The saints submission and Satan's overthrowThe saints submission and Sathans overthrow

Here many will say, they defy Satan, but let them learn of the Centurion, that they are surely Satan's servants, if when he bids them do this, they do it when he bids them come they come, the godly indeed may sometimes be violently lead captive of Satan, but they are never his subjects for they ⟨p. 103⟩never obey him willingly, nor Confess themselves to be his servants. The wicked man walks with his face towards hell, his back towards heaven, yet sometimes he may look back but not long together: whereas the righteous man walks with his face towards heaven, & his back towards hell: and although sometimes he fall backward, ⟨p. 104⟩yet he recovers himself quickly and goes forward, like a ship which sails from East to West, which though it be turned back with some storm or tempest, yet when that is over, it sails forwards, as before. Another sign of a rebel is to purchase goods and lands in the enemies Country, that shows he ⟨p. 105⟩doth not purpose to return. The world may be called the Devils Country and therefore he who setteth his affections upon any thing here, and labours to purchase the same, hath this sign of a rebel: For no man can serve two Masters, Luk. 16. Some will object that they seek for wealth out of a provident care to provide ⟨p. 106⟩for themselves and those who belong to them, not because they make riches their treasure or set their hearts upon them. Therefore these must thus examine themselves, if they esteem their riches above any thing else, care for the increasing of them more then for any thing else, if they do, they make riches ⟨p. 107⟩their treasure A man ascending upon an hill, the higher he ascends, the less all things beneath seem unto him. So when a man is ascending up to heaven in his conversation, the higher he goes, the less esteem will he have of all earthly things here below. That which a man makes his treasure he spends most of his time, if ⟨p. 108⟩