, or minister of police (what our Sterne calls the accusing angel) in the prologue to Job into the devil was a mere condescension to the prevailing prejudice? Here, however, he speaks like himself, and like a true religious philosopher, who felt that the personality of evil spirits is a trifling question, compared with the personality of the evil principle. This is indeed most momentous.
Footnote 1
: Written in a copy of
Select Discourses by John Smith, of Queen's College, Cambridge, 1660,
and communicated by the Rev. Edward Coleridge.
Ed.