A Ch4in ofPrinciples. 109 this nation to the knowledge of Chri- Exerc. 4. flian Religion, for want whereofma- ny millions in other parts fill fit in darknefs and the fhadow ofdeath. It was a memorable at of Witekindus H. Afpil Sgia o_ppelman in one of the Dukes ofSaxony, who flou- p. ,_. rifhed about the nine hundredthyear ofChriift; after his renouncing paga nifine and receiving the faith of the gofpcl,hecaufed theblack horfe,which he had formerly born in his military colours, tobe laid afide and in flead thereof a whitehorfe to be born in teftimony of his triumphant joy for thatgreat change perhaps becaufe a- afi cancore eaím navece; - rnong the Romanes the manner was tabant. Pom to make ufe offuch coloured feeds in po°' Lætus6 their triumphs. It put me inminde of what we reade in the fixth of the Re- velation verfe the fecond,where Chrift is defcribed as going out in the mini- fiery of the Gofpel , which was then newly embraced by that Prince ; Be- hold4 white horfe and he that fat on him had a. boive , and a crown was Çi)en unto P 3 h.im,;
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