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thered them all: Than which fact nothing is to be found more impious in the records of all the Heathen impieties. Go now my Belgians, and after all this, accuse the cruelty and treachery of the Princes of this Age.
Chap. XXV.
Of the present Tyranny. That it is from humane Nature or Malice. Oppressions external and internal were heretofore.
Lastly, you complain of the Tyranny that is now adayes, and the oppressions at once both of our Bodies and Souls. My purpose is not (at this time) to applaud, or condemn our own age; for to what end were it? My business is to compare only. I ask you therefore when ever those
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