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 OGIL. I read that there are ten thousand times ten thousand of angels that wait upon God and sing his praise, and do his will, and I cannot understand how the good angels can be inferior in number to the evil.

COOL. Did I not say, that whatever the number be, the spirits departed are employed in the same business; so that as to the number of original deities, whereof Satan is chief, I cannot determine, but you need not doubt but there are more souls departed in that place, which in a loose sense you call hell, by almost an infinity than what are gone to that place, which in a like sense you call heaven, which likewise are employed in the same purpose: and I can assure you by the bye, that there is as great a difference between angels both good and bad, as there is among men, with respect to their sense, knowledge, cunning, cleverness, and action; nay, which is more, the departed souls on both sides outdo several, from the very first departure of the original angels. This you will perhaps thing a paradox, but it is true.

OGIL. I do not doubt it, but what is that to my question, about which I am solicitous?

COOL. Take a little patience, sir; from what I have said, you might have understood me, if you had your thoughts about you. But I shall explain myself to you. Both the good and the bad angels have stated times of rendezvous, and the principal angels, who have the charge either of town, cities, or