Moreouer, the Lord our God, in the last booke of Moises, both to terrifie the rage of Tyrants, & comfort in calamities as ma∣ny as put their confidence in him, vttereth this fearefull menace following, against all the wilful contemners of his power & glo∣rie, saying: * If I whet my glittering sword,* 1.1 and my hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine aduersa∣ries, and will reward them that hate me: I will make my arrowes drunke with blood, and my sword shall eate flesh, for the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, when I be∣gin to take vengeance on the enemy.
And, to make yet a little more manifest the might of our God, and his preuailing power against the disturbers of his peoples