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ment in church and state,) and scatter them 

 abroad from hence upon the face of all the earth. 

 Like as a dream when one awaketh ; so shall He 

 despise their images, and their imaginations, too, 

 and cause them to vanish out of the city; and 

 make the whole bulk of their vast contrivance to 

 consume away like a snail, and become like the 

 untimely fruit of a woman, which shall never see 

 the sun. He that at first made all things with an 

 Almighty word, said only, Let it be, and it was so; 

 can, with the same facility, unmake, and annihi- 

 late those worlds of wickedness, which these great 

 architects of mischief have been so long projecting, 

 and building up. It is but for Him to say. It shall 

 not prosper, or This shall not be, and behold the 

 mighty machine cracks about their ears, and sinks 

 into ruin, into nothing ; leaving no effect behind 

 it more real or conspicuous, than a more firm, and 

 lasting establishment of that, which God's own 

 right hand hath planted amongst us. 



When the earth* at first was without form, and 

 void, and darkness hovered over the face of the 

 deep, the spirit of God (saith the text) moved 

 upon the waters. The word in the original! (as 

 St. Hierom tells us from the Hebrew traditions) 

 implies, that the Spirit of God sat abrood upon 

 the whole rude mass, as birds upon their eggs, 

 xai mToy.Yi<Ti ro 7rav,J (as a Greek author speaks ele- 

 gantly,) and hatch the chaos into world ; by de- 



* Gen. 1. 2. t .nsnnD + Greek Schol on Aratus. 



