THE NOVELS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS CF DANIEL DE FOE. WITA PREPACES AND NOTES, INCLUDING THOSE ATTRIBUTED TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. MOLL FLANDERS AND HISTORY OF THE DEVIL LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1884. PS 3401 1882 1 . LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS. Being an introduction to the whole work Of the word "devil,' as it is a proper name to the Devil, and any or all Įf the original of the Devil, who he is, what he was before his expulsion out of heaven, and in what state he was from that time to the creation Of the name of the Devil, his original, and the nature of his circumstances < 313 CHAPTER V. Of the station Satan had in heaven before he fell; the nature and original of his crime, and some of Mr. Milton's mistakes about it 332 CHAPTER VI. What became of the Devil and his host of fallen spirits after their being expelled from heaven, and his wandering condition till the creation; with some more of Mr. Milton's absurdities on that subject . 342 CHAPTER 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 348 CHAPTER VIII. Of the power of the Devil at the time of the creation of this world ; whetber it has not been farther straitened and limited since that time, and what shifts and stratagems he is obliged to make use of to compass his designs upon mankind 354 CHAPTER IX. Of the progress of Satan in carrying on his conquest over mankind, from the fall of Eve to the Deluge . 366 CHAPTER X. Of the Devil's second kingdom, and how he got footing in the renewed world by his victory over Noah and his race 380 CHAPTER 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 imme. diately, and his success in those attacks . 401 . |