Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

So will the pride and confidence of Babylon the Enemy of the Church; Babylon, that will say, I sit a queen, I shall not be a widow, &c. Rev. 18.7. How seasonably may the Church plead with the Lord to execute his just Threats upon her, and bring her Sorrows on her in a moment?

4. Cruel and merciless, so was Babylon of old, so is Babylon at this day; this ministered occasion to the captive Jew to pray, and move the God of Mercy to remember their low and sad condition, and rescue them from those cruel hands which delight in Blood. In the temper of those who have for many Ages wasted the Church of Christ, and in these last three ⟨p. 409⟩or four years have laboured to destroy it in France, most unparalleled cruelty hath been practised upon the members of Christ. How long holy and true? Rev. 11.

4. Cruel and merciless, so was Babylon of old, so is Babylon at this day; this ministred occasion to the captive Jew to pray, and move the God of Mercy to remember their low and sad condition, and rescue them from those cruel hands which delight in Blood. In the temper of those who have for many Ages wasted the Church of Christ, and in these last three ⟨p. 409⟩or four years have labour'd to destroy it in France, most unparallel'd cruelty hath been practised upon the members of Christ. How long holy and true? Rev. 11.