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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62084	The book of nature translated and epitomiz'd. By George Sikes.	Sikes, George.	1667 (1667)	Wing S6322B; ESTC R220778	50,008	113

part the woman then by her into the man and so into all mankind 'T is the right method in the art of tempting to assault the weaker part for entrance When evil is to be introduced by way of instigation this is the surest course But the evil of angelical nature entred first into the stronger part then by it into the weaker because that nature sin'd and fell of its own proper motion without any instigation from another The stronger more excellent and capacious angel whose will was of the most flexible active temper was most apt to assume unto himself a soveraign and uncontrolled excercise of his own will in a proud and presumptuous opposition to God's with an ERO SIMILIS ALTISSIMO I wil be like the most high This was the case of the Luciferian head of the fallen angels The evil of sin then may seem to have begun in him that by creation was the most excellent of all the other angels that fell They fell by freely and instantly complying with his rebellious will In humane nature man the stronger part became evil by adhering to and complying with the weaker the woman 's disorder'd will Angelical nature first fin'd By that was the woman tempted by her the man So sin entred upon all mankind The chief evil angel proudly exalted himself and his will into competition with God and his and so became the first capital enemy of God He affected soveraignty he would not remain subject to any superiour will He erected a kingdom empire and dominion within himself against the Kingdom empire and dominion of God And he presently became obstinate resolute and fixed in this deviation from and enmity against God He can never return from it to all eternity Consequently will he ever hate and oppose to the utmost the will of his creatour as most opposite to his Thus came there to be two totally distinct contrary and opposite wills the most absolutely pure and holy will of the omnipotent creatour and the depraved will of the first angel that sinn'd And the said leading angel the devil does contend with all his might for the maintenance and defence of his own will in opposition to God's To these two contrary wills of God and the devil are all other wills of men or angels reducible Every will truly good is joyn'd with the will of God every evil will with the will of the devil All the other angels that adhered unto joyned with and took complacency in the will of the devil became fixedly one with him so as that they cannot will any thing but what he will's He is the head they the members in opposition to Michael and his angels Rev. 12. 7. All the wills of of the good angels are bound up in a state of everlasting and unchangable harmony with the will of their head the head of all principality and power The evil angels are a compacted army resolved to fight for the defence of the depraved will of their head and for the fulfilling thereof in opposition to the will of God The good angels are an opposite army united with the will of their head and contending for the fulfilling thereof in opposition to the devil and his followers By how much the more high and excellent a creature the first angel that sinn'd was made so much the more vile and inferiour did he become by the voluntary corrupting of himself He is the lowest basest and vilest of all creatur's His will perverted by pride and self-love became the root and fountain of all evils When once his will was perverted he resolved to employ the over-reaching subtlety of his understanding in all possible arts methods and wayes of delusion for the deceiving and drawing of men into the same perdition with himself So much be spoken concerning the voluntary evil of the fallen angels sin SECT III. The punishment of the angels that sinn'd THe involuntary evil or evil of punishment which the angels that sinn'd were forc'd to take whether they would or no was a casting of them down to hel and a reserving of them in chains of darknes unto the judgment of the great day But untill they be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Rev. 20. 10. after the thousand yeers reign of Christ or rather untill with their head they be shut and seal'd up in the bottomless pit Rev. 20. 3. so as to be utterly disabled to exercise any depraving influence upon men all along the said thousand yeers they are termed rulers of the darkness of this world Eph. 6. 12. Their head Satan is termed the God of this world that blind's the minds of men lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them 2 Cor. 4. 4. The night of this world is now far spent Rom. 13 12. wherein these rulers of darkness have most wofully blinded mens understandings and captivated their wills in and by the ensnaring vanities of this world The day of the lord is at hand wherein they shall be utterly disabled as to any such practices But they are now laying about them in extreamity as knowing they have but a short time They have great horrour and disturbance in their present aery mansions from the checks restraints and limitations they find themselvs under from the power of their enemy who is infinitely stronger then they They are restless in their inordinate cogitations and desires They are troubled that they cannot deceive the very elect that they cannot touch him that is born of God 1. Jo. 5. 18. with their depraving assimilating influence that they cannot ruine all mankind to a man When a sinner is converted the eyes of his mind open'd when he is turned from darkness to light and from the power of satan unto God Act. 26. 18. there is joy in the presence of the angels of God and sorrow in the devil and his angels Luk. 15. 10. Chap. 19. Sect. I. In what manner men come to be united with the first evil angels as their head THe two principal opposite wills of God and the devil make two opposite Kingdoms empires dominions and lawes a Kingdom of darkness and a Kingdom of light All men are subjects in the one or other of these Kingdoms The devil layes claim to all those things which belong to God honour praise adoration c. He is obstinate and blinded in this transcendent strein of pride and presumption He does all he can to destroy the honour glory and worship of God as contrary to his He extreamly hates the Kingdom of God envies man's capacity of ascending thither and labour 's to the utmost to obstruct and hinder his motions that way He labour's might and main to bring all men under his dominion But there is a twofold difference between the first captivity of mankind and other fallen angels to the will of the first the devil First all the fallen angels became fix'd in and with the will of their head in enmity to God but men are capable