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The best and the worst magistrate
The best and the worst magistrate: or, The people's happiness and unhappiness, laid open in a sermon preached at the late election of the Lord Major for the famous City of London, Sept. 29. 1648. / By Obadiah Sedgwick B. in D. and minister at Covent-Garden.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1648
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When Ahab and Jezebel bare rule, what a mournful time was it? many of the Prophets were slain, others hid themselves 1in Caves, Elijah flies for his life, and Naboth was stoned to death for his Vineyard.
When Ahab and Jezebel bare rule, what a mournful time was it? many of the Prophets were slain, others hid themselves 1in Caves, Elijah flyes for his life, and Naboth was stoned to death for his Vineyard.
When Haman bare rule, what a mourning did his wicked design occasion? The City Shushan was perplexed, and in every 1Province there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping and wailing.
When Herod bare rule, he made it a mournful time, for he slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem, and all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under; And now there was