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for victory ? O how sad will it be to see the fa- 

 ther fall by the dint of sword, the mother crawl 

 by the infected walls of a pesthouse, and the 

 poor innocent and comfortless infant perish in 

 the streets, and pine away with hunger ? Three 

 such merciless and unsatiable conquerors, and all 

 to keep the field at once, will totter the strongest 

 camp in Christendom. 



Theoph. Then where's our security, and what 

 signifies the strength or the artifice of man, when 

 God has a controversy with the kingdoms of the 

 world ? The Christian's arms then will prove 

 the best security. He that cruciates his lusts, 

 outlives the vice of impiety. 



Arn. What then becomes of him that throws 

 vertue into the embracements of vice, and pros- 

 titutes justice before every clamorous derider ? 

 that lifts up the standard of impiety, to justle 

 religion, and profanes the altar by superstitious 

 adorations ? that mounts ambition on the theatre 

 of luxury and hypocrisy, and opposes the Gos- 

 pel and Divine Oracles to humane tradition, and 

 the vain imaginary inventions of men ? that in 

 defiance of heaven opens the portals of hell, and 

 advances the curse instead of the cross ? What 

 must we conclude from such dreadful conse- 

 quences, but that God will tear the nations in 

 pieces ? 



Theoph. There was a time when the law 



