It destroys the over swaying Authority of Carnal §1Reason; It was Satan's Policy to turn the Understanding from the Lord, and attendance to the truth; […]. 3. Hath God said ye shall not eat? Oh question it not, fear it not, Ye shall be as Gods; and so she turning aside, and perverting the eye of reason to listen to the delusion suggested, her light was dimmed, and she justly over-born with the force of the falsehood presented, because she took off her mind from eyeing of the command, and turned it to attend the strength of that delusion, and was so acted by it, she conceived, though falsely, that it was good to get knowledge, when the tasting that fruit was the only means to lose all the knowledge she had; and from the abuse of her own mutability, her mind becomes perverted from light to darkness, from the way of truth which God had found out, unto the by-path found out of her own finding. Now the Lord Christ who comes to destroy and undo the works of the Devil, he begins where Satan ended, he turns from darkness, he takes down the Supremacy of that carnal Reason, by the which all the Sons of Adam in their natural and corrupt condition are constantly both ruled and carried in their whole course; and that's the Reason of the Apostles coupling those two together, Eph. 2. 3. speaking of the Conversation of the ungodly, he says, they did the wills of […] flesh, and of their Discourses; their carnal reasonings had ever one Oar in the Boat; and it's ever found true, there is no man upon knowledge commits a sin, but ever he […] some pretence of carnal self-deceiving reason ⟨p. 49⟩why he doth so, and therefore it is called the strong hold of Satan, and the Lord Christ, he first forceth this Fort, demolisheth and casteth down the frame of it; so that though there be some remainders continue still in the mind, while that remains in the body, and we in the world, yet it's never made a place of retreat to a […] Convert, wherein he can […] himself, and stand it out against any Truth; 2 Cor. 10. 4. he pulls down strong holds, such as are highest and hardest to win; and that which is added, Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts it self against God, [Greek or Hebrew]. Reasonings of the flesh; and nothing but the Power of God can do this, the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God.
It destroyes the over swaying Authority of Carnal §1Reason; It was Satans Policy to turn the Understanding from the Lord, and attendance to the truth; 〈…〉. 3. Hath God said ye shall not eat? Oh question it not, fear it not, Ye shall be as Gods; and so she turning aside, and perverting the eye of reason to listen to the delusion suggested, her light was dimmed, and she justly over-born with the force of the falshood presented, because she took off her mind from eyeing of the command, and turned it to attend the strength of that delusion, and was so acted by it, she conceived, though falsly, that it was good to get knowledg, when the tasting that fruit was the only means to lose all the knowledg she had; and from the abuse of her own mutability, her mind becomes perverted from light to darkness, from the way of truth which God had found out, unto the by-path found out of her own finding. Now the Lord Christ who comes to destroy and undo the works of the Devil, he begins where Satan ended, he turns from darkness, he takes down the Supremacy of that carnal Reason, by the which all the Sons of Adam in their natural and corrupt condition are constantly both ruled and carried in their whol course; and that's the Reason of the Apostles coupling those two together, Eph. 2. 3. speaking of the Conversation of the ungodly, he saies, they did the wils of 〈…〉 flesh, and of their Discourses; their carnal reasonings had ever one Oar in the Boat; and it's ever found true, there is no man upon knowledg commits a sin, but ever he 〈…〉 some pretence of carnal self-deceiving reason ⟨p. 49⟩why he doth so, and therefore it is called the strong hold of Satan, and the Lord Christ, he first forceth this Fort, demolisheth and casteth down the frame of it; so that though there be some remainders continue still in the mind, while that remains in the body, and we in the world, yet it's never made a place of retreat to a 〈…〉 Convert, wherein he can 〈…〉 himself, and stand it out against any Truth; 2 Cor. 10. 4. he puls down strong holds, such as are highest and hardest to win; and that which is added, Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts it self against God, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Reasonings of the flesh; and nothing but the Power of God can do this, the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God.
