heir Piques and
private Quarrels, _a certain Sign whose Management they were under_.

These being the Causes by which the DEVIL first sow'd the Seeds of
Mischief among them, and the Success so well answering his Design, he
could not but wish to have the same Advantage always ready at his Hand;
and therefore he resolv'd to order it so, that these Divisions, which,
however useful to him, were only personal, and consequently temporary,
like an Annual in the Garden, which must be rais'd anew every Season,
might for the future be national, and consequently durable and immortal.

To this end it was necessary to lay the Foundation of eternal Feud, not
in the Humours and Passions of Men only, but in the Interests of
Nations: The Way to do this was to form and state the Dominion of those
Princes, by such a Plan drawn in Hell, and laid out from a Scheme truly
political, of which the _Devil_ was chief Engineer; that the Divisions
should always remain, being made a natural Consequence of the Situation
of the Country, the Temper of their People, the Nature of their
Commerce, the Climate, the Manner of living, or something which should
for ever render it impossible for them to unite.

This, I say, was a Scheme truly infernal, in which the _Devil_ was as
certainly the principal Operator, to illustrate great Things by small,
as ever _John_ of _Leyden_ was of the High _Dutch_ Rebellion, or Sir
_John B------t_ of the late Project, called the _South-Sea_ Stock. Nor
did this Contrivance of the _Devil_ at all dishonour his Author, or the
Success appear unworthy of the Undertaker; for we see it not only answer
the End, and made the _Turk_ victorious at the same Time, and formidable
to _Europe_ ever after, but it works to this Day, the Foundation of the
Divisions remains in all the several Nations, and that to such a Degree
that it is impossible they should unite.

This is what I hinted before, in which the _Devil_ was mistaken, and is
another instance that he knows nothing of what is to come; for this very
Foundation of immortal Jealousy and Discord between the several Nations
of _Spain_, _France_, _Germany_, and others, which the _Devil_ himself
with so much Policy contriv'd, and which serv'd his Interests so long,
is now the only Obstruction to his Designs, and prevents the entire Ruin
of the Reformation; for tho' the reform'd Countries are very Powerful,
and some of them, as _Great Britain_ and _Prussia_ is particularly, more
powerful