t that his Daughters Design was so wicked as indeed it was, or
that they intended to debauch him with Wine, and make him drink till he
knew not what he did.

Now the _Devil_ having carried his Game here, gain'd a great Point; for
as there were but two religious Families in the World before, from
whence a twofold Generation might be supposed to rise religious and
righteous like their Parents, (_viz._) that of _Abraham_ and this of
_Lot_; this Crime ruin'd the Hopes of one of them; it could no more be
said that just _Lot_ was in Being, who vex'd his _righteous Soul_ from
Day to Day with the wicked Behaviour of the People of _Sodom_; righteous
_Lot_ was degenerated into drunken incestuous _Lot_, LOT fallen from
what he was, to be a wicked and unrighteous Man; no pattern of Virtue,
no Reprover of the Age, but a poor fallen Degenerate Patriarch, who
could now no more reprove or exhort, but look down and be asham'd, and
nothing to do but to repent; and see the poor mean Excuses of all the
three.

Eve says, _The Serpent beguil'd me, and I did eat_.

Noah says, ---- _My Grandson beguil'd me, or the Wine beguil'd me,
and I did drink_.

Lot says, _My Daughters beguil'd me, and I also did drink_.

It is observable, that as I said above, _Noah_ was silenc'd, and his
Preaching at an End, after that one Action, so the like may be said of
_Lot_; and in short, you never hear one Word more of either of them
after it; as for Mankind, both were useless to them, and as to
themselves, we never read of any of their Repentance, nor have we much
Reason to believe they did repent.

From this Attack of the _Devil_ upon _Lot_, we hear no more of the
_Devil_ being so busily employ'd as he had been before in the World; he
had indeed but little to do, for all the rest of the World was his own,
lull'd asleep under the Witchcraft of Idolatry, and are so still.

But it could not be long that the _Devil_ lay idle; as soon as God
call'd himself a People, the _Devil_ could not be at Rest; till he
attack'd them.

'Wherever God sets up a House of Prayer,
'The Devil always builds a Chapel there.

_Abraham_ indeed went off the Stage free, and so did _Isaac_ too, they
were a Kind of first Rate Saints; we do not so much as read of any
failing they had, or of any Thing the _Devil_ had ever the Face to offer
to them; no, or with _Jacob_ either, if you will excuse him for
beguiling his Brother _Esau_, of both his Birthright a