This may comfort those faint-hearted Christians among us, who cry out of the Danger of a religious War in _Europe_, and what terrible Things will happen when _France_, and _Spain_, and _Germany_, and _Italy_, and _Poland_ shall all unite; let this Answer satisfy them, The _Devil_ himself can never make _France_ and _Spain_, or _France_ and the Emperor unite; jarring Humours may be reconcil'd, but jarring Interests never can: They may unite so as to make Peace, _tho' that can hardly be long_, but never so as to make Conquests together; they are too much afraid of one another, for one to bear, that any Addition of Strength should come to the other. But this is a Digression. We shall find the _Devil_ mistaken and disappointed too on several other Occasions, as we go along. I return to Satan's Interest in the several Governments and Nations, by vertue of his Invisibility, and which he carries on by Possession; 'tis by this Invisibility that he presides in all the Councils of _foreign Powers_, (for we never mean our own, that we always premise;) and what tho' it is alledged by the Criticks, that he does not preside, because there is always a President; I say, if he is not in the President's Chair, yet if he be in the President himself, the Difference is not much; and if he does not vote as a Counsellor, if he votes in the Counsellor, 'tis much the same; and here, as it was in the Story of _Ahab_ the King of _Israel_, as he was a _lying Spirit_ in the Mouths of _all his Prophets_, so we find him a Spirit of some particular evil Quality or other, in all the Transactions and Transactors on that Stage of Life we call the State. Thus he was a dissembling Spirit in _Char._ IX. a turbulent Spirit in _Char._ V. Emperors; a bigotted Spirit of Fire and Faggot in our Queen _Mary_; an apostate Spirit in _Hen._ IV.; a cruel Spirit in _Peter_ of _Castile_; a revengeful Spirit in _Ferdinand_ II.; a _Phaeton_ in _Lewis_ XIV.; a _Sardanapalus_ in _C------_ II. In the Great Men of the World, take them a degree lower than the Class of Crown'd Heads, he has the same secret Influence; and hence it comes to pass, that the greatest Heroes, and Men of the highest Character for Atchievements of Glory, either by their Virtue or Valour, however they have been crowned with Victories, and elevated by human Tongues, whatever the most consummate Virtues or good Qualities they have been known by, yet they have always had some Devil or other in them to preserve _Satan_'s Claim to them uninterrupted, and prevent their Escape out of his Hands; thus we have seen a bloody Devil in a _D'Alva_; a profligate Devil in a _Buckingham_; a lying, artful, or politick Devil in a _Richlieu_; a treacherous Devil in a _Mazarin_; a cruel, merciless Devil in a _Cortez_; a debauch'd Devil in an _Eugene_; a conjuring Devil in a _Luxemburg_; and a covetous Devil in a _M---------h_: In a word, tell me the Man, I tell you the Spirit that reign'd in him.