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 may ly by, we need not trouble our heads about it. Many would be at that; indeed the Lord will do it, but we must make use of the means incumbent upon us:—I shall speak of several means to be made use of in order to hasten the Lord's delivery of the captives contending with them who have contcndedcontended [sic] with us.

1. The first two or three of these means you may see from Revel. xii. 11. in the 10th verse it is said the accuser of the brethren is cast down, &c.— What is meant by that? that is, the devil hath gotten a sore stroke; how got he that? verse 11. And they overcame by the blood of the Lamb.—What is that? by believing Jesus Christ, by employing him, by giving him much credit, who is the Captain of salvation, and was made perfect through suffering.O sad that there is so little faith in our day! faith will say to this mountain, Remove yonder, and it will be: we may say there is nothing impossible to him that believes; they overcame by the blood of the Lamb; indeed he that believes will overcome if it were on a scaffold, yea, even when lying on the ground, and his blood gushing out; for his blood, when it is gone, by virtue of the blood of Jesus Christ, is crying for vengeance. O the noble victories that hath been win to in fields and on scaffolds by our Lord in this land and elsewhere; the dragon and his angels have fought with Michael and his angels; but the dragon hath been cast down.

2. A second mean is this (their testimony) they overcame by the Word of their testimony.Fy on you in this generation that is so much against testimonies, when the Lord is drawing it out of them, and if any appear to give a testimony, the rest is offended thereby, they overcame by the blood of their testimony. Had we openly pleaded with our mother, and testified against the sins of our rulers who ruled in this land, we had not lien so long under the feet of the usurper of him who is the stated enemy of Jesus Christ: