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HE reſtleſs malice of the great enemy of mankind againſt the church of God has been ſufficiently manifeſted in all ages of the world, and began to exert itſelf firſt of all in Cain, who killed his brother Abel, becauſe his own deeds were wicked, and his brother's righteous; as the holy ſcriptures inform us: And it has been his frequent practice, when he could not withdraw the people of God, from the profeſſion of the truth, by the bait of worldly advantage, to raiſe a flood of perſecution againſt them, by that means to extirpate them, if it were poſſible, out of the earth; of which no people in Europe have, in this age, had more fatal