We do not hesitate to express a belief that we have advanced much curious matter on many curious subjects, worthy the reader's attention, which are doubtless calculated to induce thought and elicit conversation, and lead men to read the Bible, which, in reality, contains more useful and wonderful information, than all the books of mankind put together. The nature of the subjects, upon which we have treated in this work, are of necessity, such as are denominted the terrible; but on this account, we hope it will not be rejected, while we remember that it is written by St. Paul: (2d Cor. v. 11,) "Knowing the TERROR of the Lord, we persuade men." With this view, therefore, namely, to persuade men to read the Bible, and the more earnestly to examine it, to arouse the attention of men to the subjects we have treated upon, and to check-according to our ability, Universalist opinions, in their overflow of the land, we set it afloat on the sea of public opinion, asking the favor of a wide dispersion of the work, and of its being thoroughly read and compared with the Scriptures-having with respect to these objects, the good wishes, at least, of THE AUTHOR. INDEX TO PART FIRST. Genesis, third chapter, examined in relation to the original meaning of the word SERPENT; and inquiry as to what kind of animal it was which Satan made use of to beguile the first woman-was it u Snake, or was it the Orang outang with a full account of the latter Arguments and traditions, which, in the estimation of many, go to support the ideathat a Snake was the animal of the text of Mosca, by which Eve was deceived; with a full account of several specimens of this kind of animal, a reptile, as known to the ancients....... The manner in which serpents moved over the ground before Strictures on Mr. Balfour's opinions against the existence of any animal whatever, as used by Satan, in the beguiling of the first woman; with other subjects...... Strictures on Mr. Balfour's opinions, respecting orthodox Origin of Satan, and cause of sin; with many other curious matters as of the first creative acts of God; whether matter is eternal or not; with proofs of the necessary and unbeginning existence of God; whether mind is produced from organization; whether God was active previous to his first creative act; and whether mind or matter was first created; the heaven of the angels; its location; where, &c.; have any other worlds of the universe sinned besides this on which we dwell↑ a query of the author of the Age of Reason, against Christianity, an Condition of the first spirits; proofs that they were made in a great variety of orders; cause of the being of Satan, &c..................... Further examinations of the same subjects; with enquiries whether the angels of the Scriptures were men or spirits; the latter of 81 67 Proofs of the fall of the angels; refutation of several propo- ..... What became of the wicked angels after their fall; is there 124 188 144 167 171 205 215 INDEX TO PART SECOND. Account of the operation of Satan, with the heads of our What would have been the condition of Eve, if when she had 227 246 Further proofs of the being of Satan, and of his real identity, Further evidence still, of the real existence of Satan, and evil An enquiry, how Satan, and evil spirits were worshiped in An enquiry as to the original cause of diseases and death; Miscellaneous strictures and remarks on the subjects of Uni- 249 264 279 287 318 326 334 362 On the subject of the forms or shapes of good and evil spirits, 404 ... 414 Evidence of Polycarp, the Martyr, ágainst Universalists, in 417 Proofs of the immortality of the human soul, or that it does 418 TO THE SUBSCRIBER. Although the Index does not particularise all we have allu- HISTORY OF THE FALLEN ANGELS, &C. PART FIRST. That there exists a supernatural being, designated by the original term, and name, Satan, is believed by all the Christian sects, denominated orthodox; yet we do not find among the great number of this description of Christians any belief extant of the existence of but one such being; while it is held by them that there are many evil spirits or supernatural demons, who are inferior in mental ability, and subordinate to this one Satan; who before he fell, was one of the only two archangels, of all the intellectual powers, which God created in the very out-set and beginning of existences. The names of those two archangels, when first created, were Michael and Lucifer, as we shall show in the course of the work; Michael signifying, "the might of God:" and Lucifer, Light-bringer. St. Jude, the Prophets Daniel and Isaiah, speak of these beings, under those names; orthodox christians believe that these two highest of all angelic orders, as well as all beneath them, were created by the WORD of God, who, in the course of ages, created not only our earth, but all other worlds, and continties to create as he pleases, and will continue thus to create ad infinitum, peopling them and constituting them as he will; and that this WORD of God-the Second Person of the ever-adorable and mysterious Trinity-in the fullness of periods, became incarnale, or in other words, became flesh and dwelt among men : when he received the name of Jesus Christ. According to these, the orthodox sects, it is believed that one of these archangels, namely, Lucifer, fell from his first condition, together with many other angels of lower orders, and were therefore, necessarily, bereft of all happiness, which constitutes their departure from, or fall from heaven, their first estate. The first information of this occurrence, they believe is found in Gen esis, the book of the generations of the heavens and the earth, at the beginning of the 3d chapter, as written by Moses; and is believed to be the eldest literary work now in being: the Chineso and Hindoo books not excepted: which by some it it is said, however, claim an astonishing antiquity, amounting even to millions of years, if not of ages; but are known, and ascertained by the enlightened antiquarian societies of the age, and especially |