

Their OEconomy, &c. 39 
This being a Subject moft awful, may 
be difagreeable to fome Readers, therefore 
I am the rather willing to difmits it, 
Moreover, we find there is fome Order 
or Government among Angels, both good 
and bad. As to the former, we read, as of 
Angels, fo alfo of Arch-Angels; perhaps as 
Generals of the heavenly Hoft. Of Au- 
thorities, Principalities, Powers, Thrones and 
Dominions ; whence we may reafonably in- 
fer fome Supremacy among them ; yet they 
are all fubject to Chrift, who is Lord of 
Angels ; for fo it is written, Let all the An- 
gels of God worfhip him. 
And if the Scriptures may be credited, an 
Order or Government among Devils mutt 
_alfo be acknowledged. ‘‘ That there is a 
*< great Multitude of Apoftate Spirits, is clear 
not only on the Evidence of feven caft out 
of one Woman, (Mary Magdalen,) but a 
Legion fettled in one poor Man, For tho’ 
the Devil’s Account of his own Strength 
is not fo far to. be credited, as to believe 
their Number did exactly anfwer to a 
Roman Legion, (which according to fome 
was 6,666.) yet there being {fo plain an 
Allufion thereto, and the Scripture in the 
Recital favouring it fo far as to confent 
toa Truth in that Part of the Story, we 
cannot but conclude the Number of -De- 
vils in that Man was very great; and 
“ fo great, that the Similitude of a Legion 
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