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But is there no remedy to man for all this woe that comes by Satan? Yes, blessed be our God who hath not left us for a pray unto his teeth, but to show the exceeding riches of his grace and love to the world,^h hath given his only begotten son to be our prince and our deliverer; who in no sort ⁱtook the Angels, but the seed of Abraham: and because they were ⁱpartakers of flesh and blood, he himself took part with them, that he might destroy through death him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. For the evidence and application of which deliverance, he hath ordained in his church an holy ministry, whereby natural men are brought ^kfrom darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan to himself; and his own children do^l grow up into Christ their head, and be edified ^min their most holy faith, throughⁿ which they are kept by the power of God unto salvation. Yet we must so conceive of this deliverance, that as Israel being brought out of Egypt, was not presently settled in the land of Canaan, but for the space of forty years was exercised with sundry temptations in a barren and dry wilderness, where they met with ^ofiery serpents, and were encountered with many and strong enemies, who sought to debar them from the promised land: so the children of God, though redeemed by Christ, are not presently translated from the bondage of corruption, to the full inheritance of perfect glory in the heavens; but must pass through this vale of tears, and in the wilderness of this world meet with that crooked serpent the Devil who will seek to sting their souls to death, and also stir up many an^p Amelec to entrap them in the way, that either through disobedience or unbelief they may be deprived of their heavenly Canaan. True it is, this match is far unequal, for flesh and blood to fight against spiritual powers; yet here is comfort, that we have him for our Captain who in his