The Persecuted Family: A Narrative Of The Sufferings Of The Covenanters In The Reign Of Charles II (1843) - Tapa blanda

Tvs lives and memories of oar Christian ancesim Bfwho suffered so much fir the blessings of that i Yil and religions liberty, which the inhabitants of Britain now enjoy, ought, one would think, to be peculiarly interesting and sacred to us their posterity. Yet so it happens, that while the warrior, who has drained his own cotmtry of its wealth, and emptied it of its bravest people, to carry devastation and ruin over other nations, attracts the historic pen minutely to record his deeds, and the gwius of poetry, in lofty verse, to sing his praise,-ose glorious sufferers, who exposed themselves to the fury fpersecution, and like the true soldiers of Jesus Christ, patient, persevering, and zealous, fi ught in behalf of all that is dear to man, are wholly forgotten by many, their characters ridiculed, and their -actions misrepresented, by others, and the courage with which they suffered for our good too little admired by all. The patriot, who takes the sword in his hand, and, at the head of his countrymen, makes extraordinary efforts to repel the invasion pf an enemy, or to shake the guilty despot from the 1.
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