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THE CONTENTS.

Chap. VI. What became of the Devil and his Host of fallen Spirits after their being expell’d from Heaven, and his wandring Condition till the Creation; with some more of Mr. Milton’s Absurdities on that Subject 77

Chap. VII. Of the Number of Satan’s Host; how they came first to know of the new created Worlds now in Being, and their Measures with Mankind upon the Discovery 86

Chap. VIII. Of the Power of the Devil at the Time of the Creation of this World; whether it has not been farther straiten’d and limited since that Time, and what Shifts and Stratagems he is oblig’d to make use of to compass his Designs upon Mankind 95

Chap. IX. Of the Progress of Satan in carrying on his Conquest over Mankind, from the Fall of Eve to the Deluge 111

Chap. X. Of the Devil’s second Kingdom, and how he got footing in the renewed World by his Victory over Noah and his Race 129

Chap. XI. Of God’s calling a Church out of the midst of a degenerate World, and of Satan’s new Mea-sures