HELL;
For _Satan_ flaming with unquench'd desire
Forms _his own Hell_, and kindles _his own fire_,
Vanquish'd, _not humbl'd_, not in will brought low,
But as _his powers_ decline _his passions_ grow:
The malice, _Viper like_, takes vent within,
Gnaws its own bowels, and bursts in _its own sin_:
Impatient of the change _he scorns to bow_,
And never _impotent_ in power _till now_;
Ardent with hate, and _with revenge_ distract,
A will to new attempts, _but none_ to act;
Yet all _seraphick_, and in just degree,
Suited _to Spirits high sense_ of misery,
Deriv'd from _loss_ which _nothing_ can repair,
And _room for nothing left_ but meer despair.
_Here's finish'd Hell!_ what fiercer fire _can burn_?
Enough ten thousand Worlds to over-turn.
HELL's but the frenzy of defeated pride,
Seraphick Treason's strong impetuous tide,
Where vile ambition _disappointed_ first,
To its _own rage_ and _boundless hatred_ curst;
The hate's _fan'd up to fury_, that to _flame_,
For _fire_ and _fury_ are in kind the same;
These burn unquenchable in every face,
And the word ENDLESS constitutes the place.

O _state of Being!_ where being's the only grief,
And the _chief torture_'s to be damn'd to life;
_O life!_ the only thing they have to hate;
The _finish'd torment_ of a future state,
Compleat in all the parts of endless misery,
And worse ten thousand times than _not_ to BE!
Could but the Damn'd _the immortal law_ repeal,
And _Devils dye_, there'd be _an end of Hell_;
Could they that thing call'd _Being_ annihilate,
There'd be _no sorrows_ in a future state;
The Wretch, whose crimes had shut him out _on high_,
Could be reveng'd on God himself _and die_;
_Job's Wife_ was in the right, and always we
Might end _by death_ all human misery, }
Might have it in our choice, _to be_ or not to be. }

CHAP. IV.

_Of the name of the Devil, his original, and the nature of his
circumstances since he has been called by that name._

The Scripture is the first writing on earth where we find the _Devil_
called by his own proper distinguishing denomination, DEVIL, or the [5]
_Destroyer_; nor indeed is there any other author of antiquity or of
sufficient authority which says any thing of that kind about him.

Here he makes his first appearance in the world, and on that occasion he
is called the _Serpent_; but the _Serpent_ however since made to