3dly. In servitude and subjection to Satan and Sin.
In the parable of the sower, Christ saith, the tares are the Children of the wicked one, &c. The enemy who soweth them is the Devil, Matt. 13. 38, 39.
When the strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace; but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, &c. Luk. 11. 21, 22.
Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do, John 8. 44.
To whom ye yield your selves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey: whether of sin unto death, &c. Ye were servants of sin, Rom. 6. 16, 20.
Them who are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the mind, &c. 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4.
The Prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh in the chil∣dren of disobedience, Ephes. 2. 2.
Thanks be to God, &c. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, &c. Col. 1. 12, 13.
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him at his will, 2 Tim. 2. 26.
In this, &c. Are manifest, and the children of the Devil, whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God, neither he who loveth not his brother, and Cain who was of that wicked one, &c. 1 John 3. 8, 9, 10, 12.