Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church…

And on a sudden by the secret power of the Spirit of God, the military Officers, who had so long been the terror of the Nation, became, no man can tell why, like women, their hearts dismayed, their Counsels confounded, their Soldiers scattered, and by that divine providence, whereby they had so often justified their irregular actions, were they, in one day, without Might or Power, but merely by impressions from the hand of God, as it were annihilated, and made utterly to disappear. By the same divine impression are the hearts of the people of the land in all places strangely excited as one man, to call for the Restoring of the secluded Patriots, by them to make way for a free Parliament, and by them to bring back from exile in the Chariots of Aminadab, a willing people, and upon the wings of Love, our Dear and Dread Sovereign, not only to the Throne of his Father, but to the hearts of his people. They who had long known what it was to fear where they did not love, were now ⟨p. 40⟩ambitious to love where they need not so to fear.

And on a sudden by the secret power of the Spirit of God, the military Officers, who had so long been the terror of the Nation, became, no man can tell why, like women, their hearts dismayed, their Counsels confounded, their Souldiers scattered, and by that divine providence, whereby they had so often justified their irregular actions, were they, in one day, without Might or Power, but meerly by impressions from the hand of God, as it were annihilated, and made utterly to disappear. By the same divine impression are the hearts of the people of the land in all places strangely excited as one man, to call for the Restoring of the secluded Patriots, by them to make way for a free Parliament, and by them to bring back from exile in the Chariots of Aminadab, a willing people, and upon the wings of Love, our Dear and Dread Soveraigne, not only to the Throne of his Father, but to the hearts of his people. They who had long known what it was to fear where they did not love, were now ⟨p. 40⟩ambitious to love where they need not so to feare.