what though (like Job) we are try'd by adversity, and cast upon
a stinking dunghill amongst an untoward and Rebellious
generation of Vipers, yet we have a good God able to deliver
us; but if he will not, yet let us Resolve not to Worship this
Hydraheaded Image (the Juncto) though they cause their Furnaces
to be heat nine times hotter then before, let us despite
their torments: alas Bradshaw thou art deceived in us; we are
Christians so invincible (through the grace of God) that all
your Crimson Murders, your Robberies, your Imprisonments,
your stripes; is but as so much balsom to our wounded Souls:
we have no continuing place here; we are of another Country
---you may kill our bodies, take our goods, yet our
Souls are not subject to your Usurped Power; our bloud is but
as so much good-seed sown in a fat and plentiful soyl, that will
yield a hundred fold for every drop; though we are killed all
the day long; yet we know there is a Remnant that will not
bow the knee to Baal: You are indeed made the Rod to Chastize
us for our Sins; but you are but a Rod, and have not
half so good a Commission for your tyrannies over us, as the
Devil had to afflict Job.
From Ireland the News is not so bad, but we have yet as
great hopes as ever; for the late unhappy Difference between
Ormond and Inchiquin (which hath been ever since Ormonds Defeat
before Dublin, and Retarded their fighting with Cromwel,
is now Reconciled) and both their Armies are now happily
joyned, which hung before in suspence: Inchiquin being jealous
of Ormonds Revolt to Cromwel, and Ormond being jealous
of Inchiquin; but now both Resolved to fight Cromwel to the
last; Owen Roe Oneale is for certain made General of all the
Catholicke Party, and all Three joyned together, make an Army
of 15000, if not above: The Irish are now all Unanimous
and mad to give him Battel: Cromwels men die like so many
Rotten Sheep of the New Disease; Reports from thence certifying
that he is not above five or six thousand at the most:they
make great brags of taking Clarington-Fort, Colraine, Ross, and
their Besieging Carrickefergus, and Waterford; Questionless
they have taken many considerable Towns in Ireland, yet not
without great loss, and most on Jones's and Cromwels side: they