ing their Favours to him, and all in his Sleep; so that he seldom
slept without some such Entertainment; the Particulars are too gross for
my Story, but he gave me several long Accounts of his Night's _Amours_,
and being a Man of a virtuous Life and good Morals, it was the greatest
Surprize to him imaginable; for you cannot doubt but that the cunning
_Devil_ made every thing be acted to the Life with him, and in a manner
the most wicked; he own'd with Grief to me, that the very first Attack
the _Devil_ made upon him, was with a very beautiful Lady of his
Acquaintance, who he had been really something freer than ordinary with
in their common Conversation; This Lady he brought to him in a Posture
for Wickedness, and wrought up his Inclination so high in his Sleep,
that he, as he thought, actually went about to debauch her, she not at
all resisting; but that he wak'd in the very Moment, to his particular
Satisfaction.

He was greatly concern'd at this Part, namely, that he really gave the
Consent of his Will to the Fact, and wanted to know if he was not as
guilty of Adultery, as if he had lain with her; indeed he decided the
Question against himself, so forcibly, that I, who was of the same
Opinion before, had nothing to say against it; however, I confirm'd him
in it, by asking him these Questions.

1. Whether he did not think the _Devil_ had the chief Hand in such
a Dream? he answer'd, it could certainly be no body else, it must
be the _Devil_.

2. I then ask'd him what Reason the _Devil_ could have for it, if
his Consent to the Fact in Sleep had not been criminal? _That's
true indeed_, says he, _I am answer'd_: But then he ask'd another
Question, which, I confess, is not so easy to answer, namely, How
he should prevent being serv'd so again.

Nor could all my Divinity or his own keep the _Devil_ from attacking him
again; on the other Hand, as I have said, he worried him to that Degree,
that he injur'd his Health, bringing naked Women to him, sometimes one,
sometimes another, sometimes in one Posture of Lewdness, sometimes in
another, sometimes into his very Arms, sometimes with such Additions as
I am not merry enough, and sometimes such as I am not wicked enough to
put into your Heads; the Man, indeed, could not help it, and so the
_Devil_ was more Faulty than he; but as I hinted to him, he might bring
his Mind to such a stated Habit of Virtue, as to prevent its assenting
to