God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances

2. It appears from the consideration of that miserable Destruction we were appointed unto, all these subtle heads and bloody hands are not at work to accomplish a petty Destruction. Their Throats, enlarged as Hell, would never be satisfied with Personal Revenge; no less than a Nation, yea, Nations of Protestants, can make up a single Meal for these savage Blood-hounds. These tyrannical Nero's are for the cutting off the Necks of all Christians at a blow. No less Bonfire would serve their turns, than the horrid Conflagration of a whole Nation. A Diocletian Persecution was nothing ⟨p. 103⟩to this hellish Enterprise and attempted Destruction. How fain would Antichrist have waded to an usurped Throne to the neck in the blood of opposing Martyrs!

2. It appears from the consideration of that miserable Destruction we were appointed unto, all these subtile heads and bloudy hands are not at work to accomplish a petty Destruction. Their Throats, enlarg'd as Hell, would never be satisfied with Personal Revenge; no less than a Nation, yea, Nations of Protestants, can make up a single Meal for these savage Bloud-hounds. These tyrannical Nero's are for the cutting off the Necks of all Christians at a blow. No less Bonefire would serve their turns, than the horrid Conflagration of a whole Nation. A Dioclesian Persecution was nothing ⟨p. 103⟩to this hellish Enterprize and attempted Destruction. How fain would Antichrist have waded to an usurped Throne to the neck in the bloud of opposing Martyrs!

Had it not been a Destruction none like unto it? Had not Rome out-done its former Cruelties? Had not this dreadful day been a None-such? Come, and see. What should you have seen? Had this Design been perfected, you had seen or heard, if alive, innumerable Troops of frightful Warriors, fierce in Countenance, more in Carriage, breaking forth, like the Plunderers of Troy from that fatal Horse, from the Bowels of our Land: You had seen the disguising Visors of dissembling Friends thrown off, and the distinguishing Mark of the Beasts company, worn by thousands of our unsuspected Inhabitants: You might have seen the multitude of profane ones turn Popish, and the Neutralists become absolute Papists: You might have seen an astonishing Force of foreign Idolaters admitted to enter our English Coasts by the treacherous hands of mercenary Subjects: You might have seen the horrid Instruments of undreaded Death brought from their unsearched