met with such Success when he had but two? and why
should he question breaking in now where Nature was already vitiated and
corrupted, when he had before conquer'd the same Nature, when in its
primitive Rectitude and Purity, just come out of the Hands of its Maker,
and fortify'd with the Awe of his high and solemn Command just given
them, and the threatning of Death also annext to it, if broken?

But I go back to the Affair of _Babel_: This Confusion of Language or of
Councils, take it which way you will, as the first Disappointment that I
find the Devil met with, in all his Attempts and Practices upon Mankind,
or upon the new Creature, which I mentioned above; for now he foresaw
what would follow; namely, that the People would separate and spread
themselves over the whole Surface of the Earth, and a thousand new
Scenes of Actions would appear, in which he therefore prepares himself
to behave as he should see Occasion.

How the Devil learn'd to speak all the Languages that were now to be
used, and how many languages they were, the several ancient Writers of
the _Devil_'s Story have not yet determined; some tell us they were
divided only into fifteen, some into seventy two, others into one
hundred and eighty, and others again into several Thousands.

It also remains a doubt with me, and, I suppose, will be so with others
also, whether Satan has yet found out a Method to converse with Mankind,
without the Help of Language and Words, or not: Seeing Man has no other
Medium of Conversing, no not with himself: This I have not time to enter
upon here; however, this seems plain to me (_viz._) that the _Devil_
soon learn'd to make Mankind understand him, whatever Language he spoke,
and no doubt but he found Ways and Means to understand them, whatever
Language they spoke.

After the Confusion of Languages, the People necessarily sorted
themselves into Families and Tribes, every Family understanding their
own particular Speech, and that only; and these Families multiplying
grew into Nations, and those Nations wanting Room, and seeking out
Habitations wandred some this Way, some that, till they found out
Countries respectively proper for their settling, and there they became
a Kingdom, spreading and possessing still more and more Land as their
People encreased, till at last the whole Earth was scarce big enough for
them: This presented _Satan_ with an Opportunity to break in upon their
Morals at another Door, (_viz._) their Prid