to destroy. Satan would have cast, not some of that Church, but all; not into prison only, but into hell; not for ten days only, but for ever; not that they might he tried, but that they might perish. But, as in the case of Job, whom he could not touch, either in his person or his property, till he had obtained leave from Godo; so in their case he was under the controul of an almighty power; and, in fact, “could have no power at all against the Church, except it were given him from above.” Now