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A70635 A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ... Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.; Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30. Offer of farther help to suffering saints.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. 1665 (1665) Wing M330; Wing M332; ESTC R232057 171,145 273

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their_o arm_n and_o power_n but_o our_o sin_n and_o offence_n that_o have_v deliver_v we_o to_o their_o fury_n and_o have_v cause_v thou_o to_o turn_v away_o from_o we_o but_o turn_v again_o o_o lord_n let_v we_o fall_v into_o thy_o hand_n etc._n etc._n lest_o these_o vain_a idolater_n do_v rejoice_v at_o the_o miserable_a destruction_n of_o those_o man_n who_o they_o make_v proselyte_n and_o from_o thy_o doctrine_n apostate_n but_o o_o lord_n thy_o will_n be_v fulfil_v this_o be_v thy_o righteous_a judgement_n to_o punish_v we_o with_o the_o tyrannical_a yoke_n of_o blindness_n because_o we_o have_v cast_v away_o from_o we_o the_o sweet_a yoke_n of_o the_o wholesome_a word_n of_o thy_o son_n our_o saviour_n yet_o consider_v the_o horrible_a blasphemy_n of_o thou_o and_o our_o enemy_n 55._o pag._n 55._o they_o say_v in_o their_o heart_n there_o be_v no_o god_n which_o either_o can_v or_o will_v deliver_v we_o wherefore_o o_o heavenly_a father_n the_o governor_n of_o all_o thing_n the_o 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