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Neither let them fondly and vainly suppose, that because it is not done instantly, therefore it will never be. ^sGods Mil, saith the Heathen man, may seem to grind soft and slow, but it grindeth sure and small. ^tIt is not because God hath either lost his power or left his providence, but because he exerciseth his patience, while he expecteth thy repentance. Which unless with the more speed it ^uprevent his sentence, his ⁴seeming slowness and slackness before he cometh, will ^xbe recompensed with the surer and severer payment, when he doth come. ^ySeldom, saith the Heathen man, is it, but that the divine vengeance overtaketh wicked wretches, though it seem but limpingly to pursue them. Seldom it is here, but ⟨p. 76⟩that in some one kind or other it catcheth them and meeteth with them there, where they look not for it; but elsewhere it is certain never to miss of them, whether it meet with them here or no. Remember Ahab's doom and Jezebels. They thought they had made all sure, when false witnesses suborned, and the Judges corrupted, a wrong judgement was procured, and poor Naboth not condemned only but executed. But what doth Elijah from God tell Ahab? ^zIn that very place where the Dogs licked Naboths blood, shall dogs likewise lick thy blood. And, The Dogs shall eat Jezebel under the walls of Jezreel: And Jezebels carcass shall lie like dung on the ground in the fields of Jezreel; so that none shall be able to say, This is Jezebel. And no less evil, if not the same, shall befall all those that take the courses that they did; ¹When God shall stand up, as he will one day, to judge, and to right all those that are now wronged and oppressed.