by the waft Number of Men offered up at oe Time ; fo thirfly is Satan of humane Blood, that froma o#e or two, he hath raifed the Namber incredibly highs in fome Sacrifices five, in fomezen, in fome a Bundred,infome a thoufand have been offered up. Itwas tha Argument which Montezuma the lat Emperor of Mexico ufed to Cortez, to prove his Strength and Greamefs by, that he facrificed yearly reuenty thoufand Men, and fome Years fifty thoufand. Some have referved thelr Captives for that Hind; others havemado Hav only to furnifh themfelves with Men for fuch Occafions: 6thly, There ate alfo feveral Circumfances of thefe dia~ polical Outtages, that thay give a further Difcovery of his Cruelty, as that thefe miferable Creatures thus led to ba butchered, have been Joades with all the Curfings, Revilings, and contumacious Reproaches, as a neceffary Concomitant of their violent Deaths. Thus were thofe uled, who were forced to be the publick xaSdeadle, or Expiation, for the-Removal of comnion Calamities. Death alfo was not enough, excepr it had been moft tormenting in the Manner of it, as of thofe that fuffered by the Embracements of Afelech, the Foy and Feaftings of fuch Sacrificings (which were in themfclves Speétactes of Mourning and Sorrow) ware Crueliies to the Dead, anda barbarous Enforcement againtt the Laws of Nature in theLiving. But the dafhingof the foking Heart in the Idol's Face, and the pulling off the Skins from the maffacred Bodias, that Men and Women might dauce in. them, were yet more cruel Ceremonies. And /a/fly, In thofe that have been prepared for thofe Solemnities, by delicious Fare, gorgeous Ornaments, and the bigheft Reu-rence or Ho- nours (as was the Manner of feveral Countries ) yer was this no other than Satan’s fufideing over their Miferies, of which wecanfay no otherwife, than thar his temdereft Afercies ave Crucities- odo . > ythly, may cal in to the Account, that in fome Places Satan (by a ftrange Madnefs of Devotion ) hath perfwaded fome to be Volwnreers in {iftering thefe Toreuces and Deaths, Some have calt chomfelves under the Charior wheels ofthel ole,4g A 'Eaedrisé of Ls Part } idofs,and fo have been cruthed:to Pieces (4). Some Jrxirz. Beas to their gods, Girl they cut off feveral Pieces of their Fleth, crying every Time, For rhe Worpbip of my god, Tous this mg Flefhs and av lntt day, Now do £ yzeld agpelf ty Death in the Behalf of my god,and fo kills himfelf outright Srbly, It is wonderful tothink, that the Devil fhould (by ftrange ‘Prereuts of Reafor) have finoathed over thefy barbarous Inhumanities, fo:chat they have become Pletifible ‘Things in the Judgments of thofe-miferable Wretches, Jy iacular Sacrifices, they believed, thac except the Lie of 4 an were given for the Efe of Men, that the gods could not be pacified (4). In. other Suctificés, both Buchiariftica}, and for Atonement, they retaitied this Principle, That 2206 Things are ro be offered to tht gods, that ate moft bleating aud acceprable to ns; and that the offering of 4 Calf ‘ord Pigeon, was nor fhitable to fuch ai Bud. This “Maxini they further improved, by the Addition of anothet of ithe fame Kind, Thar éf i were fir to offer an biman Sacri. fice, it mujh alfa be tunocent ; and tonfequently little. Clit. dren are the fiteoft for fuch a Purpofe (6). And fome have alfo conjectured, that the Devil ‘hath not been a want. ing tozmprove the-Example of Abrabam facrificing his'Son, or the Law in Zea, xxvii. 