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Compare our Condition with that of them in Germany. The French King has there made even the Popish Provinces themselves a Stage of Blood, and laid all in Ashes for many Leagues together. He has given the Sun for his Device upon many of his Coins; and by the Fiery Destructions which his Bombs have made, he has given us cause to suspect whether he be not the ⟨p. 47⟩S•n in the fourth Vial, that has power to Scorch men with Fire. Imagine that you were put under the French Contributions, and not only Robbed of all you have in the World, but also driven like so many Cattle before their Slaughterers. Imagine your Towns laid all in Heaps, and your Persons obnoxious to all manner of Rapine and Murders from the worst of Harpies: this is what thousands are now feeling of.

Compare our Condition with that of them in Germany. The French King has there made even the Popish Provinces themselves a Stage of Blood, and laid all in Ashes for many Leagues together. He has given the Sun for his Device upon many of his Coines; and by the Fiery Destructions which his Bombs have made, he has given us cause to suspect whether he be not the ⟨p. 47⟩S•n in the fourth Vial, that has power to S•orch men with Fire. Imagine that you were put under the French Contributions, and not only Rob'd of all you have in the World, but also driven like so many Cattle before their Slaughterers. Imagine your Towns laid all in Heaps, and your Persons obnoxious to all manner of Rapine and Murders from the worst of H•rpyes: this is what thousands are now feeling of.

Compare our Condition with that of them in France. Except in the matter of our Sabbaths, what are we better than the People of God in that rueful Country? But all the Bloody Butcheries and Cruelties committed in the By-past Ages, are mere Trifles in comparison of what that People have of late endured, and this after Faith given often enough unto the contrary. After they ad gone thorough intolerable vexations n all those things that they had ny kindness for, they have been at last iven up into the claws of the merciless ragoons: and were all the Devils of Hell Incarnate, they could not invent more or worse tortures, than these Dragons inflict upon persons of all sorts, till they have compelled em to abjure the Truth of God; and thus all he Flocks of the Lord Jesus have been wored and Ruined there. Imagine a Swarm