However, I must not Compliment the Brains of other Men, at the Expence of my own, or talk Nonsense because they can understand no other; I think all these Notions and Representations of _Hell_ and of the _Devil_, to be as prophane as they are ridiculous, and I ought no more to talk prophanely than merrily of them. Let us learn to talk of these Things then, as we should do; and as we really cannot describe them to our Reason and Understanding, why should we describe them to our Senses; we had, I think, much better not describe them at all, that is to say, not attempt it: The blessed Apostle St. _Paul_ was, as he said himself, carried up, or caught up into the _third Heaven_, yet when he came down again, he could neither tell what he heard or describe what he saw; all he could say of it was, that what he heard was _inutterable_, and what he saw was _inconceivable_. It is the same thing as to the State of the _Devil_ in those Regions which he now possesses, and where he now more particularly inhabits; my present Business then is not to enter into those grave Things so as to make them ridiculous, as I think most People do that talk of them; but as the _Devil_, let his Residence be where it will, has evidently free Leave to come and go, not into this World only; (_I mean, the Region of our Atmosphere_,) but for ought we know, to all the other inhabited Worlds which God has made, where-ever they are, and by whatsoever Names they are or may be known or distinguished; for if he is not confined in one Place, we have no Reason to believe he is excluded from any Place, Heaven only excepted, from whence he was expell'd for his Treason and Rebellion. His Liberty then being thus ascertain'd, three Things seem to be material for us to give an Account of, in order to form this Part of his History. 1. What his Business is on this Globe of Earth which we vulgarly call the World, how he acts among us, what Affairs Mankind and he have together, and how far his Conduct here relates to Us, and Ours is, or may be influenc'd by him. 2. Where his Principal Residence is, and whether he has not a particular Empire of his own, to which he retreats upon proper Occasions; where he entertains his Friends when they come under his particular Administration; and where, when he gets any Victory over his Enemies, he carries his Prisoners of War. 3. What may probably be the great Business this black Emperor has at present upon his Hands, either in this World or out of it, and by what Agents he works.