The application of redemption

As Sin and Satan can make no Claim to the Soul,§3 so neither can they keep possession of it; but they are Outed there also by Christ. For as it is in Marriage, the Woman who is engaged by Marriage Covenant, as she is bound by Law to the Man, so are they tied to mutual Cohabitation one with another, possession and enjoyment of each other: So here, when by the breach of the Covenant of the Law, the soul was under the Right and Claim of sin, sin and Satan took up their abode in the soul, and took possession of it. So Satan is said to cast it into the mind of Judas, and to enter into him, Luke, 22. 3. And Judas himself is said to be a Devil. Joh. 6. last. That was only spiritually. And what he did to him, he doth to all the Children of wrath, while they remain in their natural estate, when now the Lord Jesus comes to bring the soul under the Covenant of Grace and to make the sinner one of the seed of that Covenant, he casts out sin and Satan, and dispossesseth them so, that they cannot have ingress and egress as before, nor can he say, I will return to my house, nor take up his abode there, nor will he find it swept and garnished that he may solace himself therein, and enjoy his habitation as in former times, but he finds the door now shut against him: This is the meaning of that place, Joh. 12. 31. Now is the judgment of this world; now is the Prince of the world cast ⟨p. 399⟩[…]: and I if I be lifted up will draw all men after […]. Our Saviour in the foregoing Verses being to […] into his Agony, and sensible of the dreadful […] of his Father, he prays, Father keep […] from this hour, but for this Cause came I unto […] hour. Father, Glorify thy self: that is, In his […]: And the voice from Heaven answered, I […], and will Glorify it: I have Glorified my self […] thy Life, I will Glorify my self in thy Death. […] our Saviour ads, Now: that is, When he was […] suffer the judgement of this world. That will be […] when he is Crucified. The Prince of this […] Satan is cast out, shall be cast out from taking […] keeping possession of the souls of sinners. For […] Christ be lifted up, on the Cross, and suffer, he […] by the power of his Death break down the […] wall, and draw all Nations, his Elect out of […] Nations shall be called by the preaching of the […]. This I take it, also is the meaning of that place, […]. 16. 11.