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we may believe our second sight Christians, the Air is always as full, as a Beam of the Evening Sun is of Insects, where they are ever ready for Business, and to go and come as their great Governor issues out Orders for their Directions. These, as they are all of the same spirituous Quality with himself, and consequently invisible like him, _except as above_, are ready upon all Occasions to be sent to _and into_ any such Person, and for such Purposes, _superior Limitations only excepted_, as the grand Director of _Devils_, (The _Devil_ properly so call'd guides them;) and be the Subject or the Object what it will, _that is to say_, be the Person they are sent to, _or into, as above_, who it will, and the Business the Messenger is to do what it will, they are sufficiently qualified; for this is a Particular to Satan's Messengers or Agents, that they are not like us humane _Devils_ here in the World, some bred up one Way, some another, some of one Trade, some of another, and consequently some fit for some Business, some for another, some good for something, and some good for nothing, but his People are every one fit for every Thing, can find their Way every where, and are a Match for every Body they are sent to; in a Word, there are no _foolish Devils_, they are all fully qualified for their Employment, fit for any thing he sets them about, and very seldom mistake their Errand or fail in the Business they are sent to do. Nor is it strange at all, that the _Devil_ should have such a numberless Train of Deputy _Devils_ to act under him; for it must be acknowledged he has a great deal of Business upon his Hands, a vast deal of Work to do, abundance of public Affairs under his Direction, and an infinite Variety of particular Cases always before him; _for Example_. How many Governments in the World are wholly in his Administration? how many Divans and great Councils under his Direction? nay, I believe, 'twould be hard to prove that there is or has been one Council of State in the World for many hundred Years past, down to the Year 1713, (we don't pretend to come nearer home) where the _Devil_ by himself, or his Agents in one Shape or another, has not sat as a Member, if not taken the Chair. And tho' some learn'd Authors may dispute this Point with me, by giving some Examples where the Councils of Princes have been acted by a better Hand, and where Things have been carried against _Satan_'s Interest, and even to his g
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