: Written in a copy of Mr. Hillhouse's
Hadad
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Ed.
Notes [1] March, 1824.
A Christian's conflicts and conquests, p. 459.
By the devil we are to understand that apostate spirit which fell from God, and is always designing to hale down others from God also. The Old Dragon (mentioned in the Revelation) with his tail drew down the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth.
How much is it to be regretted, that so enlightened and able a divine as Smith, had not philosophically and scripturally enucleated this so difficult yet important question, respecting the personal existence of the evil principle; that is, whether as
