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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 wor•ed and Ruined there. Imagine a Swarm ⟨p. 48⟩of Lewd Soldiers, like Locusts quartered […] your Houses, and there binding of you, that they might abuse your nearest Relations before your eyes; imagine them Hanging of you by the Hair of your Heads and then half Choking of you with Smoke, or half Roasting of you with Fire; imagine them pricking of you with Knives and Bodkins, and with ten thousand lingering Tortures, making you Desire, while you may not enjoy, such a privilege as Death; until at last you have been worried into an Abjuration, which makes the wounds on your Consciences no less than those on your Bodies were before.

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 Countrey? But all the Bloody Butcheries and Cruelties committed in the By-past Ages, are meer Trif•les in comparison of what that People have of late endured, and this after Faith given often •nough 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 Divels of Hell Inarnate, they could not invent more or worse ortures, than these Dragons inflict upon ersons 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