s 'tis hinted in _Gen. 4.9._
_His brother's keeper_. We are to _keep_ one another from the Inroads of
the Devil, by mutual and cordial Wishes of prosperity to one another.
When ungodly people give their _Consents_ in _witchcrafts_ diabolically
performed, for the Devil to annoy their Neighbours, he finds a breach
made in the Hedge about us, whereat he Rushes in upon us, with grievous
molestations. Yea, when the impious people, that never saw the Devil, do
but utter their _Curses_ against their Neighbours, those are so many
_watch words_, whereby the Mastives of Hell are animated presently to
fall upon us. 'Tis thus, that the Devil gets _leave_ to worry us.

_Proposition IV._ Most horrible _woes_ come to be inflicted upon
Mankind, when the _Devil_ does in _great wrath_, make a _descent_ upon
them. The _Devil_ is a _Do-Evil_, and wholly set upon mischief. When our
Lord once was going to _Muzzel_ him, that he might not mischief others,
he cry'd out, _Art thou come to torment me?_ He is, it seems, himself
_Tormented_, if he be but _Restrained_ from the tormenting of Men. If
upon the sounding of the Three last _Apocalyptical Angels_, it was an
outcry made in Heaven, _Wo, wo, wo, to the inhabitants of the Earth by
reason of the voice of the Trumpet._ I am sure, a _descent_ made by the
Angel of _death_, would give cause for the like Exclamation: _Wo to the
world, by reason of the wrath of the Devil!_ what a _woful_ plight,
mankind would by the descent of the Devil be brought into, may be
gathered from the _woful_ pains, and wounds, and hideous desolations
which the Devil brings upon them, with whom he has with a _bodily
Possession_ made a Seisure. You may both in Sacred and Profane History,
read many a direful Account of the _woes_, which they that are possessed
by the Devil, do undergo: And from thence conclude, _What must the
Children of Men hope from such a Devil!_ Moreover, the _Tyrannical
Ceremonies_, whereto the Devil uses to subjugate such _Woful_ Nations or
Orders of Men, as are more Entirely under his Dominion, do declare what
_woful_ Work the Devil would make where he comes. The very Devotions of
those forlorn _Pagans_, to whom the Devil is a Leader, are most bloody
_Penances_; and what _Woes_ indeed must we expect from such a Devil of
a _Moloch_, as relishes no Sacrifices like those of Humane Heart-blood,
and unto whom there is no Musick like the bitter, dying, doleful Groans,
ejaculated by the Roasting Children of Me