The grand apostacy of the church of Rome, from her primitive purity and integrity with a vindication of the Church of England, in her separation from her, and the hazard of salvation in communion with her : discoursed in a sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow, London on Sunday the 28th of December, 1679 / by John Hill.
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             The grand apostacy of the church of Rome, from her primitive purity and integrity with a vindication of the Church of England, in her separation from her, and the hazard of salvation in communion with her : discoursed in a sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow, London on Sunday the 28th of December, 1679 / by John Hill.
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           THE
           GRAND
           APOSTACY
           OF
           The
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           From
           her
           Primitive
           Purity
           and
           Integrity
           .
        
         
           WITH
           A
           VINDICATION
           OF
           THE
           CHURCH
           OF
           ENGLAND
           ,
           In
           her
           SEPARATION
           from
           Her
           ,
           AND
           The
           hazard
           of
           Salvation
           in
           Communion
           with
           Her.
           
        
         
           Discoursed
           in
           a
           SERMON
           Preached
           at
           St.
           
             Mary
             le
             Bow
             ,
             London
          
           ,
           On
           Sunday
           the
           28th
           of
           December
           ,
           1679.
           
        
         
           By
           
             JOHN
             HILL
          
           ,
           Rector
           of
           St.
           Mabyn
           in
           the
           County
           of
           Cornwall
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Printed
           for
           
             Samuel
             Heyrick
          
           ,
           at
           Greys-Inne-gate
           in
           Holborn
           .
           1680.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           
             
               
                 Rev.
                 18.
                 vers
                 .
                 4.
              
               
            
             
               Come
               out
               of
               her
               ,
               my
               people
               ,
               that
               ye
               be
               not
               partakers
               of
               her
               sins
               ,
               and
               that
               ye
               receive
               not
               of
               her
               plagues
               ,
               &c.
               
            
          
        
         
           I
           Am
           not
           ignorant
           how
           much
           revelation
           is
           necessary
           to
           understand
           this
           book
           of
           the
           Revelation
           ,
           and
           that
           Interpreters
           themselves
           need
           interpretation
           .
           It
           was
           the
           modest
           and
           ingenuous
           Confession
           of
           the
           learned
           *
           
             Arias
             Montanus
          
           ,
           That
           after
           thirty
           years
           studying
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           with
           the
           help
           of
           the
           most
           Judicious
           Expositors
           ,
           yet
           he
           understood
           onely
           two
           or
           three
           Chapters
           of
           this
           Book
           ;
           and
           hence
           was
           wont
           to
           say
           ;
           That
           the
           Expositors
           were
           as
           difficult
           to
           be
           understood
           as
           the
           Text
           ,
           there
           being
           many
           Comments
           that
           may
           be
           more
           properly
           termed
           Obscurities
           ,
           than
           Expositions
           ,
           on
           the
           Revelation
           .
           Yet
           
           though
           some
           things
           are
           laid
           down
           mystically
           in
           abstruse
           terms
           ,
           to
           exercise
           the
           Judgment
           of
           the
           wisest
           ;
           yet
           others
           are
           more
           familiarly
           expressed
           ,
           to
           succour
           the
           infirmity
           of
           the
           weakest
           .
           Some
           indeed
           are
           such
           Depths
           ,
           wherein
           Elephants
           may
           swim
           ;
           but
           there
           are
           others
           such
           Shallows
           ,
           wherein
           Lambs
           may
           wade
           .
           My
           Text
           is
           one
           of
           those
           through
           which
           an
           ordinary
           Ingenuity
           may
           wade
           ;
           neither
           are
           the
           words
           cloathed
           with
           those
           difficulties
           which
           are
           originally
           incident
           to
           other
           places
           of
           this
           book
           .
        
         
           The
           preceding
           Chapter
           gives
           you
           a
           description
           of
           that
           Mother
           of
           Fornications
           ,
           the
           Whore
           of
           Babylon
           ,
           as
           she
           was
           represented
           to
           the
           Apostle
           in
           a
           Vision
           .
           In
           the
           16th
           verse
           ,
           he
           foretels
           her
           ruine
           ,
           and
           propounds
           the
           method
           of
           Gods
           severity
           therein
           ,
           in
           the
           certainty
           ,
           suddenness
           ,
           and
           inevitability
           of
           her
           destruction
           :
           And
           in
           my
           Text
           ,
           cautions
           all
           Gods
           people
           to
           avoid
           her
           sins
           ,
           lest
           they
           smart
           by
           her
           punishment
           ;
           to
           come
           out
           of
           her
           idolatries
           ,
           lest
           they
           be
           wrapt
           up
           in
           her
           destruction
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           words
           ,
           you
           have
           two
           things
           considerable
           .
        
         
         
           
             1.
             
             A
             Command
             ,
             
               Come
               out
               of
               her
            
             (
             i.
             e.
             )
             out
             of
             Babylon
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             The
             ground
             and
             reason
             thereof
             ,
             and
             that
             is
             twofold
             ,
             
               
                 (
                 1.
                 )
                 
                   lest
                   ye
                   be
                   partakers
                   of
                   her
                   sins
                   ,
                
              
               
                 (
                 2.
                 )
                 
                   of
                   her
                   plagues
                
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           The
           words
           need
           not
           much
           explication
           ;
           and
           I
           love
           not
           to
           make
           Truths
           ,
           plain
           in
           themselves
           ,
           difficult
           by
           my
           obscure
           handling
           of
           them
           .
           It
           was
           the
           unhappiness
           of
           the
           School-men
           ,
           to
           ravel
           and
           ensnarl
           the
           plainest
           truths
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           with
           their
           nice
           distinctions
           ,
           and
           perplexed
           abstruse
           notions
           ;
           (
           wherein
           ,
           as
           Quintilian
           Orators
           ,
           
             Multa
             loquuntur
             ,
             sed
             nihil
             dicunt
          
           ;
           )
           which
           otherwise
           might
           be
           wound
           off
           by
           an
           ordinary
           Understanding
           .
           But
           what
           Explication
           they
           need
           ,
           you
           shall
           have
           in
           this
           short
           Paraphrase
           .
        
         
           
             Come
             out
             of
             her
             ,
             ]
             Exite
             ex
             illâ
             ,
             mi
             popule
             .
          
           'T
           is
           not
           to
           be
           so
           much
           understood
           of
           a
           bodily
           departure
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           a
           cohabitation
           and
           Presence
           ,
           as
           of
           a
           spiritual
           separation
           ,
           in
           respect
           of
           Faith
           and
           Religion
           .
           Come
           out
           of
           her
           Judgment
           and
           Doctrine
           ,
           her
           Faith
           and
           Worship
           .
           The
           words
           seem
           to
           be
           taken
           out
           of
           Jer.
           51.6
           .
           
             Flee
             out
             of
             the
             midst
             of
             Babylon
             ,
             and
             deliver
             every
             man
             his
             soul
             :
             be
             
             not
             cut
             off
             in
             her
             iniquity
             .
          
           And
           ,
           Jer.
           50.8
           .
           
             Remove
             out
             of
             the
             midst
             of
             Babylon
             ,
             and
             go
             forth
             .
          
           And
           ,
           Isai
           .
           48.20
           .
           
             Go
             forth
             of
             Babylon
             :
             flee
             from
             her
             ,
          
           (
           i.
           e.
           )
           depart
           from
           her
           Communion
           :
           
           
             Recedite
             ,
             recedite
          
           ,
           as
           Junius
           and
           Tremellius
           read
           the
           words
           ;
           depart
           quickly
           ;
           come
           not
           near
           this
           Pesthouse
           ,
           as
           you
           would
           avoid
           Infection
           .
        
         
           
             My
             people
             ]
             i.e.
          
           By
           singular
           care
           ,
           respect
           ,
           and
           affection
           ;
           
             my
             people
          
           ,
           by
           special
           favour
           and
           covenant
           ;
           you
           that
           have
           owned
           my
           Name
           ,
           professed
           Religion
           in
           the
           power
           and
           purity
           of
           it
           ,
           O
           go
           out
           of
           her
           ;
           defile
           not
           your
           garments
           by
           
           Babylon's
           Idolatries
           ;
           for
           if
           you
           touch
           her
           ,
           you
           will
           pollute
           your selves
           .
        
         
           
             Out
             of
             her
          
           ]
           (
           i.
           e.
           )
           Babylon
           .
           We
           finde
           particular
           mention
           of
           three
           Babylons
           in
           History
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             Babylon
             of
             Assyria
             ,
             standing
             on
             the
             River
             Euphrates
             ,
             where
             was
             the
             confusion
             of
             Languages
             ,
             and
             where
             the
             Jews
             were
             in
             Captivity
             ;
             which
             place
             is
             taxed
             in
             Scripture
             for
             Idolatry
             ,
             and
             other
             Heaven-daring
             Iniquities
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             Babylon
             in
             Egypt
             ,
             standing
             on
             the
             River
             Nilus
             ,
             and
             for
             distinction
             called
             
               Babylon
               Aegyptiorum
            
             ;
             
             thought
             to
             be
             aimed
             at
             by
             St.
             Peter
             ,
             1
             Epist
             .
             5.13
             .
             vers
             .
             Out
             of
             the
             ruines
             of
             this
             ,
             arose
             that
             great
             City
             Cayr
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             Babylon
             mystical
             ,
             whereof
             Babylon
             of
             Assyria
             was
             a
             type
             ;
             and
             this
             is
             Rome
             ,
             which
             (
             though
             the
             great
             Favourers
             of
             that
             corrupt
             Church
             have
             endeavour'd
             to
             cast
             all
             obscurities
             imaginable
             on
             this
             Interpretation
             ,
             yet
             )
             without
             the
             least
             shadow
             of
             scruple
             ,
             is
             here
             to
             be
             understood
             ;
             and
             the
             Whore
             of
             Babylon
             is
             (
             by
             all
             circumstances
             )
             that
             State
             or
             Regiment
             of
             a
             People
             that
             were
             then
             the
             Inhabitants
             of
             Rome
             ,
             or
             did
             belong
             thereto
             .
             But
             of
             this
             ,
             more
             anon
             .
          
        
         
           
             That
             ye
             be
             not
             partakers
             of
             her
             sins
             .
          
           ]
           Contract
           not
           her
           guilt
           ;
           which
           you
           may
           do
           by
           contriving
           for
           her
           ,
           complying
           with
           ,
           or
           conniving
           at
           her
           Idolatries
           :
           Though
           you
           act
           not
           with
           them
           ,
           yet
           if
           you
           like
           ,
           love
           ,
           and
           approve
           of
           her
           Villanies
           ,
           't
           is
           enough
           to
           make
           you
           partakers
           with
           her
           .
        
         
           
             That
             you
             receive
             not
             of
             her
             plagues
             ,
             ]
             Ne
             in
             eâdem
             involvemini
             ruinâ
             ,
          
           lest
           you
           be
           involved
           in
           the
           same
           destruction
           .
           For
           there
           are
           three
           things
           in
           every
           sin
           :
           
             
               (
               1.
               )
               There
               is
               
                 actus
                 ,
                 qui
                 transit
              
               .
            
             
               (
               2.
               )
               
                 Macula
                 ,
                 quae
                 manet
              
               .
               
               And
               ,
            
             
               (
               3.
               )
               
                 Poena
                 ,
                 quae
                 debetur
              
               .
               The
               act
               is
               transient
               ,
               but
               yet
               reflects
               guilt
               ,
               and
               guilt
               bindes
               over
               to
               punishment
               .
               And
               hence
               ,
               in
               the
               Original
               ,
               sin
               and
               punishment
               have
               one
               and
               the
               same
               name
               ;
               to
               note
               to
               us
               ,
               that
               where
               sin
               is
               in
               the
               Premises
               ,
               there
               destruction
               will
               be
               in
               the
               Conclusion
               .
            
          
        
         
           From
           the
           words
           thus
           explained
           ,
           there
           result
           these
           four
           Doctrinal
           Conclusions
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             That
             Christians
             must
             be
             very
             careful
             lest
             they
             communicate
             with
             idolatrous
             persons
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             That
             those
             persons
             ,
             of
             all
             others
             ,
             who
             have
             owned
             and
             professed
             the
             Name
             of
             God
             ,
             asserted
             his
             Cause
             ,
             and
             born
             testimony
             to
             his
             Truth
             ,
             should
             be
             most
             careful
             of
             defiling
             themselves
             with
             idolatrous
             practices
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             That
             the
             Idolatry
             practised
             in
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             is
             a
             sufficient
             ground
             for
             our
             separation
             from
             her
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             That
             to
             partake
             of
             a
             peoples
             fin
             ,
             is
             to
             be
             involved
             in
             that
             peoples
             ruine
             .
          
        
         
           I
           shall
           wrap
           up
           all
           these
           in
           this
           one
           Proposition
           :
        
         
           That
           it
           must
           be
           the
           great
           care
           of
           all
           Christians
           ,
           
           who
           would
           not
           run
           the
           hazard
           of
           their
           Eternal
           Salvation
           ,
           to
           come
           out
           of
           Babylon
           ,
           to
           separate
           themselves
           from
           the
           Faith
           and
           Religion
           of
           the
           present
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           prosecution
           whereof
           ,
           I
           shall
           do
           these
           three
           things
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             I
             shall
             shew
             that
             Babylon
             here
             is
             meant
             of
             Rome
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             What
             defection
             this
             mystical
             Babylon
             hath
             made
             from
             her
             Primitive
             Purity
             and
             Integrity
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             The
             Grounds
             of
             our
             Separation
             ,
             together
             with
             the
             impossibility
             of
             a
             Reconciliation
             .
          
        
         
           For
           the
           first
           ,
           that
           Babylon
           here
           is
           meant
           of
           Rome
           ,
           is
           most
           excellently
           done
           to
           my
           hand
           ,
           both
           by
           Ancient
           and
           Modern
           Writers
           :
           So
           that
           to
           say
           any
           thing
           after
           them
           ,
           were
           but
           to
           light
           a
           Candle
           to
           the
           Sun
           when
           she
           appears
           in
           her
           Meridian
           glory
           .
           If
           you
           do
           but
           cast
           your
           eye
           on
           the
           former
           Chapter
           ,
           you
           will
           finde
           enough
           ,
           and
           I
           shall
           need
           no
           more
           to
           prove
           it
           .
           Then
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           Woman
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           the
           Whore
           of
           Babylon
           ,
           is
           said
           to
           be
           a
           City
           which
           reigneth
           over
           the
           Kings
           of
           the
           Earth
           ;
           and
           this
           was
           
           onely
           the
           Roman
           Monarchy
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           there
           being
           no
           other
           City
           in
           the
           world
           but
           this
           ,
           that
           had
           such
           a
           Jurisdiction
           .
        
         
           And
           so
           it
           is
           expounded
           not
           onely
           by
           some
           Greek
           Authors
           ,
           but
           by
           most
           Latine
           Writers
           ;
           as
           
             Iraeneus
             ,
             Tertullian
          
           ,
           St.
           Ambrose
           ,
           St.
           Jerome
           ,
           St.
           Augustine
           ,
           
           and
           others
           .
           Prosper
           ,
           also
           a
           Latine
           Writer
           ,
           saith
           ,
           
             Who
             cannot
             understand
             what
             City
             it
             is
             that
             carrieth
             a
             cup
             full
             of
             Abominations
             ,
             of
             Vncleanness
             ,
             and
             fornication
             of
             the
             whole
             Earth
             ,
             when
             that
             is
             called
             Eternal
             which
             is
             but
             Temporal
             ?
          
           Verily
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           name
           of
           Blasphemy
           ,
           when
           mortal
           men
           are
           called
           Divi
           ,
           Gods
           ,
           and
           their
           Suppliants
           say
           unto
           them
           ,
           
             To
             your
             divine
             Power
             ,
             to
             your
             Altars
             ,
             and
             to
             your
             Eternity
             .
          
           This
           the
           Learned
           know
           to
           be
           the
           City
           of
           Rome
           ,
           which
           was
           called
           
             Vrbs
             AEterna
          
           ,
           and
           wherein
           the
           Emperours
           were
           called
           Gods
           ;
           and
           the
           People
           flattered
           them
           with
           Altars
           ,
           and
           Titles
           of
           divine
           Power
           and
           Eternity
           ,
           as
           now
           they
           do
           their
           Popes
           with
           the
           like
           Antichristian
           terms
           of
           
             The
             most
             Holy
          
           ,
           and
           
             Your
             Holiness
          
           :
           Who
           have
           also
           as
           blasphemous
           tokens
           of
           Divinity
           ,
           as
           any
           of
           the
           heathen
           Emperours
           had
           in
           their
           Triple-Crowns
           ,
           riding
           on
           mens
           shoulders
           ,
           their
           
           being
           attended
           on
           by
           Kings
           and
           Emperours
           ;
           their
           Thrones
           in
           Churches
           ,
           higher
           than
           Altars
           ;
           and
           such-like
           magnificent
           Pomps
           of
           Heathenish
           and
           Antichristian
           pride
           .
        
         
           
             Ambrosius
             Ansbertus
          
           ,
           a
           Latine
           Writer
           also
           ,
           
           850
           years
           since
           ,
           calls
           Rome
           the
           second
           Babylon
           ,
           who
           sitting
           aloft
           on
           her
           seven
           Hills
           ,
           rules
           the
           Scepter
           of
           the
           whole
           world
           :
           and
           in
           the
           name
           of
           that
           City
           ,
           is
           figured
           the
           power
           of
           the
           whole
           earthly
           Dominions
           .
           Hence
           ,
        
         
           II.
           In
           the
           seventh
           verse
           ,
           she
           is
           said
           to
           sit
           
             on
             a
             beast
             having
             seven
             heads
             and
             ten
             horns
          
           ;
           which
           seven
           heads
           be
           *
           seven
           hills
           whereon
           the
           woman
           sitteth
           .
           Now
           't
           is
           well
           known
           not
           onely
           to
           learned
           Christians
           ,
           but
           to
           Heathens
           themselves
           ,
           that
           Rome
           alone
           is
           a
           City
           builton
           seven
           hills
           .
        
