This evidently proves that the _Devil_ was ignorant of the great Mystery of Godliness, _as the Text calls it_, God manifest in the Flesh, and therefore made that foolish Attempt upon Christ, thinking to have conquer'd his human Nature as capable of Sin, which it was not; and at this Repulse _Hell_ groan'd, the whole Army of regimented _Devils_ receiv'd a Wound, and felt the Shock of it; 'twas a second Overthrow to them, they had had a long Chain of Success, carried a _devilish_ Conquest over the greatest Part of the Creation of GOD; but now they were cut short, _the Seed of the Woman_ was now come _to break the Serpent's Head_, that is, to cut short his Power, to contract the Limits of his Kingdom, and in a Word, to dethrone him in the World: No doubt the _Devil_ receiv'd a Shock, for you find him always afterward, crying out in a horrible Manner, whenever Christ met with him, or else very humble and submissive, as when he begg'd leave to go into the Herd of Swine, a Thing he has often done since. Defeated here, the first Stratagem I find him concern'd in after it, was his entring into _Judas_, and putting him upon betraying Christ to the Chief Priest; but here again he was entirely mistaken, for he did not see, _as much a Devil as he was_, what the Event would be; but when he came to know, that if Christ was put to Death, he would become a Propitiatory and be the great Sacrifice of Mankind, so to rescue the fallen Race from that Death they had incurr'd the Penalty of, by the Fall, that this was the fulfilling of all Scripture Prophesy, and that thus it was that Christ was to be _the End of the Law_, I say, as soon as he perceiv'd this, he strove all he could to prevent it, and disturb'd _Pilate_'s Wife in her Sleep, in order to set her upon her Husband to hinder his delivering him up to the _Jews_; for then, and not till then, he knew how Christ was to vanquish Hell by the Power of his Cross.