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II.

REV. PAUL KNELL (1615‒64), ISRAEL AND ENGLAND PARALLELED

By Paul Knell, _Master in Arts of Clare-Hall_ | in Cambridge. | Sometimes Chaplaine to a Regiment of Curiasiers | in his Majesties Army.

London, | Printed in the Yeare 1648.¹

(_4to._ 2 _ll._ + 20 _pp._) [B. M.]

♦ “Paralelled” replaced with “Paralleled”

¹ It was re-issued thirty-three years later:――

... London, Printed in the year 1648. And now Reprinted for a Caution to all those that are given to Change.

Sold by _Randal Tayler_ and _Robert Stephens_, by Stationers-Hall, near _Ludgate_. 1681.

_4to._ 2 _ll._ + 16 _pp._ [I. S.]

_pp._ 16‒17. “... first, we may compare with _Israel_ for a fruitfull scituation, being neither under the torrid nor the frozen Zone, neither burned away with parching heat, nor benummed away with pinching cold, but seated in a temperate climate & fertile soile; our folds are full of sheep, our vallies stand so thick with corne that we may laugh & sing. God hath also fenced us about, like the _Israelites_ in the red sea, with a wall of water, the waters are as a wall unto us, on our right hand, & on our left,. .. _And now_, England, _what doth thy Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his waies, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule_? But here God may as justly complaine of us as he did of _Israel_,...”