Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

Proposition 1.

We are to look upon the Devils as a Wicked One. That there are Devils in the world, is unquestionable to all but those absurd Sadducees, that say, seeing is believing, and will believe nothing but what they see. And yet if even seeing would convince them, after their contemning of the Scriptural Evidence which may be read in Jude 6. and Mat. 18. 16. and Luc. 4. 33. and many other places, we have in a manner seen such Beings as Devils are. That is, we have seen such preternatural operations in some Enchantments and Possession• among us, as could never have been without the Existence of certain spiritual and rational Substances, as are full of all Wickedness against God, and enmity against man. Would you know what a Devil is? The Apostle gives a description of him, in Eph. 6. 12. a spiritual wickedness, that is, a wicked Spirit. Hideous Droves of those wicked Spirits, being fallen Angels, are made prisoners within the Atmosphere of that Earth which we walk upon […] the High-places of our Air, are, as the Apostle intimates, the Receptacles of those wicked Spirits. But now,

We are to look upon the Devils as a Wicked One. That there are Devils in the world, is unquestionable to all but those absurd Sadduces, that say, seeing is believing, and will believe nothing but what they see. And yet if even seeing would convince them, after their contemning of the Scriptural Evidence which may be read in Jude 6. and Mat. 18. 16. and Luc. 4. 33. and many other places, we have in a manner seen such Beings as Devils are. That is, we have seen such preternatural operations in some Enchantments and Possession among us, as could never have been without the Existence of certain spiritual and rational Substances, as are full of all Wickedness against God, and enmity against man. Would you know what a Devil is? The Apostle gives a description of him, in