         
           This
           is
           thought
           to
           be
           a
           very
           silly
           Argument
           by
           that
           Renegado
           Sanders
           and
           others
           ,
           by
           the
           seven
           hills
           to
           prove
           the
           See
           of
           Antichrist
           to
           be
           at
           Rome
           ,
           because
           the
           City
           is
           now
           gone
           from
           the
           Hills
           ,
           and
           standeth
           in
           the
           Plain
           of
           
             Campus
             Martius
          
           ;
           and
           the
           Pope
           sitteth
           on
           the
           other
           side
           of
           the
           River
           .
           To
           which
           it
           is
           well
           answered
           ,
           That
           though
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           City
           be
           not
           now
           on
           the
           
           seven
           Hills
           ,
           and
           his
           Unholiness
           his
           Palace
           of
           Pleasure
           be
           on
           the
           other
           side
           the
           River
           ,
           yet
           on
           these
           hills
           stand
           Churches
           ,
           
           Abbeys
           ,
           and
           Monasteries
           ,
           where
           the
           Papal
           Authority
           is
           put
           in
           execution
           ;
           and
           there
           is
           never
           an
           one
           of
           those
           hills
           whereon
           the
           present
           Religion
           of
           Rome
           is
           not
           practised
           .
           Being
           galled
           with
           this
           ,
           they
           make
           two
           
             Romes
             ;
             Rome
          
           Pagan
           ,
           and
           Rome
           Christian
           .
           The
           Whore
           spoken
           of
           ,
           is
           ,
           they
           say
           ,
           Heathenish
           Rome
           ,
           which
           was
           ruled
           by
           those
           Monsters
           of
           mankind
           ,
           
             Nero
             ,
             Domitian
             ,
             Calignla
          
           ,
           &c.
           who
           writ
           their
           Laws
           ,
           and
           rouled
           their
           Garments
           in
           the
           bloud
           of
           Christians
           :
           but
           the
           Christian
           Rome
           is
           not
           here
           meant
           .
           Whereas
           't
           is
           obvious
           to
           every
           one
           that
           hath
           but
           common
           rational
           notions
           alive
           within
           him
           ,
           whose
           Conscience
           is
           not
           quite
           vitiated
           ,
           and
           Minde
           putrified
           with
           noisome
           Lusts
           ,
           but
           must
           see
           ,
           that
           the
           present
           Rome
           ,
           in
           respect
           of
           State
           ,
           Princely
           Dominion
           ,
           and
           Cruelty
           in
           persecuting
           the
           Saints
           of
           God
           ,
           is
           all
           one
           with
           the
           Heathenish
           Empire
           ;
           the
           See
           of
           the
           Bishop
           being
           turned
           into
           the
           Court
           of
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           and
           Shambles
           of
           the
           Butcher
           .
        
         
           To
           avoid
           this
           ,
           
           they
           farther
           say
           ,
           That
           Babylon
           
           is
           drunk
           with
           the
           bloud
           of
           the
           Saints
           and
           Martyrs
           ,
           shed
           not
           in
           Rome
           ,
           but
           in
           Jerusalem
           ,
           where
           the
           Lord
           was
           crucified
           ;
           and
           the
           two
           Prophets
           being
           slain
           ,
           lie
           there
           in
           the
           streets
           .
        
         
           This
           is
           excellently
           answered
           by
           St.
           Hierome
           ,
           who
           saith
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           not
           meant
           of
           Jerusalem
           ,
           but
           of
           Rome
           ;
           and
           Christ
           is
           said
           to
           be
           crucified
           there
           ,
           either
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               Because
               the
               Authority
               whereby
               he
               was
               crucified
               was
               from
               the
               Roman
               Empire
               ;
               or
               ,
            
             
               2.
               
               Because
               Christ
               in
               his
               Members
               was
               ,
               and
               is
               dayly
               there
               crucified
               ,
               though
               locally
               in
               his
               own
               person
               he
               was
               crucified
               at
               Jerusalem
               .
               But
               besides
               the
               Authority
               of
               Scripture
               in
               this
               case
               ,
               it
               were
               easie
               to
               adde
               ,
               (
               in
               the
               third
               place
               ,
               )
            
             
               3.
               
               The
               favour
               and
               defence
               which
               this
               Exposition
               hath
               received
               from
               a
               multitude
               of
               Antient
               and
               Modern
               learned
               men
               .
               Hence
               St.
               Bernard
               saith
               ,
               That
               the
               Beast
               spoken
               of
               in
               the
               
                 Apocalypse
                 ,
                 to
                 which
                 a
                 mouth
                 is
                 given
                 to
                 speak
                 blasphemies
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 make
                 war
                 with
                 the
                 Saints
                 ,
              
               is
               now
               gotten
               into
               St.
               
               Peter's
               Chair
               ,
               as
               a
               Lion
               prepared
               for
               his
               Prey
               .
               And
               in
               another
               place
               ,
               speaking
               of
               the
               Romish
               Priesthood
               ,
               They
               are
               called
               (
               saith
               he
               )
               the
               Ministers
               
               of
               Christ
               ;
               yet
               serve
               Antichrist
               .
               And
               Petrarch
               saith
               ,
               Once
               Rome
               ,
               but
               now
               Babylon
               .
               And
               
                 Joachim
                 Abbas
              
               ,
               Antichrist
               was
               long
               since
               born
               in
               Rome
               ,
               and
               now
               strives
               every
               moment
               to
               get
               higher
               and
               higher
               .
            
             
               4.
               
               And
               lastly
               ,
               I
               answer
               ,
               That
               it
               was
               such
               a
               Babylon
               ,
               that
               for
               a
               while
               Gods
               people
               were
               lawfully
               in
               her
               ;
               but
               when
               her
               Corruptions
               did
               increase
               ,
               they
               were
               commanded
               to
               depart
               ;
               which
               cannot
               be
               affirmed
               of
               Rome
               Pagan
               ,
               but
               of
               Rome
               Papal
               :
               and
               therefore
               ,
               
                 Come
                 out
                 of
                 her
                 ,
                 my
                 people
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           This
           brings
           me
           to
           the
           second
           thing
           ,
           viz.
           the
           great
           defection
           this
           Church
           hath
           made
           from
           her
           Primitive
           Purity
           and
           Integrity
           .
        
         
           The
           Spouse
           is
           now
           become
           an
           Harlot
           ,
           and
           the
           chast
           Virgin
           a
           Mother
           of
           Fornications
           :
           her
           Apostacy
           is
           now
           as
           infamous
           as
           ever
           
             her
             Faith
             was
             glorious
          
           .
           Some
           things
           she
           is
           confessed
           to
           hold
           right
           ;
           as
           ,
           a
           true
           God
           in
           three
           Persons
           ;
           true
           Scripture
           ,
           though
           with
           additions
           ;
           a
           true
           Christ
           ,
           though
           mangled
           with
           foul
           and
           erroneous
           consequences
           ;
           true
           Baptism
           ,
           though
           shamefully
           deformed
           with
           rotten
           Traditions
           :
           and
           if
           you
           compare
           Rome
           Christian
           with
           Rome
           Roman
           ,
           you
           will
           see
           her
           defection
           in
           these
           five
           grand
           instances
           thereof
           .
        
         
         
           1.
           
           In
           the
           unlimited
           Jurisdiction
           of
           the
           Triple-Crown
           .
           The
           Councils
           of
           Basil
           and
           Constance
           decreed
           ,
           that
           a
           general
           Council
           was
           of
           greater
           Authority
           than
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           ought
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           Council
           of
           Nice
           appointed
           him
           his
           bounds
           and
           limits
           ;
           and
           the
           Council
           of
           Chalcedon
           made
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Constantinople
           equal
           with
           him
           in
           Authority
           and
           Jurisdiction
           .
           And
           Gregory
           himself
           ,
           who
           sate
           in
           the
           Papal
           Chair
           ,
           writes
           ,
           That
           whoever
           stiles
           himself
           Universal
           Bishop
           ,
           or
           desires
           to
           be
           called
           so
           ,
           is
           the
           forerunner
           of
           Antichrist
           ;
           and
           many
           learned
           Papists
           believed
           this
           to
           be
           true
           .
           But
           since
           that
           time
           the
           case
           is
           much
           altered
           :
           for
           the
           Councils
           of
           Lateran
           and
           Trent
           have
           determined
           the
           contrary
           ;
           insomuch
           that
           he
           whose
           Primitive
           stile
           was
           
             Servant
             of
             servants
          
           ,
           doth
           now
           
             exalt
             himself
             above
             all
             that
             is
             called
             God.
          
           The
           beginning
           of
           this
           Supremacy
           over
           other
           Bishops
           ,
           was
           in
           Boniface
           the
           third's
           time
           ;
           who
           ,
           with
           great
           ado
           ,
           obtained
           of
           Phocas
           (
           a
           fit
           Master
           to
           prefer
           such
           a
           Servant
           )
           to
           be
           made
           Oecumenical
           Bishop
           :
           Which
           Authority
           his
           Successors
           have
           enlarged
           ;
           and
           now
           his
           Janizaries
           ,
           the
           Jesuits
           ,
           tell
           
           us
           he
           is
           that
           Statue
           in
           
             Daniel
             ,
             which
             shall
             crush
             in
             pieces
             all
             the
             Kings
             and
             Kingdoms
             of
             the
             Earth
             .
          
           He
           may
           ,
           as
           Bosius
           saith
           ,
           depose
           Kings
           for
           just
           causes
           ,
           and
           without
           any
           cause
           also
           .
           It
           belongs
           to
           him
           (
           saith
           Sunders
           )
           to
           pronounce
           Kings
           Hereticks
           ,
           to
           declare
           their
           Subjects
           exempt
           from
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           deposed
           ,
           if
           they
           will
           not
           Blade
           it
           for
           Christ
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           for
           the
           Popes
           Tyranny
           and
           Lust
           .
           And
           this
           is
           not
           onely
           matter
           of
           their
           Faith
           ,
           but
           Fact.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           Not
           onely
           in
           the
           Supremacy
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           the
           Holy
           Sacrament
           of
           the
           Lords
           Supper
           ;
           for
           at
           first
           the
           people
           received
           it
           under
           both
           kinds
           ,
           for
           the
           space
           of
           a
           thousand
           years
           .
           And
           (
           saith
           Myraldus
           )
           
             The
             Roman
             Order
             commanded
             the
             Wine
             to
             be
             conserated
             ,
             that
             the
             People
             might
             fully
             communicate
             .
          
           And
           the
           antient
           Liturgies
           of
           their
           own
           Church
           do
           tell
           us
           ,
           that
           
             the
             People
             received
             the
             Wine
             as
             well
             as
             the
             Bread.
          
           Nay
           ,
           Cajetan
           (
           as
           eminent
           a
           Member
           as
           ever
           their
           Church
           boasted
           of
           )
           confesseth
           ,
           that
           the
           Custom
           endured
           a
           long
           time
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           even
           until
           their
           so-much-admired
           Council
           of
           Constance
           forbad
           it
           ;
           and
           then
           the
           Romanists
           altered
           their
           minde
           .
        
         
         
           3.
           
           Her
           defection
           hath
           been
           most
           notorious
           in
           that
           monstrous
           Tenet
           of
           Transubstantiation
           ;
           a
           Doctrine
           lately
           brought
           in
           ,
           and
           made
           matter
           of
           Faith
           by
           Innocent
           the
           third
           ,
           in
           the
           Lateran
           Council
           ,
           within
           these
           four
           hundred
           years
           :
           before
           which
           time
           no
           man
           was
           obliged
           to
           believe
           it
           ,
           but
           all
           men
           were
           left
           to
           their
           own
           liberties
           ;
           whereas
           now
           't
           is
           accounted
           Heresie
           to
           deny
           it
           ,
           and
           worthy
           of
           Bonds
           ,
           the
           Inquisition
           ,
           a
           Stake
           ,
           and
           Hell.
           
        
         
           4.
           
           In
           the
           Worship
           of
           Images
           ;
           for
           at
           first
           that
           Church
           admitted
           of
           no
           Image
           at
           all
           ,
           
             either
             painted
             or
             carved
             ;
             no
             not
             the
             Image
             of
             Christ
             himself
          
           (
           saith
           
             Erasmus
             )
             to
             be
             set
             up
             in
             Churches
             :
          
           And
           when
           they
           began
           to
           be
           used
           ,
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           her self
           forbad
           any
           Worship
           to
           be
           given
           to
           them
           ,
           as
           appears
           by
           
           Gregory's
           Epistles
           to
           Severus
           .
           And
           Polydore
           (
           a
           great
           admirer
           of
           the
           Romish
           Church
           )
           confesseth
           ,
           that
           
             all
             the
             Fathers
             condemned
             the
             Worship
             of
             Images
             ,
             for
             fear
             of
             Idolatry
             :
          
           And
           when
           the
           Nicene
           Council
           brought
           them
           in
           for
           ornament
           ,
           even
           then
           they
           denied
           them
           Worship
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           In
           the
           great
           Article
           of
           Justification
           ,
           the
           most
           eminent
           Pillars
           of
           their
           Church
           
           having
           denied
           Justification
           by
           Works
           ,
           (
           as
           
             Thomas
             Aquinas
          
           ,
           and
           others
           )
           yet
           the
           Council
           of
           Trent
           varied
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           thrust
           in
           mans
           inherent
           Righteousness
           as
           the
           formal
           cause
           of
           his
           Justification
           .
        
         
           Now
           a
           Church
           that
           hath
           made
           these
           Defections
           ,
           and
           hath
           introduced
           such
           horrid
           Errours
           ,
           should
           be
           separated
           from
           ;
           
             Come
             out
             of
             her
             ,
             my
             people
             :
          
           which
           leads
           me
           to
           the
           consideration
           of
           the
           various
           Causes
           of
           this
           Apostacy
           ;
           which
           may
           be
           referred
           either
           to
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           Her
           Pride
           and
           Ambition
           .
           'T
           is
           well
           known
           what
           arrogance
           that
           Church
           became
           guilty
           of
           ,
           when
           Tertullian
           in
           his
           time
           complained
           
             de
             Insolentia
             Cleri
             Romani
          
           .
           And
           Luther
           calls
           them
           Silk
           and
           Sattin
           Divines
           ,
           to
           whose
           proud
           Spirits
           the
           poor
           and
           contemptible
           way
           of
           Christ
           could
           not
           comport
           .
           In
           that
           Assertion
           of
           theirs
           ,
           how
           do
           they
           extol
           their
           Priesthood
           !
           
             Creatura
             paruit
             Joshuae
             ,
             at
             Presbyteris
             Creator
             ;
             Sol
             illi
             ,
             at
             his
             Deus
             quotiescunque
             verba
             sacra
             pronuntiat
             :
             The
             Creature
             obeyed
          
           Joshua
           ,
           
             but
             the
             Creator
             doth
             the
             Priests
             ;
             the
             Sun
             yielded
             to
             him
             ,
             but
             to
             these
             as
             often
             as
             they
             pronounce
             the
             words
             of
             Consecration
             ,
             doth
             God
             yield
             .
          
           On
           this
           conceit
           it
           is
           ,
           
           that
           they
           degrade
           all
           Temporal
           Princes
           (
           those
           
             Vmbratiles
             Dii
          
           )
           making
           them
           stand
           bare-foot
           at
           their
           great
           Bishops
           gate
           ,
           hold
           his
           Stirrup
           ,
           yea
           their
           own
           Crowns
           at
           his
           courtesie
           ;
           exempting
           all
           their
           Ecclesiastical
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           rest
           from
           their
           Allegiance
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Fraud
           and
           Perfidiousness
           the
           Romanists
           had
           fully
           learned
           ,
           that
           
             Regnandi
             Causa
          
           ,
           all
           Oaths
           were
           to
           be
           violated
           .
           How
           grosly
           were
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           Adherents
           taken
           in
           forging
           some
           Canons
           of
           the
           Council
           of
           Nice
           for
           their
           preheminent
           Dignity
           .
           And
           being
           conscious
           of
           their
           own
           falshood
           ,
           still
           continue
           to
           deprave
           all
           Authors
           that
           might
           give
           in
           Evidence
           against
           them
           ;
           outfacing
           all
           antient
           Truths
           ,
           and
           foisting
           in
           Gibeonish
           witnesses
           of
           their
           own
           forging
           ;
           and
           leave
           nothing
           unattempted
           against
           Heaven
           or
           Earth
           ,
           that
           might
           advance
           their
           Faction
           .
           Take
           a
           view
           of
           her
           carriage
           to
           those
           that
           diffent
           from
           her
           .
           How
           hath
           she
           abused
           all
           that
           opposed
           her
           !
           charging
           .
           Wickliffe
           with
           Blasphemy
           ,
           Luther
           to
           have
           had
           his
           Advice
           from
           the
           Devil
           .
           Queen
           
           Elizabeth's
           Episcopal
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           and
           secret
           Fruitfulness
           ;
           our
           Bishops
           
           to
           have
           been
           consecrated
           in
           Taverns
           ;
           oun
           casting
           the
           Crust
           of
           the
           Sacramental
           Bread
           to
           Dogs
           :
           With
           a
           thousand
           more
           of
           this
           nature
           ,
           maliciously
           raised
           and
           defended
           against
           Knowledge
           and
           Conscience
           ,
           for
           the
           disgrace
           of
           those
           that
           diffent
           from
           them
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Covetousness
           :
           For
           if
           you
           look
           on
           all
           their
           Opinions
           about
           Indulgences
           ,
           Private
           Masses
           ,
           Auricular
           Confession
           ,
           you
           will
           find
           love
           to
           Money
           the
           cause
           of
           them
           all
           .
           Hence
           the
           humour
           of
           that
           Church
           was
           well
           hinted
           to
           us
           ,
           in
           the
           answer
           of
           a
           *
           Priest
           to
           his
           Friend
           ,
           who
           asking
           him
           why
           he
           would
           not
           Absolve
           a
           Penitent
           without
           a
           great
           sum
           of
           Money
           ,
           replyed
           ,
           They
           get
           Heaven
           by
           us
           ,
           and
           we
           must
           get
           Money
           by
           them
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           Neglect
           of
           Scripture
           :
           And
           this
           hath
           see
           open
           a
           flood-gate
           ,
           whereby
           all
           the
           world
           was
           drowned
           in
           Errours
           :
           For
           take
           the
           Eyes
           out
           of
           the
           Body
           ,
           the
           Sun
           out
           of
           the
           Firmament
           ,
           the
           Compass
           from
           the
           Ship
           ,
           and
           what
           can
           follow
           but
           darkness
           ,
           blackness
           ,
           and
           confusion
           ?
           Therefore
           they
           wish
           that
           there
           had
           never
           been
           Scripture
           ;
           and
           say
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Church
             could
             have
             done
             well
             enough
             with
             Traditions
             onely
             .
          
           They
           call
           the
           Bible
           that
           Book
           which
           
           hath
           made
           all
           the
           stirs
           in
           the
           world
           ;
           and
           say
           ,
           
             That
             all
             the
             Faith
             a
             man
             can
             have
             by
             it
             ,
             is
             meerly
             humane
             ,
             and
             no
             more
             .
          
           O!
           the
           great
           patience
           of
           God
           ,
           that
           bears
           such
           Blasphemies
           from
           these
           Monsters
           of
           Men
           !
        
         
           5.
           
           Nourishing
           of
           sin
           :
           Of
           which
           this
           Church
           hath
           been
           guilty
           two
           several
           ways
           .
           
             
               (
               1.
               )
               By
               her
               common
               practice
               of
               encouraging
               those
               who
               had
               been
               censured
               in
               the
               Eastern
               Churches
               for
               foul
               Miscarriages
               ,
               to
               appeal
               to
               her
               ,
               and
               she
               would
               Absolve
               them
               ;
               and
               whenever
               she
               did
               inflict
               Ecclesiastical
               Censures
               ,
               they
               were
               in
               a
               great
               part
               Pecuniary
               ,
               and
               meerly
               to
               the
               macerating
               of
               the
               Body
               ,
               no
               ways
               to
               the
               saving
               of
               the
               Soul
               :
               which
               occasioned
               us
               to
               tell
               them
               ,
               that
               
                 peccata
                 raduntur
                 ,
                 non
                 eradicantur
              
               ,
               and
               Heathen-like
               they
               did
               
                 vitia
                 abscondere
                 ,
                 non
                 abscindere
              
               :
               by
               this
               Penance
               there
               was
               something
               done
               about
               sin
               ,
               nothing
               done
               against
               sin
               ;
               it
               being
               like
               Sampsons
               Hair
               ,
               cut
               off
               ,
               yet
               because
               the
               Roots
               remained
               ,
               they
               sprung
               up
               to
               their
               full
               strength
               again
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               By
               the
               suitableness
               of
               her
               Doctrine
               to
               the
               carnal
               and
               sensual
               part
               of
               man.
               
