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padani gettare (olebat, ut ipfius Intuitu frequenter ipfà Maria revocareturin Memoriam. Qui ftridó Gladio Deum invocans, làndæque Maria No-men inclamans, dum intra dénias hoftium acies le fortiter immittt, quen-cunq; attigerat, idu lolo perimebat : neque ante requievit ab Impetu,quam quadringentos & leptuaginta Viros uno Caliburno fuftulit. Quiddemirandum fi Deus id illi, lûæ pientittima Matris Interventu præftiterit -,qui Sampfoni dedit, ut una maxilla mille demerit ? Jofue, Macchabeo aliilqjCompluribus, ut cum paucis plurimos (æpiffime profligarent & confunde-rent ? Qui 'Davidi puerulo, ut Decumanum Goliam humi affligeret ? Urlimi& Leonem extingueret ? Richardo noftro ut poftquam tot obftinatos Infi-deles Exitio pro Chrifti Gloria dediderat, Cor Leoni detradum illico deglu-tiret ? Unde glorioliim quoque Nomen retulit. Arthurus autem ad huncmodum liib ala deiparæ Virginis, ad cujus frequentem Recordationemimpactum clypeo Simulachrum allexit, & frudum Chriftianitatis & vido-riæ materiam invenit. Conßantini Magni Verus Æmulator, qui maximumhunc Chriftianilmi proventum atq; Incrementum ab Initio percepit, quodin crucifixi Gloriam, Crucis Imaginem vexillo geftari juflèrat. CujusTemporibus dum Perlecutio cellare inciperet, libere docendarum plebiumfacultas extitit. Conveniendi nanq; prius & conlultandi poteftas, pror-ium Epilcopis & Chriftianilmi conlultis abnegata fuit : ut per quem pollApoftolos Chriftianilmus eft maxime propagatus, augmentata pietas & lataIparlaq; maxime divini Verbi prædicatio : mb eodem & per eundem Dei

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Sword invocating God ', and calling on the holy Käme of Mary, bravely brokein upon the thickeß Troops of thè Enemy } killing at one Stroke whomever hemet with, nor did he give over his furious Attack, till he had with his fingleSwordycleped Caliburn, fain 470 of the Enemies. And where floould be the

Wonder that God, by the Intervention of his moß holy Mother, ßould aßfißArthur in this Manner, who gave Samplon the Power of overcoming a Thou-fand with one Jaw-bone. Who permitted Jolliua, and Judas Macchabeus, and

others, often to put to ßight and deßroy great Multitudes with a handful ofMen. By his Aßßance David the Stripling brought to the Ground the GyantGoliah 5 and killed the Bear and the Lyon. By the fame Power, Richard, af-ter he had deßroy ed for the Honour of Chriß many obßinate Infidels, eat theHeart of a Lion which he had maßered, and thence gained that gloriousName of Coeur de Leon. Arthur after the fame Manner, under the Pro-tection of the Virgin Mother of God, whofe Refemblance engraven on hisShield preferved her in his Memory, found the Advantages of Chrißianityand frequent Matter for ViStory. A true Follower of Conftantine theGreat, who found the Advantage and Benefits of the chrißian Faith, fromthe Time that, in Honour of the crucified God, he had ordered the Sign of theCrofs to be born in his Banners. In whofe Times, Perfection beginning to abate,a free Liberty of teaching the People was granted and allowed of. For beforehis Time, the Power of meeting and cmfulting together, was altogether de-nied to the Bißops and Profejfors of Chrißianity -, fo that through him, bywhom {next after the Apoßles ,) Chrißianity received its chief eß Propagation jPiety was augmented, and the Preaching of the Word of God plentifully fown

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