D. Do not fay fo. Sir j there can be no Difeale

fure on Earth but may be cur'd on Earth > if it be a mental Evil, we have heard that your great Anceflor, the firft Father of us all, who lives ftill on the great weftern Plains towards the Sea, is the Oracle to which all his Children fly for Direction in fuch Cafes as are out of the Reach of the or dinary understanding of Mankind j pleafe you to give leave, we will take a Journey to him, and re- prefenting your Cafe to him, we will hear his Ad vice, and bring it to you with all Speed, for the Eafe of your Mind.
Cain. I know not whether he can reach my Cafe or no.
Z). Doubtlefs he may, and if not, the Labour of our Journey is nothing when plac'd in Competi tion with the Eafe of your Mind > 'tis but a few Days travel loft, and you will not be the worfe if we fail of the deflred Succefs.
Cain. The offer is filial, and I accept your af- fedionate Concern for me, with a juft Scnfe of an obliged Parent j go then, and my Bleffing be
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upon you; but alas ! why do I blefs? can he blefs whom God has not blefsM !
Z). O ! Sir, -do not fay fo, has not God blefs'd you? are you not the fccond Sovereign of the Earth ? and does he not converfe with you Face to Face ? are not you the Oracle to all your, growing Pofterity, and next after his Sovereign Imperial Majetty Lord Adam^ Patriarch of the World ?
Cain. But has not God rejected me, and.refu- fed to converfe any more with me, while he dai ly Favours and Countenances my younger Bro ther Abel) as if he refolv'd to fet him up to rule over me?