            
          
           Particularly
           ,
        
         
           
             1.
             
             That
             Doctrine
             of
             extenuating
             original
             sin
             ,
             making
             motions
             to
             sin
             unconsented
             to
             ,
             
             no
             sin
             at
             all
             :
             That
             a
             man
             hath
             power
             to
             keep
             the
             Commandments
             :
             That
             to
             love
             God
             ,
             binds
             onely
             at
             some
             times
             :
             That
             actual
             inadvertency
             in
             holy
             Duties
             ,
             doth
             not
             hinder
             the
             Fruit
             of
             them
             :
             That
             Prayers
             said
             in
             Latine
             ,
             though
             we
             do
             not
             understand
             them
             ,
             are
             very
             acceptable
             unto
             God
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             2.
             
             That
             Doctrine
             of
             advancing
             the
             pride
             of
             Nature
             ;
             which
             tells
             her
             ,
             that
             she
             can
             merit
             her
             own
             Glory
             ,
             without
             being
             much
             beholding
             to
             Gods
             Mercy
             ;
             that
             she
             can
             fulfil
             the
             Royal
             Law
             ,
             and
             so
             brave
             God
             in
             the
             face
             ,
             as
             if
             she
             needed
             no
             pardon
             from
             his
             hands
             .
             O
             how
             sweet
             a
             Lesson
             is
             this
             to
             flesh
             and
             bloud
             ,
             even
             enough
             to
             make
             her
             run
             mad
             of
             Self-conceit
             !
          
           
             3.
             
             That
             of
             commending
             Ignorance
             as
             the
             Mother
             of
             Devotion
             :
             And
             thus
             when
             they
             had
             taken
             away
             the
             Scriptures
             ,
             they
             set
             up
             Pictures
             in
             their
             room
             .
             All
             their
             Religion
             is
             no
             other
             than
             a
             pack
             of
             Complements
             ,
             meerly
             outward
             and
             sensible
             ,
             adapted
             to
             the
             humour
             of
             their
             ignorant
             and
             sensual
             Votaries
             :
             for
             ,
             
               homo
               est
               magis
               sensus
               quam
               intellectus
            
             ;
             to
             worship
             God
             in
             Spirit
             and
             Truth
             ,
             can
             no
             more
             be
             understood
             by
             them
             ,
             than
             an
             
             Eye
             can
             see
             Spirit
             .
             How
             ridiculous
             are
             their
             superstitious
             Cu●toms
             .
             Yet
             not
             to
             do
             what
             Fathers
             and
             Grandfathers
             have
             done
             ,
             is
             to
             profane
             their
             Canonized
             dust
             :
             And
             indeed
             ,
             had
             not
             the
             Scripture
             foretold
             what
             an
             Eclipse
             would
             be
             upon
             the
             whole
             Church
             we
             should
             think
             it
             impossible
             that
             such
             ridiculous
             things
             should
             be
             taken
             up
             .
             Because
             Christ
             is
             the
             Light
             ,
             therefore
             they
             have
             Light
             at
             Noon-day
             :
             and
             because
             Christ
             said
             ,
             We
             must
             be
             like
             little
             Children
             ,
             therefore
             the
             Monks
             wear
             Cowls
             like
             childrens
             Swadling-clouts
             :
             And
             one
             Pope
             made
             a
             serious
             Motion
             in
             the
             Conclave
             ,
             That
             he
             and
             his
             Cardinals
             might
             ride
             in
             a
             solemn
             day
             on
             Asses
             ,
             in
             imitation
             of
             Christs
             humility
             ;
             but
             the
             Conclave
             thought
             that
             the
             As
             too
             much
             rode
             the
             Pope
             already
             .
             And
             thus
             you
             have
             had
             the
             several
             Instances
             and
             Causes
             of
             Rome
             Defection
             from
             her
             Primitive
             Purity
             and
             Integrity
             .
             I
             now
             proceed
             to
             the
             third
             thing
             proposed
             to
             be
             shewn
             ,
             viz.
             
          
        
         
           III.
           The
           grounds
           of
           our
           Separation
           from
           ,
           and
           the
           impossibility
           of
           Reconciliation
           to
           that
           Church
           .
        
         
           This
           I
           will
           consider
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               More
               generally
               ,
            
             
               2.
               
               More
               particularly
               .
            
          
           More
           generally
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           asserting
           these
           three
           things
           .
        
         
         
           
             1.
             
             The
             lawfulness
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             England's
             Separation
             from
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             That
             this
             Separation
             the
             Romanists
             themselves
             cannot
             justly
             charge
             as
             Schismatical
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             That
             our
             Compliance
             with
             that
             Church
             is
             dangerous
             ,
             and
             borders
             on
             Ruine
             and
             Destruction
             .
          
        
         
           I.
           The
           lawfulness
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England's
           Separation
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
        
         
           The
           Church
           of
           Rome
           is
           confessed
           to
           be
           antient
           ,
           but
           not
           her
           Errours
           ;
           neither
           do
           we
           in
           any
           thing
           differ
           from
           her
           ,
           wherein
           she
           hath
           not
           departed
           from
           her self
           .
           Here
           consider
           these
           two
           things
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           was
           never
           a
           Mother
           to
           our
           Church
           ;
           and
           we
           never
           had
           such
           dependance
           on
           her
           ,
           as
           the
           Romanists
           pretend
           we
           had
           .
           Our
           Christian
           Faith
           came
           not
           from
           the
           seven
           Hills
           ,
           neither
           was
           it
           derived
           from
           Austin
           the
           Monk
           ,
           or
           Pope
           
             Gregory
             .
             Britain
          
           had
           a
           worthy
           Church
           ,
           
           before
           either
           of
           them
           look'd
           into
           the
           world
           built
           on
           the
           foundation
           of
           the
           Prophets
           and
           Apostles
           :
           And
           the
           account
           that
           Historians
           give
           of
           it
           ,
           is
           
           thus
           ;
           viz.
           That
           Christianity
           was
           propagated
           here
           immediately
           after
           the
           death
           of
           that
           Proto-Martyr
           St.
           Steven
           .
           Which
           appears
           by
           divers
           passages
           out
           of
           Origen
           and
           
             Tertullian
             .
             Gildas
          
           the
           Historian
           of
           our
           own
           Nation
           (
           called
           Sapiens
           )
           affimeth
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Tiberius
           (
           who
           died
           thirty
           seven
           years
           after
           Christ
           was
           crucified
           )
           this
           Island
           of
           Britain
           received
           the
           Faith.
           
           Some
           there
           are
           (
           and
           not
           improbably
           )
           who
           conjecture
           ,
           that
           St.
           Paul
           himself
           preached
           the
           Gospel
           here
           after
           his
           first
           Imprisonment
           at
           Rome
           ;
           which
           was
           
             quinto
             Neronis
          
           .
           This
           is
           confirmed
           by
           a
           Passage
           of
           
             Venantius
             Honorius
          
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           Transit
           &
           oceanum
           ,
           vel
           qua
           fuit
           Insula
           pontum
           ,
           Quasque
           Britannus
           habet
           Terras
           ,
           atque
           ultima
           Thule
           .
        
         
           Beronius
           himself
           (
           one
           of
           their
           own
           Authors
           )
           cells
           us
           ,
           That
           he
           found
           it
           in
           a
           Manuscript
           in
           the
           Vatican
           Library
           ,
           that
           the
           Gospel
           was
           first
           preach'd
           in
           this
           Nation
           by
           
             Simon
             Zelotes
          
           ,
           and
           Joseph
           of
           Arimathea
           .
        
         
           In
           what
           state
           Christianity
           stood
           afterwards
           ,
           appears
           not
           in
           any
           footstep
           of
           History
           ,
           
           till
           King
           Luoius
           time
           ,
           
           who
           is
           said
           to
           send
           to
           Eleutherius
           the
           then
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           for
           some
           Pastors
           to
           instruct
           his
           People
           in
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           .
           Fugatius
           and
           Damianus
           were
           the
           persons
           sent
           over
           with
           his
           Letters
           to
           the
           King
           ;
           which
           acquainted
           him
           ,
           That
           as
           Christ's
           Vicar
           ,
           he
           might
           settle
           matters
           for
           Religion
           (
           a
           thing
           which
           his
           Successors
           will
           not
           now
           allow
           )
           within
           his
           own
           Dominions
           And
           thus
           Christianity
           flourished
           for
           several
           hundred
           years
           here
           :
           And
           notwithstanding
           all
           the
           affrightments
           of
           Pensecution
           that
           was
           then
           on
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Heathen
           Princes
           spilt
           the
           bloud
           of
           the
           Christians
           like
           water
           ,
           yet
           those
           sanguine
           showers
           have
           ever
           since
           made
           the
           Church
           the
           more
           fruitful
           .
           And
           in
           the
           Borders
           of
           this
           Island
           the
           Primitive
           Christian
           Religion
           had
           publick
           encouragement
           and
           profession
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           time
           of
           Austin
           the
           Monk
           ,
           who
           found
           here
           at
           his
           entrance
           one
           Archbishop
           seven
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           a
           Monastery
           at
           Bangor
           with
           twenty
           one
           hundred
           Monks
           in
           it
           :
           So
           that
           several
           hundred
           years
           did
           intervene
           between
           the
           first
           planting
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           Austin's
           coming
           hither
           .
           I
           should
           not
           be
           so
           large
           in
           〈◊〉
           
           Historical
           Narrative
           ,
           but
           that
           I
           know
           't
           is
           objected
           to
           us
           by
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           That
           we
           had
           our
           Religion
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           the
           Conversion
           of
           the
           English
           Nation
           was
           by
           Rome
           and
           her
           Agents
           .
           We
           own
           that
           the
           Antient
           Roman
           Church
           was
           Sister
           to
           ours
           ,
           but
           no
           Mother
           ;
           there
           was
           neer
           Kindred
           ,
           but
           no
           Dependance
           .
           But
           ,
        
         
           2.
           
           Though
           we
           should
           grant
           them
           such
           a
           Dependance
           ,
           yet
           still
           we
           assert
           our
           Separation
           lawful
           ,
           because
           they
           have
           separated
           and
           departed
           from
           their
           first
           Purity
           .
           We
           hold
           with
           the
           Antients
           ,
           from
           whom
           they
           are
           departed
           ;
           and
           we
           hold
           with
           them
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           they
           hold
           with
           Christ
           .
           This
           will
           evidence
           it self
           ,
           if
           you
           consider
           these
           four
           things
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             That
             the
             Modern
             Papists
             maintain
             sundry
             Articles
             opposite
             to
             that
             which
             hath
             been
             formerly
             believed
             by
             the
             most
             eminent
             Doctors
             of
             the
             Roman
             Church
             ;
             as
             
               that
               of
               the
               merit
               of
               Condignity
               ,
               opposed
               by
               St.
            
             Bernard
             and
             Anselme
             ,
             
               and
               now
               defended
               by
               the
               Modern
               Jesuits
               .
            
             Images
             at
             first
             were
             onely
             
               motivum
               objectum
            
             ,
             an
             inducing
             means
             to
             move
             people
             to
             adore
             the
             Samplar
             ;
             and
             no
             material
             Object
             of
             adoration
             ;
             which
             now
             is
             opposed
             by
             their
             present
             Church
             .
          
           
           
             2.
             
             Sundry
             Popish
             Assertions
             ,
             now
             obtruded
             ,
             are
             manifestly
             repugnant
             to
             the
             Teners
             of
             the
             Primitive
             Church
             ;
             as
             ,
             
               That
               the
               Popes
               Judgment
               is
               infallible
               :
               That
               he
               is
               Lord
               over
               the
               whole
               World
               :
               That
               publick
               Service
               doth
               bost
               edifie
               in
               an
               unknown
               Language
               :
               That
               Lay-men
               must
               not
               read
               Scriptures
               ,
            
             &c.
             
          
           
             3.
             
             Many
             of
             their
             Opinions
             are
             improbable
             ,
             unreasonable
             ,
             and
             absurd
             ;
             as
             ,
             
               That
               the
               Scripture
               hath
               no
               greater
               authority
               to
               binde
               or
               loose
               the
               Faithful
               ,
               than
               the
               Church
               will
               :
               That
               the
               definition
               of
               the
               Pope
               is
               as
               authemtiek
               as
               the
               facred
               Scripture
               :
               That
               Fornication
               in
               the
               Clergie
               ,
               is
               a
               smaller
               offence
               than
               Marriage
               :
               That
               to
               worship
               Images
               ,
               is
               meritorions
               .
            
             With
             innumerable
             other
             such-like
             Absurdities
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             Some
             of
             our
             Adversaries
             ,
             more
             ingenuous
             than
             their
             fellows
             ,
             confess
             ,
             
               That
               we
               believe
               and
               hold
               the
               fundamental
               Truths
               of
               the
               Gospel
               ,
               the
               main
               and
               vital
               matter
               of
               Religion
               :
            
             And
             if
             we
             do
             thus
             ,
             who
             is
             to
             be
             faulted
             ,
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             or
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             ?
             But
             herein
             she
             discovers
             her self
             to
             be
             that
             body
             of
             which
             Antichrist
             is
             the
             Head
             ,
             
             and
             that
             Whore
             and
             
               Mother
               of
               Abominations
            
             .
             Thus
             in
             these
             two
             things
             you
             see
             our
             Separation
             lawful
             .
          
        
         
         
           II.
           Now
           secondly
           ,
           I
           assert
           this
           Separation
           to
           be
           so
           lawful
           ,
           that
           the
           Romanists
           themselves
           cannot
           justly
           charge
           it
           as
           Schismatical
           .
        
         
           I
           say
           justly
           (
           though
           
             Stapleton
             ,
             Sanders
             ,
             Bellarmine
          
           ,
           and
           other
           Romanists
           ,
           brand
           our
           Separation
           from
           them
           ,
           with
           the
           odious
           name
           of
           Donatism
           and
           Schism
           )
           because
           it
           is
           evident
           out
           of
           St.
           Augustine
           ,
           that
           as
           the
           Donatists
           never
           objected
           any
           thing
           against
           ,
           nor
           could
           blame
           any
           thing
           in
           the
           Church
           from
           which
           they
           separated
           ,
           either
           for
           Faith
           or
           Worship
           :
           So
           they
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           cannot
           justly
           blamo
           us
           for
           departing
           from
           them
           ,
           if
           we
           consider
           these
           two
           things
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             The
             manner
             how
             we
             separated
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             The
             ground
             for
             which
             we
             separated
             .
          
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           manner
           :
           This
           was
           not
           uncharitable
           ,
           rash
           ,
           heady
           ,
           and
           ●…advised
           ,
           not
           before
           all
           means
           were
           used
           for
           the
           cure
           of
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           by
           the
           discovery
           of
           their
           errours
           ,
           notwithstanding
           which
           ,
           they
           still
           persist
           in
           them
           .
           Our
           famous
           and
           learned
           Reformers
           
             would
             have
             healed
             Babylon
             ,
             but
             she
             would
             not
             be
             healed
             .
          
           Many
           skilful
           Physicians
           
           have
           had
           her
           in
           hand
           ,
           but
           she
           grew
           so
           much
           the
           worse
           ;
           and
           instead
           of
           being
           reclaimed
           by
           them
           ,
           hath
           anathematized
           them
           with
           the
           most
           dreadful
           Curses
           ,
           excommunicated
           ,
           murdered
           ,
           and
           destroyed
           multitudes
           of
           them
           :
           Nay
           more
           ,
           they
           were
           denied
           civil
           and
           religious
           Communion
           with
           her
           ,
           unless
           they
           received
           
             the
             beasts
             mark
             in
             their
             hands
             or
             foreheads
             .
          
           All
           which
           considered
           ,
           we
           might
           safely
           forsake
           her
           ;
           nay
           ,
           could
           not
           safely
           do
           otherwise
           :
           therefore
           ,
           
             Come
             out
             of
             her
             ,
             my
             people
             .
          
        
         
           2.
           
           Consider
           the
           ground
           and
           cause
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           manner
           of
           the
           Separation
           ;
           which
           was
           not
           for
           some
           slight
           and
           tolerable
           Errours
           ,
           but
           damnable
           Heresies
           ,
           and
           gross
           Idolatries
           :
           the
           Heresies
           fundamental
           ,
           and
           the
           Idolatries
           such
           ,
           as
           those
           who
           hold
           Communion
           with
           her
           ,
           cannot
           
             but
             partake
             of
             her
             sins
          
           .
           If
           then
           to
           thrust
           Jesus
           Christ
           out
           of
           the
           Chair
           ,
           and
           place
           the
           Pope
           as
           infallible
           Doctor
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           in
           it
           ;
           if
           to
           reject
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           set
           up
           Traditions
           ;
           if
           to
           take
           off
           Jesus
           Christ
           from
           being
           sole
           Mediator
           ,
           and
           thrust
           in
           Saints
           and
           Angels
           ;
           if
           to
           raze
           the
           second
           Commandment
           ,
           and
           introduce
           Image-worship
           ,
           
           be
           damnable
           Heresies
           ,
           and
           gross
           Idolatries
           ;
           then
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           is
           gullty
           of
           them
           ;
           and
           our
           Communion
           ,
           on
           this
           very
           account
           ,
           is
           expresly
           forbidden
           :
           See
           2
           Cor.
           6.14.17
           .
           
             What
             fellowship
             hath
             righteousness
             with
             unrighteousness
             ?
             and
             what
             communion
             hath
             light
             with
             darkness
             ?
          
           &c.
           vers
           .
           17.
           
           
             Wherefore
             come
             out
             from
             among
             them
             ,
             and
             be
             ye
             separate
             .
          
           Our
           Adversaries
           themselves
           grant
           ,
           
             That
             in
             whatever
             Church
             any
             of
             these
             depravations
             are
             found
             ,
             Communion
             with
             it
             is
             to
             be
             broken
             off
             ,
             as
             dangerous
             and
             damnable
          
           ;
           which
           brings
           me
           to
           the
           third
           thing
           asserted
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           III.
           That
           our
           Compliance
           with
           this
           Church
           is
           dangerous
           ,
           and
           borders
           upon
           eternal
           Ruine
           .
        
         
           This
           will
           appear
           ,
           if
           you
           consider
           this
           Church
           under
           these
           destructive
           circumstances
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           In
           her
           gross
           Idolatry
           ;
           and
           no
           
           
             Idolater
             shall
             ever
             enter
             into
             the
             kingdom
             of
             heaven
             :
          
           look
           on
           her
           Image-worship
           ,
           Invocation
           of
           Saints
           ,
           Adoration
           of
           the
           Hoast
           !
           what
           is
           all
           this
           but
           plain
           Idolatry
           ?
           The
           second
           Commandment
           not
           onely
           prohibits
           this
           sin
           ,
           but
           threatens
           a
           severe
           punishment
           to
           such
           sinners
           .
           
