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The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements…
The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements thereof: and more particularly in the redemption remarkably obtained for the English captives, which have been languishing under the tragical, and the terrible and the most barbarous cruelties of barbary. : [Six lines from Psalms]
printed by T. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1703
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This is the Captivity, that has been Out-lived, and now Escaped, by these our Brethren.
This is the Captivity, that has been Out-lived, and now Escap'd, by these our Brethren.
It is much, that their horrid Labour did not Kill them, in a Climate, so hot at some Times, and so wet at others. One would have said, Their Strength must have been the Strength of Stones, & their Flesh of Brass. Or their Life could not have been prolonged under such prodigious Fatigues.
It is much, that their forlorn Diet should not rather Kill them, than Feed them. So small, and so vile their Allowance ⟨p. 35⟩of Bread, that it is plain, They ••ved not by Bread alone, but by the Word of God.
It is much, that their forlorn Diet should not rather Kill them, than Feed them. So small, and so vile their Al•owance ⟨p. 35⟩of Bread, that it is plain, They ••ved not by Bread alone, but by the Word of God.