28. (d), 6x the Prophecies con- cerning the Death of Chriftjas the greatSactifice of A tone. mont, to juffify and warrant his hellifk Cruelty. In foms Cafes, Cruelty hath arifey from the very Principles of Re. wereuce and Love, which Children -have to Parents, and Friends to Friends (¢): As.in Dragotan, when any are fick, they fend to their Oracle, to know whether tho Parties fhall live or dies if it be anfwered they thal! die, then their Friends ftrangle them and eat them; and all this from a Kind of religious Refpeé to their Kindred, +to pre- ferve (as they imagine ) their Fleth from Putrifagtion, and their Souls from Torment; The like they do at Jana Major, when.their Friends grow old and cannot work 3 Only they eat not their own Friends, but catry them to the Market; and fell them to thofe that do eat them (f, mee Lafily, Let us call to Mind Bow long the Devil domi- acer’din the World at this rate of Ctuelty. When the World grew to a freer Ule of Reafon, and greater Exercife of Cie . ~ wilit fi (a) Purchar Pilger, part t. Ly. 1, () Pro vita hominum nifi vita omine reddarur, pion poffe Deorum numen placari, arbitrantuy. (c) Fean D'Ejpart. po- polar Evrors.c. 19. (a) Vid. Lud. Capel. de voro Fephta § 9. Vid, Pool S opt Crinan-a Kings 3. 07, (e}Purchas Pilg. part 1. 1, 2 16) th Purehds ibs,Chap. VI. Sntan’s Tenrptations. 49 vility;they found out Ways of Mitigation, and clanged thefe barbarous Rites nto more tolefable Sacrifices; ag in £ a0- diced, they fubftituted an Hart to be (acrificed inftead of a Virgin; in Coprus, an Ox was put inftead of a Aan 3 in Egypt, waxen Images infead “of- Bien s lmages of Straw at Rome were caft into Zyber, in the place of living Men 5 and: the terrible Buraings of Moloch ( which was not pecus liat only to the Nations near to Caaaz; but was in afe alfo ae Carthage, and found in the American Iflands by the Spani- ards; the like brazen Images wefe allo found, in Ludovd- cus Vives (a) his Time by the Preveb, in an Tfland called by them Carolina.) Thele were at lait changed into a Je. bruation. and inftead of burning thelr Children, they only pafled them betwixt two Fires 3 but it was long before it came to this, In the Time of Socrates, human Sactifices were in ule at-Carthage, and rliey continued in she Roman Provinces tillthe Time of Zertulliax, Bufebiusand Lallan- tins, tho? they had been feverely forbidden by Auguftus Ce- far, and afterward by Ziberius, who was forced to crucify fome of the Priefis that dared to offer {vch Sacrifices, to af: fright thei from thofe barbarous Cuftonis. Iuother Places of the World, how Jong fach Things continued, who can tell, e {pecially feeing they were found at Carolina not fo very long ance ? How impoffible is it to cat up the toral Sumof fo many large Items? When thefe terrible Cuftoms have had fo geze- vaia Prattice in moft Nations, wpon fo many Occafious, up- on fach feeming plaufible Princifles, when fach great Nam- bers have been deftroyed at dvcer,,dnd thefe Ufages have been fo long practifed in the World, and wich fuch Diffical ty teftrained 5 whar vat Multitudesof Men muft we ima- gine have been confumed by Satan’s execrable Cruelty? othly, There remains ane Inftance more of the Devil's Cruelty, which. is yer different-from the former, which I may call hispevforal Cruelties, becaufe they are aed by his Gwa gamedzate Iaud upon certain of bis Vaffals, with out the Help or Ipterpofuxe of Men, who ¢ in moft of the forementioned Cafes } have been as Inflruments aSted by him. Here f might take Notice of his Fury to thofe that are fojeved: Some have been as it were racked and ter- tured in theit Bodies, and their Limbs and Members fo dis Rored, that it hath been not only Marrer of Pity to the Be- . D holders (a) Disa. Siculus. Biblioth. 1, 20, Led, Fizeron Liz. ie Civ. Doi FC. 1Q.,go ‘ATrRaatise of Part I, holdets to fée them fo abufed, but alfo of Admiration, wo confider how fach Abufés fhould be confiftent with their Lives; aid that fach Rendings and Tearings have not quite feparated the Soul from the. Body, In the Gofels we read of fomefuch cat dnto-rke Fire, and into oe Water 5 others converfing with Tombs and Sepulchres 10 the cold Nights without Cloaths; and all of them fpoken of as Creatures fadly tormented, and miferably dened. The Hiftories of Jater Days tell us of fame; that-vomited crooked Pins, Pieces of Leather, Coals, Cloth, and fuch like ; of others {ratched out of their Houfes, and tired éven to fainting, and wafte of their Spirits,“as Domina Roffa (mentioned by Bodin) witha great inaiy'mSre to this fame Purpofe. We may take g View of his dealing with Wircher, who (tho he feem to gratify'them in their Tranfportations from, Place. to t lace, and in their Feattings with Mufick and Dancing ) are bat cruellyhatidfed by him very often; the very Work they ate put upon (whichis the Deftruion of Children, Men, Wo men;-Gattléand the Fruits of the Barth) is but a Ja/é in ployméni-; but the Account he takes of them, of. the fall Perfofindnce of their Buterprizes, and the. cruel Bearings they bave'of- Him, when they cannot accomplifh any of their ; Revenges, is no Jefs than a.fevere Crvelty.. He gives them no Ref, unlefs they be doing Hurt; and when they cannot . do it 06, thé Perfons deGgned, they are forced todo the fame ‘ Mifchiet to theirowa Children ot Relarions, tha: they may ‘eratify-their tyrannical. Mager. Bodin (a) relates the Sto- ty of aPrench Baron cwho was afterward put to Beath for Witchcraft} that after he-had killed eaghe Childrev, was at Jatt upon dé Delign of ‘facrifcing his oem Child to the - Devils and if at anyPitwe they grew weary of fo execrable a Slavery, ot ‘confefs their Wickecnefs, they are fo miferably ‘ormenred? that they chufe.rather to dée than, Hive. And what-elfe ‘but Cruelty cat thefe Slaves expedt ‘from him, when the Ceremonies of thelr Entrance futo- that cured - ‘Service; betokens-nothing elfe ; for their Bonds and Obit gations are'ufaally writ or fubferibed with their own Blood, ‘and fome magical Books have been writ with the 2lood of many Children 5 befides, the Farewel that.they have of | hin ar their ufual Meetings, is commonly tbis - thundering “Threatning, Avenge your felyes, or you foall dit Al . thele {a} Pag: 280.soo rep Chap. VI. Batan’s Temptations. x thefe Particulars are colleéted from the Confeffions of Wit. ches, by Bodin, Wrerus, and others. . , But eaving thefe, let-us further enquire inte Satan's Carriage toward thofe that in darerzca, and other dar! and barbarous Places, know no other god, and give their devouteft Workhip to him. Tothofe he is not fo kind as might be expeéted, but his conflant Way is to terrify and torment them, infomuch, that fome know no other Reafon of their Worfhip, but that he may wot burt them, And fince the Euglifh Colextes went into thefe Parts, thefe 4 mericans have learned to make this DiftinGtion becween the Englifbman’s God and theirs, that theirs is an evél god, and the other a good God (a3 tho’ that Diftintion in other Places is in the general far more ancient, where they ac< knowledge rao Gods; one good, -the other bads and rhe worle the god is, the faddeff, moft mournful Rites of fae crificing were ufed, as in Caves, and in the Nighe, the Manner of the Worfhip fitly exprefling the Nature of the god they ferved. Oar Countrymen have noted of the Na- tives of New Buglazd, that the Devil appeared to them in ugly Shapes, and in hideous Places, as in Seoamps and Woods. But thefe are only the Prologue to the Lragedy itfelf ; for they only ferve to imprefs npon the Minds of ‘his Worfhippers, what Cruelties and Severities they are ta expe from him; and accordingly he often lets them feel his Hand, and makes them know, that thofe dark and difmal Preludiyms are not for nothing; for fometime he appears to the Worlhippers, rormenting and aGaGing their Bodies, rearing rhe Flefh from rhe Bones, and carrying them away guick-with hina (4); fometime jie have been carried away at once, none ever knowing what became of them. By fuch bloody AGs as thefe, he kept the poor Americans in Fear and Slavery; fo that as bad a Mafter as he is, they durft nor bur pay their Homage and Service tohim. ATI thefe Particulats being put together, will thew we do the Devil no rong when we call him cruel, De . CHAP. (@) Porbhnvivs 1.2. ee Abitinent Plisrarches, Lod. Fiver in deg. dy C LL B13. BY Wonder-workirzg. prov, for WE, ih te cap. 1 oesBee 4 Tararise of Part I ls.) CHAP. VIL Of Satan's Diligence in feveral Inftances. The Lueftioe about the Being of Spirits and Devils handled. The Sadducees