           The
           wiser
           sort
           of
           the
           Heathens
           condemned
           the
           Worship
           of
           God
           by
           Images
           ,
           
             as
             incongruous
             to
             the
             divine
             nature
             ,
             and
             an
             horrid
             reflection
             on
             the
             Deity
             .
             The
             old
             Romans
          
           (
           as
           Varro
           tells
           us
           )
           
             had
             no
             Images
             for
             a
             hundred
             and
             seventy
             years
             ,
             in
             their
             Divine
             Worship
             .
          
           The
           Primitive
           Christians
           would
           rather
           die
           ,
           
           than
           defile
           themselves
           with
           Images
           .
           Antisthenes
           condemns
           the
           use
           of
           them
           for
           Instruction
           ,
           
             because
             there
             is
             so
             great
             dissimilitude
             between
             God
             and
             any
             visible
             representation
             of
             him
             ,
             that
             no
             man
             can
             learn
             any
             thing
             of
             God
             from
             an
             Image
             .
          
           And
           as
           for
           their
           common
           distinction
           of
           not
           worshipping
           them
           ●erminativè
           ,
           but
           relativè
           ,
           it
           's
           vain
           and
           ridiculous
           .
           And
           pray
           observe
           this
           ,
           viz.
           that
           their
           worshipping
           of
           Images
           ,
           came
           in
           with
           the
           decay
           of
           their
           Piety
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           In
           that
           Enmity
           and
           Opposition
           the
           Romanists
           have
           to
           the
           sacred
           Scriptures
           ,
           (
           those
           lively
           Oracles
           of
           the
           living
           God
           :
           )
           and
           so
           consider
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               How
               they
               complain
               against
               them
               ,
               as
               
                 not
                 containing
                 all
                 things
                 needful
                 for
                 Salvation
                 ;
                 that
                 the
                 best
                 part
                 of
                 Religion
                 is
                 
                 left
                 out
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 onely
                 made
                 known
                 to
                 us
                 by
                 their
                 unwritten
                 Traditions
                 .
              
            
             
               2.
               
               They
               forbid
               the
               people
               to
               read
               them
               ,
               and
               will
               not
               have
               them
               translated
               in
               the
               Mother-tongue
               of
               any
               Nation
               :
               And
               
                 if
                 once
              
               (
               as
               some
               of
               them
               boast
               )
               
                 they
                 could
                 get
                 us
                 out
                 of
                 Scriptures
                 into
                 Councils
                 and
                 Fathers
                 ,
                 they
                 should
                 do
                 well
                 enough
                 with
                 us
                 .
              
            
             
               3.
               
               They
               make
               the
               Pope
               Judge
               over
               the
               sence
               of
               Scripture
               ,
               and
               forbid
               all
               other
               Interpretations
               but
               what
               agree
               with
               the
               Church
               and
               Pope
               of
               Rome
               .
            
             
               4.
               
               Their
               Mouths
               have
               been
               open
               against
               ,
               them
               ,
               and
               have
               belched
               forth
               bitter
               and
               blasphemous
               Invectives
               against
               them
               :
               How
               often
               do
               they
               call
               the
               Scripture
               ,
               
                 dead
                 Ink
              
               and
               
                 a
                 dumb
                 Judge
                 ;
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 not
              
               Regula
               regulans
               ,
               but
               Regula
               regulata
               ,
               
                 not
                 made
                 to
                 rule
                 our
                 Faith
                 ,
                 but
                 our
                 Faith
                 to
                 rule
                 it
                 ;
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 not
                 simply
                 necessary
                 ,
                 and
                 it
                 receives
                 all
                 the
                 Authority
                 it
                 hath
                 from
                 the
                 Church
                 and
                 from
                 Tradition
                 ,
                 without
                 which
                 it
                 is
                 of
                 no
                 credit
                 at
                 all
                 ?
              
            
          
        
         
         
           What
           horrid
           Blasphemy
           is
           this
           ?
           Doth
           not
           God
           command
           us
           to
           consult
           his
           Oracles
           ?
           to
           apply
           our selves
           
             unto
             the
             Law
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             Testimony
             ?
          
           Isa
           .
           8.19
           ,
           20.
           and
           makes
           it
           a
           renunciation
           of
           our
           Allegiance
           to
           him
           ,
           to
           go
           any
           where
           else
           for
           Counsel
           or
           Direction
           ,
           than
           to
           the
           written
           Word
           .
           But
           we
           know
           wherein
           the
           insufficiency
           of
           the
           Scripture
           lyes
           ;
           they
           are
           sufficient
           enough
           for
           God's
           ends
           ,
           but
           not
           for
           the
           Pope's
           ends
           ;
           they
           are
           able
           to
           furnish
           every
           Christian
           in
           the
           world
           with
           Wisdom
           enough
           how
           he
           should
           save
           his
           Soul
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           not
           so
           useful
           to
           the
           Pope's
           triple
           Crown
           ;
           this
           Armory
           furnisheth
           him
           with
           no
           Artillery
           to
           defend
           the
           Lordly
           Power
           and
           God-like
           Infallibility
           that
           he
           claims
           ;
           and
           this
           is
           the
           only
           defect
           he
           charges
           them
           with
           .
           To
           supply
           which
           ,
           the
           rabble-rout
           of
           Traditions
           is
           brought
           into
           the
           Church
           ;
           this
           way
           their
           fine
           Wits
           ,
           with
           the
           Devils
           help
           ,
           have
           taken
           ,
           that
           the
           Scripture
           may
           be
           declared
           as
           insufficient
           ,
           and
           uncertain
           ,
           
             minima
             particula
             revelatae
             veritatis
          
           ,
           (
           as
           one
           of
           them
           impudently
           writes
           ;
           )
           and
           so
           it
           needs
           the
           patchery
           of
           their
           Traditions
           to
           make
           it
           perfect
           .
           Just
           as
           Andronicus
           served
           
           the
           Emperour
           Alexius
           ,
           who
           gave
           out
           that
           he
           was
           weak
           ,
           and
           insufficient
           to
           govern
           alone
           ,
           and
           so
           first
           got
           a
           joynt
           power
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           an
           absolute
           power
           over
           him
           to
           dethrone
           him
           .
           And
           whether
           their
           Traditions
           have
           dealt
           better
           with
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           let
           the
           world
           judge
           ;
           when
           These
           go
           up
           ,
           the
           Scriptures
           go
           down
           .
           That
           we
           may
           say
           to
           them
           as
           Christ
           said
           to
           the
           Pharisees
           ,
           Mat.
           15.6
           .
           You
           have
           made
           void
           the
           Commandments
           of
           God
           by
           your
           Traditions
           ;
           you
           have
           unlorded
           (
           as
           the
           Septuagint
           renders
           it
           )
           and
           supplanted
           its
           authority
           in
           the
           minds
           of
           men
           ,
           who
           leave
           Gods
           Word
           to
           hearken
           to
           your
           Traditions
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Consider
           farther
           ,
           that
           most
           parts
           of
           Popery
           are
           directly
           absurd
           ,
           and
           offer
           violence
           to
           common
           Sense
           ,
           and
           the
           very
           light
           of
           Nature
           :
           For
           who
           can
           rationally
           conceive
           ,
           
             That
             it
             should
             be
             the
             Popes
             right
             to
             Lord
             it
             over
             Scriptures
             ,
             Fathers
             ,
             Councils
             ,
             Church
             ,
             and
             all
             the
             World
             ?
             What
             possibility
             is
             there
             ,
             that
             the
             Kingdoms
             of
             the
             world
             should
             be
             subject
             unto
             him
             ?
             What
             probability
             ,
             that
             Images
             should
             be
             worshipped
             ?
             Our
             Works
             merit
             Heaven
             ?
             That
             the
             body
             of
             Christ
             should
             be
             in
             a
             thousand
             places
             
             at
             one
             time
             ?
             That
             the
             Priest
             hath
             Judicial
             Power
             to
             forgive
             sins
             ?
             That
             the
             Saints
             in
             Heaven
             should
             be
             Mediators
             for
             us
             to
             God
             ?
          
           He
           that
           will
           but
           indifferently
           compare
           these
           ,
           shall
           finde
           them
           manifestly
           repugnant
           not
           onely
           to
           the
           Principles
           of
           Religion
           ,
           but
           offer
           violence
           to
           the
           Law
           of
           Nature
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           Consider
           farther
           ,
           that
           in
           this
           Church
           the
           most
           horrid
           Cruelties
           are
           not
           onely
           tolerated
           and
           approved
           ,
           but
           rewarded
           ,
           and
           accounted
           meritorious
           .
           It
           teacheth
           Equivocation
           ,
           to
           murder
           Kings
           ,
           to
           undermine
           States
           ,
           and
           to
           blow
           up
           Parliaments
           ;
           it
           dispenseth
           with
           Murder
           ,
           Incest
           ,
           Sodomy
           ,
           and
           all
           this
           accounted
           
             Licitum
             &
             Solenne
          
           .
           From
           hence
           proceeds
           such
           Conspiracies
           against
           our
           King
           ,
           such
           Plots
           .
           against
           our
           Church
           and
           State
           ;
           't
           is
           not
           Religion
           they
           strive
           for
           ,
           but
           Soveraignty
           ,
           and
           this
           they
           will
           have
           ,
           or
           they
           will
           make
           all
           Protestant
           Nations
           their
           Shambles
           ,
           and
           swim
           to
           it
           through
           Oceans
           of
           Blood
           ;
           and
           they
           will
           this
           way
           (
           if
           others
           fail
           )
           reduce
           the
           Consciences
           of
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           the
           Crowns
           and
           Scepters
           of
           Princes
           ,
           to
           their
           Devotion
           .
           This
           brands
           them
           with
           the
           Indelible
           Characters
           of
           the
           Ministers
           of
           Antichrist
           ,
           
           who
           being
           but
           Priests
           ,
           and
           confined
           to
           their
           Books
           ,
           having
           no
           other
           Commission
           than
           
             to
             go
             and
             preach
             the
             Gospel
             ,
          
           should
           thus
           creep
           into
           Thrones
           ,
           filling
           the
           world
           with
           Anarchy
           and
           Confusion
           ;
           and
           those
           whose
           Souls
           they
           should
           win
           to
           God
           ,
           by
           ministring
           the
           Word
           and
           Sacraments
           ,
           their
           Bloud
           they
           sacrifice
           to
           the
           Devil
           ,
           by
           stirring
           them
           up
           to
           Treason
           and
           Rebellion
           ;
           perswading
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           be
           Canoniz'd
           at
           Rome
           ,
           though
           they
           be
           hang'd
           at
           Tyburn
           ;
           and
           be
           glorious
           Saints
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           though
           they
           died
           great
           Rogues
           and
           Rebels
           on
           Earth
           .
        
         
           These
           things
           duely
           considered
           in
           general
           ,
           will
           tell
           you
           that
           there
           is
           hazard
           ,
           not
           onely
           of
           Temporal
           Safety
           ,
           but
           of
           Eternal
           Salvation
           ,
           in
           our
           Communion
           with
           such
           a
           Church
           :
           and
           therefore
           ,
           
             Come
             out
             of
             her
          
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           This
           will
           the
           better
           appear
           ,
           if
           you
           consider
           ,
           secondly
           ,
           and
           more
           particularly
           ,
           this
           one
           Argument
           ,
           drawn
           from
           the
           Religion
           it self
           practised
           in
           that
           Church
           ;
           And
           this
           I
           will
           consider
           two
           ways
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             As
             the
             Jesuits
             have
             painted
             and
             adorned
             it
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             As
             't
             is
             stript
             naked
             of
             all
             those
             adventitious
             Ornaments
             .
          
        
         
         
           First
           ,
           As
           they
           have
           painted
           it
           ,
           and
           thereby
           recommended
           it
           to
           the
           view
           of
           their
           ignorant
           admirers
           .
           We
           read
           of
           strange
           things
           of
           certain
           Painters
           ,
           how
           admirably
           they
           cast
           and
           shadowed
           their
           works
           ;
           but
           the
           skilfullest
           Painters
           that
           ever
           were
           ,
           are
           the
           Jesuits
           and
           School-men
           ,
           the
           workmen
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ;
           not
           the
           famous
           Zeuxis
           ,
           or
           antient
           Polignotus
           ,
           or
           Phidias
           ,
           did
           ever
           bestow
           such
           pains
           on
           their
           Images
           ,
           as
           these
           have
           done
           on
           their
           Idol
           the
           Papacie
           :
           They
           have
           made
           choice
           of
           the
           most
           exquisite
           devices
           that
           all
           the
           Heresies
           in
           the
           world
           could
           afford
           ,
           to
           put
           the
           same
           into
           their
           Religion
           .
           No
           Policy
           in
           Machiavel
           ,
           no
           Sophistry
           in
           Aristotle
           ,
           or
           Eloquence
           in
           Tully
           ,
           but
           they
           have
           contrived
           it
           into
           their
           Image
           :
           and
           ,
           save
           Truth
           and
           Sincerity
           ,
           there
           is
           nothing
           wanting
           .
        
         
           The
           Evangelical
           Prophet
           ,
           Isai
           .
           44.11
           ,
           &c.
           sets
           down
           a
           lively
           description
           of
           this
           matter
           ;
           whereby
           (
           deriding
           the
           folly
           of
           the
           Gentiles
           )
           he
           fitly
           shews
           us
           the
           Idolatry
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           the
           manner
           how
           the
           Idol-Religion
           thereof
           was
           framed
           and
           set
           on
           foot
           :
           For
           at
           the
           first
           (
           you
           see
           )
           it
           was
           but
           a
           rude
           Block
           ,
           rough-hewn
           by
           bungling
           Workmen
           that
           were
           not
           
           their
           Crafts-masters
           ,
           till
           the
           Smith
           ,
           Carpenter
           ,
           and
           Painter
           came
           ,
           every
           one
           in
           his
           place
           ,
           and
           shewed
           his
           skill
           .
           This
           is
           ingeniously
           applied
           by
           a
           very
           learned
           man
           of
           our
           own
           ,
           
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           Canonists
           ,
           like
           Black-smiths
           ,
           blew
           with
           the
           Bellows
           of
           their
           Decrees
           ,
           and
           heated
           and
           hammered
           it
           in
           the
           Coals
           of
           the
           Popes
           Constitutions
           .
           These
           were
           Gratian
           ,
           Pope
           
             John
             ,
             Gregory
          
           ,
           and
           Boniface
           ,
           with
           their
           Apprentices
           that
           served
           them
           ;
           
             Hostiensis
             ,
             Innocent
             ,
             Panormitane
          
           ,
           and
           others
           of
           that
           black
           and
           smutty
           Profession
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           The
           Carpenters
           that
           took
           it
           in
           hand
           ,
           were
           the
           Fryars
           and
           School-men
           :
           These
           stretched
           their
           line
           of
           Method
           over
           it
           ,
           planed
           it
           with
           Distinctions
           where
           it
           was
           rough
           ;
           and
           by
           their
           Logick
           and
           Philosophy
           ,
           brought
           it
           into
           better
           shape
           and
           form
           :
           These
           were
           
             T.
             Aquinas
             ,
             Scotus
             ,
             Bonaventure
             ,
             Alexander
             Hales
             ,
          
           and
           others
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           gotten
           an
           handsome
           shape
           and
           fashion
           ,
           the
           Council
           of
           Lateran
           polished
           it
           over
           again
           ,
           gave
           it
           Joynts
           to
           stand
           upon
           :
           The
           Councils
           of
           Constance
           and
           Basil
           altered
           the
           fashion
           of
           it
           in
           some
           particular
           parts
           ;
           
           for
           Senensis
           and
           Cusanus
           thought
           the
           head
           stood
           too
           high
           above
           the
           shoulders
           ,
           and
           would
           have
           it
           bowed
           down
           a
           little
           lower
           .
           At
           last
           they
           brought
           it
           to
           Trent
           ,
           to
           the
           hands
           of
           their
           best
           Workmen
           ,
           who
           moulded
           it
           
             à
             capite
             ad
             calcem
          
           ,
           and
           set
           it
           up
           again
           ,
           when
           the
           worms
           had
           well-nigh
           consumed
           it
           :
           Since
           which
           ,
           came
           in
           the
           third
           sort
           of
           Workmen
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           The
           Painters
           
             (
             i.
             e.
          
           )
           the
           Jesuits
           ;
           and
           there
           is
           no
           colour
           which
           they
           have
           not
           tried
           ,
           to
           render
           it
           beautiful
           .
           Some
           with
           Varnish
           and
           Plaister
           ,
           stop
           up
           the
           cracks
           ;
           and
           Bellarmine
           was
           happily
           born
           to
           do
           them
           this
           service
           .
           Others
           ,
           as
           Baronius
           and
           Surius
           ,
           cast
           a
           shadow
           over
           it
           with
           other
           colours
           .
           
             Sextus
             Senensis
          
           ,
           and
           Possevine
           ,
           brag
           of
           the
           Workmanship
           ,
           flatter
           the
           Workmen
           ,
           and
           extol
           the
           Idol
           .
           And
           thus
           at
           last
           they
           have
           polished
           their
           
             Idol
             ,
             and
             set
             it
             before
             the
          
           Lord's
           Ark
           :
           And
           by
           this
           means
           they
           have
           attracted
           the
           eyes
           and
           hearts
           of
           their
           deluded
           followers
           ,
           insomuch
           that
           all
           that
           worship
           not
           this
           Image
           ,
           must
           into
           the
           fiery
           Furnace
           ,
           and
           be
           offered
           as
           a
           Sacrifice
           to
           the
           fury
           of
           their
           
             Romish
             Moloch
          
           .
           Now
           that
           which
           they
           are
           so
           fond
           of
           in
           this
           
           Religion
           ,
           is
           its
           suitableness
           to
           their
           sensual
           interests
           and
           affections
           ;
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           which
           ,
           easeth
           them
           from
           taking
           any
           pains
           in
           spiritual
           things
           .
           As
           for
           Example
           :
           They
           must
           serve
           God
           ,
           but
           there
           be
           ways
           to
           dispence
           and
           turn
           the
           Spiritual
           Service
           into
           a
           Corporal
           ,
           which
           is
           much
           easier
           .
           Sinners
           must
           have
           Gods
           pardon
           ,
           or
           they
           cannot
           be
           saved
           ,
           but
           the
           dispensation
           hereof
           is
           committed
           ,
           with
           the
           Keys
           ,
           to
           Christs
           Vicar
           ,
           who
           hath
           power
           to
           release
           them
           by
           the
           Sacraments
           of
           the
           Altar
           and
           Penance
           .
           Hence
           the
           Pope
           hath
           mens
           Consciences
           at
           his
           devotion
           ;
           into
           which
           he
           slides
           ,
           under
           the
           pretence
           of
           being
           St.
           
