signify
the _Devil_, when spoken of in general terms, was but the Devil's
representative, or the Devil _in quo vis vehiculo_, for that time,
clothed in a bodily shape, acting under cover and in disguise, or if you
will the _Devil_ in _masquerade_: Nay, if we believe Mr. _Milton_, the
_Angel Gabriel_'s spear had such a secret powerful influence, as to make
him strip of a sudden, and with a touch to unmask, and stand upright in
his naked original shape, meer _Devil_, without any disguises
whatsoever.

Now as we go to the Scripture for much of his history, so we must go
there also for some of his names; and he has a great variety of names
indeed, as his several mischievous doings guide us to conceive of him.
The truth is, all the ancient names given him, of which the Scripture is
full, seems to be originals derived from and adapted to the several
steps he has taken, and the several shapes he has appeared in to do
mischief in the world.

Here he is called the _Serpent_, Gen. iii. 1.
The _old Serpent_, Rev. xii. 9.
The _great red Dragon_, Rev. xii. 3.
The _Accuser of the Brethren_, Rev. xii. 10.
The _Enemy_, Matt. xxiii. 29.
_Satan_, Job i. Zech. iii. 1, 2.
_Belial_, 2 Cor. vi. 15.
_Beelzebub_, Matt. xii. 24.
_Mammon_, Matt. vi. 24.
The _Angel of light_, 2 Cor. xi. 14.
The _Angel of the bottomless pit_, Rev. ix. 11.
The _Prince of the power of the air_, Eph. ii. 2.
_Lucifer_, Isa. xiv. 12.
_Abbaddon_ or _Apollion_, Rev. ix. 11.
_Legion_, Mark v. 9.
The _God of this world_, 2 Cor. iv. 4.
The _Foul Spirit_, Mark ix. 5.
The _Unclean Spirit_, Mark i. 27.
The _Lying Spirit_, 2 Chron. xxx.
The _Tempter_, Matt. iv. 3.
The _Son of the morning_, Isa. xiv. 12.

But to sum them all up in one, he is called in the new Testament _plain_
DEVIL; all his other names are varied according to the custom of speech,
and the dialects of the several nations where he is spoken of; But in a
word, _Devil_ is the common name of the _Devil_ in all the known
languages of the earth. Nay, all the mischiefs he is empowered to do,
are in Scripture placed to his account, under the particular title of
the _Devil_, not of _Devils_ in the plural number, though they are
sometimes mentioned too; but in the singula