The zealous Christian taking heavenThe zealovs Christian taking heaven

Reas 1 1. This comes to pass from the injections, ⟨p. 48⟩and instigations of Satan. The Devil acts not only powerfully, but also subtly and craftily, he will endeavour to divert you from the performance of duty, he will persuade you to neglect it if he can; But it may be thou wilt say, thou wilt direct thy prayer unto God, and thou wilt have thine eye fixed upon God. Why now Satan will fall in with you, he will jog your arm, he will take off your eye from the mark, that you shall not be able to hit it. Thus he dealt with Abraham, as you heard before. Thus he dealt, Job 1. 6. Now there was a day when ¹the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. I am not ignorant that many Interpreters, by the sons of God, do understand the Angels, because the Angels are called the sons of God, Job 38. 7. but ²it cannot be so taken here; I will give but one reason to prove it; because the place where the Angels are, is in heaven, and if so, then the Devil must be in heaven, which is by all denied; he never was in heaven, since he was cast out of it. And therefore Bolducius saith, that this day was the Lords day, and by the Sons of God are meant, the godly men, that lived in the time, and place where Job •ived, the posterity of Seth. And you hall find in Scripture this very ⟨p. 49⟩appellation given to them. Gen. 6. 2. The sons ³of God saw the daughters of men. These sons of God must needs be men, and not Angels; And so they are to be understood in this place in Job, the people of God met together, and came before the Lord, and Satan came also among them, he came to hinder them and disturb them. So it was