D. We {hall foon return with the agreeable

anfwcrj let not our Lord and Father continue fad and deje&ed, but depend upon a fpeedy Re lief, by the Affiftance of thy numerous IlTue, all devoted to thy Intercft and Felicity.
Cain. My Bleffing be with you in your Way, and give you a favourable Reception at the vcne- Tent of our univerfal Lord and Father.
Note, Here thecurfed Race being fully given up to the Direction of the Evil-Spirit, which fo early poflcfs'd them, and fwelling with Rage at the innocent Mel and his whole Family, they refolved upon forming a moil wicked and detef^ table lie, to bring about the Advice which they had already given their Father Cain a touch of 3, and to pretend that Adam being juftly provok'd at the undutiful Behaviour of Abelj had gr*i Cain a CommiiHon to chaftife him3 and by
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Force to cut him off and all his Family, as guilty of Rebellion and Pride.
Fill'd with this mifchievous and bloody Re- folution, they came back to their Father Caln^ after flaying a few Days, fuch as were fufficient to make Cain believe they had been at the fpaci- ous Plains, where Adam dwelt > the fame which are now calPd the blefled Valleys, or the Plains of Mecca in Arabia Foslix, near the Banks of the Red-Sea.
Note here alfo, that Cain having received a wicked Hint from thefe Men, his Children and Subjects, as before, intimating that Abel had bro ken the Laws of Primogeniture in his Behavi our towards him, (Cain) and that he might be juftly puninYd for it; Satan, that cunning Ma nager of all our wayward PalTions, fan'd the Fire of Envy and Jealoufy with his utmoft Skill all the while his other Agents were abfent ; and by the Time they came back had blown it up in to fuch a Heat of Fury and Rage, that it wanted nothing but Air to make it burn out, as it foon afterwards did in a furious Flame of Wrath and Revenge, even to Blood and Deftruftion.
Juft in the very critical Moment, while Things flood thus with Cain^ Satan brings in his wicked Inftruments, as if juft arriv'd with the Return of his Meflage from Adam, at whofe Court they had been for Orders 5 and thus they, that is the De+ vil afluming to fpeak by them, approach their Father with an Air of folemn but chearful Satif- fa&ion at the Succefs of their EmbafTy.