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13 Now, as we go to the Scripture for much of his history, so we must go there also for some of his names: and as he has a great variety of names indeed, as his several mischeviousmischievous [sic] doings guide us to conceive of him. The truth is; all the ancient names given him, of which the Scripture is full, seem to be originals derived from, and adapted to the several steps he has taken, and the several shapes he has appeared. in, to do mischiefs in the world.

Here he is called the Serpent, Gen. iii. 1. The old Serpent, Rev. xii. 9.——The great Red Dragon, Rev. xii. 3.——The Accuser of the Brethren, Rev. xii. 10.-The enemy, Matth. xii. 39.—Satan, Job i. Zech. in. 1, 2.——Belial, 2 Cor. vi. 15. ——Belzebub, Matth. xii. 24.——Mammon, Matth. vi. 24.——The Angel of Light, 2 Cor. xi. 14.—— The Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Rev. ix. 11.—— The Prince of the Power of the Air, Eph. ii. 2.-Lucifer, Isa. xiv. 12——Abaddon or Appollyon, Rev. ix. ll.——Legion, Mark. v.9.——The God of this World, 2 Cor. iv. 4.——The Foul Spirit, Mark ix. 25.——The Lying Spirit, 2 Chron. XXX.——The Tempter, Matth. iv. 3.——The Son of the Morning, Isa. xiv. 12.

But to sum them all up in one, he is called in the New Testament plain Devil. All his other names are varied according to the custom of speech an dialects of the several nations where he is spoken of: but, in a word, Devil is the common name of the Devil in all the known languages of the earth. Nay, all the mischiefs he is empowered to do, are in Scripture placed to his account, under the particular title of the Devil, not of Devils in the plural number, though: they are sometimes mentioned two, but in the singular, it is the identical individual Devil, in