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A Diſcourſe
Book II.

the wicked do in opposition to his will; that none of them are besides his will. And what greater miracle can there be, than that wicked Men should make wicked Men good? Approach thou Cajus Cæsar, and at once tread under Foot the two Sacred Names of thy County, and Son in Law. This thy ambition without thy knowledge shall be subservient to God; yes to thy Country it self, against which it was taken up: For it shall prove the reparation and establishment of the Roman State. Thou Attila fly from the remotest parts of the World, and thirsting after blood and spoile, Sack, kill, burn, and wast; all this cruelty shall fight for God, and prove nothing else but an awakening of the Christians from slumbring in the Beds of Pleasure and Security. You two Vespasians what do you? Ruine Judea and the Jews: Take, and raze the whole City; but for what end? As you indeed intend

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