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and in giving him an inheritance amongst the sons and daughters
of the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
"But it is with well-nigh absolute certainty that such as are
delivered out of Satan's kingdom have a right to look forward to
a final and open triumph of GOD'S Church over this proud' Lucifer,'
who now in lordly rule sits on the delegated throne of evil in the
hearts of the children of disobedience. There is surely some
meaning yet future in that Scripture which bids us remember
that we 'shall judge angels,' yea, and shall 'judge the world'
(1 Cor. vi. 2, 3). GOD, the very' GOD of peace shall bruise Satan
under your feet shortly' (Rom. xvi. 20)..... 0
"Wisdom, grace, and Divine power will in that day be fully
vindicated by the Judge of all the earth; and that which to us
now appears to be the greatest of all evils-that the devil should
have such awful authority delegated to Him by JEHOVAH over
angels, men, and the external world-will, like every other thing
which GOD 'hath made crooked' (Eccles. vii. 13), yield to the
touch of His own judicial interpretation, and also afford the bloodbought
and blood-washed multitude of the Church cause for everlasting
song.
"Meanwhile, my reader, may the gracious SPIRIT enable you
and me practically to bear in mind :-
" That the devil is the prince or head of an ever-busy legion of
evil spirits, whose common purpose is to draw us aside from the
LORD, and whose subtle powers are more than a match for our
poor unaided resistance:
" That the devil is the head of a world of fallen men, and that
he has a Divinely delegated, though restricted, doIninion over
their corrupt natures and sinful persons.
" That to the same arch-spirit of evil is comInitted the sensuous
and visible world around us, which he is ever presenting to our
natural eye and pride in competition with those invisible and
spiritual realities which faith alone can appreciate.
"And, lastly, that, these things being so, how fearful, how
prayerful, how watchful, need we ever be as daily we pass through
the hosts of these spiritual and secret eneInies of our souls! " 0 • •
"Unrepentant, unhumbled in his nature, notwithstanding that
he knowingly waits but a little while to be cast into the lake of