The counterfeit Christian, or, The danger of hypocrisy opened in two sermons

1. Dry Places are commonly clean Places, or Places where there is no Dirt or Mire: and Satan, that unclean Spirit, is like a Swine, i. e. he delights in filthy and miry Places, which may signify his assaulting the Saints, or seeking to get into sanctified Hearts, or Hearts renewed by the special Grace of God, and throughly purged by the Blood of Christ, in whom that filthy sink of Sin and Pollution is not only dried up, but the Heart is changed and made new, and so no more a House or Habitation for this unclean Spirit, but is become the Temple of the Holy Ghost, or a Habitation for God through the Spirit. And these Men's Hearts are unto Satan, like dry Places to a thirsty and restless Person: for as the Holy Spirit cannot rest, nor take up his abode in filthy and polluted Hearts; so the Devil, that wicked Spirit, ⟨p. 7⟩can find no Rest nor Place of abode in renewed and sanctified Hearts. And as it is no suitable House or Habitation for him; so likewise Believers have one dwelling in them, strong enough to keep Satan out: for stronger (saith the Apostle^*) is he that is in us, than he which is in the World: and again he saith^†, Ye are strong, and the Word of God abideth in you; and ye have overcome the Wicked one: He that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not: shall not so touch him as to enter into his Heart, and take up his Dwelling, or get Possession of him any more; and therefore these Men's Hearts, i. e. the Hearts of true sanctified Christians, I conclude are meant here by our Saviour, which are to Satan as dry places, where there is no dwelling or abiding for him.

1. Dry Places are commonly clean Places, or Places where there is no Dirt or Mire: and Satan, that unclean Spirit, is like a Swine, i. e. he delights in filthy and mirery Places, which may signify his assaulting the Saints, or seeking to get into sanctified Hearts, or Hearts renewed by the special Grace of God, and throughly purged by the Blood of Christ, in whom that filthy sink of Sin and Polution is not only dryed up, but the Heart is changed and made new, and so no more a House or Habitation for this unclean Spirit, but is become the Temple of the Holy Ghost, or a Habitation for God through the Spirit. And these Men's Hearts are unto Satan, like dry Places to a thirsty and restless Person: for as the Holy Spirit cannot rest, nor take up his abode in filthy and poluted Hearts; so the Devil, that wicked Spirit,