           Peter's
           Successor
           ;
           then
           blindes
           their
           eyes
           ,
           by
           taking
           away
           the
           Scriptures
           ;
           and
           stops
           their
           ears
           ,
           by
           perswading
           them
           to
           hear
           none
           but
           himself
           :
           And
           hereby
           thousands
           are
           betrayed
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           Eternal
           Ruine
           .
           This
           is
           the
           first
           thing
           shewn
           ,
           viz.
           that
           part
           of
           their
           Religion
           as
           set
           forth
           with
           Romish
           Glosses
           and
           Varnishes
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           next
           to
           shew
           it
           you
           in
           its
           native
           Complexion
           ,
           as
           stript
           naked
           of
           all
           adventitious
           Ornaments
           ;
           and
           then
           you
           will
           easily
           perceive
           it
           to
           be
           the
           most
           monstrous
           and
           ridiculous
           ,
           the
           most
           bloudy
           and
           blasphemous
           Religion
           in
           the
           whole
           world
           .
        
         
         
           
             1.
             
             Ridiculous
             in
             it self
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             Blasphemous
             towards
             God
             and
             Christ
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             Bloudy
             to
             all
             that
             have
             and
             do
             oppose
             her
             .
          
        
         
           I.
           The
           most
           ridiculous
           Religion
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           in
           it self
           .
           I
           need
           go
           no
           farther
           than
           their
           Book
           of
           holy
           Ceremonies
           for
           this
           ;
           which
           tells
           us
           not
           onely
           what
           their
           rude
           Ignorants
           do
           ,
           but
           what
           their
           holy
           Fathers
           have
           done
           .
           This
           teacheth
           them
           to
           put
           confidence
           in
           Beads
           ,
           Medals
           ,
           and
           Roses
           ,
           hallowed
           Swords
           ,
           and
           Spells
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           Agnus
           Dei's
           ,
           and
           such-like
           idle
           Bables
           ;
           ascribing
           to
           them
           divine
           Vertue
           ,
           yea
           ,
           so
           much
           as
           is
           due
           to
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           himself
           ,
           and
           his
           precious
           Bloud
           .
           Pope
           Vrban
           the
           fifth
           sent
           three
           Agnus
           Dei's
           to
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           with
           these
           Verses
           :
           
             
               Balsamus
               &
               munda
               Cera
               ,
               cum
               Chrismatis
               unda
               ,
            
             
               Conficiunt
               Agnum
               ,
               quod
               munus
               do
               tibi
               magnum
               ,
            
             
               —
               Fulgura
               de
               Coelo
               ,
               &c.
               
            
          
           Balsam
           ,
           pure
           Wax
           ,
           and
           Chrysms
           liquor
           clear
           ,
           Make
           up
           this
           pretious
           Lamb
           I
           send
           thee
           here
           .
           All
           Lightning
           it
           expels
           ,
           and
           each
           ill
           Spright
           ,
           Remedies
           Sin
           ,
           and
           makes
           the
           Heart
           contrite
           .
           
           And
           so
           he
           goes
           on
           in
           his
           Blasphemy
           ,
           
             Even
             as
             the
             Bloud
             of
             Christ
             for
             us
             shed
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           And
           lest
           you
           may
           imagine
           this
           to
           be
           the
           Conceit
           of
           some
           phantastical
           Pope
           ,
           hear
           out
           of
           the
           same
           Book
           of
           holy
           Ceremonies
           ,
           the
           very
           words
           that
           every
           Pope
           doth
           use
           to
           pray
           ,
           in
           their
           blessing
           the
           water
           which
           serves
           for
           that
           
             Agnus
             Dei
          
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           
             That
             thou
             wouldst
             vouchsafe
             ,
             O
             Lord
             ,
             to
             bless
             these
             things
             ,
             which
             we
             are
             now
             about
             to
             pour
             into
             this
             vessel
             of
             water
             ,
             prepared
             to
             thy
             glory
             ;
             so
             as
             by
             the
             worship
             and
             honour
             of
             them
             ,
             we
             may
             have
             our
             sins
             done
             away
             our
             blemishes
             wiped
             off
             ,
             and
             thereby
             may
             obtain
             pardon
             ,
             and
             receive
             grace
             ,
             so
             that
             with
             thy
             Saints
             and
             elect
             children
             ,
             we
             may
             merit
             everlasting
             life
             .
          
           Amen
           .
        
         
           Can
           there
           be
           greater
           Superstition
           ,
           Magick
           ,
           or
           Blasphemy
           ?
           and
           all
           this
           practised
           by
           the
           very
           Heads
           of
           that
           Church
           .
           Hence
           the
           poor
           Laity
           are
           hoodwinkt
           in
           a
           forced
           Ignorance
           ;
           who
           live
           no
           less
           without
           Scripture
           ,
           than
           if
           there
           were
           none
           at
           all
           .
           They
           forbid
           Spiritual
           food
           as
           Poyson
           ,
           fetch
           God
           Book
           into
           the
           Inquisition
           ,
           and
           thereby
           cheat
           the
           Vulgar
           with
           nothing
           but
           shews
           of
           Holiness
           ;
           in
           
             Pilgrimages
             ,
             Processions
             .
             Offerings
             ,
             Holy
             Water
             ,
             
             Latine
             Service
             ,
             Images
             ,
             Tapers
             ,
             Vestments
             ,
             Altars
             ,
             Crosses
             ,
          
           and
           a
           thousand
           such
           like
           ,
           fit
           onely
           for
           children
           and
           fools
           ;
           robbing
           them
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           of
           the
           sound
           and
           plain
           helps
           of
           Piety
           and
           Devotion
           .
           More
           particularly
           ,
           confider
           it
           under
           these
           Circumstances
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           it
           hath
           made
           wicked
           men
           Saints
           ,
           and
           Saints
           Gods
           ;
           nay
           ,
           the
           modern
           Canonization
           hath
           made
           those
           saints
           ,
           that
           were
           scarce
           men
           :
           And
           we
           have
           their
           own
           Confessions
           ,
           That
           the
           most
           notorious
           sinners
           have
           leapt
           into
           their
           Kalendar
           :
           and
           once
           Sainted
           ,
           they
           have
           the
           honour
           of
           Altars
           ,
           Temples
           ,
           Invocations
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           in
           a
           stile
           fit
           onely
           for
           their
           Maker
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           A
           Religion
           that
           professeth
           to
           be
           a
           Bawd
           to
           Sin
           ,
           whilst
           in
           practice
           it
           tolerates
           open
           Stews
           ,
           and
           prefers
           Fornication
           ,
           in
           some
           ●ise●
           ,
           before
           honourable
           Matrimony
           ;
           and
           gently
           blancheth
           over
           the
           breaches
           of
           the
           Commandments
           with
           the
           name
           of
           Venials
           ,
           and
           favourable
           titles
           of
           Dimmution
           ,
           daring
           to
           affirm
           ,
           
             That
             venial
             sins
             are
             no
             hindrance
             to
             a
             mans
             Integrity
             and
             Perfection
             .
          
        
         
           3.
           
           A
           Religion
           that
           indeed
           deserves
           not
           the
           name
           of
           Religion
           ;
           the
           Ape
           and
           Mimick
           
           of
           it
           ;
           a
           very
           outside
           of
           Christianity
           ;
           at
           best
           ,
           a
           meer
           formality
           of
           Devotion
           :
           all
           whose
           Prayers
           ,
           Fastings
           ,
           Pilgrimages
           ,
           &c.
           are
           no
           other
           than
           a
           going
           to
           Hell
           in
           more
           pomp
           and
           state
           .
           For
           look
           into
           their
           Churches
           ,
           there
           you
           will
           see
           idle
           Apishness
           in
           the
           most
           solemn
           works
           .
           The
           poor
           Laity
           in
           the
           mean
           while
           returning
           empty
           of
           all
           sound
           Edification
           ,
           and
           only
           full
           of
           confused
           intentions
           ;
           yet
           are
           they
           taught
           to
           think
           this
           Sacrifice
           of
           Fools
           to
           be
           meritorious
           .
           From
           thence
           look
           into
           their
           houses
           and
           closets
           ,
           there
           you
           will
           see
           such
           a
           trade
           of
           careless
           and
           lazie
           Holiness
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           but
           little
           difference
           between
           the
           Image
           and
           the
           Suppliant
           ;
           Piety
           it self
           being
           lulled
           asleep
           with
           their
           heartless
           and
           sleepy
           Vespers
           .
           And
           if
           you
           step
           a
           little
           farther
           ,
           and
           cast
           your
           eyes
           into
           the
           melancholy
           Cells
           of
           some
           austere
           ,
           Recluses
           ,
           there
           you
           may
           finde
           ,
           perhaps
           ,
           an
           
             Hair-cloath
             ,
             a
             Whip
             ,
             an
             Hurdle
             ,
          
           or
           the
           Rope
           about
           the
           waste
           ;
           But
           where
           in
           all
           this
           is
           true
           Mortification
           ?
           A
           pious
           Protestant
           takes
           more
           pains
           with
           his
           Heart
           in
           a
           day
           than
           a
           superstitious
           Papist
           doth
           with
           his
           Skin
           in
           a
           year
           :
           the
           one
           indeed
           whips
           himself
           ,
           but
           the
           other
           denies
           himself
           ;
           the
           
           draws
           Bloud
           from
           his
           Flesh
           ,
           the
           other
           from
           his
           Lusts
           .
           And
           therefore
           if
           you
           look
           into
           the
           whole
           Course
           of
           the
           Roman
           Catholick
           life
           ,
           you
           shall
           finde
           the
           Commandments
           of
           God
           professedly
           broken
           ,
           besides
           the
           ordinary
           practice
           of
           Idolatry
           ,
           and
           frequencie
           of
           Oaths
           :
           Men
           whose
           sinful
           rebellions
           are
           ever
           and
           anon
           smoaking
           against
           Heaven
           ,
           dare
           meet
           God
           in
           his
           loudest
           Thunder
           ,
           and
           venture
           on
           Damnation
           in
           its
           most
           terrible
           form
           ;
           so
           that
           God
           can
           no
           where
           display
           the
           Ensignes
           of
           his
           Power
           ,
           but
           these
           audacious
           wretches
           hang
           out
           their
           Flags
           of
           defiance
           .
        
         
           And
           this
           brings
           me
           to
           the
           second
           thing
           ,
           how
           blasphemous
           a
           Religion
           this
           is
           ,
           in
           respect
           of
           God
           and
           Christ
           .
        
         
           Of
           God
           :
           and
           that
           as
           (
           1.
           )
           it
           teacheth
           men
           to
           worship
           Stocks
           and
           Stones
           with
           the
           same
           honour
           that
           is
           due
           to
           their
           Creator
           .
           Hence
           they
           worship
           God
           under
           the
           Image
           of
           an
           Old
           man
           ,
           Christ
           under
           the
           Image
           of
           a
           Lamb
           ,
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           under
           the
           resemblance
           of
           a
           Dove
           .
           And
           Cajeran
           doth
           confess
           ,
           
             That
             they
             draw
             the
             Images
             by
             the
             Trinity
             not
             onely
             to
             shew
             ,
             but
             to
             adore
             and
             worship
             them
             .
          
           Now
           lest
           this
           should
           appear
           to
           her
           simple
           Clients
           
           how
           palpably
           opposite
           it
           is
           to
           the
           second
           Commandment
           ,
           they
           have
           cunningly
           left
           it
           out
           ,
           as
           a
           needless
           Illustration
           ,
           in
           all
           their
           
             Catechisms
             ,
             and
             Prayer-books
             of
             the
             Vulgar
          
        
         
           2.
           
           As
           it
           asserts
           the
           Priests
           Judicial
           Power
           in
           pardoning
           sins
           ,
           and
           absolving
           sinners
           ,
           and
           openly
           allows
           and
           tolerates
           the
           buying
           of
           Pardons
           and
           Indulgences
           from
           them
           .
           So
           that
           now
           Purgatorie
           can
           have
           no
           rich
           men
           in
           it
           ,
           but
           fools
           and
           friendless
           :
           Devils
           are
           tormented
           here
           ,
           yet
           men
           can
           command
           Devils
           ,
           and
           Money
           can
           command
           men
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           As
           it
           advandeth
           Nature
           to
           a
           co-partnership
           with
           God
           in
           our
           Justification
           and
           Salvation
           ,
           and
           idly
           puffs
           her
           up
           into
           a
           conceit
           of
           her
           ability
           to
           keep
           more
           Laws
           than
           ever
           God
           made
           .
           And
           for
           this
           ,
           requires
           no
           other
           Faith
           than
           may
           be
           sound
           in
           the
           Devils
           themselves
           ,
           who
           besides
           a
           confused
           apprehension
           ,
           can
           assent
           unto
           the
           truth
           of
           God
           revealed
           :
           And
           Popery
           requires
           no
           more
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           As
           it
           relies
           on
           the
           Infallibility
           of
           those
           whom
           they
           grant
           to
           have
           been
           ,
           and
           may
           be
           ,
           monstrous
           in
           their
           lives
           and
           dispositions
           ;
           most
           of
           their
           Popes
           having
           been
           the
           most
           monstrous
           notorious
           wretches
           that
           ever
           the
           
           Earth
           groaned
           under
           ;
           (
           O
           that
           it
           were
           rid
           of
           the
           burdend
           ‑
           )
           How
           many
           of
           these
           Heirs
           of
           St.
           Peter
           (
           if
           their
           own
           Records
           deceive
           us
           not
           )
           have
           by
           Bribes
           Whores
           ,
           and
           Devils
           ,
           dimb'd
           into
           that
           Chair
           ‑
           yet
           for
           any
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           those
           men
           (
           who
           are
           confessed
           to
           have
           given
           their
           Souls
           to
           the
           Devil
           that
           they
           might
           be
           Popes
           )
           can
           erre
           ,
           whilst
           they
           are
           such
           ,
           is
           Heresie
           worthy
           a
           Stake
           and
           Hell.
           Thus
           of
           its
           Blasphemy
           ,
           in
           respect
           of
           God.
           
        
         
           II.
           In
           respect
           of
           Christ
           ;
           and
           that
           these
           four
           ways
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             In
             overthrowing
             the
             Perfection
             of
             Christs
             Humanity
             ,
             while
             they
             give
             unto
             it
             so
             many
             Places
             at
             one
             time
             ,
             and
             yet
             no
             Place
             ,
             Flesh
             ,
             and
             no
             Flesh
             ,
             several
             Members
             without
             distinction
             ,
             a
             substance
             without
             quantity
             ,
             and
             other
             accidents
             or
             substance
             and
             accidents
             ,
             that
             cannot
             be
             seen
             ,
             felt
             ,
             or
             perceived
             :
             So
             that
             they
             make
             their
             saviour
             either
             a
             Monster
             ,
             or
             Nothing
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             In
             overthrowing
             the
             Perfection
             of
             Christs
             Satisfaction
             ;
             for
             if
             all
             be
             not
             paid
             ,
             how
             hath
             Christ
             satisfied
             .
             If
             temporal
             punishments
             in
             Hell
             be
             yet
             due
             ,
             how
             is
             all
             paid
             ?
             And
             if
             these
             be
             paid
             by
             us
             ,
             how
             are
             they
             satisfied
             by
             Christ
             ?
          
           
           
             3.
             
             In
             presumptuously
             mangling
             Christs
             sacred
             Institution
             ;
             by
             which
             they
             sacrilegiously
             rob
             his
             people
             of
             one
             half
             of
             that
             heavenly
             Provision
             ,
             which
             he
             left
             as
             his
             last
             and
             dearest
             Legacy
             to
             his
             Church
             :
             As
             if
             Christs
             Ordinance
             were
             superfluous
             ,
             or
             any
             shaveling
             Priest
             could
             be
             wiser
             than
             his
             Redeemer
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             In
             imposing
             heavier
             burdens
             than
             ever
             Christ
             designed
             .
             Hence
             the
             conscience
             of
             their
             Proselytes
             are
             overladen
             with
             infinite
             unnecessary
             Traditions
             ,
             far
             more
             than
             ever
             Moses
             ,
             commented
             on
             by
             the
             
               Jewish
               Rabbies
            
             ;
             they
             imposing
             them
             with
             no
             less
             Authority
             ,
             and
             exacting
             them
             with
             far
             more
             Rigour
             ,
             than
             any
             of
             the
             Royal
             Laws
             of
             their
             Maker
             .
             And
             this
             brings
             me
             to
             the
             third
             thing
             considerable
             ,
             viz.
             As
             ,
          
        
         
           III.
           It
           is
           a
           bloudy
           and
           cruel
           Religion
           to
           all
           that
           have
           ,
           and
           do
           oppose
           her
           .
           Even
           since
           Cain
           set
           the
           Knife
           to
           
           Abet's
           throat
           ,
           the
           Churches
           Veins
           have
           bled
           .
           Rome
           ,
           was
           first
           of
           all
           founded
           in
           Bloud
           and
           still
           endeavours
           to
           erect
           its
           self
           by
           the
           same
           method
           of
           Serpentine
           Designes
           ,
           and
           Dragon-like
           Rage
           and
           Gruelty
           .
           This
           will
           clearly
           appear
           unto
           you
           ,
           by
           taking
           a
           view
           of
           her
           ,
           either
           in
           her
           Principles
           
           or
           Practices
           .
           First
           ,
           her
           Principles
           ,
           in
           these
           seven
           things
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           
             In
             asserting
             the
             Power
             of
             the
             Pope
             over
             all
             Temporal
             Princes
             and
             Kingdoms
          
           ;
           for
           he
           (
           like
           his
           Father
           the
           Devil
           )
           will
           shew
           all
           the
           glory
           of
           a
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           give
           it
           to
           some
           Creature
           of
           his
           own
           ,
           if
           he
           will
           fall
           down
           and
           worship
           him
           ,
           They
           account
           it
           not
           onely
           lawful
           ,
           but
           meritorlous
           ,
           to
           murder
           a
           Protestant
           Prince
           (
           whom
           they
           call
           heretical
           )
           hereby
           to
           introduce
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           ,
           and
           advance
           the
           interest
           of
           their
           own
           Cause
           throughout
           the
           world
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           
             That
             an
             Heretick
             ,
             (
             for
             Heresies
             sake
             ,
             and
             in
             point
             of
             Conscience
             ,
             though
             he
             troubles
             not
             the
             State
             )
             ought
             to
             be
             put
             to
             death
             .
          
           This
           also
           causeth
           the
           effusion
           of
           much
           Bloud
           ;
           and
           when
           the
           Pope
           hath
           anathematiz'd
           a
           Nation
           or
           Person
           
             (
             nè
             brut
             a
             essent
             fulmine
             )
          
           they
           inflame
           Kings
           ,
           and
           provoke
           them
           to
           destroy
           all
           with
           Fire
           and
           Fagot
           .
           And
           these
           we
           have
           sadly
           found
           to
           be
           their
           
             Arguments
             both
             to
             enlighten
             our
             Vnderstandings
             and
             inform
             our
             Judgments
             in
             the
             Popish
             Religion
             .
          
           For
           ,
           as
           one
           ingeniously
           observed
           ,
           
             They
             convince
             by
             a
             Dagger
             ,
             and
             enlighten
             by
             a
             Faggot
             .
          
           Hence
           they
           call
           an
           
             utter
             Desolation
             a
             Restauration
             
             and
             the
             subversion
             of
             three
             Kingdoms
             ,
             no
             other
             than
             the
             conversion
             of
             them
             .
          