Opinion diftovered. The Reality of Sparéts proved= . THE latt Particular obferved in the Text, is his Dik. gence. This adds Force and. Strength to his -Matice, Power, and Cruelty, and fhews they are not idle, dead, or unabtive Principles in him, which (if they could be fo fuppofed) would render bim lefs hurtful and formidable. This fhall difpatch in a few Inflances, noting to this Pur- ‘ofe. , . Firf, Wis Pains he takes in bunting his Prey, and pure fuing his Defigns: "Tis nothing forhim to campafs Sea and Land, to labour to the utmoft in his Imployment s ’tis all his Bufinefs to tempt and deftroy, and bis whole Heart is in it. Hence Intermiffion or Ceflation cannot ‘be expeded, he faints not by his Labour, and his Labour with the Suc- cefs of it, is-all the Delight we can fuppofe him to have: So that being pufhed and burried by the hellifh Satisfaéti- ons of deadly Revenge, and having 'a Strength anfwerable zo thole wdolent Tnpulfes, we mutt feppofe him te underge (with a Kind of pleafing Willingnels) all imaginable Toit and Labour, If we-look into ourfelves we find it true, to our no mall Trouble and Hazard: Doth heat any Time eafily defi, when we give hima Repulfez Doth he not ‘come again and again, with often and impudently repeat ed Importunities? Doth he not carry a Defign in his Mind for Mouths and Years againtt us? and when the Motion is not feafible, yet he forgers tt. not, but after a long Interrup- . tion begins again where he left, which fhews that he is big with his Proje@s, and bis Aftud bath ao reft: We tretchesh out his Nets ell tlie Day long: We may fay of him, thathe | - viferh up early, and fiteth up late at his Work, and is content to labour in the very Fire, fo that he might bur either diflurh a Child of God, or gain a Profelyte. Secondly, Thligence is not only difcovered in Laborioal- nefs, but alfo in a peculiar Readinefs to efpy, and to clofe in with fic Occafions, which may, in Probabtlicy, anfwer the Eadwe drive at, In this is Satan admirably diligent, 20 OccafionChap. VI. =: Satan's Temptasions. 53. Occafion fhall flip, or through Inadvertancy efcape him: No former are Opportunities Zefore ws, but we may perceive him fugeefting vo us, Do this, farisfy that Luft, take that Gain, pleafe yourfeloes with that Revenge. No fooner obuins he a Commiffion again a Child of God, but pre- fently he is upon his Back, as he deale with Job, he loft no Time, but goes out immediately from the Prefence of the Lord and falls upon him. Befides what he doth upon folema and extraordinary Occafions, thefe that are common and ordinary are fo carefully improved by him, that every Thing we ear or fee is ready to become our Suare, and Satan will effay to tempt us by them, tho’ they ly fome~ thing ovt of she Way of our Inclination, and be not fo likely to prevail with us Thirdly, "Vis alfo a Difcavery of his Diligence, that he never fails to purfue every Advantage which he gets again us, to the wtmoff. If the Occafion and Motion thereupon incline us, fo that if we are perfwaded by them, he follows it on, and is not fatished, with either a lower Degree of aGting fintully, or with one or rwo As; but then he pref. feth upon us to fiz tothe Height, with the greater Contempt of God, and Grievance of his Spirit, the greater Scandal and Offence co our Brethren 5 and having once caufed us to begin, he would never have ys to make az End. His Temp- tations roll themfelves upon us, like the breaking in of Waters, which by the Fiercenefs of theiy Current, make a large Way for more to follow. He knows how to improve his Véories, and will not thorow Slothfuinefs, or Pity, ne- glec& to compleat them. Hence it is, that fometimes he reaps a large Harvejt where he had fowz Jzttle, and from one Temptation, notonly wounds the Soul of him that com- mitted it, but endeavours to diffufe the Venom and poi- fonous Steam of it to the Enfebfion of ot bers, to the Dilgrace of Religion, the hardning the Hearts of wicked Men, and the turning the Ignorant out of the Way