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War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness,…
War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness, in a dialogue discovering the corruption and vanity of youth, the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man, also, a description of the power and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion. : To which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor, worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort. / By B.K. author of Zion in distress, or The groans of the Protestant church.War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness, in a dialogue discovering the corruption and vanity of youth, the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man, also, a description of the power and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion. : To which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor, worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort. / By B.K. author of Sion in distress, or The groans of the Protestant church.
New York: printed by William Bradford, 1707
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thou hast had a taste, When wicked Julian laid thy Country waste. Burning thy Towns and Villages with fire, Sparing not Young nor Old, nor Son nor Sire, What multitudes unnumbered were thy slain, Which in the field unburied did remain! Thou foundest the Wolvish Popes in every age Contrive thy ruin, many times engage Thy Neighbour Nations to shed forth thy blood, Only because faithful Bohemia stood •or Gods pure Worship, Martin the sixth excites Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Barons, Earls and Knights, With one consent to fall upon that Nation, On no less terms, than on their own Salvation; Promising also upon that condition, To give a full and absolute Remission Unto the vilest sinner that e'er stood Upon the earth, that would but shed the blood, ••ough but of one Bohemian; O rage! •ot to be paralleled in any age; except that Monster, who did sore rebuke •he over charitable Popish Duke Of D' Alva; and would you know his Crime? • was because that he in six years time, ••rough too much lenity, caused not the earth To drink more Christian b•a•d than issued forth […] eighteen thousand Souls; […] the Duke •as thought by Papists worthy o• ••buke. ••ighteen thousand in six years, so ••w, […] of your […], ⟨p. 140⟩In humanely to murder? yea, indeed, Because their former Numbers did exceed. But if the Duke of Alva's bloody bill Came short in number, yet his hand did fill It up with Torments, so dreadful to rehearse, As that the very thoughts thereof would pierce A Marble heart, make Infidels relent; Torments that none but Devils could invent, But if all this was over, little still, His Predecessors added to the bill. For from the time that hellish Inquisition Did from the Devil first receive Commission, As well approved History doth relate, Till thirty years expired had their date. By cruel Torments which they still retain, Was a hundred and fifty thousand slain: And yet before they took away their breth, They for some time did make each day a death. Depriving them, as far as in them lay O all the' comfort that either night or day Affords mankind; for them there was not found, So much Sun-light as to behold the ground On which they stood: Each day that giveth light, Was unto them like Egypt darkest Night […] Hellish darkness thus they made them spend Their weary hours, and kindly in the end Destroyed them: