Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

2. It is a comfort against the temptations of the Devil. Whilst thou livest in this world, thou art liable to his wiles. If thou wilt go to heaven, so boundless is his malice, that he raiseth all the powers of hell against thee, and forceth thee to fight every foot of the way. He is the strong man that hath full possession of carnal unregenerate ones, and therefore all is at peace with them. Matth. 12. What need a Captain bend his Forces against a Town which hath delivered ⟨p. 295⟩up it self into his hands? What need he plant his Canons and batteries against these gates which are already set open to him? This Gaoler doth not trouble himself much about those prisoners which are fast in his dungeon, with his irons on their legs, and are led captive by him at his will, 1 Tim. 2.26. But for thee who hast by the help of Christ broken prison, and in part got out of his power, he raiseth all the Country with Hue and cry to bring thee back to thy old place of bondage. But be comforted, Christ hath conquered him already in his own person as thy head; is daily conquering him in thee his member by his Spirit; and will shortly crush him fully under thy feet, Rom. 16.20.¹ Some refer that shortly to the day of judgement, which will come shortly, and wherein Satan shall be utterly crushed under all the Saints feet for ever. And it is as true of the day of death, in reference to every particular Saint. As when a man dyeth, all those vexatious law-suits, with which he was before molested, do cease: So when the believer dyeth, all those false actions which Satan had commenced against him in the court of his conscience, and all that inward trouble which did arise thereupon do all cease.

1. 1Paraeus in loc