As to Shadows of _Devils_, and imaginary Appearances, such as appear, and yet are invisible at the same time, I had thought to have bestow'd a Chapter upon them by themselves, but it may be as much to the Purpose to let them alone, as to meddle with them; 'tis said our old Friend _Luther_ used to be exceedingly troubled with such invisible Apparitions, and he tells us much of them, in what they call his Table-talk; but with Master _Luther_'s leave, tho' the _Devil_ passes for a very great Lyar, I could swallow many things of his own proper making, as soon as some of those I find in a Book that goes by his Name, particularly the Story of the Devil in a Basket, the Child flying out of the Cradle, and the like. In a word, the walking _Devils_ that we have generally among us, are of the female Sex; whether it be that the _Devil_ finds less Difficulty to manage them, or that he lives quieter with them, or that they are fitter for his Business than the Men, I shall not now enter into a Dispute about that; perhaps he goes better disguis'd in the fair Sex than otherwise; Antiquity gives us many Histories of She-Devils, such as we can very seldom match for Wickedness among the Men; such now as in the Text, _Lot_'s Daughters, _Joseph_'s Mistress, _Sampson_'s _Dalilah_, _Herod_'s _Herodias_, these were certainly _Devils_, or play'd the _Devil_ sufficiently in their Turn; one Male Apparition indeed the Scripture furnishes you with, and that is _Judas_; for his Master says expresly of him, _One of you is a Devil_; not has the _Devil_, or is possess'd of the DEVIL; but really is a DEVIL, or is a real DEVIL. How happy is it, that this great Secret comes thus to be discover'd to mankind? Certainly the World has gone on in Ignorance a long time, and at a strange rate, that we should have so many _Devils_ continually walking about among us in humane Shape, and we know it not. Philosophers tell us that there is a World of Spirits, and many learned Pieces of Guess-work they make at it, representing the World to be so near us, that the Air, as they describe it, must be full of Dragons and _Devils_, enough to fright our Imaginations with the very Thoughts of them; and if they say true, 'tis our great Felicity that we cannot see any farther into it than we do, which if we could, would appear as frightful as Hell itself; but none of those Sages ever told us, till now, that half the People who converse with us are _Apparitions_, especially of the Women; and among them especially this valuable Part, the Woman of Figure, the fair, the beautiful, or patch'd and painted.