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If enemies come before them, He is the Lord of Hosts; If behind them he is their rear-ward. It was said of the Palladium in Troy, that whilst that Image remained there, the City was impregnable, and that till the Greeks found out a stratagem to steal that Idol away they could not take it. Whatever fancy there was in that, this is a truth, that God is the defence of a people, and while he is present they are safe.

If enemies come before them, He is the Lord of Hosts; If behind them he is their rere-ward. It was said of the Palladium in Troy, that whilst that Image remained there, the City was impregnable, and that till the Greeks found out a stratagem to steal that Idol away they could not take it. Whatever fancy there was in that, this is a truth, that God is the defence of a people, and while he is present they are safe.

Are your dangers bodily, he can bear off those ⟨p. 49⟩blows. No evil can arrest you without leave from this King. Al his Servants are Courtiers, and thereby privileged persons. He can make an hedge about your selves, your houses, and all that ye have (as about Job 1. and 10.) and then neither men not Devils can make a gap for any to enter and injure you. Hesiod speaks of thirty thousand Demy-Gods that were [Greek or Hebrew], Keepers of men; The true God keepeth his in a Pavilion, as a Prince his Favourite, from the mischief of others envy and malice, Psa. 31.20.

Are your dangers bodily, he can bear off those ⟨p. 49⟩blows. No evil can arrest you without leave from this King. Al his Servants are Courtiers, and thereby priviledged persons. He can make an hedge about your selves, your houses, and all that ye have (as about