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 great number of pectators and beholders. But our comfort is we know the time is comming, wherein the Lord will make the ound of the harp, and of muick to ceae in thee O Babylon. Rev. 18. 22.

24. Yet there was omething good in thee mens madnee, as it was ordered by the widome of him, in whoe hands all Tyrants are but as a Fanne, to cleane the graine of his Church; for by this meanes the chaffe was eparated from the wheat, and the droe from the gold, that now it might appear who loved Chrit, and all hypocrites might be dicovered. We certainly have een, as in a glae, omething which doth preage that which the Lord foretold hould come to pas when he comes, That there hould be two in one bed, one hould be taken, the other hould be left: two in one Mill, the one taken, the other left. Here it was apparent what was the trength of them that truly love God, and what was the weaknes of them that disemble godlines. For I will not reckon up what friends were eparated from their friends, what kinsfolk from their kinsfolk, parents from their children, children from their parents, brother and iter one from another: yea, ome wives, their husbands not enduring the tryal of the Cros, was eparated and disjoyned: ome husbands are banihed, whoe wives could not be perwaded to forake all for Chrit: there are ome women, who that they wight profes their faith in Chrit, have for- aken