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them embroiled and ruffled on purpose that he 

 may come down aVo ^y\ya.vy\(; , to disentangle them. 



The glory of God descends not visibly now 

 a-days upon our palaces, as of old upon the Taber- 

 nacle of the Congregation, to rescue our Moses 

 and Aaron from being massacred by a desperate 

 knot of mutineers : nor doth the earth open her 

 mouth any longer, to swallow up our rebels and 

 traitors alive. It is a sceptre of ordinary justice, 

 not a rod of wonders, that fills the hand of our 

 governors. We must not expect that a good 

 cause should work alone of itself by way of mira- 

 cle : believe it, it must be prudently, and indus- 

 triously managed too, or it must at last miscarry. 



For instance, (the instance of the present time:) 

 the devils of sedition and faction, of treason and 

 rebellion, those familiars of Rome, and Rheims, 

 and St. Omers, (the Jesuits I mean, that have so 

 long possessed and agitated a wretched part of 

 this nation) will never go out from hence, and 

 leave us at quiet, no, not by prayer and fasting- 

 only. Nay, the best laws we have, the best you 

 can make, (if they be not steadily, and severely 

 executed) will prove too slight a conjuration for 

 these sturdy evil spirits of disobedience. There 

 is another and a better Flagellum DcEmonum, than 

 that of Hieronymus Mengis, and his fellow exor- 

 cists. Holy water is a trifle ; and holy words 

 will not do it. There is no such thing as Me- 

 dicina jjer verba : words and talk will never cure 

 the distempers of a nation. Deaf adders refuse 



