That some extraordinary Occasions may bring these Agents of the _Devil_, nay, sometimes the _Devil_ himself, to assume human Shapes, and appear to other People we cannot doubt; he did thus in the Case of our Saviour _as a Tempter_, and some think he did so to _Manasses_ as a Familiar, who the Scripture charges with Sorcery, and having a Familiar or Devil; Fame tells us that St. _Dunstan_ frequently converst with him, and finally, took him by the Nose; and so of others. But in these modern Ages of the World, he finds it much more to his Purpose to work under Ground as I have observ'd, and to keep upon the Reserve; so that we have no authentick Accounts of his personal Appearance, but what are very antient or very remote from our Faith, as well as our Enquiry. It seems to be a Question that would bear some debating, whether all Apparitions are not _Devils_ or from the _Devil_; but there being so many of those Apparitions which we call Spirits, which really assume Shapes and make Appearances in the World, upon such Accounts as we know _Satan_ himself scorns to be employ'd in, that I must dismiss the Question in favour of the _Devil_; assuring them, that as he never willingly did any good in his Life, so he would be far from giving himself the Trouble of setting one Foot into the World, on such an Errand; and for that Reason we maybe assur'd those certain Apparitions, which we are told came to detect a Murther in _Gloucestershire_, and others who appear'd to prevent the ruining an Orphan for want of finding a Deed, that was not lost, was certainly some other Power equally concern'd, and not the _Devil_. On the other Hand, neither will it follow that _Satan_ never appears in human Shape; for tho' every Apparition may not be the _Devil_, yet it does not follow that the _Devil_ never makes an Apparition: All I shall say to it is, as I have mention'd before, that generally speaking, the _Devil_ finds it more for his Purpose, to have his Interest in the World propagated another Way; namely, in private, and his personal Appearances are reserv'd for Things only of extraordinary Consequence, and, as I may say, of evident Necessity, where his Honour is concern'd, and where his Interest could be carried on no other Way; not forgetting to take Notice that this is very seldom.