The saints convoy to heaven a discourse occasioned

Fifthly, When this is the Last Season they shall ever have to make any Attempt upon the Holy separated Soul, which when once entered into Heaven's Gates, shall be assaulted no more for Ever.

Tho' the War with Devils, in some Respects, might be over as soon as the Soul is separated from the Body, that it shall be no longer managed by the same Subtleties, alluring Temptations, Fleshly Enticements, evil Suggestions, sensible objective Snares; yet I conceive, in other Respects, the War is not ended, till the Soul is safely arrived in ⟨p. 39⟩Heaven, but is carried on in a different Manner, to what it was in the Body: When in the Body, he assaulted the Soul not by Violence, but Persuasion; out of the Body, he knows it will be in vain to assault by Persuasion, therefore on its Way would seize it by Violence, did not God, by his Angels, powerfully preserve it.¹ For as Pharaoh and his Host pursued the Children of Israel, when they had escaped out of Egypt to the Red Sea, where God opened the Waters to Israel to pass through', and shut them upon Pharaoh; so Devils will pursue the Soul to the Gates of Heaven, till God open to the Soul, and shut them against the Soul's Pursuers.

Tho' the War with Devils, in some Respects, might be over as soon as the Soul is separated from the Body, that it shall be no longer managed by the same Subtilties, alluring Temptations, Fleshly Enticements, evil Suggestions, sensible objective Snares; yet I conceive, in other Respects, the War is not ended, till the Soul is safely arrived in ⟨p. 39⟩Heaven, but is carried on in a different Manner, to what it was in the Body: When in the Body, he assaulted the Soul not by Violence, but Persuasion; out of the Body, he knows it will be in vain to assault by Persuasion, therefore on its Way would seize it by Violence, did not God, by his Angels, powerfully preserve it.