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, who are harraſſed and oppreſſed only becauſe they ſuffer it without Reſiſtance. We are therefore to remember, whenever the Peſt here threatened ſhall invade us, that Submiſſion and Tameneſs will be certain Ruin; and that nothing but Spirit, Vigilance, Activity, and Oppoſition can preſerve us from the moſt hateful and reproachful Miſery, that of being plundered, ſtarved, and devoured by Vermin and by [ſcarlet] Reptiles.

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