Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

(2.) Christ by his Death hath deprived the Devil of the power of death; and by this means also he hath delivered the Children from a servile fear of Death. The Devil (as I said before) hath a power to terrify the Consciences of men, with the apprehension of death, and the dreadful consequents thereof; you see into what bondage he brings men upon this account, many times he brings the Children themselves into the suburbs of Hell, and lays them under dreadful terrors and horrors; the pains of Hell, says one of them, gat hold of me, I found trouble and sorrow; ¹and again at another time, the sorrows of death compassed me about: Now this power of Satan is taken away by the Death of Christ. The Blood of Christ hath cancelled, or at least contracted and lessened his Commission: So that when he assaults a Believer in this kind, he is easily resisted; the Devil gives ground if the Believer stands his ground; he can't prevail against a Child of God, unless God give him a special Commission, or unless he yields to his Temptation; being justified by Faith in the Death of Christ, we have that peace which all the Devils in Hell are not able to disturb; the weapons of his power, and warfare in this way, are wrested out of his hands by the Death of Christ. Thus you see what Christ hath already done.

(2.) Christ by his Death hath deprived the Devil of the power of death; and by this means also he hath deliver'd the Children from a servile fear of Death. The Devil (as I said before) hath a power to terrifie the Consciences of men, with the apprehension of death, and the dreadful consequents thereof; you see into what bondage he brings men upon this account, many times he brings the Children themselves into the suburbs of Hell, and lays them under dreadful terrors and horrors; the pains of Hell, says one of them, gat hold of me, I found trouble and sorrow; ¹and again at another time, the sorrows of death compassed me about: Now this power of Satan is taken away by the Death of Christ. The Blood of Christ hath cancel'd, or at least contracted and lessened his Commission: So that when he assaults a Believer in this kind, he is easily resisted; the Devil gives ground if the Believer stands his ground; he can't prevail against a Child of God, unless God give him a special Commission, or unless he yields to his Temptation; being justified by Faith in the Death of Christ, we have that peace which all the Devils in Hell are not able to disturb; the weapons of his power, and warfare in this way, are wrested out of his hands by the Death of Christ. Thus you see what Christ hath already done.