But let us consider him then limited and restrained as he is, yet he remains a mighty, a terrible, an immortal Being; infinitely superior to man, as well in the dignity of his nature, as in the dreadful powers he retains still about him; it is true the brain-sick heads of our Enthusiasticks paint him blacker than he is, and, as I have said, wickedly represent him clothed with terrors that do not really belong to him; as if the power of good and evil was wholly vested in him, and that he was placed in the Throne of his Maker, to distribute both punishments and rewards; In this they are much wrong, terrifying and deluding fanciful people about him, till they turn their heads, and fright them into a belief that the _Devil_ will let them alone, if they do such and such good things; or carry them away with him they know not whither, if they do not; as if the _Devil_, whose proper business is mischief, seducing and deluding mankind, and drawing them in to be rebels like himself, should threaten to seize upon them, carry them away, and in a word, fall upon them to hurt them, if they did evil, and on the contrary, be favourable and civil to them, if they did well. Thus a poor deluded country fellow in our Town, that had liv'd a wicked, abominable, debauch'd life, was frighted with an Apparition, as he call'd it, of the _Devil_; He fancy'd that he spoke to him, and telling his tale to a good honest christian Gentleman his neighbour, that had a little more sense than himself; the Gentleman ask'd him if he was sure he really saw the _Devil_? yes, yes, Sir, _says he_, I saw him very plain, and so they began the following discourse. _Gent._ See him! See the Devil! art thou sure of it, _Thomas_? _Tho._ Yes, yes, I am sure enough of it, _Master_; to be sure 'twas the _Devil_. _Gent._ And how do you know 'twas the _Devil_, _Thomas_? had you ever seen the _Devil_ before? _Tho._ No, no, I had never seen him before, _to be sure_; but, for all that, I know 'twas the _Devil_. _Gent._ Well, if you're sure, _Thomas_, there's no contradicting you; pray what clothes had he on? _Tho._ Nay, Sir, don't jest with me, he had no clothes on, he was clothed with fire and brimstone. _Gent._ Was it dark or day light when you saw him? _Tho._ O! it was very dark, for it was midnight. _Gent._ How could you see him then? did you see by the light of the fire you speak of? _Tho._ No, no, he gave no light himself; but I saw him, for all that. _Gent._ But was it within doors, or out in the street? _Tho._ It was within, it was in my own Chamber, when I was just going into bed, that I saw him. _Gent._ Well then, you had a candle, hadn't you? _Tho._ Yes, I had a candle, but it burnt as blue! and as dim! _Gent._ Well, but if the Devil was clothed with fire and brimstone, he must give you some light, there can't be such a fire as you speak of, but it must give a light with it.