An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

Secondly;¹ Here's another stalk of Hemlock, That poor men taken from their families, who were the only means by their livelihood to bring in a livelihood to their wives and children, yet should be so without pay themselves, and wives and children left destitute of bread and clothing; and Officers in an Army who were but mean men heretofore and knew scarce how to live, now they live bravely, glister in their Gold and Silver lace, what's this but Hemlock? Is not here Injustice and Oppression? that thousands should want bread, that widows and children cry out for bread that lived pretty well heretofore,² and others which knew not how to live heretofore, yet now shall be brave in a far higher way than ever formerly, Is not here Hemlock that grows up in the furrows of the field? I know not neither where to charge this, but yet we see Hemlock doth come up.

Secondly;¹ Here's another stalk of Hemlock, That poor men taken from their families, who were the only means by their livelihood to bring in a livelihood to their wives and children, yet should be so without pay themselves, and wives and children left destitute of bread and cloathing; and Officers in an Army who were but mean men heretofore and knew scarce how to live, now they live bravely, glister in their Gold and Silver lace, what's this but Hemlock? Is not here Injustice and Oppression? that thousands should want bread, that widdows and children cry out for bread that liv'd pretty well heretofore,² and others which knew not how to live heretofore, yet now shall be brave in a far higher way than ever formerly, Is not here Hemlock that grows up in the furrows of the field? I know not neither where to charge this, but yet we see Hemlock doth come up.

1. 12. The Officers pan pred, while the poor Soldiers starve.2. The Officers pā pred, while the poor Soldiers starve.
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