A word in season

This (as before I have said) is a Prayer. But ye know that in every Prayer there is a Promise included, which Promise this word Righteous doth express in the former verse with a singular vehemency, to the end we should not murmur, or blaspheme God, as though he were not mindful of us, or had not regard of us. Now, where he saith, Let them be confounded and turned back; it is an exposition of that which he said before, that their cords should be cut, that is to say, their Kingdoms, their Power, their Riches, their Laws, and finally their whole politic body and common weal should be brought to nought: as it befell to Babylon, Nineveh, Jerusalem, Athens, Corinth, Thebes, Rome, and briefly to all these Kingdoms and Common-weals, which did not submit themselves to the Gospel. For when they proudly stretched out their necks and set themselves against Christ their King, and by their power sought to oppress him, they were destroyed. In like manner must we also pray, and certainly look for the execution of Gods vengeance upon those which at this day have set themselves against the Gospel; as the Pope and his Bishops, with all their faction, and with all the Kings and Princes of the earth which maintain and defend their impiety; for at the last they shall be confounded. But the Gospel and the Word of the Lord shall endure for ever. For the name of Christ shall never be oppressed, but being faithfully called upon, shall always be ready to help the afflicted, and shall cut the cords now of the wicked man, and now of that.

This (as before I have said) is a Prayer. But ye know that in every Prayer there is a Promise included, which Promise this word Righteous doth express in the former verse with a singular vehemency, to the end we should not murmur, or blaspheme God, as though he were not mindful of us, or had not regard of us. Now, where he saith, Let them be confounded and turned back; it is an exposition of that which he said before, that their cords should be cut, that is to say, their Kingdoms, their Power, their Riches, their Laws, and finally their whole politick body and common weal should be brought to nought: as it befell to Babylon, Ninive, Jerusalem, Athens, Corinth, Thebes, Rome, and briefly to all these Kingdoms and Common-weales, which did not submit themselves to the Gospel. For when they proudly stretched out their necks and set themselves against Christ their King, and by their power sought to oppress him, they were destroyed. In like manner must we also pray, and certainly look for the execution of Gods vengeance upon those which at this day have set themselves against the Gospel; as the Pope and his Bishops, with all their faction, and with all the Kings and Princes of the earth which maintain and defend their impiety; for at the last they shall be confounded. But the Gospel and the Word of the Lord shall endure for ever. For the name of Christ shall never be oppressed, but being faithfully called upon, shall always be ready to help the afflicted, and shall cut the cords now of the wicked man, and now of that.