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THE CONTENTS.

sures upon that Incident: How he attacked them immediately, and his Success in those Attacks 159


PART II.

Chap. I. The Introduction 192

Chap. II. Of Hell as it is represented to us, and how the Devil is to be understood, as being personally in Hell, when at the same Time we find him at Liberty ranging over the World 206

Chap. III. Of the Manner of Satan’s acting and carrying on his Affairs in this World, and particularly of his ordinary Workings in the dark, by Possession and Agitation 216

Chap. IV. Of Satan’s Agents or Missionaries, and their Actings upon and in the Minds of Men in his Name 226

Chap. V. Of the Devil’s Management in the Pagan Hierarchy by Omens, Entrails, Augurs, Oracles, and such like Pageantry of Hell; and how they went off the Stage at last by the Introduction of true Religion 245

Chap. VI. Of the extraordinary Appearances of the Devil, and particularly of the Cloven-Foot 265Chap.