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Rh of their hearts. They ſacrifice their luſts and vile affections, yea, ever their own wills unto him: and theſe God will hide in the bottom of his hand, and even under the ſhaddow of his wings; and this ſhall be one great difference between this laſt and all other preceeding perſecutions; for in the former the moſt eminent and ſpiritual miniſters and Chriſtians did generally ſuffer moſt, and were moſt violently fallen upon; but in this last perſecution theſe should be preſerved of God as a ſeed to partake of that glory, which shall immediately follow and come upon the church as ſoon as ever this ſtorm shall be over; for as it shall be sharpeſt, ſo it shall be the shorteſt. This reverend divine being aſked by whom this should be brought to paſs, anſwered, by the papiſts, for they were in his opinion the gentiles ſpoken of in the b of the Revelations, ſeeing they followed the gentiles manner of worſhip in adoring ſaints and angels, worſhipping images, &c. And indeed the late sharp and bloody perſecutions of the proteſtants in France, Savoy and at preſent in Ireland may be part of what this pious man hinted at; but if God for our ſins should ſuffer us to fall into farther affliction, we are ſure the joy of the wicked shall be but for a moment, and that in due time Rome shall finally fall, And the kings of the earth ſhall bare the whore, and make her deſolate and naked and burn her with fire. Rev. 17. 16.