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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 fit to their shapes; or challenge the satire, as if it were pointed at them, because it is 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 these remote things called Scriptures are not allowed in evidence, I might say it was sufficiently proved; 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 feared Saint Frances or Saint Dunstan; and if that be proved, as I take upon me to advance, I shall leave it to judgment, who is the better christain, the Devil who believes and trembles, or our modern gentry of——— who believe neither God nor Devil.
Having thus breught 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 demonstrations of the 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 sanhedrin of the Jews, to our friends at the Bull