           How
           much
           Protestant
           Bloud
           this
           Doctrine
           hath
           shed
           in
           France
           and
           Germany
           ,
           and
           how
           many
           English
           throats
           have
           bled
           by
           this
           Knife
           ,
           is
           not
           easie
           to
           judge
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           
             That
             no
             publick
             Faith
             is
             to
             be
             kept
             with
             Hereticks
          
           ;
           as
           if
           
             Christiana
             Fides
          
           and
           Punica
           ,
           were
           all
           one
           .
           The
           Heathens
           ,
           by
           the
           Rush-candle
           of
           Nature
           ,
           could
           perceive
           ,
           that
           
             Truth
             in
             mens
             words
             and
             promises
             ,
             is
             the
             best
             Ligament
             in
             a
             body
             politick
             ;
             and
             the
             very
             joynts
             and
             nerves
             of
             all
             Civil
             Constitutions
             .
          
           How
           much
           admired
           is
           that
           Roman
           ,
           who
           kept
           his
           Faith
           with
           Carthage
           ,
           though
           he
           knew
           it
           would
           be
           his
           very
           ruine
           !
           But
           Johannes
           a
           Roman
           Priest
           could
           say
           ,
           
             That
             in
             the
             destruction
             of
             the
          
           Lutherans
           ,
           
             Judges
             were
             not
             bound
             to
             follow
             either
             Law
             ,
             Promise
             ,
             or
             Reason
             .
          
           How
           sad
           is
           it
           ,
           that
           
             Romana
             Fides
          
           might
           be
           depended
           on
           when
           Rome
           was
           Heathenish
           ,
           but
           not
           now
           it
           is
           become
           Christian
           ‑
           and
           that
           the
           moral
           Honesty
           of
           the
           poor
           blinde
           Heathens
           ,
           should
           so
           much
           exceed
           the
           Piety
           of
           these
           Catholick
           Pretenders
           !
        
         
           4.
           
           
             That
             mental
             Reservations
             and
             Equivocations
             ,
             
             are
             lawful
             .
          
           This
           must
           needs
           overthrow
           Civil
           Constitutions
           ,
           were
           they
           almost
           Adamantine
           :
           For
           what
           delusions
           of
           Magistrates
           ,
           what
           evasions
           of
           righteous
           Judgments
           ,
           what
           ensnaring
           of
           innocent
           men
           ,
           what
           doubting
           in
           Oaths
           will
           there
           be
           by
           this
           means
           ?
           How
           can
           an
           Oath
           be
           the
           end
           of
           Strife
           and
           Controversie
           ,
           if
           this
           be
           allowed
           ?
           O
           ye
           holy
           Martyrs
           !
           lay
           aside
           your
           glorious
           Robes
           of
           Immortality
           !
           You
           died
           like
           fools
           ,
           and
           were
           guilty
           of
           your
           own
           Blood
           ;
           whenas
           you
           might
           have
           denied
           and
           forsworn
           all
           ,
           by
           mental
           Reservations
           and
           Equivocations
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           A
           fifth
           bloudy
           Position
           of
           theirs
           ,
           is
           ,
           
             An
             absolute
             necessity
             of
             concealing
             all
             things
             revealed
             in
             Auricular
             Confession
             .
          
           This
           Doctrine
           hath
           been
           a
           private
           back-way
           to
           let
           in
           the
           most
           horrible
           Conspiracies
           and
           Murders
           .
           Hence
           't
           is
           a
           received
           Maxime
           amongst
           them
           ,
           That
           ,
           
             Nullum
             lantum
             malum
             esse
             potest
             ,
             cujus
             vitandi
             causa
             Confessionem
             prodere
             liceat
             :
             That
             Confession
             is
             not
             to
             be
             revealed
             ,
             whatever
             punishment
             be
             endured
             .
             Bellarmine
          
           praiseth
           Garnet
           the
           Jesuit
           ,
           that
           would
           not
           reveal
           the
           Gunpowder-Treason
           ,
           because
           (
           as
           he
           saith
           )
           
             Confession
             is
             Jure
             Divino
          
           ;
           and
           
             Temporal
             Authority
             ,
             
             Jure
             Humano
             .
          
           And
           Casanbon
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             That
             it
             was
             a
             Jesuits
             Speech
             to
             him
             ,
             De
             Jure
             humano
             ,
             leviori
             damno
             Reges
             omnes
             quot-quot
             sunt
             occiderentur
             ,
             quam
             vel
             una
             Confessio
             revelaretur
             :
             That
             it
             was
             a
             far
             less
             Offence
             to
             destroy
             many
             Princes
             ,
             than
             to
             reveal
             one
             Confession
             .
          
        
         
           I
           wonder
           whether
           they
           would
           hide
           it
           ,
           if
           there
           were
           a
           Conspiracy
           against
           the
           life
           of
           their
           Triple-crowned
           Monarch
           .
           But
           there
           was
           one
           that
           escaped
           well
           in
           this
           matter
           of
           Confession
           ,
           viz.
           Father
           Aubigney
           ;
           who
           in
           the
           bloudy
           fact
           of
           Ravilliack
           being
           called
           in
           question
           ,
           and
           demanded
           what
           was
           revealed
           to
           him
           in
           Confession
           ,
           he
           replied
           ,
           
             That
             God
             had
             given
             him
             this
             grace
             :
             That
             whatsoever
             was
             revealed
             to
             him
             in
             Confession
             ,
             he
             presently
             by
             a
             miracle
             forgot
             it
             ,
             and
             for
             all
             the
             world
             ,
             could
             not
             remember
             it
             again
             .
          
           I
           think
           if
           this
           Answer
           saved
           him
           ,
           it
           was
           the
           best
           Grace
           that
           ever
           God
           bestowed
           on
           him
           .
        
         
           6.
           
           That
           the
           Clergy
           are
           exempted
           from
           subjection
           ,
           and
           so
           cannot
           be
           guilty
           of
           treasonable
           practices
           .
           
             Clerici
             rebellio
             in
             Regem
             non
             est
             Crimen
             b●●sae
             Majestatis
             ,
             quia
             non
             est
             Subditus
             Regi
             ;
             The
             rebellion
             of
             a
             Priest
             against
             his
             
             Prince
             is
             not
             Treason
             ,
             because
             he
             is
             not
             his
             Subject
             :
             for
             they
             are
             by
             her
             affirmed
             to
             be
             so
             the
             Inheritance
             and
             Portion
             of
             God
             ,
             that
             they
             are
             exampt
             from
             all
             Temporal
             Jurisdiction
             to
             Civil
             Princes
             and
             States
             .
          
           If
           so
           ,
           what
           wickedness
           may
           not
           be
           committed
           by
           such
           men
           ?
           How
           doth
           the
           Pope
           herein
           oppose
           the
           Apostle
           ;
           Rom.
           13.1
           .
           
             Let
             every
             soul
             be
             subject
             to
             the
             higher
             powers
             .
          
           And
           it
           is
           a
           known
           Explication
           of
           
           Chrysostom's
           ,
           
             Every
             Soul
             ,
             though
             he
             be
             a
             Monk
             ,
             a
             Priest
             ,
             though
             he
             be
             never
             so
             Spiritual
          
           (
           as
           they
           call
           it
           )
           
             is
             here
             understood
             ,
             and
             cannot
             draw
             his
             shoulder
             from
             the
             yoak
             of
             Allegiance
             .
          
        
         
           7.
           
           
             That
             blinde
             obedience
             unto
             Governours
             ,
             is
             necessary
             .
          
           And
           let
           in
           this
           once
           upon
           a
           People
           ,
           and
           you
           let
           in
           the
           
             Trojan
             Horse
          
           ,
           full
           of
           armed
           Enemies
           in
           his
           bowels
           :
           For
           whatever
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           Officers
           shall
           command
           to
           be
           done
           (
           be
           it
           to
           destroy
           a
           whole
           Kingdom
           ,
           nay
           ,
           subvert
           three
           Kingdoms
           at
           one
           time
           )
           must
           not
           be
           disputed
           ,
           but
           obeyed
           .
           Thus
           what
           Seneca
           complained
           of
           as
           a
           great
           weakness
           among
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           (
           that
           
             homines
             malunt
             credere
             quam
             judicare
          
           ;
           and
           that
           they
           do
           receive
           all
           worship
           of
           their
           Gods
           ,
           
             tanquam
             
             legihus
             jussum
          
           ,
           rather
           than
           
             Diis
             gratum
          
           ,
           )
           will
           be
           made
           a
           Vertue
           in
           their
           Votaries
           ;
           yea
           ,
           that
           they
           merit
           gloriously
           ,
           by
           believing
           thus
           stupidly
           :
           and
           when
           once
           these
           Philistims
           have
           put
           out
           mens
           eyes
           ,
           they
           will
           make
           them
           drudge
           in
           what
           Mills
           they
           please
           .
        
         
           8.
           
           That
           (
           that
           Monster
           of
           men
           ,
           and
           Heir
           of
           all
           Mischief
           )
           
             the
             Pope
             ,
             may
             dispence
             with
             all
             Vows
             ,
             Promises
             ,
             and
             Obligations
             .
          
           T
           is
           this
           that
           would
           lately
           have
           made
           England
           like
           Egypt
           ,
           all
           the
           Waters
           thereof
           to
           be
           turned
           into
           Bloud
           :
           For
           the
           Papists
           being
           absolved
           from
           all
           Oaths
           ,
           &c.
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           were
           thereby
           the
           more
           encouraged
           to
           Treason
           and
           Rebellion
           against
           him
           .
           And
           how
           can
           we
           trust
           their
           Oaths
           and
           Protestations
           ,
           when
           the
           Pope
           absolves
           them
           from
           them
           ?
           Well
           therefore
           is
           that
           Antichrist
           set
           forth
           by
           the
           *
           Dragon
           in
           the
           Revelation
           ,
           who
           is
           both
           subtile
           and
           bloudy
           ;
           and
           his
           Jesuits
           like
           those
           heathen
           Priests
           ,
           that
           have
           Snakes
           in
           one
           hand
           ,
           and
           Firebrands
           in
           the
           other
           .
           That
           whch
           St.
           Bern.
           said
           of
           the
           Devil
           in
           tempting
           mens
           Souls
           ,
           the
           same
           may
           we
           say
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           in
           reference
           to
           Body
           and
           Soul
           ,
           Estate
           and
           all
           :
           
             Vereor
             magis
             Serpentem
             gliscentent
             ,
             quam
             Leonem
             rugientem
             :
          
           
           That
           we
           fear
           him
           more
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           a
           shining
           glittering
           Serpent
           ,
           than
           as
           a
           roaring
           raging
           Lion.
           
        
         
           9.
           
           
             That
             to
             slay
             their
             Enemies
             ,
             it
             is
             lawful
             to
             kill
             their
             Friends
             ,
             if
             as
             much
             good
             will
             come
             by
             the
             one
             ,
             as
             hurt
             by
             the
             other
             .
          
           This
           was
           proposed
           as
           a
           Case
           of
           Conscience
           to
           Garnet
           in
           the
           Gunpowder-Plot
           ,
           (
           that
           Contrivance
           worthy
           onely
           of
           Hell
           and
           a
           Jesuit
           )
           
             Whether
             it
             were
             lawful
             at
             that
             time
             to
             blow
             up
             the
             Innocent
             with
             the
             Nocent
          
           ;
           who
           answered
           it
           in
           the
           Affirmative
           ,
           
             That
             it
             was
             lawful
             to
             kill
             Friends
             in
             the
             destruction
             of
             Enemies
             ,
             if
             so
             much
             good
             would
             arise
             as
             might
             recompence
             the
             slaughter
             of
             the
             Innocent
             .
          
           Somewhat
           like
           this
           ,
           is
           that
           story
           of
           a
           
             Popish
             Duke
          
           ,
           ‑
           who
           when
           he
           was
           asked
           by
           his
           Souldiers
           ,
           
             Whether
             they
             should
             kill
             their
             Friends
             in
             the
             destruction
             of
             their
             Enemies
             ,
          
           returned
           them
           this
           answer
           ,
           
             Yes
             :
             Deus
             enim
             novit
             qui
             ejus
             sunt
             :
             God
             will
             know
             well
             enough
             at
             the
             day
             of
             Judgment
             who
             are
             bis
             .
          
           How
           cruel
           and
           bloudy
           then
           must
           they
           needs
           be
           ,
           who
           will
           kill
           their
           own
           ,
           to
           destroy
           others
           lives
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           will
           praise
           and
           defend
           those
           who
           have
           dyed
           their
           bands
           in
           Bloud
           ;
           voting
           inhumane
           Conspirators
           ,
           to
           have
           been
           glorious
           
           Martyrs
           ?
           And
           thus
           ,
           by
           what
           hath
           been
           said
           ,
           you
           see
           how
           all
           these
           Assertions
           are
           written
           in
           Blood.
           
        
         
           But
           if
           from
           the
           Root
           of
           those
           Principles
           I
           should
           acquaint
           you
           ‑
           with
           the
           Branches
           of
           its
           several
           bloudy
           practices
           ,
           you
           would
           finde
           no
           corner
           of
           the
           world
           wherein
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           Agents
           have
           had
           to
           do
           ,
           but
           all
           hath
           ended
           in
           Bloud
           .
           Among
           many
           thousand
           particular
           Instances
           ,
           take
           these
           few
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           Concerning
           the
           Waldenses
           and
           poor
           Albingenses
           .
           Although
           we
           have
           no
           certainty
           of
           their
           Opinions
           ,
           (
           they
           being
           for
           the
           most
           part
           delivered
           us
           by
           Popish
           Authors
           )
           yet
           of
           the
           Cruelty
           used
           against
           them
           ,
           we
           have
           many
           sad
           Witnesses
           .
           It
           would
           make
           your
           hair
           stand
           upright
           with
           horrour
           ,
           to
           consider
           how
           many
           thousands
           of
           them
           have
           been
           murdered
           in
           a
           day
           ;
           and
           not
           content
           with
           their
           innocent
           blood
           ,
           they
           did
           wafte
           all
           the
           Trees
           and
           Forests
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           run
           into
           the
           wilde
           conceit
           of
           the
           Manichees
           ,
           who
           thought
           the
           Trees
           to
           have
           a
           rational
           life
           ,
           and
           that
           to
           cut
           down
           a
           Tree
           ,
           had
           been
           Homicidium
           ,
           as
           they
           fancied
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           In
           the
           American
           Islands
           ,
           as
           
             Hispaniola
             ,
             
             Jamaica
          
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           what
           barbarous
           usages
           had
           the
           poor
           Savages
           from
           those
           Catholick
           Christians
           ?
           such
           actions
           (
           if
           Historians
           do
           not
           deceive
           us
           )
           as
           were
           not
           fit
           for
           Men
           or
           Christians
           ,
           but
           Bruits
           and
           Devils
           .
           For
           it
           had
           been
           better
           (
           as
           they
           observe
           )
           that
           those
           Islands
           had
           been
           given
           to
           the
           Devils
           ,
           than
           to
           the
           Spaniards
           ,
           who
           spared
           neither
           Sex
           nor
           Age
           ,
           Women
           with
           Childe
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           lay
           in
           Child-bed
           ;
           insomuch
           that
           that
           one
           Island
           of
           Jamaica
           ,
           with
           that
           of
           
             Portico
             Rico
          
           ,
           lost
           in
           few
           years
           Sixty
           thousand
           Souls
           by
           Popish
           Cruelties
           ;
           and
           they
           were
           such
           as
           not
           onely
           raged
           upon
           the
           Men
           ,
           but
           destroyed
           Posterity
           .
           The
           Women
           here
           and
           elsewhere
           ,
           so
           abominating
           their
           sad
           conditions
           ,
           that
           they
           strangled
           their
           Children
           in
           the
           birth
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           they
           might
           not
           live
           to
           serve
           such
           a
           cruel
           People
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           In
           France
           .
           What
           an
           ocean
           of
           Bloud
           hath
           been
           shed
           there
           ,
           sometimes
           by
           open
           and
           hostile
           ways
           ,
           otherwhiles
           by
           private
           Plots
           ,
           Conspiracies
           ,
           and
           Massacres
           !
           wherein
           Brother
           butcher'd
           Brother
           ,
           Sons
           their
           Fathers
           ,
           and
           Daughters
           their
           Mothers
           ?
           As
           in
           the
           Parisian
           Massacre
           ,
           wherein
           one
           would
           think
           it
           impossible
           
           (
           as
           one
           observes
           )
           
             That
             a
             Race
             of
             People
             adoring
             one
             God
             ,
             fellow-subjects
             to
             one
             Prince
             ,
             born
             in
             one
             Country
             ,
             breathing
             the
             same
             Air
             ;
             nay
             ,
             a
             Christian
             People
             ,
             trusiing
             in
             the
             same
             God
             ,
             redeemed
             by
             the
             same
             Bloud
             ,
             governed
             by
             the
             same
             holy
             Laws
             ,
             should
             prove
             such
             Monsters
             each
             to
             other
             .
             Thuanus
             ,
          
           President
           of
           the
           Parliament
           at
           Paris
           ,
           abhors
           the
           very
           memory
           of
           it
           ,
           applying
           most
           appositely
           those
           Verses
           of
           the
           Poet
           to
           it
           ,
           and
           crying
           out
           ,
           
             
               Excidat
               illa
               dies
               ,
               aevo
               nec
               Postera
               credant
            
             
               Saecula
               ,
               nos
               certè
               taceamus
               ,
               &
               obruta
               multa
            
             
               Nocte
               legi
               propriae
               ,
               Patiamur
               crimine
               gentis
               .
            
          
           Let
           that
           black
           day
           be
           razed
           out
           of
           our
           Kalendar
           for
           ever
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           die
           with
           us
           ,
           and
           never
           come
           to
           the
           knowledge
           of
           our
           Posterity
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           In
           Ireland
           .
           Whose
           heart
           hath
           not
           been
           affected
           with
           the
           doleful
           Tragedies
           acted
           on
           that
           Stage
           ?
           How
           have
           they
           cruelly
           devoured
           ,
           and
           spared
           no
           more
           than
           Tygers
           and
           Wolves
           ?
           O
           what
           a
           loud
           Cry
           has
           gone
           to
           Heaven
           from
           the
           Bloud
           spilt
           there
           !
           Every
           drop
           hath
           a
           voice
           ,
           which
           cries
           aloud
           in
           the
           ears
           of
           God
           for
           Vengeance
           on
           them
           .
        
         
         
           5.
           
           In
           their
           Attempts
           on
           England
           ever
           since
           the
           Reformation
           .
           That
           at
           this
           very
           day
           ,
           King
           and
           Kingdom
           ,
           Liberty
           and
           Estate
           ,
           Life
           and
           Religion
           ,
           are
           designed
           for
           Sacrifices
           to
           Popish
           Cruelty
           .
           Think
           ,
           O
           Lucifer
           ,
           and
           imagine
           ,
           O
           Prince
           of
           Darkness
           ,
           a
           more
           hellish
           designe
           ,
           if
           thou
           canst
           !
           What
           darkness
           would
           cover
           our
           Land
           ,
           when
           our
           Sun
           and
           Moon
           (
           the
           great
           Ones
           of
           the
           State
           )
           should
           be
           turned
           into
           Bloud
           ?
           What
           would
           become
           of
           us
           ,
           if
           these
           
             Philistims
             had
             taken
             our
             Ark
          
           ?
           How
           soon
           would
           our
           Ministers
           be
           turned
           into
           corners
           ,
           or
           sent
           to
           Heaven
           
             in
             fiery
             Chariots
          
           ?
           Our
           Bibles
           turned
           into
           Pictures
           ,
           our
           Tables
           to
           Altars
           ,
           and
           our
           Heaven
           immediately
           into
           a
           Hell
           ?
           
