A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

2 Sin is strong when it meets with a weak resister. How easy is it for error to domineer over ignorance! 2 Tim. 3.6. They lead captive simple women, led away with diverse lusts. Silly women are easily led captive by subtle men. The devil is called a strong man, yet the faith of the weakest christian is able to beat him back Eph. 4.27. Give no place to the devil: for there is no place for him but where it is g• ven him. When Satan had CHRIST on the Pinnacle of the Temple, one would think that a child for strength might have turned him off: No, his commission extended not so far: he met now with a strong defendant, and he is as weak as water. It is mans infirmity that sets off the glory of his strength. Job 41.25. He is a king over all the children of pride. Satan is a tyrant, but over whom? none but the children of pride. He is called the Prince of the world, but indeed only of worldlings, yet let not this so disgrace his strength, that you become secure. Though the devil stands at Gods courtesy, let us not be fearless or careless of such an ene••e. Sin is strong, it could fetch Angels out of heaven, arrest Gods courtiers before […] own face. A whole world could not withstand the fury of it, when it came marching against them with a flood. It was strong enough to lay all the sons and daughters of Adam in the dust. The devil is strong as a Lion, yea stronger than a thousand Lions; that counteth darts as straw, and laughs at their shaking of the spear, […] 41.20. death is strong, a stalking Giant, that like Goliath dares all the world […] match him with an equal combatant. Hell is strong, it can hold Alexanders, Caesars, Tamberlanes, the sons of Anak, sure enough for ever breaking forth. But now whence have all these their strength? Aliunde petunt, they fetch it from the life of sin, which only souls them all with their vigour: take away that, and they are as weak as a bulrush. What power hath death but by sin? it is the sting of it: all a serpents power is in his venomous sting. Yea death had never been, had not sin engendred it. Jam. 1.15. Sinne bringeth forth death. It is beholding to sin for the very being; for it is none of those positive things that God made. The devil had been damned alone, but for sin; and all the world had mocked his malice. Bu intra te, quod contra te: