I thought that you were steadfast in the cause of the Lord, and now that the time of trouble comes, you fall away at once.

Remember how Sennacherib and his host died before Jerusalem.

Cannot the Lord protect Londonderry likewise ?" "The age of miracles is past," the tanner said.

"Did we not see, in Germany, how Magdeburg and other Protestant cities were destroyed, with their inhabitants, by the Papists?
No, Brother Williams, the wicked are suffered to work their will here, when they are stronger than the godly, and we must look for no miracles.

I am ready to fight, and, had the council decided otherwise, would have done my share to the last; but my heart sickens, as I look round on the women, the weak, and ailing.