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 no Way infers the Dignity of the Scourge! tho they have aid with the proud Boater in Iaiah c. x. 13. By the Strength of my Hand I have done it, and by my Widom, for I am prudent: I have removed the Bounds of the People, and have robbed their Treaures, and at one gathereth Eggs that are left, have I gathered all the Earth; and there was none that moved the Wing, or opened the Mouth, or peeped: Yet may we rely upon them with the Prophet, ''shall the Ax boat iself againt him that beweth therewith? As the Rod hould hake itelf againt them that lift it up; as if the Staff hould lift up itelf, as if it were no Wood.''"

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