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 poor Faustus was no doctor, and knew no more of the Devil than any other body.

Thus the magistrates of Bern in Switzerland, finding a gang of French of puppet shows had opened their stage in the town, upon hearing the surprising accounts which the people gave of their puppets, how they made them speak, answer questions, and discourse, appear and disappear in a moment, pop up here, as if they rose out of the earth, and down there, as if they vanished, and abundance more feats of art, censured them as dæmons; and, if they had not packed up their trinkets, and disappeared almost as dextrously as their puppets, they had certainly condemned the poor puppets to the flames for devils, and censured, if not otherwise punished, their masters. See the count de Rochfort's memoirs, p. 179.

However, though the Devil has been abused by unaccountable human ingenuity being laid to his charge, by the blinded and inconsiderate in the misty days of Papal superstition; yet, when we have seen the parties in these three nations agitated and inflamed, and glutting themselves in blood and ruin, who can we attribute it to but the Devil, whose known business, whose greatest pleasure it is. Therefore will any man be so far an infidel to the belief of the Devil's exercising his own profession of stirring up confusion, as to think that he did not, by the agency of Cardinal Richelieu, send 400,000 crowns at one time, and 600,000 at another, to the Scots, to raise an army and march boldly into England; and did not the fame Devil, by other agents, remit be 800,000 crowns to England, to raise an army to fall upon the Scots; that in the confusion he might crush the seeds of the reformation? Was he not also busy in the days of the usurpation? And, in our own times, have we not seen Thomas Paine a willing volunteer for the Devil in every wickedness? This modern anarchist was first an Excisz Officer at Deal, in England, and so connected himself with, and connived at smuggling, that, hearing a writ was issued for appre-