r indeed Herds of Nations set on Fire of Hell,
and as I may say, enflam'd by the _Devil_; when I see Towns, Parties,
Factions and Rabbles of People visibly possess'd; 'tis enough to me that
the great Master of the Devils has said to him, GO; there's no need to
enquire which Way he finds open, or at what postern Gate he gets in; as
to his appearing, 'tis plain he often gets in without appearing, and
therefore the Question about his appearing still remains a Doubt, and is
not very easy to be resolv'd.

In the Scripture we have some Light into it, and that is all the Help I
find from Antiquity, and it goes a great Way to solve the Phaenomena of
Satan's appearing; what I mean by the Scripture giving some Light to it,
is this; 'tis said in several Places, and of several Persons, God came
to them in a Dream, _Gen._ xx. 3. _God came to_ Abimelech _in a Dream by
Night_, Gen. xxxi. 24. _And God came to_ Laban _the_ Syrian _in a
Dream_, Matt. ii. 13. _The Angel of the Lord appear'd to_ Joseph _in a
Dream_; short Comments are sufficient to plain Texts, applying this to
my Friend when he wanted to be satisfied about the How, relating to his
Dream (_viz._) how he should come to Dream such wicked Things? I told
him, in short, the Case was plain, _the Devil came to him in a Dream by
Night_: How and in what manner he form'd the wicked Representations, and
spread debauch'd Appearances before his Fancy, by real Whispers and
Voice, according to _Milton_, or by what other Methods, the Learned are
not arriv'd to any Certainty about it.

This leads me necessarily to enquire whether the _Devil_ or some of his
Agents are not always in our Company, whether they make any visible
Appearances or no? For my Part I make no Question of it, how else could
he come at the Knowledge of what we do; for as I can allow him no
Prescience at all, as for many Reasons I have observ'd already, he must
be able to see and know us, and what we are about when we know nothing
of him, or else he could know nothing of us and our Affairs, which yet
we find otherwise; and this gives him infinite Advantage to Influence
our Actions, to judge of our Inclinations, and to bring our Passions to
clash with our Reason, as they often do, and get the better of it too.

All this he obtains by his being able to walk about invisible, and see
when he is not seen, of which I have spoken already; hence that most
wise and solid Suggestion, that when the Candles burn blue the _Devil_
is