as men? God did not use flesh to make women of in token of infirmity, we are one of his bone, in token we must be wrong in the living God: what bloody persecution was there in Queen Maries daies; And what a savage Massacre was there in France, in 1572. near the prison in Lyons? the blood run reeking through the street into the river: in thirty dayes space there was a hundred thousand poor Orphans, Widows and succourlesse creatures, wandring about without any relief. And having shewed you the cruel persecution of Gods people here on earth, now see the reasons why God suffers those things to fall on his people, Psal. 97.1. The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoyce. It is well for his people that he reigneth; or else they could never stand, one or two wolves are able to devour a flock of sheep; what then would many wolves do amongst sheep, if there were not an over-ruling hand? God orders and suffers this, so that he may turn all to His praise.Saul made havock of the churchActs
