Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

First, as long as there is a Devil in the world it must needs be; he in his instruments is that red Dragon, ¹red with fury and rage; he is that old Serpent, full of poison and deadly malice. Pliny speaks of the ²Scorpion, that there is not one minute, wherein it does not put forth the sting, as being unwilling to lose any opportunity of doing mischief. He is called Satan, an adversary, the destroyer, roaring Lyon, he infinitely hates God, and sins that sin, that is the sin against the holy Ghost, every moment: he hates the holiness of God, and the glory of God, (which ⟨p. 32⟩especially shines in his Saints) with deadly hatred: he is cast out himself, and therefore envies and vexes at the Salvation of any: as one that had committed the sin against the holy Ghost said, he wished that his wife, and children, and all the world might be damned together with him: hence he is resolved, that if any be saved, it shall be with as great difficulty as he can procure.

First, as long as there is a Devil in the world it must needs be; he in his instruments is that red Dragon, ¹red with fury and rage; he is that old Serpent, full of poyson and deadly malice. Pliny speaks of the ²Scorpion, that there is not one minute, wherein it does not put forth the sting, as being unwilling to lose any opportunity of doing mischief. He is called Satan, an adversary, the destroyer, roaring Lyon, he infinitely hates God, and sins that sin, that is the sin against the holy Ghost, every moment: he hates the holiness of God, and the glory of God, (which ⟨p. 32⟩especially shines in his Saints) with deadly hatred: he is cast out himself, and therefore envies and vexes at the Salvation of any: as one that had committed the sin against the holy Ghost said, he wished that his wife, and children, and all the world might be damned together with him: hence he is resolved, that if any be saved, it shall be with as great difficulty as he can procure.