they are so led up and down by Satan by the nose as they are.

There are many things by which Satan has taken occasion to greaten
his rage against Jesus Christ.

As, first, his love to man, and then the many expressions of that
love. He hath taken man's nature upon him; he hath in that nature
fulfilled the law to bring in righteousness for man; and hath spilt
his blood for the reconciling of men to God; he hath broke the neck
of death, put away sin, destroyed the works of the devil, and got
into his own hands the keys of death: and all these are heinous
things to Satan. He cannot abide Christ for this. Besides, he hath
eternal life in himself; and that to bestow upon us; and we in all
likelihood are to possess the very places from which the Satans by
transgression fell, if not places more glorious. Wherefore he must
needs be angry. And is it not a vexatious thing to him, that we
should be admitted to the throne of grace by Christ, while he stands
bound over in chains of darkness, to answer for his rebellions
against God and his Son, at the terrible day of judgment. Yea, we
poor dust and ashes must become his judges, and triumph over him for
ever: and all this long of Jesus Christ; for he is the meritorious
cause of all this.

Now though Satan seeks to be revenged for this, yet he knows it is in
vain to attack the person of Christ; he has overcome him: therefore
he tampers with a company of silly men, that he may vilify him by
them. And they, bold fools as they are, will not spare to spit in
his face. They will rail at his person, and deny the very being of
it; they will rail at his blood, and deny the merit and worth of it.
They will deny the very end why he accomplished the law, and by