Notwithstanding,
if thou wilt obey now, and return to the Door of the Cave into which
thou didst enter, thou may'st go safe home to thine own Dwelling.'
The Soldier, who had so often experienced God's Assistance before,
despised both their Threats and Promises. whereupon the Devils,
enraged to see themselves so often contemned, cast themselves
headlong into the Pit, and thrust the Soldier down before them. Who
the further he descended the larger he observed the Pit to grow, and
the more sensibly he felt the pain of the Fire: Here the poor Man
was put to the extent of his patience; for the pain was so
intolerably acute, that for a while he had quite lost his Senses, and
was not able to pronounce the Name of Jesus! but Almighty God taking
pity of him enabled him at last to utter in some manner that Divine
Name: Whereupon the Flame shot him up so as that he fell upon the
Brink of the Pit: but so disordered, that for awhile he knew not
where he was, neither cou'd he tell whither to turn himself. Then a
new and unknown Legion of devils rushing out of the Pit surrounded
him, and asked what he did there? 'Our Companions (say they) told
thee this was the Gate of Hell; but they told thee a lye, and thou
shalt know it is so; for we are always accustomed to tell lyes, that
we may deceive those we cannot by telling the Truth. This is not the
Hell, but now we will bring thee to it.
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