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Secondly, If we consider the time when we received them, for God suffered us to be at the very pits brink, and between the very teeth of the Lions, as Daniel was, and like Isaac ready to be slain even Tantum n•n, and then he came from heaven to help us, O beatos articulos temporis! O happy articles of time! When my enemies came up against me, saith David, then (and not before) God fought for me.

Secondly, If we consider the time when we received them, for God suffered us to be at the very pits brinke, and betweene the very teeth of the Lions, as Daniel was, and like Isaac ready to be slaine even Tantum n•n, and then he came from heaven to help us, O beatos articulos temporis! O happy articles of time! When my enemies came up against me, saith David, then (and not before) God fought for me.

Thirdly, The manner how God hath brought about these mercies is so rare, as that we may not only say (as David to the Woman) Is not the hand of Joab in all this? but we may certainly conclude, The hand of God is most conspicuous in all Englands mercies; Never since the first day of the creation of the world, when God brought light out of darkness, hath God more appeared in the works of his providence in bringing good out of evil, than in these last years, wherein he hath suffered the enemies of the Church and State to dig pits, and then he hath caught them in the pits that they themselves have digged; In the net which they bid is their own ⟨p. 11⟩¹foot taken; the wicked is snared in the works of his own hand. Higgaion. Selah. As Christ whipped out the buyers and sellers by a whip made of their own cords, which they brought to tie their beasts withal; so God hath whipped out the enemies of this Church and State, by whips of their own making; He hath taken them by their own iniquities, and hath held them with the cords ²