of Trath, in like Manner, if he perceive the Spiriss of Men grow diftempe- red and wounded, he then plys them with Thrcatnings, fills them with all Manner of Difcouragements, drefleth every Trath with the wor Appearance, that it may be apprehended otherwife than it is, and puts fuch Interpre- tations on all Providences, that every Thing may augment the Smart of the Wound rill they be overwhelmed with Terrors, Ds Fourthly,5q _ - & TREATISE of Part. T. Fourthly, The various Ways which he takes, fhews allo ? his Diligeace 5 ifone Plot take not, he ig immediately upon anothers he confines not himfelf to ane Defign, nor to one Methods butif he find one Temptation doth not relifh, he prepares another more furable 3 if Covetoufnefs doth not - pleafe us, then he urgeth to Profufencft; if Terrors donot affcight us to Defpair, then he abufeth 2fercées to make us éarelefs and prefuming. If we are not content to be openly wicked, then he endeavours to make us jecretly Hypocri- tical, or Formal; fometime he urgeth Men to be Profane, Af that hit not, then to be evronzous; if he cannot work ‘by one Tool, then he takes another, and if any Thing in his Way-difgu@, he will not urge it over-hard, but ftraight takes another Gourfe; fuch is his Diligence, that we may Say of him (as it was faid of Paul upon a better Ground) he will become all Things to all Men, that be may gatn fome, Fifthly, Diligence will mot thew irfelf when Things are at the greateft Hazard, or when the Hopes of Succefe are ready to bring forth. In this Point of Diligence our Ad. verfary is not wanting; if Men are upon the Pode of Error or Sin, how induftrioufly doth he labour to bring them who iy over, and to fettle them in Evil? One would think at . Such Times he laid afide all other Bufinefs and only attended this: How frequent, inceffant, and earneft ave his Perlwa: fions and Arguings with fuch? the like Diligence he thew eth in obftrudting, difturbing, and difcouraging us, when we are upon our greatett Services, or near our greateft Mercies, what Part of the Day are we more wandring and vain in our Thoughts, (if We take not great Care) than when we fet a bont Prayer? At other Times we find fome more Fale ard Freedom in-our lmaginations, as if we could better rule ot command them; but then (as if our Thoughts were only Confufion and Diforder ) we are not able to mafter rhem, and to keep the Door of the Heart fo clofe, bur that thefe groublelome unwelcome Guells will be crouding in, is Im poffidle; Let us obferve it ferioufly, and we fhall find that -our Thoughts aré not the fame, and after the fame Manner impetuous at otter “Times as they.ace, when we fet about ‘holy Things, which arifeth not only from the Lusekuefs of our Jpiretual Senfe in our teadier Obfervation of them at that ‘Pirse, buralfo fram the Devil's bufy Moleftarion, and fpecial Diligence again& us on fuch Occafiong, Befides, when be forefees aur Advantages or Mercies, he. beltirs hinChap. VIL ataws Zomptations. RS himfelf to prevent or hinder us of them; if Minifters fec themlelves to ftudy and preach Traths that are more peer cing, weighty ov necefary, they may obferve more Afolefta~ tions, Interruptions, or Difeouragements of all Sorts, than when they lefs concern themfelves with the Bufinels of the Souls of Men. He forefees what Se/mons are provided, and often doth he upon fuch Porefight endeavour to rurn off thofe from hearing, thar have molt need, andave molt likely to receive Benefit by them. Many have noted ik, that thofe Sermons and Occafions that have done them molt good, (when they caree to them) they have been fome Way or other molt difwaded from, and refolued againft be. fore they came; and then when they have broken through their ftrongeft Hinderavces, they have found that all their Ob@ruGion was Saran's délégen:, Forefight, to hinder them of fuch a Blefiing as they have, beyond Hope, met withaly The like night be obferved of the conflant Returzi of tre Lord’s Day, if Men wasch aot gaint ir, they may meet