First Sentence

"It is well known unto the godly and judicious, how ever since the first breaking out of the light of the gospel in our honourable nation of England, (which was the first of nations whom the Lord adorned therewith after the gross darkness of popery which had covered and overspread the Christian world,) what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained and continued against the Saints, from time to time, in one sort or other."