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The history of the Devil, ancient and modern

Chapter 18

D. No, Sir, that cannot be, you cannot be

difturb'd at fuch a thing $ is not the Right of So vereignty yours by Primogeniture? can Godhim- felf take that away, when 'tis once given? are not you Lord Adam's eldeft Son ? are you not the firftborn Glory of the Creation ? and does not the Government defcend to you by the divine Right of Birth and Blood ?
Cain. But what does all that fignify to me, while God appears to favour and carets my youn ger Brother, and to ihine upon him, while a black Dejection and token of Difpleafure fur- rounds me every Day, and he does not appear to me as he ufed to do ?