The Conduct of the Paxton Men Impartially Represented - 27
“And I will come and shew it unto thee: Then thou shalt go forth with all thine Army, and there shall be none of them that shall resist thee.
“And I will lead thee through the Midst of Judea, until thou come before Jerusalem, and I will set thy Throne in the Midst thereof, and thou shalt drive them as Sheep that have no Shepherd, and a Dog shall not so much as open his Mouth at thee.”
Yet notwithstanding these Declarations, we find that when she was left alone in the Tent, and found Holosernes drunk, and lying upon his Bed-----“She came to the Pillar of the Bed which was at Holosernes’ Head, and took down his Faulchion from thence, and approached to his Bed, and took hold of the Hair of his Head, and said, Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this Day. And she smote twice upon his Neck with all her mIght, and she took away his Head from him.”
Upon which Ozias said unto her, “O Daughter, blessed art thou of the most high God, above all the Women upon the Earth; and blessed be the Lord God, which hath created the Heavens and the Earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off the Head of the Chief of our Enemies.
“And God turn these Things to thee for a perpetual Praise, to visit thee in good Things, because thou hast not spared thy Life for the Affliction of our Nation, but hast revenged our Ruin, walking a straight Way before our God. And all the People said, So be it, So be it.”
But no doubt it will be objected here, that these were not Christians---And perhaps I might be challeng’d to produce an Example from any “civiliz’d Nation in Europe”-----Lest you should be prevailed upon to believe that it was not in my Power to answer such a Challenge, I shall give you an Instance of the horrid Cruelty of a civilized Nation, whose Honour and Hospitality the Author of the Narrative has taken great Pains to applaud and extol: and
