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BY our misery and affliction the Heathen discredit our faith and confidence in thee. It is their per∣swasion, true Religion should euer be prosperous (accedit vtilitas quae maximè homini diuos asser it, Symmac. lib. 10. epist. 54.) nam cum ratio om∣nis in operto sit, vnde rectuis quam de
memoria atque documentis Rerum secundarum cognitio venit numinum? and this heathenish opinion hath infected the Church, which calieth her selfe Catholicke, Bell. lib. 4. de eccles. Milita. cap. vlt. makes tem∣porall felicitie a note of the true Church. They neuer will beleeue Electos Dei pia agere & crudelia ••o∣lerare, as S. Gregorie speakes, that Gods elect doe well and suffer ill, & therfore Tullie proues the Iewes to be hated of God, because they were so miserable. The miseries of the Iewes doe testifie against them that they are not beloued of God: and no doubt, but the Turkes at this day are more confirmed in their Mahumetan impictie, by reason of their good successe against Christi∣ans: and therefore, O Lord, to free thy name, stop the mouth of this blasphemie, pull thy hand out of thy bosome, let them at length per∣ceiue that thou carest for thy Church. [Verse 11] Remember the bloud of thy slaine seruants. Remember gemitus
& compedes, the sighings of the pri∣soners yet aliue, but children of death, aiudged and destinated for death. Antiochus felt the effects of this imprecation, for lying on his death-bed, wormes crawling out of his bowels, howbeit he did promise to set free Hierusalem, to make the Iewes equall to the citizens of A∣thens, and to rebuild and adorne the Temple which he had spoyled and to allow for sacrifices out of his owne reuenues; nay himselfe to be∣come Iew, to glorifie that GOD whom he did now feele to haue of∣fended, yet God would shew him no mercy.
Miseriae Iudaeo∣rum testantur quam non sint chari Deo pro Flacco.
2 Mac. 9. &c.