It has indeed been suggested that he has taken orders, and that a certain Pope, famous for being an extraordinary favourite of his, gave him both institution and induction; but as this is not upon record, and therefore we have no authentic document for the probation, I shall not affirm it for a truth, for I would not slander the _Devil_. It is said also, and I am apt to believe it, that he was very familiar with that holy father Pope _Silvester_ II. and some charge him with personating Pope _Hildebrand_ on an extraordinary occasion, and himself sitting in the chair apostolick, in a full congregation; and you may hear more of this hereafter: But as I do not meet with Pope _Diabolus_ among the list; in all father _Platina_'s lives of the Popes, so I am willing to leave it as I find it. But to speak to the point, and a nice point it is I acknowledge; _namely_, what religion _the Devil_ is of; my answer will indeed be general, yet not at all ambiguous, for I love to speak positively and with undoubted evidence. 1. _He is a believer._ And if in saying so it should follow, that even the _Devil_ has more religion than some of our men of fame can at this time be charged with, I hope my Lord ---- and his Grace the ---- of ---- and some of the upper class in the red-hot club, will not wear the coat, however well it may sit to their shapes, or challenge the Satyr, as if it were pointed at them, because 'tis due to them: In a word, whatever their Lordships are, I can assure them that the _Devil_ is no Infidel. 2. _He fears God._ We have such abundant evidence of this in sacred History, that if I were not at present, in common with a few others, talking to an infidel sort of Gentlemen, with whom those remote things call'd Scriptures are not allow'd in evidence, I might say it was sufficiently prov'd; but I doubt not in the process of this undertaking to shew, that _the Devil_ really _fears God_, and that after another manner than ever he fear'd Saint _Frances_ or Saint _Dunstan_; and if that be proved, as I take upon me to advance, I shall leave it to judgment, who's the better Christian, _the Devil_ who _believes_ and _trembles_, or our modern gentry of ---- who believe neither _God nor Devil_. Having thus brought the _Devil_ within the _Pale_, I shall leave him among you for the present; not but that I may examine in its order who has the best claim to his brotherhood, the Papists or the Protestants; and among the latter the Lutherans or the Calvinists; and so descending to all the several denominations of churches, see who has less of _the Devil_ in them, and who more; and whether _less_ or _more_ the Devil has not a seat in every synagogue, a pew in every church, a place in every pulpit, and a vote in every synod; even from the Sanhedrim of the _Jews_, to our friends at the _Bull and Mouth_, &c. from the greatest to the least.