325. * THAT THE DEVIL'S CREW NOT ONLY HAVE NO POWER, BUT THEY CAN ALSO PERCEIVE WHAT IS TRUE, AND CAN CONFESS AND ACKNOWLEDGE IT, AND INDEED, AS THOUGH NOT UNWILLINGLY Today I learnt from experience, that even those of the devil's crew, who otherwise are most stupid in the things that are truths of faith, were nevertheless constrained to confess that they know that it is true that they can do nothing of themselves. This they altogether acknowledged, and indeed not [only] from the mouth, but also from a certain persuasion. Afterwards, however, they were ashamed. 1747, Dec. 9. * The number commences in the MS. with the following words crossed out: "There were certain of the devil's crew around me, who to a certain one not long dead..."