e; for Men being naturally
Proud and Envious, Nations and Tribes began to jostle with one another
for Room; either one Nation enjoy'd better Accommodations, or had a
better Soil or a more favourable Climate than another; and these being
numerous and strong thrust the other out, and encroach'd upon their
Land; the other liking their Situation, prepare for their Defence, and
so began Oppression, Invasion, War, Battle and Blood, Satan all the
while beating the Drums, and his Attendants clapping their Hands, as Men
do when they set Dogs on upon one another.

The bringing Mankind thus to _War_ and _Confusion_, as it was the first
Game the Devil play'd after the confounding of Languages and Divisions
at _Babel_ so it was a Conquest upon Mankind, purely devilish, born from
Hell, and so exactly tinctured with Satan's original Sin _Ambition_,
that it really transform'd Men into meer Devils; for when is Man
transform'd into the very Image of Satan himself, when is he turn'd into
a meer Devil, if it is not when he is fighting with his fellow
Creatures and dipping his Hands in the Blood of his own Kind? Let his
Picture be consider'd, the Fire of Hell flames or sparkles in his Eyes,
a voracious Grin sits upon his Countenance; Rage and Fury distort the
Muscles of his Face; his Passions agitate his whole Body, and he is
metamorphos'd from a comely Beauteous angelic Creature into a _Fury_, a
_Satyr_, a terrible and frightful Monster, nay, into a _Devil_; for
_Satan_ himself is describ'd by the same Word which on his very Account
is chang'd into a Substantive, and the Devils are call'd _Furies_.

This sowing the Seeds of Strife in the World, and bringing Nations to
fight and make War upon one another, would take up a great Part of the
_Devil_'s History, and abundance of extraordinary Things would occur in
relating the particulars; for there have been very great Conflagrations
kindled in the World, by the Artifice of Hell, under this Head, (_viz._)
of making War; in which it has been the _Devil_'s Master-piece, and he
has indeed shewn himself a Workman in it, that he has wheedled Mankind
into strange unnatural Notions of things, in order to propagate and
support the fighting Principle in the World; such as Laws of War, fair
Fighting, behaving like Men of Honour, fighting at the last Drop, and
the like, by which killing and murdering is understood to be
justifiable. Virtue and a true Greatness in Spirit is rated now by Rules
which God ne