_Of the name of the Devil, his original, and the nature of his circumstances since he has been called by that name._ The Scripture is the first writing on earth where we find the _Devil_ called by his own proper distinguishing denomination, DEVIL, or the [5] _Destroyer_; nor indeed is there any other author of antiquity or of sufficient authority which says any thing of that kind about him. Here he makes his first appearance in the world, and on that occasion he is called the _Serpent_; but the _Serpent_ however since made to signify the _Devil_, when spoken of in general terms, was but the Devil's representative, or the Devil _in quo vis vehiculo_, for that time, clothed in a bodily shape, acting under cover and in disguise, or if you will the _Devil_ in _masquerade_: Nay, if we believe Mr. _Milton_, the _Angel Gabriel_'s spear had such a secret powerful influence, as to make him strip of a sudden, and with a touch to unmask, and stand upright in his naked original shape, meer _Devil_, without any disguises whatsoever. Now as we go to the Scripture for much of his history, so we must go there also for some of his names; and he has a great variety of names indeed, as his several mischievous doings guide us to conceive of him. The truth is, all the ancient names given him, of which the Scripture is full, seems to be originals derived from and adapted to the several steps he has taken, and the several shapes he has appeared in to do mischief in the world. Here he is called the _Serpent_, Gen. iii. 1. The _old Serpent_, Rev. xii. 9. The _great red Dragon_, Rev. xii. 3. The _Accuser of the Brethren_, Rev. xii. 10. The _Enemy_, Matt. xxiii. 29. _Satan_, Job i. Zech. iii. 1, 2. _Belial_, 2 Cor. vi. 15. _Beelzebub_, Matt. xii. 24. _Mammon_, Matt. vi. 24. The _Angel of light_, 2 Cor. xi. 14. The _Angel of the bottomless pit_, Rev. ix. 11. The _Prince of the power of the air_, Eph. ii. 2. _Lucifer_, Isa. xiv. 12. _Abbaddon_ or _Apollion_, Rev. ix. 11. _Legion_, Mark v. 9. The _God of this world_, 2 Cor. iv. 4. The _Foul Spirit_, Mark ix. 5. The _Unclean Spirit_, Mark i. 27. The _Lying Spirit_, 2 Chron. xxx. The _Tempter_, Matt. iv. 3. The _Son of the morning_, Isa. xiv. 12.