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this land, they will reward them as they rewarded us, they will not spare; as he lives he will bring cruel foreigners ere he want. But ye may say, we need not trouble ourselves about it, the Lord will do it, we may ly by, we need not trouble our heads about it. Many would be at that; indeed the Lord will do it, but we must make use of, the means incumbent upon us:—I shall speak of several means to be made use of, in order to hasten the Lord's delivery of the captives, contending with them who have contended with us.
1. The first two or three of these means you may see from Revel xii 11. in the 10th verse it is said 'the accuser of the brethren is cast down,' &c.———What is meant by that? that is the devil hath gotten a sore stroke; how got he that? verse 11. 'And they overcame by the blood of the Lamb.'—What is that? by believing Jesus Christ, by employing him, by giving him much credit, who is the Captain of salvation, and was made perfect through suffering.—O sad that there is so little faith in our day! faith will say to this mountain, Remove yonder, and it will be: we may say there is nothing impossible to him that believes: 'they overcame by the blood of the Lamb; indeed he that believes will overcome if it were on a scaffold, yea, even when lying on the ground, and his blood gushing out; for his blood, when it is gone, by virtue of the
