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In this book, whatever I shall have set forth by lamenting rather than by declaiming — in a humble style, yet a kindly one — let no one suppose that I am to speak out of the disposition of one who despises all men, or who counts himself better than the rest (since indeed I bewail with tearful complaints the common loss of the good and the heaped-up mass of the wicked), but rather as one who grieves with his country's misfortunes and miseries, and rejoices together in its remedies; because in truth it is fixed in my purpose to declare not so much the perils of fierce war waged by the bravest soldiers, as those by the slothful. I kept silence (I confess) with immense grief of mind and compunction of soul and contrition of heart,
and with a sense smitten with astonishment I more often turned all these things over in my mind, and (as the Lord, the searcher of the reins, is my witness) over the space of ten years passing by, or even more — my inexperience, as also now, together with my dearest friends commanding that I should write whatever sort of little history or brief admonition of the British nation. In zeal therefore for the house of the Lord, and constrained by the reasons of the sacred law or of my own reflections, or by the religious prayers of the brethren, I now pay the debt long before exacted, cheap indeed in style, but faithful (as I think) and friendly to all excellent Christians, but grievous and unbearable to foolish apostates.
Of these, the former (unless I am mistaken) will receive it perhaps with tears, such as flow from the love of God; the others with sorrow — but such as is wrung out from the indignation and faintheartedness of a guilty conscience caught out. Therefore, God willing, I shall take care to speak of a few things: 1. Of the situation, 2. Of the obstinacy, 3. Of the subjection, 4. Of the rebellion, 5. Of the second subjection and harsh servitude, 6. Of religion, 7. Of the persecution, 8. Of the holy martyrs, 9. Of the various heresies, 10. Of the tyrants, 11. Of the two victorious nations, of the first devastation, 12. Of the defense, 13. Of the second devastation, 14. Of the second vengeance, 15. Of the third devastation, 16. Of the famine, 17. Of the letters, 18. Of the victory, 19. Of the crimes, 20.
Of the sudden bellowings announced, 21. Of the famous pestilence, 22. Of the counsel, 23. Of the enemy far fiercer than the first, 24. Of the overthrow of the cities, 25. Of the remnants, 26. Of the final peace — which final victory has been granted to our times by the will of God — I shall take care to speak.