The saints sacrifice

¹The other proverb is this, The children are come to the birth▪ and there is no strength to bring forth. By this proverb Jerusalem being so besieged by the King of Assyria, as there was (in regard of humane helps, little hope of deliverance, ⟨p. 81⟩is compared to a woman great with child, in pain of travel: the Inhabitants of the city are resembled to the children in the mothers womb: the extremity of distress wherein they were, to the difficulty and danger of travel. Such then was their case, as the case of a woman, which, having a weak child not able to help it self, is spent with pain and travel, and hath no midwife, nor any other means of help. Were they not now brought even to uttermost extremity. In this extremity, when they were so low brought, the Lord helped them.²

¹The other proverbe is this, The children are come to the birth▪ and there is no strength to bring forth. By this proverb Ierusalem being so besieged by the King of Assyria, as there was (in regard of humane helps, little hope of deliverance, ⟨p. 81⟩is compared to a woman great with child, in paine of travell: the Inhabitants of the city are resembled to the children in the mothers wombe: the extremity of distresse wherein they were, to the difficulty and danger of travell. Such then was their case, as the case of a woman, which, having a weake child not able to helpe it selfe, is spent with paine and travell, and hath no midwife, nor any other meanes of helpe. Were they not now brought even to uttermost extremity. In this extremity, when they were so low brought, the Lord helped them.²

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