ABSTRACT

Hitherto I have made the Devil the Aggressor in all the Transactions between himself and Mankind, but now we must turn the Tables; for whether it be, that finding things go on currently, and to his Mind, he only sits still and looks on, like an Engineer who has with infinite Art and great Fatigue form’d a new Machine, then sets it at Work, and seeing it perform according to Expectation, sits down with Satisfaction, and lets it go round of it self: Or whether the Nature of Man, corrupt, and prompt to all the foolish and foul things the Devil could put into his Head, does really run on faster than the Devil can drive him: This as a Doubt, which either Philosophy or Divinity have not yet resolv’d, I must leave it to Time and Experience to explain.