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•hat shall I here rehearse the •est of your outrages which are innumerable? what shall I speak of the state of Geneva, ¹which being oftentimes circumvented by you, and your wicked counsels and crafty practi•es chiefly, and as often d•••ered by Gods only assistance, may be a sufficient argu•••• to proou•, that your •an•e was no less odious to God, then your tyranny pernicious to men. And yet I know not certainly whether the majesty of the Lord of Hosts did at anytime more comfortably, or more magnificently •••wre abroad the riches of his mercy, then in that •a•e siege of Rochelle the Godly ⟨image 27⟩Citizens and inhabitants whereof being grievously besieged by him,² of whom they might of all likelihood have been swallowed up easily without dint of sword, yea though he had slept soundly in his Pavilion: yet in this lamentable case and despaired estate, being miserably distressed, as well for want of food, as environed with succourless siege• the fatherly hand of the Lord did so nothing slack his aid and fatherly care of preserving his people, as that by a wondrous miracle, relieving them with unspeakable abundance of fish, did not only at one instant deliver them from famine, but also from all peril and danger of the enemy. Hereof what each might may judge of their cause, even by the testimony of God himself may easily appear.

•hat shall I here rehearse the •est of your outrag•s which are innumerable? what shall I speake of the stte of Geneua,