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** quence ; for it was plain, that, though the enemy decli- 

 " ned fighting, yet there was no poffibihty of hindering them 

 " from following him fo near as to give his retreat every 

 " appearance of flight, and to bring an expedition, begun 

 ** with fuccefs, to an ignominious and a fatal end. 



" He upbraided them with his own example, that early 

 " their prophets had foretold he was a prince fond of lux- 

 " ury and eafe, which, in the main, he did not deny, but 

 " confefled that he was fo; and that they all fhould have 

 " an attachment to their pleafures and enjoyments, he 

 " thought but reafonable. He delired, however, in this, 

 " they would do as much as he did, and only fufpend their 

 " love of eafe and reft as long as their duty to God, to their 

 " country, and their murdered brethren, required ; for, till 

 " thefe duties were fulfilled, eafe and enjoyment to a Chrif- 

 " tian, and efpecially to them bound by oath to accomplifli 

 ** a certain purpofe, was, in his eyes, little fhort of apofta- 

 *' cy." A loud acclamation now followed from the whole 

 army. They declared again, that they renewed their facra- 

 ment taken at the pafTage of the Hawafh, that they were 

 Chrift's foldiers, and would follow their fovereign unto death. 



Though the great perfonal merit of the king, and 

 the grace, force, and dignity with which he fpoke, had, of 

 themfelves, produced a very fudden change in the mind 

 of the foldiers, yet, to the increafe of this good difpofition 

 it had very much contributed, that a monk, of great holinefs 

 and aufterity of manners, living in a cell on the point of a 

 fleep rock, had come down from Shoa to the camp, de- 

 claring that he had found it written in the Revelation of 

 St John, that this year tlie religion of Mahomet was to be 



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