From this short Hint, thus repeated, I draw a new Thesis, namely, That _Devil_ is most dangerous that has no Cloven-Foot; or, if you will have it in Words more to the common Understanding, the _Devil_ seems to be most dangerous when he goes without his Cloven-Foot. And here a learned Speculation offers it self to our Debate, and which indeed I ought to call a Council of Casuists, and Men learned in the _Devil_'s Politicks, to determine: Whether is most hurtful to the World, the _Devil_ walking about without his Cloven-Foot, or the Cloven-Foot walking about without the _Devil_? It is indeed a nice and difficult Question, and merits to be well enquir'd into; for which Reason, and diverse others, I have referr'd it to be treated with some Decency, and as a Dispute of Dignity sufficient to take up a Chapter by itself. CHAP. VII. _Whether is most hurtful to the World, the_ Devil _walking about without his Cloven-Foot, or the Cloven-Foot walking about without the_ Devil? In discussing this most critical Distinction of Satan's private Motions, I must, as the Pulpit Gentlemen direct us, explain the Text, and let you know what I mean by several dark Expressions in it, that I may not be understood to talk (as the _Devil_ walks) in the dark. 1. As to the Devil's walking about. 2. His walking without his Cloven-Foot. 3. The Cloven-Foot walking about without the _Devil_. Now as I study Brevity, and yet would be understood too, you may please to understand me as I understand my self, thus. 1. That I must be allow'd to suppose the _Devil_ really has a full Intercourse in, and through, and about this Globe, with Egress and Regress, for the carrying on his special Affairs, when, how, and where, to his Majesty, in his great Wisdom, it shall seem meet; that sometimes he appears and becomes visible, and that, like a Mastiff without his Clog, he does not always carry his Cloven-Foot with him. This will necessarily bring me to some Debate upon the most important Question of Apparitions, Hauntings, Walkings, _&c._ whether of _Satan_ in human Shape, or of human Creatures in the _Devil_'s Shape, or in any other manner whatsoever. 2. I must also be allow'd to tell you that Satan has a great deal of Wrong done him by the general embracing vulgar Errors, and that there is a Cloven-Foot oftentimes without a _Devil_; or, in short, that Satan is not guilty of all the simple Things, no, or of all the wicked Things we charge him with.