2. How great soever their power may be supposed to be, yet rationally it must be taken for a truth, that they have not the same power that they had before their fall. For as _Zanchy_ saith: _Certum est enim in universum, & in genere, hac etiam in parte illos punitos fuisse, ut non possint quicquid poterant, cum boni essent, nec etiam quicquid nunc velint_. Because the Holy Ghost beareth witness, _that they are bound in Chains_, and that Satan begged leave of God to invade _Job_, that they fought with the good Angels, but were overcome, and that they may be so resisted of believing men that they may be overthrown. _Ac væ nobis, nisi potentia Dæmonum infirmata esset, & à Domino comprimeretur, & compesceretur._ [Sidenote: _Zanch. de op. Dei ut supra._] 3. And what power soever be granted to the faln Angels, yet it is by the opinion of all the learned, restrained only to these sublunary and inferior bodies, and that they have neither power by Creation or Ordination, to work upon, move, or alter things that are Angelical, Celestial, Ethereal and Superior, but only are chained in this Caliginous Atmosphere, and impure air. For it is manifest, that superior bodies work upon those that are inferior, but not on the contrary, neither have we any examples that can prove that they do operate upon Celestial bodies, and so their power (how great soever some may suppose it to be) is only restrained to these inferior sublunary things. [Sidenote: Gen. 19. 24.] [Sidenote: Isai. 37. 36.] 4. The operations and actions performed by the faln Angels, may be considered, either in the simple respect of their natural and created power, and this how great soever it was before their fall, is not only lessened, but that which remains, is limited and restrained with the Adamantine Chains of the decree of divine providence: or in respect of what power they may have superadded by God, when they are Commissionated and sent by God to effect some particular actions, as for example, _Moses_ and _Aaron_ had but the ordinary strength and power that was common to other men, before they were sent upon the message to _Pharaoh_, and made Instruments to deliver the Israelites, for then were they armed and indowed with the power of working great and stupendious Miracles. So it cannot rationally be imagined that the two Angels that were sent as Instruments to destroy _Sodom_ and _Gomorrha_, did or could of their own proper, individual and created power, bring down Fire and Brimstone from Heaven to burn those two Cities, but that it was brought to pass by the Power of the Almighty, as granted and given to them for that judgment only, and not by that ordinary power that they could always exercise, for the Text saith: _Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord forth of heaven_. Neither can it rationally be supposed that one Angel hath by his created power, that ability, that _he can slay in one night an hundred