[Footnote g: _Ceolcenus_ +dokimazetai hê hêmetera orthodoxos pistis ei hedraia esti kai pagê prosmenousa tô kuriô, kai mê huposuromenê hupo tou echthrou, dia tôn phantasiôdôn teratôn kai satanikôn ergôn, tôn prattomenôn hupo tôn doulôn kai huperetôn kakias.+] Third, Wee are admonished alwayes to stand in a readines, and be armed for to fight, prepared to withstand the diuell, knowing that God doth oftentimes giue him leaue to assault vs. Therefore we haue need to be furnished in all points, for we wrastle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkenesse of this world, against spirituall wickednesses in high places, _Ephes. 6. 11.12_. And _1. Pet. 5. 8.9._ be sober and vigilant, because your aduersary the diuell as a roaring Lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure. He [h]is no weake assaylant, and therefore heere by the Apostle are noted in him foure things: First, his power (a Lyon): Second, his hatred, and wrath in the word (roaring): Third, his subtilty (walking about) obseruing euery oportunity and occasion to hurt vs: Fourth, his cruelty (deuoure) no contentment but in our ruine and vtter destruction. [Footnote h: _Strigelius in explicatione locorum Theologicorum Melanthonis parte 3. titulo de cruce & calamitatibus._] Fourth, God would haue vs get the victorie against Sathan, and take knowledge, that Christ on our side fighteth for vs, through whom we triumph, and so are made more vndoubtedly assured of our saluation; and this is that which hee promised, _The [i]Seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the Serpent_, _Gen. 3. 15_. And the Apostle confirmeth, God shall tread down Sathan vnder your feete, _Rom. 16. 20_. [Footnote i: _Augustinus de Genesi ad literam, l. 11. c. 22_.] God suffereth the diuell to preuaile against the wicked, yet in the most Holy there is no iniustice _2. Chron. 19. 7_. But First, [k]Herein is the declaration of his iustice, whereby hee punisheth obstinate sinners, & those who prouoke him to wrath, and will not repent: And thus it is sayd of the _Aegiptians_, whom no plagues could soften, that hee cast vpon them the fiercenes of his anger, and indignation, and trouble, by sending euill Angels among them, [l]_Psalm 78. 49_. And when _Saul_ had neglected the commandement of God, an euill spirit from the Lord troubled him, _1. Sam. 16. 14_. Thus _Ahab_ seduced by his false prophets descendeth into the battaile, and is slaine (contemning the words of _Michaiah_) in[m] whose mouthes the diuell was a lying spirit, who sent of the Lord, perswaded him and preuailed, _1. Kin. 22. 22.23.24_. [Footnote k: _Hyperius in locis Theolog. lib. 2._] [Footnote l: _Augustinus in locuus consulatur._] [Footnote m: _Vide Iaquerium in flagello hereticorum fascinariorum, cap. 23._]