A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

For answer hereunto, take this, That though the Devils dwelt in the presence of God (which cannot be proved) yet they received no more light than God would communicate to them, and who can say that God communicated so much to them, but that upon wilful not attendance to him, they might be deceived?

For answer hereunto, take this, That though the Devills dwelt in the presence of God (which cannot be proved) yet they received no more light than God would communicate to them, and who can say that God communicated so much to them, but that upon wilfull not attendance to him, they might be deceived?

Fifthly, As men have a time, after which there is no place left for helping or altering their Estate, so was it meet Angels should have the like; that time to men is bodily death, which because Angels are not subject to, it was not unmeet their time should be their first spiritual death, their first sins, hence Damascen saith, Hoc est Angelis casus, quod hominibus mors.

Fifthly, As men have a time, after which there is no place left for helping or altering their Estate, so was it meet Angels should have the like; that time to men is bodily death, which because Angels are not subject to, it was not unmeet their time should be their first spirituall death, their first sins, hence Damascen saith, Hoc est Angelis casus, quod hominibus mors.

To this I say, That the Angels might have had another time, beyond which there hath been no place for repentance, namely not their first sin, but their wilful rejecting of a Saviour, if he had pleased to have offered them any. Thus you see that all these (and so are the rest) but mens devices and conjectures; the true reason you have, John 3.16