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They are People of all Ages and Sexes; but the greatest part of them are Boys and Girls, from six or seven to five and twenty years of age; and persons very old; all of them the meaner sort of People: but of Families Exemplary for their good living; the whole affair being indeed so prodigious, that the most obstinate Sadducees in the Kingdom confess it, A natural Distemper directed by Providence to procure the Repentance of a sinful World.

They are People of all Ages and Sexes; but the greatest part of them are Boyes and Girles, from six or seven to five and twenty years of age; and persons very old; all of them the meaner sort of People: but of Families Exemplary for their good living; the whole affair being indeed so prodigious, that the most obstinate Saddu•cees in the Kingdom confess it, A natural Distemper directed by Providence to procure the Repentance of a sinful World.

The Ministry of these Extraordinary People, does chiefly consist of two things.

One part of it is, the Admonition of those unhappy persons that have provoked God by many notorious Miscarriages, but especially by Apostasy under the late Persecution. They deride the Follies of the Mass, with a surprising ingenuity; and in a vast Assembly of perhaps two thousand People come together to hear these Preachers, if there be any that have abjured the Protestant Religion, they will call them before them, and address them in such powerful Terms, as usually make not not only the whole Congregation shed floods of Tears, but the Apostates themselves to become Penitents: and there comes not one away, who does not positively declare, That he had rather be torn to pieces with wild Horses than ever go to Mass again. No ⟨p. 60⟩