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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	jesus_n	15,155	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33367	Look about you, for the devil that you fear is in you, or, The right devil unfolded in his descent, form, education, qualification, place and nature of torment : with many other divine secrets, never from the beginning yet extant till this last witness, so beneficial both for the seed of gain, and the seed of faith / written by Laur. Claxton.	Claxton, Laurence, 1615-1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing C4579; ESTC R32621	55,901	151

that crusheth the Cockatrice eggs before they become serpent-devils to sting the whole man with fear of eternal death So that understand what I say those devils which by the powerful word of the Lord Jesus were cast out of Mary Magdalene or any other creature spoken of in Holy Writ were onely all maner of filthy deseases or violent fiery distempers in man that hurried him about any desperate wickedness whatsoever oftentimes increasing so powerfully as you may read in Mark the fifth that it did not onely occasion him to rend his own body and break iron chains but also he is ready to tear any one in pieces until the Lord of Glory shined into his distempered soul with that golden Grace of true Faith through which that imaginary devil is chained up whereby all his fleshly goods were spoiled of ever having power in him as formerly and being now in his right minde at the glorious feet of Christ Jesus through his own pure light leading him into heavenly raptures in reference unto his eternal glory at his visible appearing in the clouds with all his mighty Angels Therefore seriously consider that if Cain or Abel were both begotten by Adam upon the body of Eve as for the most part all men vainly imagine from one bare Scripture-record which they understand not I would know of that man that is offended with me concerning this point why Cain was nominated in Holy Writ to be of that wicked one aforesaid and branded as an out-cast fugitive vagabond and cursed from the divine presence of the Creator and cast out of the natural presence of his parents for ever and condemned with Balaam and Core as a perishing cast-away This I am sure of that no spiritual rational man that is sober dare say that either Adam or Eve was that wicked one from whence the cursed spirit of Cain sprang why because there is no such opprobrious names attributed unto them through the sacred Scriptures Moreover you may know that yea that wicked one from whence Cains soirit proceeded could not possibly have any relation to Adam or Eve though Cain was conceived in her womb and born of her body and that because there was an absolute curse denounced upon the Angelical Serpent and his seed in her womb as aforesaid wi●hout any after-promise in Holy Writ for ever being redeemed by the Creator but on the contrary you know there was a gracious promise by the Creator himself of the Redemption of Adam and Eve after their fallen estate with their whole generation of righteous Abels Seths or Abrahams in that glorious hidden saying The Seed of the woman shall break the serpents head Now one Scripture more which shall be against all gainsayers interpreted which is this Matthew the fourth beginning at the first verse Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights he was afterward an hungred and when the tempter came to him he said If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread then he answered Man shall not live by bread onely but by every word of God or that word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God then the devil taketh him up into the holy City and setteth him on a pinacle of the temple and saith unto him If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down for it is written He hath given his angels charge concerning thee c. Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof and saith unto him All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me c. In that these hidden sayings hath their dependence on the precedent Chapter I must from thence make way to this divine Secret As if thou couldst but understand what thou readest thou shalt finde that as soon as ever Christ was baptized by John the Holy Ghost fell upon him that did impower him to encounter with the devil in which Dispute we must observe these two particulars 1. Who this tempter or devil was 2. The nature of this temptation First take notice that this tempter was one of the wisest and soberest yet subtilest Disputant amongst the Pharisees and Sadduces and therefore appointed by them to have conference with Christ as by and by you shall read for if you cast your eyes on John the third the fifth sixth and seventh verses you shall finde there went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region round about Jordan and were baptized of him in Jordan confefsing their sins as touching these John used no words of reproof or dislike in the least but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadduces come to his baptism he forthwith upbraided them with a sad yet just sentence saying O generation of vipers who hath forewarned you to flee from the wrath to come c. as if he should have said Ye are the children or that wicked one that onely comes to dispute and to cavel therefore John cuts them short with these words Bring forth fruits meet for repentance and think not to say within your selves we have Abraham to our father Then John proceeds further and tells them I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier then I whose shoes I am not worthy to bare he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire Now when the Pharisees and Sadduces heard this they forthwith commissionated one of the wisest and subtilest devil amongst them which by experience they found was best versed in Scripture to see if this man-devil could perswade the Lord Jesus to baptize them with the Holy Ghost and with fire Now that you may no longer doubt but that this tempter or devil was onely a man as aforesaid cast thy eye into Deuteronomy 6. and the sixth verse where it is thus written Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God as ye tempted him in Massah so read Heb. 3. 9. Now tell me friend who those were that tempted the Lord were they not the people of Israel men and women So this tempter or devil that I am now treating of was onely a wise subtile man as you have already heard and will in this temptation be made more apparent 2. To the nature of the temptation beginning at these words Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil First minde the Spirit that led Iesus up into the wilderness was the Holy Ghost which came upon him at the baptism of John a little before the tempter came as you may read in the last verse of the third of Matthew I have found it true by experience that whosoever hath received the Holy Spirit cannot be free from the temptation of the devil that is the cavelling contentious disputes of unreasonable and unmerciful men

