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Know ye not, that the whole Creati∣on groaneth to be delivered from under the power of the Beast, and false Prophet, to wit, the corrupt Magistrates, and the persecuting and Antichristian Ministers of the Nations? Do ye not know that these have had Dominion over the Saints of the most high God, for many hundred years past, doing and executing their own pleasures upon the bodies and estates of the children of God as well in our dayes by cruel tortures untill death, as in Queen Maries dayes, upon the Martyrs that suf∣fered, burning then, who ye notwithstan∣ding could not worship the Beast nor his image, nor give their power to the Dra∣gon, which all the world have wondred after.
Do ye not know that the Man-child hath been caught up to God, the wo••an fled into the Wildernesse, and the Devil had the power over all Nations? If not, then know, the time is now hasting, that the Man-child is coming to rule the Nations with a rod of iron (and to some he is alrea∣dy come) and all must bow to his righte∣ous Scepter; for he will rule in righteous∣ness, and all the sturdy Oaks must be