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blood_n	drink_v	eat_v	life_n	35,257	5	6.0489	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53406	Comfort in affliction, or, Advice to Protestant dissenters in times of persecution together with remarks on the just judgments of God upon this city and land, since the prohibition of the Gospel, by mulcts and penalties / by J.O.	J. O.	1682 (1682)	Wing O4; ESTC R32241	16,661	19

are brought into the bowels of the English and many Noblemen and Gentlemen are so pleased with the Children of those Strangers that they have French Servants Papists to attend them whom they have well Mounted and Armed enough to make a little Army of themselves And this they do that their strength may be hidden till opportunity shall serve to make it appear It is well known that the chief Places of Strength and many Chief Commands are in the hands of Papists And now they become so numerous and having such power what is there wanting but a convenient Opportunity to fulfil all that is in their Hearts upon Secure Unarmed Unprepared People and to dispatch their work in few days and especially upon thee O London who art their chiefest Eye-Sore O England except the Lord prevent it thy Calamity is near at the very Door and thou mayst expect every day now Peace is made Abroad when these will unsheath and draw their Swords upon you here at Home and you must be charg'd in the Kings Name for so they will abuse it to stand still and to hold forth your Throats to Murderers You cannot forget the dreadful Maffacre at Paris nor that late more dreadful and bloudy Massacre of the English Protestants in Ireland when more than a Hundred Thousand Innocent Persons Men Women and Children were in a very short time with the greatest Cruelties and Torments that ever were heard of murdered by them and what Authority they pretended for it But they have treasured up in their minds the fulness of all Cruelties for you English-men They have discovered something of their Kindness and good Pleasure to you in their firing the City of London which they have left as an Everlasting Monument of their Treachery and Villany to England and of their hatred to English Protestants and let this most notorious fact of theirs be engraven in great Characters on the Gates and Walls and Chief Places of your City when it shall be built again that all Posterity when they shall see New London may know and consider what Persons and what Religion burnt the Old They have also often attempted the firing of Southwark and of the remaining parts of the City for nothing but the utter ruine of it will satisfie them And when the kindling of some of these later flames was related to a Great Person they laughing said Now the Game is begun again for they make but a May-game of consuming all And yet Fire only will not satisfie them it is bloud must follow or they are never the near It is you O English Protestants whose lives they thirst after and they can neither eat nor drink comfortably nor sleep quietly till they be filled with this Venison And therefore of you it may be truly said Your lives are in jeopardy every hour Yet for all this let us not despond nor cast away our Confidence saying Our hope is cut off and we are perished for he that sits in Heaven laughs them to scorn even the Lord hath them in Derision and though we hold our peace he will speak to them in his Wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure He will make his Arrows drunk with their bloud and his Sword shall devour their flesh from the beginning of Revenges upon the Enemy Rejoice O ye Nations with his Paople for he will avenge the Bloud of his Servants and will render Vengeance to his Adversaries and will be merciful to his Land and to his People Thirdly Another of your Dangers which also is one of the greatest is your own Heedlesness and strange Security in the midst of such thick Clouds and Storms which have encompassed us round able to awaken even dead Men. How stupid and sottish were you at the burning of your City when you saw with your own eies your Houses your Substance your Riches all consuming together in those furious flames before your faces yet how insensible were you of your deplorable condition how regardless of that heavy hand of God how insensible of the Treachery and Cruelty of Men who did not only begin those flames but also continue them in the Progress they had appointed for them Had you the Brains or Hearts of Men to suffer those Incendiaries who were taken in the very Act to be rescued from Justice and released to carry on their Villany again surely you were so Sottish that had not the Lord been the more merciful to you your Lives and Houses had perished together as it was designed Moreover how insensible have you been of the Popish Plot and intended Massacre as if those good Men had been but in Jest when a Regiment of Papists was brought up to secure the Protestants and a company of Wolves to guard the Flock and when some of their own Pens and Lips reveal their minds why should you yet be so ignorant of it who are wholly concerned in it Wherefore as your Lives hitherto have been dear to God so let them now also be dear to your selves and do not you say Peace Peace when the Papists intend and prepare Destruction Destruction but let that be verified of you which Henry VIII saith of his time to wit The World is not now in so light a suspicion of you Papists as it hath been hitherto but every Man seeth before his Eies your deceits your Wicked Minds your Immortal Hatred against the Truth and the Professors of it every Man sees how many miserable Tragedies your pretence of an Unity and Concord hath brought into Christendom They see your fair face of Peace hath served Sedition and troubled almost all Christian Realms And therefore seeing they were so quick-sighted who lived above an hundred and thirty years ago to see and foresee the Treacheries and Cruelties of the Papists let not us who live so many years after and have had far greater experience of them be altogether blind and see nothing at all in the clear Noon-shine of their Doings Wherefore let all be admonished that after the desired Tidings of Peace they be not so eagerly addicted to the rebuilding their Houses and regaining their Trade and prosecuting their Worldly Affairs and Concernments whilst yet they are uncertain of the enjoyment of any thing that they become careless and regardless how it fares with the Church of Christ and his Gospel which is the very light and life of our Souls as well as the foundation of all our outward comforts or how active and watchful the Brood of Antichrist which lurks amongst us becomes that they may deprive us of our Religion and Lives and so be as greedy Birds that are scratching for food whilst the Net is spreading over them to catch them at unawares for what will it profit you to win Estates and to lose your Lives your Lives are better than your Estates and your Estates are but for the comfort of your Lives And if the Enemy take away your Lives whose shall your Estates be they shall even become a reward