Nay, if any Thing strange and improbable be done or related to be done, we presently say the _Devil_ was at the doing it: Thus the great Ditch at _Newmarket Heath_, is call'd the _Devil_'s _Ditch_; so the _Devil_ built _Crowland_ Abby, and the Whispering-Place in _Gloucester_ Cathedral; nay, the Cave at _Castleton_, only because there's no getting to the farther End of it, is call'd the _Devil_'s A---- and the like: The poor People of _Wiltshire_, when you ask them how the great Stones at _Stonehenge_ were brought thither? they'll all tell you the _Devil_ brought them: If any Mischief extraordinary befalls us, we presently say the _Devil_ was in it, and the _Devil_ would have it so; in a Word, the _Devil_ has got an ill Name among us, and so he is fain to act more _in Tenebris_, more _incog._ than he used to do, play out of sight himself, and work by the Sap, as the Engineers call it, and not openly and avowedly in his own Name and Person, as formerly, tho' perhaps not with less Success than he did before; and this leads me to enquire more narrowly into the manner of the _Devil_'s Management of his Affairs since the Christian Religion began to spread in the World, which manifestly differs from his Conduct in more antient Times; in which if we discover some of the most consummate Fool's Policy, the most profound simple Craft, and the most subtle shallow Management of Things that can by our weak Understandings be conceiv'd, we must only resolve it into this, that in short it is the DEVIL. CHAP. II. _Of Hell as it is represented to us, and how the_ Devil _is to be understood, as being personally in Hell, when at the same Time we find him at Liberty ranging over the World._ It is true, as that learn'd and pleasant Author, the inimitable Dr. _Brown_ says, the _Devil_ is his own Hell; one of the most constituting Parts of his Infelicity is, that he cannot act upon Mankind _brevi Manu_, by his own inherent Power, as well as Rage; that he cannot unhinge this Creation, which, _as I have observ'd in its Place_, he had the utmost Aversion to from its Beginning, as it was a stated Design in the Creator to supply his Place in Heaven with a new Species of _Beings_ call'd _Man_, and fill the Vacancies occasion'd by his Degeneracy and Rebellion. This fill'd him with Rage inexpressible, and horrible Resolutions of Revenge, and the Impossibility of executing those Resolutions torments him with Despair; this added to what he was before, makes him a compleat _Devil_, with a Hell in his own Breast, and a Fire unquenchable burning about his Heart.