A very good Story indeed! fit for no body but the Devil to put into any Man's Head; But so it is, B being put in mind, forsooth, that he is _a Man of Honour_, starts back and must act the honourable Part; so he lets A get up, put on his Clothes and take his Sword; then they fight, and B is kill'd for his Honour; whereas had the Laws of God, of Nature and of Reason taken Place, the Adulterer and the Adulteress should have been taken Prisoners and carried before the Judge, and being taken in the Fact, should have been immediately sentenc'd, he to the Block and she to the Stake, and the innocent abus'd Husband had no Reason to have run any Risque of his Life for being made a Cuckold. But thus has _Satan_ abus'd the Reason of Man; and if a Man does me the greatest Injury in the World, I must do my self Justice upon him, by venturing my life upon an even Lay with him, and must fight him upon equal Hazard, in which the injur'd Person is as often kill'd as the Person offering the Injury: Suppose now it be in the same Case _as above_, a Man abuses my Wife, and then to give me Satisfaction, tells me, he will fight me, which the _French_ call _doing me Reason_; _No Sir_, say I, _let me lie with your Wife too, and then if you desire it, I may fight you; then I am upon even Terms with you_; but this indeed is the Reasoning which the _Devil_ has brought Mankind too at this Day: But to go back to the Subject, _viz._ the Devil bringing the Nations to fall out, and to quarrel for Room in the World, and so to fight in order to dispossess one another of their Settlements: This began at a Time when certainly there were Places enough in the World for every one to choose in, and therefore the _Devil_, not the want of Elbow-room, must be the Occasion of it; and 'tis carried on ever since, as apparently from the same Interest, and by the same original. But we shall meet with this Part again very often in the _Devil_'s Story, and as we bring him farther on in the Management of Mankind, I therefore lay it by for the Present, and come to the next Steps the _Devil_ took with Mankind after the Confusion of Languages, and this was in the Affair of Worship; It does not appear yet that ever the _Devil_ was so bold, as either, 1. To set himself up to be worship'd as a God, or which was still worse, 2. To persuade Man to believe there was no God at all to worship. Both these are introduc'd since the Deluge, _one_ indeed by the _Devil_, who soon found Means to set himself up for a God in many Parts of the World, and holds it to this Day; but the _last_ is brought in by the Invention of Man, in which it must be confess'd Man has out-sin'd the Devil; for to do Satan justice, he never thought it could ever pass upon Mankind, or that any Thing so gross would go down with them; so that, _in short_, these modern Casuists, in the Reach of our Days, have, _I say_, out-sin'd the _Devil_.