in all the Transactions and Transactors on that Stage
of Life we call the State.

Thus he was a dissembling Spirit in _Char._ IX. a turbulent Spirit in
_Char._ V. Emperors; a bigotted Spirit of Fire and Faggot in our Queen
_Mary_; an apostate Spirit in _Hen._ IV.; a cruel Spirit in _Peter_ of
_Castile_; a revengeful Spirit in _Ferdinand_ II.; a _Phaeton_ in
_Lewis_ XIV.; a _Sardanapalus_ in _C------_ II.

In the Great Men of the World, take them a degree lower than the Class
of Crown'd Heads, he has the same secret Influence; and hence it comes
to pass, that the greatest Heroes, and Men of the highest Character for
Atchievements of Glory, either by their Virtue or Valour, however they
have been crowned with Victories, and elevated by human Tongues,
whatever the most consummate Virtues or good Qualities they have been
known by, yet they have always had some Devil or other in them to
preserve _Satan_'s Claim to them uninterrupted, and prevent their Escape
out of his Hands; thus we have seen a bloody Devil in a _D'Alva_; a
profligate Devil in a _Buckingham_; a lying, artful, or politick Devil
in a _Richlieu_; a treacherous Devil in a _Mazarin_; a cruel, merciless
Devil in a _Cortez_; a debauch'd Devil in an _Eugene_; a conjuring Devil
in a _Luxemburg_; and a covetous Devil in a _M---------h_: In a word,
tell me the Man, I tell you the Spirit that reign'd in him.

Nor does he thus carry on his secret Management by Possession in Men of
the first Magnitude only, but have you not had Evidences of it among our
selves? how has he been a _lying_ Spirit in the Mouths of our Prophets,
a factious Spirit in the Heads of our Politicians, a profuse _Devil_ in
a _B-----s_, a corrupt Devil in _M-----_, a proud Spirit in my Lord
_Plausible_, a bullying Spirit in my Lord _Bugbear_, a talkative Spirit
in his Grace the D---- of _Rattle-hall_, a scribling Spirit in my Lord
_H------_, a run-away Spirit in my Lord _Frightful_; and so thro' a long
Roll of Heroes, whose exceeding, and particular Qualifications proclaim
loudly what Handle the _Devil_ took them by, and how fast he held them;
for these were all Men of ancient Fame, I hope you know that.

From Men of Figure, we descend to the Mob, and 'tis there the same
thing; Possession, like the Plague, is _Morbus Plebaei_; not a Family but
he is a Spirit of Strife and Contention among them; not a Man but he has
a Part in him; he is a drunken _Devil_ in one, a whoring _Devil_ in
another, a thi