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Ah! must the Christian, the Christian Religion, which was first planted, and alway watered, and alway thrived with the Blood of her defendors, and professors shed by their persecutors, now wither by the blood of her defendors shed by her own Children? Is the patience, and meeknesse, and peaceablenesse, so much recommended by the great Author of our faith, not onely by his Sermons but his sufferings, and alwayes practised by his disciples: Is that sweet beauty of our Religion which won so great a part of the world to her imbraces, now disfigured with such a gastly deformity, that she must for ever despair of gaining any more Lovers: and that not by the witherings of age, but by the manglings of her unnatural children? |
Ah! must the Christian, the Christian Religion, which was First planted, and always watered, and always thrived with the Blood of her defendors, and professors shed by their persecutors, now wither by the blood of her defendors shed by her own Children? Is the patience, and meekness, and peaceableness, so much recommended by the great Author of our faith, not only by his Sermons but his sufferings, and always practised by his Disciples: Is that sweet beauty of our Religion which wone so great a part of the world to her embraces, now disfigured with such a ghastly deformity, that she must for ever despair of gaining any more Lovers: and that not by the witherings of age, but by the manglings of her unnatural children? |
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