ommission, well and good; and he should
have a Lease to carry on his Trade for so many Years more, to his
Heart's content; but if not, he would expose his Knavery to the World,
for that he should take away his Peoples Trade no longer; but that he
(Satan) would set up another in his Room, that should make a meer Fool
of him, and carry away all his Customers.

Upon this, the old Man consider'd of it, took the _Devil_'s Counsel, and
listed in his Pay; so he, that had plaid his Pranks twenty five Years as
a Conjurer, when he was no Conjurer, was then forc'd really to deal with
the DEVIL, for fear the People should know he did not: Till now he had
_ambo dexter_, cheated the Devil on one Hand, and the People on the
other; but the _Devil_ gain'd his Point at last, and so he was a real
Wizard ever after.

But this is not the only way the Devil is injur'd neither, for we have
often found People pretend upon him in other Cases, and of nearer
Concern to him a great deal, and in Articles more Weighty, as in
particular, in the great Business of Possession; it is true this Point
is not thoro'ly understood among Men, neither has the Devil thought fit
to give us those Illuminations about it, as I believe he might do;
particularly that great and important Article, is not, for ought I can
see, rightly explain'd, namely; whether there are not two several Kinds
of Possession, (_viz._) some wherein the Devil possesses us, and some in
which we really possess the Devil; the Nicety of which I doubt this Age,
with all its Penetration, is not qualified to explain, and a
Dissertation upon it being too long for this Work, especially so near
its Conclusion, I am oblig'd to omit, as I am also all the practical
Discourses upon the Usefulness and Advantages of real Possession,
whether consider'd one Way or other to Mankind, all which I must leave
to hereafter.

But to come back to the Point in Hand, and to consider the Injustice
done to the Devil, in the various Turns and Tricks which Men put upon
him very often in this one Article (_viz._) pretending to Possession,
and to have the Devil in them, when really it is not so; certainly the
Devil must take it very ill, to have all their demented, lunatick Tricks
charg'd upon him; some of which, nay, most of which are so gross, so
simple, so empty, and so little to the Purpose, that the _Devil_ must be
asham'd to see such Things pass in his Name, or that the World should
think he was concern'd in them.