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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.

VIII. And lastly, Would you as Christians Enquire, in order to the better management of your prayers and praises? then whatever News of Moment you hear concerning the State of the Churches of Christ, be sure to your best knowledge compare those News with these things that are signs of approaching deliverance, and fuller Salvation from its own sins and self-created troubles, and from the furious rage of Enemies.