             O
             innocent
          
           Cataline
           and
           Verres
           ,
           
             to
             these
             men
             !
             Livie
          
           tells
           us
           of
           a
           designe
           to
           dispatch
           the
           whole
           Senate
           of
           Rome
           in
           an
           hour
           ;
           And
           at
           Carthage
           there
           was
           a
           Project
           set
           on
           foot
           to
           cut
           off
           at
           once
           the
           Noblest
           and
           Loyalest
           Families
           in
           the
           State.
           But
           had
           not
           this
           been
           abortive
           (
           which
           God
           grant
           it
           may
           ever
           be
           )
           it
           would
           have
           proved
           the
           Funeral
           of
           all
           our
           Sanctuaries
           ,
           the
           Grave
           of
           all
           our
           Religion
           ,
           the
           Dooms-day
           of
           all
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           the
           Ruine
           of
           King
           
           and
           Kingdom
           ;
           a
           Treason
           made
           up
           of
           such
           monstrous
           complicated
           Circumstances
           ,
           that
           all
           others
           seemed
           to
           be
           drown'd
           and
           lose
           their
           name
           in
           this
           .
           Thus
           much
           as
           to
           the
           Doctrinal
           part
           .
        
         
           From
           what
           hath
           been
           said
           ,
           may
           naturally
           be
           inferred
           ,
        
         
           I.
           The
           impossibility
           of
           Reconciliation
           to
           such
           an
           Apostatiz'd
           Church
           .
           I
           know
           there
           are
           some
           who
           think
           that
           there
           is
           little
           difference
           between
           the
           two
           Churches
           of
           England
           and
           Rome
           ,
           and
           undertake
           to
           shew
           us
           the
           several
           Advances
           the
           one
           hath
           made
           towards
           the
           other
           ;
           and
           these
           are
           either
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               Some
               Politick
               Romanists
               ,
               who
               hereby
               would
               extenuate
               the
               foulness
               of
               Popery
               ;
               or
               ,
            
             
               2.
               
               Some
               ignorant
               and
               loose
               Protestants
               ,
               who
               live
               void
               of
               the
               knowledge
               and
               conscience
               of
               all
               Religion
               ;
               men
               who
               live
               
                 tanquam
                 poeniterent
                 non
                 pecudes
                 natos
              
               ,
               as
               if
               they
               repented
               they
               were
               not
               made
               Beasts
               ;
               whose
               Reason
               is
               their
               burden
               ,
               and
               light
               of
               mind
               their
               offence
               ;
               who
               are
               so
               given
               up
               to
               their
               sensual
               Appetites
               ,
               as
               if
               they
               were
               all
               flesh
               ,
               and
               
               had
               no
               Spirit
               ;
               who
               rake
               up
               (
               those
               heavenly
               Sparks
               )
               their
               Souls
               in
               ashes
               ,
               never
               considering
               their
               original
               capacity
               and
               end
               ,
               or
               that
               
                 Viaticum
                 Aeternitatis
              
               ,
               provision
               that
               is
               to
               be
               made
               for
               them
               unto
               Eternity
               .
               These
               men
               are
               moulded
               for
               Heathenish
               as
               well
               as
               Popish
               Impressions
               .
            
          
        
         
           But
           if
           we
           rightly
           consider
           the
           Purity
           of
           our
           own
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Apostacy
           and
           Corruptions
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           you
           will
           finde
           an
           impossibility
           of
           Reconciliation
           :
           For
           
             (
             rebus
             sic
             stantibus
          
           )
           as
           the
           case
           is
           ,
           that
           Church
           must
           put
           off
           it self
           ,
           and
           cease
           to
           be
           what
           it
           is
           ,
           ere
           it
           can
           begin
           to
           be
           once
           again
           what
           it
           was
           ;
           for
           Substance
           ,
           Credit
           ,
           Fame
           ,
           Vertue
           ,
           and
           Honour
           have
           at
           once
           forsaken
           her
           ,
           and
           by
           long
           disuse
           have
           left
           her
           worse
           than
           naught
           .
           Neither
           can
           we
           see
           how
           these
           houses
           can
           be
           repaired
           ,
           but
           they
           must
           be
           pulled
           down
           to
           the
           very
           foundations
           ,
           and
           then
           built
           from
           the
           ground
           :
           But
           if
           there
           be
           any
           possibility
           ,
           it
           must
           come
           either
           from
           her self
           or
           others
           ;
           not
           from
           her self
           ,
           because
           she
           obstinately
           defends
           her
           Errours
           not
           onely
           with
           Tongue
           and
           Pen
           ,
           but
           with
           Fire
           and
           Sword
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           yield
           so
           much
           as
           that
           
           she
           can
           erre
           ;
           refusing
           to
           amend
           those
           notorious
           Abuses
           which
           by
           the
           moderate
           Verdict
           of
           her
           elect
           Cardinals
           are
           condemned
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           palpable
           Flatteries
           of
           her
           last
           and
           worst
           Parasites
           
             (
             the
             Jesuits
          
           )
           is
           grown
           not
           onely
           secure
           ,
           but
           more
           proud
           and
           arrogant
           than
           ever
           she
           was
           .
           Can
           it
           be
           then
           from
           others
           ?
           How
           oft
           hath
           this
           been
           endeavoured
           to
           no
           purpose
           ?
           Rome
           may
           be
           sacked
           and
           battered
           (
           as
           it
           hath
           often
           been
           )
           by
           Military
           Forces
           ,
           but
           purged
           by
           Admonitions
           ,
           Convictions
           ,
           and
           Censures
           ,
           it
           will
           never
           be
           .
           Now
           the
           impossibility
           of
           our
           Reconciliation
           (
           besides
           these
           things
           I
           have
           already
           named
           )
           ariseth
           from
           the
           pride
           and
           usurpation
           of
           the
           Head
           of
           their
           Church
           ,
           being
           armed
           with
           that
           Position
           ,
           
             That
             he
             cannot
             Erre
          
           .
           This
           ,
           without
           hope
           of
           Reconciliation
           ,
           divideth
           Christendom
           ;
           and
           many
           other
           Doctrinal
           Controversies
           are
           subtilly
           kept
           on
           foot
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           Stalking-horse
           for
           this
           .
        
         
           Adde
           to
           this
           ,
           their
           hatred
           against
           our
           Religion
           above
           all
           others
           :
           Jews
           and
           Grecians
           are
           tolerated
           in
           Rome
           it self
           ;
           their
           Ceremonies
           ,
           Synagogues
           ,
           Services
           ,
           yea
           ,
           and
           Circumcision
           it self
           administred
           to
           the
           dead
           as
           well
           
           as
           to
           the
           living
           ;
           by
           which
           the
           Romanists
           declare
           themselves
           to
           be
           better
           friends
           to
           the
           Turks
           and
           Jews
           than
           to
           the
           Protestants
           :
           not
           to
           insist
           on
           that
           detestable
           Virulence
           of
           their
           Tongues
           ,
           and
           Gall
           in
           their
           Ink
           ,
           against
           our
           first
           Reformers
           ;
           which
           hath
           not
           stayed
           there
           ,
           but
           broken
           out
           into
           their
           most
           barbarous
           Butcheries
           and
           cruel
           Bloud-sheddings
           .
        
         
           They
           oblige
           the
           Consciences
           of
           Catholicks
           to
           a
           Separation
           from
           all
           our
           Ecclesiastical
           Assemblies
           ,
           are
           afraid
           that
           any
           of
           our
           Books
           (
           especially
           our
           Translations
           of
           the
           Bible
           )
           should
           be
           read
           in
           any
           of
           their
           Dominions
           ;
           and
           where
           they
           cannot
           turn
           ,
           will
           be
           sure
           to
           burn
           Protestants
           .
           O
           the
           many
           miserable
           Massacres
           ,
           
           Canibal-like
           Conspiracies
           ,
           and
           tragical
           Murders
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           been
           guilty
           of
           !
           Who
           are
           ignorant
           what
           Fierceness
           ,
           Fears
           ,
           and
           Fires
           were
           raised
           to
           consume
           the
           innocent
           bodies
           of
           the
           Saints
           living
           and
           dead
           ;
           and
           that
           in
           such
           sort
           ,
           as
           every
           corner
           of
           the
           Land
           seemed
           as
           hot
           as
           
           Nebuchadnezzar's
           Furnace
           ,
           even
           seven
           times
           hotter
           than
           it
           used
           to
           be
           ;
           wherein
           were
           to
           be
           cast
           whosoever
           would
           not
           fall
           down
           and
           worship
           the
           Image
           which
           that
           Romish
           Nebuchadnezzar
           had
           erected
           .
        
         
         
           Now
           what
           Arguments
           can
           be
           used
           to
           perswade
           us
           of
           their
           Reconciliation
           to
           us
           ,
           either
           in
           the
           whole
           or
           in
           part
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           since
           they
           deem
           it
           no
           other
           than
           a
           peccant
           humour
           necessary
           to
           be
           purged
           out
           every
           few
           years
           ,
           either
           by
           Murder
           ,
           if
           it
           prevail
           in
           the
           Head
           ,
           or
           by
           Massacre
           ,
           if
           in
           the
           Body
           of
           any
           Nation
           ?
           And
           rather
           than
           it
           should
           not
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           stick
           with
           Blassius
           (
           at
           the
           Commandment
           of
           their
           great
           Gracchus
           )
           to
           set
           on
           fire
           the
           Capitol
           it self
           ,
           to
           lay
           hands
           on
           sacred
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           to
           imbrue
           them
           in
           his
           Royal
           bloud
           ;
           to
           subvert
           Religion
           ,
           to
           sacrifice
           our
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           all
           ,
           to
           their
           ambitious
           Lusts
           and
           Revenge
           .
           When
           then
           you
           are
           willing
           that
           your
           Souls
           shall
           be
           damned
           ,
           and
           Bodies
           destroyed
           ,
           then
           think
           of
           Reconciliation
           .
        
         
           II.
           Let
           us
           now
           see
           our
           duty
           ;
           which
           is
           ,
           first
           ,
           to
           hate
           and
           oppose
           the
           Popish
           ,
           and
           to
           embrace
           and
           keep
           close
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           Hate
           and
           oppose
           the
           Popish
           Religion
           .
           
             Let
             the
             high
             praises
             of
             God
             be
             in
             our
             mouths
             ,
             and
             a
             two-edged
             sword
             in
             our
             hands
             ,
             to
             be
             avenged
             on
             that
             Scarlet
             Whore
             ,
             that
             Mother
             of
             Fornications
             ,
             that
             hath
             made
             her self
             drunk
             
             with
             the
             bloud
             of
             the
             Saints
             and
             Martyrs
             of
             Jesus
             .
          
           They
           must
           be
           punished
           by
           us
           ,
           or
           we
           shall
           be
           so
           by
           them
           .
           Let
           's
           make
           no
           friendship
           with
           angry
           men
           ,
           much
           less
           with
           bloody
           men
           :
           'T
           is
           the
           greatest
           honour
           that
           can
           be
           put
           upon
           us
           ,
           to
           be
           Instruments
           of
           their
           destruction
           .
           This
           duty
           respects
           us
           in
           whatever
           relations
           we
           are
           ,
           be
           we
           either
           Magistrates
           ,
           Ministers
           ,
           or
           private
           Christians
           .
        
         
           The
           Magistrates
           ,
           by
           repressing
           those
           Perverters
           of
           our
           Faith
           ,
           and
           encouraging
           Protestant
           Principles
           and
           Practices
           .
           'T
           is
           not
           Reason
           of
           State
           ,
           but
           Ruine
           of
           State
           ,
           to
           gratifie
           those
           men
           who
           would
           rejoyce
           to
           see
           our
           Glory
           in
           the
           dust
           .
        
         
           Ministers
           ,
           by
           preaching
           up
           the
           excellency
           of
           this
           way
           ,
           
             preserving
             the
             pattern
             of
             wholesome
             words
             ,
             and
             speaking
             the
             things
             which
             become
             sound
             Doctrine
          
           ;
           to
           take
           heed
           of
           their
           own
           mixtures
           ,
           and
           not
           adulterate
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Faith
           to
           
             please
             men
          
           .
           The
           beauty
           of
           heavenly
           Truths
           wants
           not
           the
           paint
           either
           of
           Humane
           or
           Heretical
           Additions
           .
           The
           Babes
           of
           Christ
           must
           be
           fed
           with
           sincere
           Milk
           ;
           and
           the
           soreness
           of
           mens
           eyes
           must
           not
           hinder
           the
           Lights
           of
           the
           Church
           from
           shining
           .
           
           And
           next
           by
           confuting
           Gain-sayers
           ,
           not
           onely
           have
           a
           voice
           to
           
             call
             their
             Sheep
             ,
             but
             to
             drive
             away
             Wolves
          
           ;
           one
           to
           establish
           Truth
           ,
           and
           another
           to
           oppose
           Errour
           ;
           one
           of
           their
           hands
           must
           work
           ,
           the
           other
           hold
           the
           weapon
           .
           Their
           breasts
           should
           be
           Store-houses
           of
           Spiritual
           Armour
           ,
           be
           furnished
           with
           skill
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           
             should
             be
             mighty
          
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           writings
           of
           men
           ,
           even
           of
           Hereticks
           themselves
           ,
           to
           beat
           them
           with
           their
           own
           weapons
           ,
           to
           kill
           
             Goliah
             with
             his
             own
             sword
          
           .
           Are
           we
           in
           the
           lower
           Orb
           of
           private
           Christians
           ?
           We
           must
           oppose
           this
           many-headed
           Monster
           ,
           and
           that
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               By
               confuting
               the
               debauched
               Romanists
               with
               the
               Language
               of
               our
               heavenly
               lives
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               By
               an
               holy
               and
               stout
               confession
               of
               the
               Faith
               :
               a
               dumb
               Faith
               is
               not
               a
               divine
               Faith
               ,
               but
               the
               Faith
               of
               Devils
               ;
               't
               is
               not
               enough
               to
               confess
               Christ
               in
               times
               of
               encouragement
               ,
               but
               in
               times
               of
               contradiction
               .
               This
               is
               the
               onely
               boldness
               ,
               and
               cursed
               be
               that
               modesty
               which
               makes
               us
               ashamed
               of
               our
               Master
               .
            
             
               3.
               
               By
               suffering
               for
               it
               :
               if
               God
               calls
               us
               to
               it
               follow
               our
               Captain
               ,
               
                 who
                 was
                 made
                 perfect
                 by
                 suffering
              
               ;
               and
               seal
               Protestant
               Truths
               with
               
               our
               dearest
               Blouds
               .
               He
               that
               saveth
               his
               Life
               ,
               and
               forsaketh
               his
               Faith
               ,
               never
               liveth
               comfortably
               ;
               yet
               thousands
               that
               have
               lost
               their
               Lives
               ,
               and
               kept
               their
               Faith
               ,
               have
               died
               joyfully
               ;
               they
               could
               welcome
               the
               Cross
               of
               Christ
               ,
               and
               Everlasting
               Life
               .
            
          
        
         
           Now
           in
           this
           opposition
           we
           are
           to
           act
           resolutely
           and
           valiantly
           :
           Dangers
           must
           be
           despised
           ,
           Difficulties
           adventured
           on
           ,
           Terrours
           contemned
           ,
           vigorously
           and
           fervently
           ,
           Zeal
           being
           the
           beauty
           of
           Christian
           Undertakings
           ,
           unanimously
           ,
           and
           with
           one
           consent
           :
           For
           how
           easily
           will
           Errour
           prevail
           ,
           when
           the
           Protestant
           Champions
           are
           divided
           among
           themselves
           ?
           And
           how
           can
           they
           venture
           their
           lives
           one
           for
           another
           in
           War
           ,
           who
           will
           not
           do
           so
           much
           as
           love
           one
           another
           in
           Peace
           ?
           Let
           's
           observe
           the
           Apostles
           counsel
           ,
           and
           
             stand
             fast
             in
             one
             spirit
             ,
             with
             one
             minde
             ,
             striving
             together
             for
             the
             faith
             of
             the
             Gospel
             ,
          
           Phil.
           1.27
           .
           Can
           there
           be
           greater
           encouragements
           to
           this
           ,
           than
           our
           present
           Fears
           and
           Dangers
           ?
           And
           O
           that
           now
           we
           did
           all
           appear
           as
           one
           Man
           against
           this
           common
           Enemy
           !
           O
           that
           
           Babyton's
           Towers
           were
           humbled
           ,
           her
           Pillars
           and
           Foundations
           razed
           ,
           her
           Vaults
           digged
           up
           ,
           her
           
           Monuments
           defaced
           ,
           and
           her
           Altars
           sacrificed
           to
           Desolation
           !
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           That
           all
           her
           Buildings
           were
           demolished
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           Stone
           left
           upon
           a
           Stone
           ,
           but
           in
           rude
           and
           ruinous
           heaps
           ,
           to
           tell
           us
           ,
           that
           
             here
             once
          
           Babylon
           stood
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           Embrace
           and
           keep
           close
           to
           the
           Principles
           and
           Practices
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           .
           'T
           is
           observed
           by
           an
           eminent
           Prelate
           of
           our
           own
           ,
           
           that
           (
           among
           many
           others
           that
           go
           under
           that
           name
           )
           there
           are
           five
           Religions
           on
           Earth
           which
           stand
           in
           competition
           for
           Truth
           ,
           
             viz.
             Jewish
             ,
             Turkish
             ,
             Greekish
             ,
             Popish
             ,
          
           and
           Reformed
           ;
           whereof
           each
           pleads
           for
           it self
           ,
           with
           disgrace
           of
           each
           other
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           Jewish
           Religion
           .
           These
           men
           have
           very
           little
           to
           say
           for
           themselves
           ,
           but
           impudent
           denials
           of
           Jesus
           Christ
           ;
           whose
           very
           refusal
           of
           him
           ,
           proves
           him
           strongly
           to
           be
           the
           Messiah
           .
           And
           were
           there
           no
           other
           Arguments
           ,
           yet
           God
           himself
           hath
           so
           strongly
           confuted
           them
           by
           the
           voice
           of
           his
           Judgments
           ,
           that
           the
           whole
           world
           doth
           hiss
           at
           their
           Conviction
           ,
           their
           fin
           being
           written
           in
           capital
           Letters
           in
           their
           desolation
           and
           contempt
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           The
           Turkish
           Religion
           (
           if
           it
           deserves
           
           that
           name
           amongst
           Christians
           )
           and
           this
           stands
           upon
           barbarous
           Ignorance
           ,
           and
           palpable
           Imposture
           ;
           yet
           loe
           here
           a
           subtile
           Devil
           in
           a
           gross
           Religion
           :
           for
           when
           he
           saw
           that
           he
           could
           not
           by
           single
           twists
           of
           Heresie
           ,
           put
           down
           the
           well-built
           Walls
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           he
           windes
           them
           all
           up
           into
           one
           Cable
           ,
           to
           try
           if
           his
           Cord
           of
           so
           many
           folds
           might
           prevail
           .
           As
           with
           
             Sabellius
             ,
             to
             deny
             the
             distinction
             of
             persons
             in
             the
             Trinity
          
           ;
           with
           
             Arius
             ,
             Christs
             Divinity
          
           ;
           with
           
             Macedonius
             ,
             the
             Deity
             of
             the
             Holy
             Ghost
          
           ;
           with
           
             Sergius
             ,
             two
             Wills
             in
             Christ
          
           ;
           with
           
             Marcion
             ,
             Christs
             Sufferings
          
           :
           And
           these
           Policies
           seconded
           with
           Violence
           and
           Cruelty
           .
           O
           damnable
           mixture
           (
           as
           one
           observes
           )
           miserably
           successful
           !
           Their
           Alchoran
           ,
           a
           Fardle
           of
           foolish
           Impossibilities
           ;
           their
           whole
           Religion
           ,
           a
           mongrel
           Issue
           of
           an
           
             Arian
             ,
             Jew
             ,
             Nestorian
          
           ,
           and
           Arabian
           ;
           a
           Monster
           of
           many
           Seeds
           ,
           and
           all
           accursed
           :
           Nature
           hath
           light
           enough
           to
           condemn
           a
           Turk
           as
           the
           worst
           of
           Pagans
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           The
           Greekish
           Church
           puts
           in
           the
           next
           claim
           ,
           but
           with
           little
           better
           success
           ;
           who
           are
           become
           the
           basest
           Drogs
           of
           all
           Christians
           ,
           being
           little
           superiour
           to
           the
           Turks
           in
           knowledge
           ;
           
           more
           idolatrous
           than
           Heathens
           ,
           and
           superstitious
           than
           Papists
           :
           the
           very
           Name
           of
           them
           is
           Confutation
           enough
           .
           From
           thence
           I
           descend
           to
           the
           main
           Rival
           of
           Truth
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           4.
           
