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82 of all his afflictions:" This perſon has, through God's providence, been ſince delivered; and has declared, That the conſolations that God, out of his infinite love afforded to him, were ſo great, that he little regarded the miſeries he was reduced to, tho' he continued in that lamentable condition about two and twenty months, without changing his clothes, till his beard was grown as long as the hair of his head, and his face as pale as a plaiſtered wall; he declared alſo, that when he was delivered, the number of thoſe chained to the gallies for the ſake of religion, was about three hundred and ſeventy, who glorified God, in their ſufferings, with an unparalleled courage and conſtancy.