But did not you solemnly appeal and pray?
Did not we do so too?
And ought not we and you to think, with fear and trembling, of the hand of the great God, in this mighty and strange appearance of his, but can slightly call it an event?
Were not both your and our expectations renewed from time to time, while we waited on God, to see which way he would manifest himself upon our appeals?
And shall we, after all these our prayers, fastings, tears, expectations, and solemn appeals, call these mere events?
The Lord pity you.

Surely we fear, because it has been a merciful and a gracious deliverance to us.
"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, search after the mind of the Lord in it towards you, and we shall help you by our prayers, that you may find it.

For yet, if we know our heart at all, our bowels do in Christ yearn after the godly in Scotland." Thurloe, vol.i.p.

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{1651.} The defeat of the Scots was regarded by the king as a fortunate event.

The armies which fought on both sides, were almost equally his enemies; and the vanquished were now obliged to give him some more authority, and apply to him for support.