“3. That the _place_ or _extent_ of this world, was the place or extent of their kingdom, is probable from the two following reasons: first, because the place of this world is now their habitation. For we must by no means suppose that God brought them from some other region into this world, only to tempt man. No: but they are here _now_, because they were created to dwell _here_. For fallen angels do not leave the _place_ of their sin and fall: they live in the _defilements_ and _disorders_ of their spoiled kingdom; and in that place they find their hell and torments, where they extinguished their light and joy. Secondly, because the whole extent of the world, and every thing in it, _sun_, _moon_, _stars_, _fire_, _air_, _water_, and _earth_, _stones_, _minerals_, must all be _dissolved_, and pass thro’ a _purifying fire_. Therefore all these things are polluted, and have in them some disorder from the fall of the angels; and we may see _how far_ the place of their kingdom extended, by the extent of those things that are to be _dissolved_ and _purified_. “4. When the angels had, by their rebellion, lost the divine life within themselves, and brought their _whole outward_ kingdom into darkness and disorder, so that as _Moses_ speaketh: ‘Darkness was upon the face of the deep;’ that is, the whole extent of the place of this world; then in the place where they were fallen, and out of the _materials_ of their ruined, angelical kingdom, did God begin the _creation_ of this present, material, temporary, visible world. “5. ‘In the beginning, saith _Moses_, God created the heaven and the earth.’ Here, at this _instant_, ended the devil’s power, over the place or kingdom in which he was created. As soon as the whole of his outward, disordered kingdom was thus divided into a _created heaven and earth_, all was taken out of his hands, he was shut out of every thing, and he and all his host became _poor prisoners_ in their lost kingdom, that could only _wander about_ in chains of darkness, looking with impotent rage at the _created heaven and earth_, which was sprung up in their own place of habitation. “6. Thus was this _outward kingdom_, of the whole extent of this world, taken out of the hands of _Lucifer_ and his angels. All its darkness, disharmony, and disorder, was by the _creation_ restored to a low resemblance of its first state, and put into that form of sun, stars, fire, air, light, water, and earth, in which we now see it.