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Rh an Eye in the Palace, and an Eye in the Cottage, in high Courts and counsels, He hath an Eye there too, and either guides their actions for their preservations, or else suffers their unjust dealings, till it bring them to their desolations; He hath a gracious eye over his people in their prosperity, and hath a merciful Eye over them in their greatest captivity; but we must be stedfast in our faith then and not let prosperity puffe us up with security, nor captivity make us despair of ever obtaining our liberty, for a true Christian hath awayes three enemies to deal withall, the world, the flesh and the Devill; and these three seek all opportunities to lay hold and conquer. But God sees the battel with his eye of providence from heaven, and so chears up the resolutions of his Souldiers, that though the battel be long and a continuall warfare here on earth, yet they shal not faint, but shall hold out to the end, and shall obtain their reward: Therefore let us not be dismaied, whatever befall us here, we