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( 14 ) their young ones: the Daughter of my People is become cruel, like the Oſtriches in the Wilderneſs.

And 4thly, I have him to bleſs for this that I am not this Day fighting againſt him in an open ſtated War, and ſo bearing Arms againſt him and his People, for there is no more in me as to myſelf, then theſe that are embrewing their Hands deeply in the Blood of the Saints.

5thly, I have him to bleſs for this that ever he opened mine Eyes to ſee the Myſtery of Iniquity that abounds and hath its Seat in the Heart : As alſo in ſome Meaſure, a Sight of the Remedy in that Blood of Jeſus, with his Spirit engaging me to himſelf, letting me ſee himſelf altogether precious, making me to ſee that it is better to be a Door-keeper in the Houſe of God then to dwell in all the Pleaſure of Sin for a Seaſon; Pſal. lxxiii. 24. Thou ſhalt guide me with thy Counſel and afterward receive me to Glory. v. 25. Whom have I in Heaven but thee? and there is none upon Earth that I deſire beſides thee.

6thly, I have his holy Name to bleſs that ever he honoured me to know any Thing, how ſmall foever of his Perſecuted Truths, viz. His Crown, Kingdom and Privileges, now when many by their Acts and Laws hath taken his Crown and Sceptre and Royal Robe from him, and ſettled the whole Government of his Houſe upon a Man that is but a Worm; but