with more than ordinary, cither Azecations to pr vent and hinder them, or Diffurbances to annoy and trouble, or £o- dily Endifpofittons to incapacitate and unfir them : And ‘tis not to be contemned, that fome bave obferved themfelves more apt to be drozfy, dH or fleepy oa rhat Day Others have noted greater Jodily Zaditpofftéons then ordinarily than at other Times; all which makd no unlikely Conje@ere of the Devil's fpecial Diligence again us on fuch Ocesfions. Let's caft in another Inflance 16 thefe, and rhac is, of thele that are upon the Point of Convcifion, ready to forfake Sin for Chrif, Oh! what Pains thea doth the Devil take to keep them back? He vifits rhem every Moment with one Hindrance or other 5 fometimes they are tempred to former Pleafures, fometimes affrightcd with prefenr Fears and jam ture Difappointments; fomerimes difeouraged with Re- proaches, Scorns and Afiliftions that may atrend their Al- teration 3 ocherwhile obfirucfed by the Perfuafion orThreate ning of Friewds and old Acquaintances 5 but thisthey are fure of, thar chéy have neves more Temptations, aod thofe mare fenfibiy ccoubling than at that Tinie 5 4 clear Evidence that Gatan is as diligent as malicious. I fhould now go on to difplay the Subtilicy of this powerful, malicious, ernel and diligent Adyeffary.” There is bar one Thing in the Way, which hitherto-l have taken fot géanted, and that is, Phe ther indeed thitvs be any fush Things as Devils and aie. hod56 aren ALU REA TSE of Part 1 ked Spirits, or that thefe are but theslogical Engines con- tréved by Perfous that carry a good Wall ro Morality, and the publich l cace, to keep Mon wader an awful Fear of fuck Afifcarniages, as may vender them orberwife a Shame to themjelacs, and a Trouble to otbers. Ye mut be acknow- ledged 4 ‘Ttanlgreffion of the Rules of Aiethod to offer a Proof of thar now, which (if at all) ought to have been proved inthe Beginning of the Difcourfe: And indeed the Quoftion at this length, whether there be a Devil, hath fuch Affiaity with that other, (tho? for the Matter they are as different as Heayex and Hell) wherher there be a God, that as it well deferves a Confirmation, (for the Ufe that may be made of it to evidence that there is a God, becaufe we feel there isa Devil) fo woyld it require a fcrious En- deavour to perform it {ubfantially. Bur it would be not only a needlefs Labour, to eoy an Army againth profeffed Asleifis, whe with high Scorn and Derifion roundly deny both God and Devils; ‘feeing others have frequently done that, bat alfo it would oceafion toe large a Digreffion from. our prefent Defign, Tlfhall therefore only fpeak a few Things to thole that ow a God, and yet deny fuch a Des vil as we have defcribed, and yet not to all of thefe neither; .for there were many Heathens who were confident A flertors “ofa Deéty; that veverthelels denied the Being of Spirits, as Severed from Corporeity ; and others were fo far trom the Acknowledgement of Dewdis, that they confoundedsthem in the Number of their Gods; others there were, who gave fuch Credit to the freguent Relations of Apparitions, and Diflurbances of that Kind, that many bad attefted and complained of, that they expreffed more Ingenuity than Luctan, (who pertinacioufly refuled to believe, becaufe he ~pover faw them) and yét ¢ho’ chey believed fomething of Reality, in that that was the Affrightment and Trouble of others, they neverthelefs afcribed fuch extraordinary «Things to uatural Canfes: Some (a) to the Powers of the Heavens and Stars in theirlnfluences upon natural Bodies,or by the Afediaréon of certain Herbs, Stones, Minerals,Creatures, Voices and Charadters,under a {pecial Obfervation of thedfo- * pdou of the Planets. Some* refer fuch Things to the Subtility and Luicknefs of the Seufes of hearing and feeing, which ~migor create Forms and, [mages of Things, ‘or difcover (L know not what) RefleGions from the Sun'and Moon. Some . ~ . _ eek e fancy G The Pevipaicks, Porphyriun * Aug, De Civ, Dei, 1, 10, e311, Galen, ~