Excerpt from Calvary, or the Death of Christ, Vol. 1: A Poem, in Eight Books After a short introduction, Which states the miraculous acts of christ, and serves to mark the period at which the Poem commences, satan goes forth by night into the wilderness, and finds himself in the very spot, Where he had in vain practised his temptations upon christ' Here he falls into meditation upon that unsuccessful ih terview, and vents himself in sohloqny under disappointment and impatient to repair his defeat, he ascends to the summit of the mountain, from whence he had exhibited the kingdoms of the earth, and calls the Devils from all parts of the Heathen world whole host of Infernals assemble at his chief leaders are enumerated, their persons and attributes de scribed addresses them, and proposes the subject matter for their consultation, namely, By what means to counteract the power of christ upon earth baal de livers his sentiments by stating difficulties and objections without any decided opinion unless for seduction in the angrily resents What he considers as pointed at himself, and speaks disdainfully against the proposal of seduction, as not only desperate but disgrace replies, and after much circumlocution suggestsatemptation to be set on foot by mammon is interrupted by satan, who reproves him for certain digressions in his speech, but adopts his hint of employing mammon, and calls Upon that evil spirit to attempt the fidelity of J udas iscariot, whom he points out to him as the only one of the Disciples open to seduction mon at first affects to excuse himself from the under taking, but in conclusion accepts it, and taking wing in presence of the whole applauding host sets out up on his embassy, directing his course to the City of Je rusalem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.