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 ſays it was the accurſed city, and not worth ſpill-

ing one drop of blood for

This religious bubble was certainly of Satan,

who as he certainly drew them in, ſo like a true

Devil he led them in the lurch when they came

there, faced about to the Saracens, animated the

immortal Saladdin againſt them, and managed ſo

dextrouſly, that he left the bones of thirteen or

fourteen hundred thouſand Chriſtians there, as

a trophy of his infernal politics, and after the

Chriſtian world had run all a ſanta terra, or in

Engliſh, a ſauntering about an hundred years, he

dropt it to play another game leſs fooliſh, but ten

times more wicked than that which went before it;

namely, turning the cruſadoes of the Chriſtians

one againſt another; and as Hudibras ſaid in an-

other caſe,

Of this you have a complete account in the hiſ

tory of the Pope's decrees againſt the Count de

Thoulouſe, and the Waldenſes and Abigenſes,

with the cruſades and maſſacres which followed

upon them, wherein, to do the Devil's politics

ſome juſtice, he met with all the ſucceſs he could

deſire. The zealots of that day executed his in-

fernal orders moſt punctually, and planted religion

in thoſe countries in a glorious and triumphant

manner, upon the deſtruction of an infinite num-

ber of innocent people, whole blood has fattened

the ſoil for the growth of the Catholic Faith in a

manner very peculiar, and to Satan's full ſatisfac-

tion.

I might, to complete this part of the hiſtory,

give you the detail of his progreſs in the firſt

ſteps of his alliances with Rome, and add a long

liſt of maſſacres, wars, and expeditions in behalf

of religion, which he has has had the honour to