To these Countries thus regain'd to Satan's infernal Empire, let us add his modern Conquests and the Encroachments he has made upon the Reformation in the present Age, which are, _however light we make of them_, very considerable (_viz._) the Electorate of the _Rhine_ and the _Palatinate_, the one fallen to the House of _Bavaria_, and the other to that of _Neuburgh_, both Popish; the Dutchy of _Deux Ponts_ fallen just now to a popish Branch, the whole Electorate of _Saxony_ fallen under the Power of popish Government by the Apostacy of their Princes, and more likely to follow the Fate of _Bohemia_, whenever the diligent _Devil_ can bring his new Project in _Poland_ to bear, as 'tis more than probable he will do so some time or other, by the growing Zeal as well as Power of (that House of Bigots) the House of _A----_. But to sum up the dull Story; we must add in the Roll of the _Devil_'s Conquests, the whole Kingdom of _France_, where we have in one Year seen, to the immortal Glory of the _Devil_'s Politicks, that his Measures have prevailed to the total Extirpation of the Protestant Churches without a War; and that Interest which for 200 Years had supported it self in spight of Persecutions, Massacres, five civil Wars and innumerable Battles and Slaughters, at last receiv'd its mortal Wound from its own Champion _Henry_ IV. and sunk into utter Oblivion, by _Satan_'s most exquisite Management under the Agency of his two prime Ministers Cardinal _Richlieu_ and _Lewis_ the XIV, whom he entirely possess'd. Thus far we have a melancholy View of the _Devil_'s new Conquests, and the Ground he has regain'd upon the Reformation, in which his secret Management has been so exquisite, and his Politicks so good, that could he bring but one Thing to pass, which by his own former Mistake, (for the _Devil_ is not infallible) he has rendred impossible, he would bring the Protestant Interest so near its Ruin, that Heaven would be, _as it were_, put to the Necessity of working by Miracle to prevent it; _the Case is thus_. Antient Historians tell us, and from good Authority, that the DEVIL finding it for his Interest to bring his favourite _Mahomet_ upon the Stage, and spread the victorious Half-Moon upon the Ruin of the Cross, having with great Success, rais'd first the _Saracen_ Empire, and then the _Turkish_ to such a Height, as that the Name of Christian seemed to be extirpated in those two Quarters of the World, which were then not the greatest only, but by far the most powerful, I mean _Asia_ and _Africa_; having totally laid wast all those antient and flourishing Churches of _Africa_, the Labours of St. _Cyprian_, _Tertullian_, St. _Augustine_, and 670 Christian Bishops and Fathers, who govern'd there at once, also all the Churches of _Smyrna_, _Philadelphia_, _Ephesus_, _Sardis_, _Antioch_, _Laodicea_, and innumerable others in _Pontus_, _Bithynia_, and the Provinces of the lesser _Asia_.