The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts. Даниэль Дефо

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Devil and his Host of fallen Spirits after their being expell’d from Heaven, and his wandring Condition till the Creation; with some more of Mr. Milton’s Absurdities on that Subject 77 Chap. VII. Of the Number of Satan’s Host; how they came first to know of the new created Worlds now in Being, and their Measures with Mankind upon the Discovery 86 Chap. VIII. Of the Power of the Devil at the Time of the Creation of this World; whether it has not been farther straiten’d and limited since that Time, and what Shifts and Stratagems he is oblig’d to make use of to compass his Designs upon Mankind 95 Chap. IX. Of the Progress of Satan in carrying on his Conquest over Mankind, from the Fall of Eve to the Deluge 111 Chap. X. Of the Devil’s second Kingdom, and how he got footing in the renewed World by his Victory over Noah and his Race 129 Chap. XI. Of God’s calling a Church out of the midst of a degenerate World, and of Satan’s new Measures upon that Incident: How he attacked them immediately, and his Success in those Attacks 159 PART II. Chap. I. The Introduction 192 Chap. II. Of Hell as it is represented to us, and how the Devil is to be understood, as being personally in Hell, when at the same Time we find him at Liberty ranging over the World 206 Chap. III. Of the Manner of Satan’s acting and carrying on his Affairs in this World, and particularly of his ordinary Workings in the dark, by Possession and Agitation 216 Chap. IV. Of Satan’s Agents or Missionaries, and their Actings upon and in the Minds of Men in his Name 226 Chap. V. Of the Devil’s Management in the Pagan Hierarchy by Omens, Entrails, Augurs, Oracles, and such like Pageantry of Hell; and how they went off the Stage at last by the Introduction of true Religion 245 Chap. VI. Of the extraordinary Appearances of the Devil, and particularly of the Cloven-Foot 265 Chap. VII. Whether is most hurtful to the World, the Devil walking about without his Cloven-Foot, or the Cloven-Foot walking about without the Devil? 282 Chap. VIII. Of the Cloven-Foot walking about the World without the Devil (viz.) of Witches making Bargains with the Devil, and particularly of selling the Soul to the Devil 316 Chap. IX. Of the Tools the Devil works with (viz.) Witches, Wizards or Warlocks, Conjurers, Magicians, Diviners, Astrologers, Interpreters of Dreams, Tellers of Fortunes; and above all the rest, his particular modern Privy-Counsellors call’d Wits and Fools 339 Chap. X.

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