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might be then, in the fall of those staining drops ; which why 

 they stain, hath relation to that which I said before concerning 

 the raining of bloud. 



" I will therefore now conclude ; adding in the last place, 

 that the devil, by God's permission, both often hath and also 

 doth produce many such prodigies as these that 1 have spoken 

 of, with sundry other like unto them, especially amongst the 

 Heathen, Pagan, and superstitious nations." 



