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2373.

[Persecution's progress see!]

Others mocking said. —ii. 13.

Persecution's progress see!
The worldly war begun
With contempt and mockery,
In cavilling goes on,
Then the chafed oppressors fret,
Proceed the saints in bonds to lay;
Then the confessors they beat,
And then the martyrs slay.