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._]