ed from me; I have promised the devil my soul,
and therefore it is but a folly for me to hope for grace, but it must be
even with me as with Lucifer, thrown into perpetual burning fire: ah!
woe is me that ever I was born."

In this perplexity lay this miserable Dr. Faustus, having quite forgot
his faith in Christ, never falling to repentance truly, thereby to
attain the grace and holy Spirit of God again, the which would have been
able to have resisted the strong assaults of Satan; for although he had
made him a promise, yet he might have remembered, through true
repentance sinners may once come again into the favour of God, which
faith the faithful firmly hold, knowing they that kill the body are not
able to hurt the soul; but he was in all his opinions doubtful, without
faith or hope, and so he continued.

CHAPTER XIV.

_Another disputation betwixt Dr. Faustus and his Spirit, of the Power
of the Devil, and his Envy to Mankind._

After Faustus had a while pondered and sorrowed with himself on his
wretched estate, he called again Mephistophiles unto him, commanding him
to tell him the judgment, rule, power, attempts, tyranny, and temptation
of the devil; and why he was moved to such kind of living?

Whereupon the spirit answered to this question: "That thou demandest of
me will turn thee to no small discontentment; therefore thou shouldst
not have desired of me such matters, for it toucheth the secrets of our
kingdom, although I cannot deny to resolve thy request: therefore know,
Faustus, that so soon as my lord Lucifer fell from Heaven, he became
mortal enemy both to God and man, and hath used, as now he doth, all
manner of tyranny to the destruction of man, as is manifested by divers
examples: one falling suddenly dead, another hangs himself, another
drowns himself, others stab themselves, others unlawfully despair, and
so come to utter confusion. The first Adam, that was made perfect to the
similitude of God, was by my lord's policy the whole decay of man; yea,
Faustus, in him was the beginning and first tyranny of my lord Lucifer
to man. The like did he with Cain; the same with the children of Israel
when they worshipped strange gods, and fell to whoredom with strange
women; the like with Saul; so did he by the seven husbands of her that
after was the wife of Tobias; likewise Dagon, our fellow, brought to
destruction fifty thousand men, whereupon the ark of God was stolen, and
Belial made David to numbe