filthy Canaanites which proceeded out of the spirit of cursed Cain that old serpent dragon-devil and father of all the damned in this world and not from the spirit of Abraham though they might proceed from his loins according to the flesh through mixtures of seeds in marriages the sons of God saw the daughters of men to be fair and they took of them to be their wives Again though the blessed Israelites and cursed Canaanites are mixed together by carnal copulation since the prince of devils became flesh yet you that are spiritual may know that the Lord Iesus that made them both knew how to separate them for all their close union and to call them by names answerable to their own natures As consider did not the glorious Creator and blessed Redeemer himself make a clear distinction between two worlds or generations when he said I pray not for the world but for them that thou hast given me out of the world can you therefore that are sober imagine or think that there is any spiritual salvation for these men or women which the Saviour of the world excludes in his petition Moreover it is written that the Apostles said We know that we are of God and the whole world lyeth in wickedness Behold ye redeemed ones of the most high God is i● not as clear as the light it self that there is two distinct whole worlds according to that saying Then all Israel shall be saved a redeemed world of ele●● Israelites and an unredeemed world of reprobate Canaanites that were never truly lost in themselves and therefore never capable of being found in Christ accordding to that in the Epistle of Jude where it is thus written For there are certain men crept in which were of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men which turn the grace of God into wantonness and denying Christ the onely Lord we unto them for they have followed the way of Cain and are cast away by the deceit of Balaams wages and perish in the gainsaying of Core Thus is it not clear unto all such that have in them any faith in the truth of the Scripture that there is two distinct whole worlds to distinguish between the divine glory of Election and everlasting shame of Rejection a cursed Cain a blessed Abel a subtile serpent and a simple Saint a scoffing carnal Ishmael and a spiritual Isaac a bloody minded Esau and a merciful minded Jacob a persecuting Saul and a prophetical David a treacherous Judas and a gracious and glorious Jesus from the beginning of the world unto the end thereof yea and a blessed Seth born in the stead of righteous Abel to bring forth the generation of the just that the Lord of eternal glory might according to the flesh as well as the spirit spring from a spiritual line of his own light of life eternal and not from a rational or carnal line of eternal death in chains of utter darkness which if it had power according to its cursed desire it would destroy God elect men and angels heaven and earth and all in them and it self also rather then be subject to any or might not onely it self bear rule over all But now to the matter in hand and withal consider what you read for it highly concerns you to look about you that if there should be any evil angels or devils living in the air and a devil amongst them called Beelzebub the prince of devils then I say what need any man trouble himself with the least fear of eternal death what wickedness soever is committed by thee why because if a man is tempted by any devil but what is in his own nature onely that evil spirit is to be eternally damned and the man set free nay moreover if sin or evil issued not from mans unclean reason or lying imagination within him is it possible think you that any man should be tormented as some men are with an inward burning through a secret fear of eternal sufferings rising in them from the guilt of former evils committed against the light of their own consciences furthermore seeing all men which live after the flesh must die or perish and that mans own lust is that imaginary devil from whence proceeds all sin or evil Without controversie though men or angels should gainsay it there are no other evil spirits angels or devils but unmerciful men and women onely Again if envy pride covetousness hypocrisie lust and such like be the devil in man then are not men and women those devils that are under the power of those evils I would fain know from the learned men of this world whether there are any other evil angels or devils besides mankinde that lust after women or silver or honor or revenge or any kinde of evil whatsoever truly if those supposed wise men that talk so much of the sublilty of the prince of the air that rules in the children of disobedience could possibly know that their own imaginary Reason was that evill spirit or prince of all their airy disputes concerning God angels devils Heaven hell eternal glory or shame to come which they know not of according to truth then in stead of their reioycing in the approbation of many men in relation unto their natural gifts their own spirits would immediately become the principle of all those howling groaning serpent-devils spoken of in Holy Writ even in the sight of elect men and angels in this mortal life Again is it not against all spiritual or rational sense that any man angel or devil should suffer eternal damnation for the sin of another or for anothers tempting him to sin or evil Moreover doth it stand to very good sense that yea that creature that is left to himself to be tempted unto sin or evil and overcome thereby and remains under the power of it to their lives end its requisite at the great day he should suffer for his own sin and not for anothers iniquity wherefore judge you is it not one of the vainest things in the world for any man to think that there is any other evil spirit angel or devil that tempts him to any motion imagination thought desire word or action of rebellion against God or man but the proud lying envious devil living in his whole man as aforesaid Therefore let no man that professeth spiritual light or life in him for very shame say that God can be tempted or tempt any man unto sin or evil neither let him say that any evil spirit angel or devil in the air or earth or in the water or in the fire tempts him to commit any sin or evil but that airy watery fiery lustful fleshly devil dwelling in his own body I say let him know that yea that is the prince of the air which thorow the absenting vertue of the holy Spirit begets those legions of devils or lusts in the soul of man and it is the true light of the Lord Jesus Christ in all his new born babes