           The
           Religion
           (
           or
           rather
           Faction
           )
           of
           the
           Papacie
           .
           Now
           whereto
           tends
           this
           ,
           but
           to
           make
           Nature
           vainly
           proud
           ,
           or
           carelessly
           wanton
           ?
           
             
               (
               1
               )
               Vainly
               proud
               ,
               by
               telling
               her
               ,
               
                 She
                 hath
                 free
                 will
                 to
                 do
                 good
                 ,
                 can
                 go
                 of
                 her self
                 ,
                 morit
                 Heaven
                 ,
                 and
                 pay
                 God
                 satisfaction
                 .
              
            
             
               (
               2
               )
               Carelessly
               wanton
               ,
               in
               that
               it
               teacheth
               ,
               
                 That
                 Christ
                 died
                 effectually
                 for
                 all
                 :
                 That
                 men
                 may
                 save
                 the
                 labour
                 of
                 trying
                 and
                 examining
                 themselves
                 ,
                 and
                 believe
                 onely
                 as
                 the
                 Church
                 believes
                 :
                 That
                 the
                 sacrifice
                 of
                 the
                 Mass
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 very
                 work
                 wrought
                 ,
                 avails
                 to
                 obtain
                 pardon
                 ,
                 not
                 in
                 this
                 life
                 onely
                 ,
                 but
                 when
                 they
                 lie
                 frying
                 in
                 Purgatory
                 :
                 That
                 Alms
                 given
                 ,
                 merit
                 Heaven
                 :
                 That
                 abstinence
                 from
                 some
                 Meats
                 and
                 Drinks
                 ,
                 is
                 meritorious
                 :
                 That
                 one
                 man
                 may
                 deliver
                 anothers
                 Soul
                 out
                 of
                 purging
                 Torments
              
               ;
               so
               that
               he
               that
               wants
               not
               both
               Money
               and
               Friends
               ,
               need
               not
               fear
               the
               smart
               of
               his
               sins
               .
               O
               Religion
               !
               sweet
               to
               the
               Wealthy
               ,
               but
               sad
               to
               the
               Poor
               !
               Who
               will
               now
               care
               how
               lazy
               his
               Devotions
               ,
               or
               how
               lewd
               his
               Life
               be
               ,
               that
               knows
               these
               Refuges
               to
               flie
               to
               ?
            
          
        
         
         
           5.
           
           Next
           comes
           in
           the
           Religion
           I
           perswade
           you
           to
           stick
           close
           to
           viz.
           the
           
             Reformed
             Protestant
          
           Religion
           ;
           which
           you
           may
           see
           in
           opposition
           to
           all
           these
           .
        
         
           To
           the
           Jewish
           ,
           in
           acknowledging
           Jesus
           Christ
           come
           into
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           depending
           on
           him
           alone
           for
           Life
           and
           Salvation
           .
        
         
           To
           the
           Mahometan
           ,
           in
           casting
           aside
           all
           her
           Blasphemies
           and
           ridiculous
           Fopperies
           .
        
         
           To
           the
           Greekish
           ,
           in
           pitying
           her
           Ignorance
           ,
           and
           lamenting
           her
           Ruine
           .
        
         
           To
           the
           Popish
           ,
           first
           ,
           in
           depretiating
           Nature
           ;
           secondly
           ,
           in
           advancing
           Grace
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           She
           depretiates
           Nature
           ,
           kneads
           her
           in
           the
           Dust
           ,
           spoils
           her
           of
           her
           proud
           Rags
           ,
           loads
           her
           with
           Reproaches
           ,
           and
           gives
           Glory
           to
           him
           who
           says
           he
           will
           not
           give
           his
           Glory
           to
           another
           ;
           acknowledging
           her
           best
           Actions
           to
           be
           faulty
           ,
           her
           Satisfactions
           Debts
           ,
           and
           her
           Deserts
           Damnation
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           In
           advancing
           Grace
           :
           *
           
             By
             this
             we
             are
             saved
             ,
             not
             of
             our selves
             ,
             it
             is
             the
             gift
             of
             God.
          
           Every
           step
           in
           our
           ascent
           to
           Mount
           Zion
           ,
           is
           Free-stone
           ;
           and
           the
           golden
           Chain
           of
           mans
           Salvation
           ,
           is
           richly
           enamelled
           with
           free
           Grace
           .
           This
           lays
           the
           foundation
           and
           top-stone
           of
           
           Glory
           ;
           this
           is
           the
           Religion
           we
           must
           stick
           to
           in
           its
           Principles
           and
           Practices
           .
           We
           must
           not
           be
           Protestants
           in
           the
           Bark
           ,
           and
           Papists
           in
           the
           Core
           ;
           Lambs
           and
           Doves
           without
           ,
           and
           Lions
           and
           Bears
           within
           .
           This
           is
           the
           Religion
           we
           must
           be
           saved
           by
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           of
           all
           others
           is
           the
           surest
           Path
           to
           Everlasting
           Happiness
           .
           Let
           me
           perswade
           you
           then
           ,
           in
           the
           words
           of
           the
           Apostle
           ,
           2
           Tim.
           1.13
           .
           to
           
             hold
             fast
             the
             form
             of
             sound
             words
             ,
             which
             you
             have
             heard
             in
             faith
             and
             love
             .
          
        
         
           In
           faith
           towards
           God
           ,
           and
           Love
           towards
           man
           ;
           or
           Faith
           in
           Christ
           ,
           and
           Love
           to
           Christ
           ;
           or
           Faith
           ,
           as
           comprehending
           the
           Credenda
           ,
           and
           Love
           the
           Facienda
           of
           every
           Christian
           .
           These
           are
           the
           two
           hands
           with
           which
           you
           must
           hold
           fast
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           Paith
           ;
           and
           that
           three
           ways
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             As
             it
             secures
             our
             standing
             ;
             this
             is
             an
             hold-fast
             Grace
             .
             Unbelief
             is
             the
             root
             of
             Apostacy
             ,
             but
             Faith
             is
             the
             spring
             of
             Perseverance
             .
             This
             will
             keep
             us
             close
             to
             Protestant
             Principles
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             As
             it
             doth
             realize
             all
             the
             truths
             of
             the
             Gospel
             :
             So
             that
             though
             the
             petty
             notions
             and
             fooleries
             in
             Popery
             may
             gratifie
             your
             
             fancies
             ,
             yet
             can
             they
             have
             no
             influence
             on
             your
             Consciences
             .
             By
             this
             we
             can
             both
             live
             upon
             the
             Truth
             ,
             and
             (
             when
             God
             calls
             )
             die
             for
             it
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             As
             it
             helps
             to
             fetch
             strength
             from
             Christ
             ,
             to
             do
             and
             suffer
             ,
             to
             live
             and
             die
             for
             him
             .
             This
             invests
             the
             Soul
             with
             a
             kind
             of
             Omnipotency
             ,
             insomuch
             that
             other
             mens
             Impossibilities
             are
             Faiths
             Triumphs
             .
          
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           Love
           :
           Your
           love
           will
           hold
           fast
           the
           Truth
           ,
           when
           (
           happily
           )
           your
           learning
           may
           let
           it
           go
           .
           
           You
           may
           not
           (
           with
           the
           Martyr
           )
           be
           able
           to
           dispute
           for
           the
           Truth
           ;
           but
           if
           you
           love
           it
           ,
           you
           will
           die
           for
           it
           ,
           Learning
           lies
           in
           the
           head
           ,
           but
           Love
           lies
           in
           the
           heart
           .
           This
           will
           make
           you
           say
           to
           the
           Protestant
           Interest
           ,
           as
           she
           to
           her
           Mother-in-law
           ,
           Ruth
           1.16
           ,
           17.
           
           
             Whither
             thou
             goest
             .
             I
             will
             go
             ;
             and
             where
             thou
             lodgest
             ,
             I
             will
             lodge
             :
             thy
             people
             shall
             be
             my
             people
             ,
             and
             thy
             God
             my
             God
             :
             Where
             thou
             diest
             ,
             will
             I
             die
             ,
             and
             there
             will
             I
             be
             buried
             :
             the
             Lord
             do
             so
             to
             me
             ,
             and
             more
             also
             ,
             if
             ought
             but
             death
             part
             me
             and
             thee
             .
          
           'T
           is
           for
           want
           of
           this
           ,
           that
           
             God
             gives
             men
             over
             to
             believe
             a
             lye
             ,
          
           
           
             to
             be
             led
             captive
             by
             divers
             lusts
             and
             pleasures
             ,
          
           
           
             to
             follow
             cunningly
             devised
             fables
             ,
             and
             to
             hold
             the
             truth
             in
             unrighteousness
             .
          
        
         
         
           Let
           us
           now
           love
           the
           Protestant
           Truth
           both
           in
           the
           Purity
           and
           in
           the
           Professors
           of
           it
           :
           And
           truly
           if
           ever
           there
           were
           a
           time
           for
           our
           Union
           ,
           this
           is
           it
           .
           May
           we
           not
           fear
           that
           the
           neglect
           of
           Protestant
           ,
           Unity
           will
           make
           way
           for
           Popish
           Unity
           ?
           That
           Party
           cannot
           be
           strong
           ,
           but
           by
           our
           weakness
           ;
           nor
           armed
           ,
           but
           by
           our
           nakedness
           ,
           or
           come
           in
           amongst
           us
           ,
           but
           by
           that
           lane
           of
           our
           own
           divisions
           .
           O
           that
           we
           might
           consider
           these
           things
           ;
           that
           by
           so
           much
           the
           greater
           her
           subtilties
           are
           to
           divide
           us
           ,
           we
           may
           the
           more
           firmly
           be
           united
           in
           our
           Prayers
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           in
           concord
           between
           our selves
           ;
           that
           we
           may
           not
           expose
           our
           Persons
           ,
           Estates
           ,
           Lives
           ,
           Posterities
           ,
           Religion
           and
           all
           ,
           to
           the
           crasty
           and
           Bloudy
           advantages
           of
           these
           Enemies
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Church
           !
           Shall
           Joseph
           and
           
             Benjamin
             ,
             Moses
          
           and
           
             Aaron
             ;
             Abrahani
          
           and
           Lot
           fall
           out
           ,
           especially
           ,
           when
           the
           Canaanites
           are
           in
           the
           land
           ?
           Shall
           
             Gebal
             ,
             Ammon
          
           ,
           and
           Amaleck
           ,
           and
           the
           Philistims
           at
           Tyre
           ,
           agree
           ;
           And
           shall
           Lambs
           and
           Doves
           rend
           ,
           tear
           ,
           and
           scratch
           one
           another
           ?
           
             O
             let
             it
             not
             be
             spoken
             in
             Gath
             ,
             nor
             published
             in
             the
             streets
             of
             Askelon
             ?
          
           Let
           us
           now
           
             endeavour
             to
             keep
             the
             nuity
             of
             the
             spirit
             in
             the
             bond
             of
             peace
             .
          
           It
           will
           be
           our
           Duty
           
           and
           Honour
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Happiness
           and
           Safety
           ,
           to
           love
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           appear
           as
           one
           man
           against
           the
           common
           Enemy
           .
           O
           that
           now
           we
           might
           beging
           ,
           
             Go
             on
             ,
             and
             prosper
          
           !
           't
           is
           not
           the
           Contention
           ,
           but
           Constancy
           ,
           that
           sets
           the
           Grown
           on
           the
           Christians
           head
           .
           It
           will
           be
           an
           unanswerable
           Dilemma
           ,
           If
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           were
           had
           ,
           why
           did
           you
           profess
           it
           ?
           if
           good
           ,
           why
           did
           you
           desert
           it
           ?
           To
           consirm
           you
           the
           more
           in
           the
           constant
           Profession
           of
           it
           ,
           consider
           that
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               We
               have
               the
               Scriptures
               on
               our
               side
               ,
               in
               most
               places
               free
               from
               ambiguiry
               :
               we
               live
               under
               the
               cleareft
               dispensations
               of
               the
               Gospel-covenant
               ,
               and
               the
               Light
               thereof
               is
               not
               yet
               eclipsed
               (
               and
               we
               hope
               never
               ,
               will
               )
               with
               lewish
               Mifts
               ,
               or
               Popish
               Fogs
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               We
               have
               the
               Principles
               of
               Religion
               ,
               which
               directly
               lead
               to
               every
               point
               of
               our
               Faith
               ,
               and
               instructs
               us
               in
               our
               way
               to
               Salvation
               .
            
             
               3.
               
               We
               have
               the
               antient
               Fathers
               ,
               the
               Majesty
               of
               elden
               times
               ,
               and
               reverend
               countenanor
               of
               the
               first
               Antiquity
               ;
               so
               that
               all
               their
               glory
               therein
               ,
               hath
               (
               by
               our
               Reformers
               )
               been
               turned
               into
               their
               shame
               .
            
             
               4.
               
               And
               lastly
               ,
               which
               may
               perswade
               any
               
               man
               (
               not
               drunk
               with
               prejudice
               )
               we
               have
               had
               the
               mercies
               of
               God
               to
               plead
               for
               us
               ,
               whereby
               our
               Church
               hath
               been
               miraculously
               upheld
               .
               When
               Rome
               and
               Hell
               threatned
               us
               ,
               then
               God
               defended
               us
               ;
               when
               our
               Neck
               hath
               even
               been
               on
               the
               block
               ,
               and
               the
               instruments
               of
               death
               prepared
               to
               cut
               off
               our
               lives
               and
               hopes
               together
               ,
               then
               God
               disappointed
               them
               ,
               and
               rescued
               us
               .
               What
               remains
               now
               ?
               but
               that
               
                 we
                 break
                 off
                 our
                 Iniquities
                 by
                 Repentance
                 ,
              
               put
               a
               Bill
               of
               Divorce
               into
               the
               hands
               of
               our
               dearest
               Lusts
               ,
               run
               them
               thorough
               with
               the
               sacrificing
               Knife
               of
               Mortification
               ;
               that
               we
               no
               longer
               
                 turn
                 Grace
                 into
                 Wantonness
              
               ,
               nor
               these
               miraculous
               Preservations
               into
               ingrateful
               Apostacies
               .
            
          
        
         
           By
           this
           way
           onely
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           we
           can
           be
           true
           to
           our
           own
           happiness
           ,
           be
           lasting
           Monuments
           of
           Mercy
           unto
           Posterity
           ,
           and
           erect
           Trophies
           of
           Victory
           over
           all
           Antichristianism
           amongst
           us
           .
           Then
           would
           the
           several
           Foundations
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           be
           settled
           in
           a
           sound
           and
           flourishing
           Constitution
           :
           For
           then
           Piety
           would
           be
           the
           Pillar
           to
           every
           Profession
           ;
           Learning
           adorned
           with
           Piety
           ,
           
           Law
           administred
           with
           Piety
           ,
           and
           Councils
           managed
           with
           Piety
           ;
           then
           would
           Religion
           flourish
           ,
           Peace
           settle
           ,
           and
           the
           Gospel
           ring
           in
           the
           Ears
           of
           the
           Generations
           unborn
           .
           How
           quickly
           would
           our
           Darkness
           be
           dispelled
           ,
           our
           Shades
           flee
           away
           ,
           our
           Distractions
           be
           removed
           ,
           and
           an
           happy
           Calinness
           and
           Serenity
           cover
           the
           face
           of
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ?
           Which
           that
           it
           may
           ,
           the
           Lord
           of
           his
           infinite
           mercy
           grant
           :
           To
           whom
           with
           the
           Father
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A43788-e190
           
             *
             In
             Praefatione
             in
             Apocalypsin
             .
          
           
             In
             locum
             .
          
           
             Prosper
             de
             prem
             .
             &
             praed
             .
             
               cap.
               7.
            
             
          
           
             Comment
             .
             in
             Apocalypsin
             ,
             
               cap.
               14.
               v.
               8.
            
             &
             in
             
               cap.
               17
            
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             *
             Coelius
             Aventinus
             ,
             Exquilinus
             ,
             Tarpeius
             ,
             Capitolinus
             ,
             Viminalis
             ,
             Palatinus
             ,
             Quirinalis
             .
          
           
             
               D.
               F.
            
             in
             Rhem.
             Test
             .
             
               p.
               892.
            
             
          
           
             Chap.
             17.6.11.8
             .
          
           
             *
             M.
             P.
             Nar.
             
          
           
             Nicephorus
             .
             Eusebius
             .
             Ecclesiast
             .
             Hist
             .
             Isaacs
             .
             Chron.
             
          
           
             Theodoret.
             Sophronius
             .
          
           
             Anno
             177.
             
          
           
             Rev.
             17.8
             .
          
           
             1
             Cor.
             6.9
             .
          
           
             Clem.
             Alex.
             Strom.
             
          
           
             Dr.
             W.
             in
             his
             Preface
             to
             the
             way
             of
             the
             true
             Church
             .
          
           
             *
             Rev.
             12.
             
          
           
             B.N.
             in
             his
             Epistles
             .
          
           
             *
             Eph.
             2.8
             .
          
           
             Fox
             Acts
             &
             Monum
             .
          
           
             2
             Tim.
             3.6
             .
          
           
             2
             Pet.
             1.16
             .