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Excerpt from The History of England, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II
These had, it seems, been night and day wrestling with the Lord in prayer, as they termed it; and they at last fancied that they had Obtained the superiority. Revelations they said were made them, that the heretical army, together with Agag the general, would he delivered into their hands. Upon the assurances of these visions, they obliged their general, in spite Of all his re monstrances, to descend into the plain, and give the English battle.
The English had also their visions and their assurances. Crom well, in his turn, had been wrestling with the Lord, and had come off with success. When he was told that the Scots were coming down to engage, he assured his soldiers that the Lord had delivered the enemy into his hands; and he ordered his army to sing psalms, as if already possessed of a certain victory. The Scots, though double the number ofthe English, were soon put to ?ight, and pursued with great slaughter, while Cromwell, it is said, did not lose above forty men in all.
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