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Excerpt from The History of the Thirty Years War in Germany, Vol. 2 of 2
5 his enemies. His native courage was gmented by his piety. He readily, con founded his own caufe with that of Heaven; and beheld in Tilly's defeat the work of Divine vengeance. Ohis crown was now ri?red upon German ground, whichhad for centuries beheld no foreign enemy. The warlike difpofition of its inhabitants, the vigilance of its numerous princes, the artful-confederacy of its fiates, the multitude of its firong cattles, and the courfe of its rivers, had hitherto refirained the ambi tion of its neighbours; and when attacked upon its extcnfive frontier, it was {till fecured in its interior. At the woft remote periods this Empire maintained the equivocal prerogative of being its own enemy, and of being fecured againft every foreign force. It was alfo the want of union among its members, and an im tolerant zeal for religion, which now procured the Swedi?i conqueror an entrance into its territories. The bond of harmony was already diffolved, which had rendered this Empire hi therto invincible; and it was from Germany itfelf that Gufiavus Adolphus acquired the power of fubjeéting it. With prudence equal to his courage, he feized the favourable mo ment.
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