A PACKET OF Popish Delusions, False Miracles, and Lying Wonders: Together with Many Grand DIVISIONS Among PAPISTS: Farneze exceeding both in Quality and Quantity those among Protestants: notwithstanding their seeming Unity. Exposed to the Shame of POPERY.  
Whereunto is added The Papists DISSENSIONS From the PROTESTANT: With (That, the Enemy so much glorys-in, viz.)  
The Differences of the PROTESTANTS among themselves.  
And, a fearful Caution to Apostatising Protestants.  
By MERCURIUS HIBERNICUS.  Sero, sed Serio. 
London, Printed by Tho. Dawks. 1681.   

Popish DELUSIONS, and DIVISIONS.   

Reader, This sergeant deluding Devil (seemingly afraid of the Papists Holy water) is the true Representative of all such as place a Holiness where GOD has put none. See Delusion XX. pag. 20.  
A Procession.  My name is Legion, for we are many. Mar. 5 9  a winged and horned devil is chased by Roman Catholic priests with holy water, a canopy, crosses and a banner. 
The Collier (spoken of by Cardinal Hosius) represents, and speaks the very Dialect of all ignorant Protestants as well as Papists, who are Debauchd in their Lives & Conversation, as well Women as Men, that drink, swear, forswear, curse, whore, & c. But as to an Eternal welfare of their souls are idle▪ careless, indifferent, & therefore ignorant; fit to be deluded by a blind, sottish Priest; thinking it enough to say, They believe as the Church believe, or, words to that effect. See the Preface.  
How dost thou believ?  
I believ as t. Church belieus.   a winged and horned devil talks with a man.  

TO The Right Honourable Sir ROBERT CLAYTON, Kt. Lord Mayor OF LONDON: AND, One of It's Representatives in this▪ Parliament.  
AS Clouds are dispelled, when the Sun mounteth in its Vertical Lustre and Glory: so the noisome Mists of Vices, and vicious Varlets are dissipated, as well by the bright beams of Virtue, shining forth in the Lives and Manners of Good Magistrates, (such I take your Lordship, and some others to be) as by the Sword of Justice itself; which, as you well know, is not to be born in vain, but to be used with Legal and Regular Severity against Offenders, especially incorrigible Ones. Now, What, or Who greater Offenders and Delinquents, nay, Who can be reputed more destructive & pernicious Adversaries to any Protestant State or Kingdom, than Bloodthirsty, murdering, City-burning, All-destroying, plotting Papists? What can we term the whole Rout of their Clergy? especially their Jesuits (those Infernal Furies) lesle than the Common Enemy of Mankind! for as much as they delight to pray upon all of their own kind, that are not of their Execrable Religion! which yet, neither the Fiercest Lions, Cruelest Tigers, Savage Bears, nor Ravening Wolves were ever guilty of: for these State-Mountebanks are never idle, but always in action, and perpetual Motion, to perpetrate the greatest Villainies and Mischiefs imaginable.  
My Lord, your Care, Diligence and Vigilance, concerning such Persons and Things, together with your prudent Conduct in matters of great Importance (by which we enjoy good Order and Tranquillity) must needs be very acceptable to all good People, as indeed they are, and will make you, deservedly, famous to Posterity: And it is hoped, that your good Example may raise in your Successors, a generous and candid Emulation, to tread the same Paths of Honour, Justice and Prudence, by your Lordship so regularly tracktout for them. I say, Justice, that true Child of Virtue, that Stay and Staff of Peace, that great Maintainer of Honour, for, as Justitia▪ sine prudentia plurimum poterit, so, Sine Justitia nihil valebit Prudentia: A worthy Apothegm, of thrice worthy Cicero.  
My Lord, If my Fancy deceive not my Judgement, I know not to whom I should with more Reason make a special Dedication of such a Book as this, and at such a Juncture of Time, than to the Prime Optimate of the Primest Protestant CITY in the World, as LONDON is, and is acknowledged so to be, even by its most implacable, irreconcilable, restless, sworn and instructed Enemies; who gnash their Teeth, yea, pine away through mere Madness and Malice; not only to behold such a glorious Resurrection from the Womb of Confusion, and late vast Heaps of her own Rubbish & Ruins, but also the Detection of their (Still Continued) PLOTS; wherein the great GOD is chief to be aspected and magnified!  
The Several Popish Delusions and Divisions, displayed in this little Book are not vulgarly known, I am certain; and therefore, I presume, will be the more welcome to the Ignorant: which, though they will be no News to Your Lordship, and others: yet, I humbly crave your Acceptance, and Patronage of this Work: Which, I know, will found more Enemies than there are Words in it, as shall myself, for exposing it, who cordially wish all Health, Happiness, Safety and Prosperity to your Self, City and (Protestant) Citizens: to whose Service and Defence of the Protestant Cause, I have with the same Ardency wholly devoted my best Endeavours, and All that I am  
Octob. 23: 1680. Mercurius Hibernicus.   


To all Resolved Protestants.  
HELL is broke lose, the Devil a Hunting rides,  
With Troops of Jes'its, and great DONS besides,  
To Proselyte more Protestants; thereby  
The rest to overthrew more easily:  
New Projects are on Foot, and one is this,  
(Whereof they have great Hopes they shall not miss)  
viz. To stir up the Conformists against those  
They Non-Conformists call: yea, unto Blows;  
Which, God avert. I say, Rome's still at work,  
Her numerous Agents, still among us lurk,  
You know for what. 'Tis time than to be wise,  
And learn who Friends are, and who Enemies:  
And that, among your nearest Neighbours too,  
For such, if Papists, can most Mischief you.   

I have been threatened often with Destruction,  
By Priests, and Kindred too, for my Religion,  
Yea, pesecuted at Ten years of Age,  
At last was forced to fly, to eat their Rage.  
Again, in Seventy one, and Two and Three,  
Some said, In Time, They'd take a Course with me:  
But all their Threats (even since I was at School)  
Can never quench my Zeal, nor Courage Cool  
To the Protestant Cause: Therefore, my Friends,  
I hope you'll own me in such Noble Ends.  
Yet, let me say, Though I am still obscure,  
My Heart's on fire to burn the Romish WHORE.  
'Bove all, to keep her from the British Strand:  
And Crush her PIMPS already in the Land.  
Courage in dreadful Times is rarely found,  
I hope most of you with it do abound.   

Here shall you see, ROME'S dark Idolatry,  
And Image-worship laid before your Eye.  
In Reading which, you cannot choose but Smile,  
Although the POPE himself stood-by the while.  
Here Papist against Papist shall you see,  
And 'mongst themselves divided worse than we,  
For all their seeming Uniformity,  
Which, yet, they're forced to, by Rome's TYRANNY.  
Accept this little Book, till others do  
Moore lively paint their Mawmmetry to you.   
Mercurius Hibernicus.   

The Preface.  
HAving lately seen a printed Paper concerning a pretended Miracle, wrought by the Power of Almighty God (as the blasphemous, and monstrously impudent Authors thereof affirm in Print) on the Saint of St. Omers, Edmund Gennings! in the days of O. Elizabeth. The reading whereof, brought to my Remembrance, that I had transcribed several such like Tales, False Miracles, and Lying Wonders, out of an old Book in Kent, only for Diversion sake: Being in themselves so ridiculous, so absurd and impossible: (yet, believed for Undoubted Truths by the blind Papists) and therefore, think it not unseasonable, at this time, to present them to public View, very few of them being known to most men: Not doubting, but the simplest Protestant, as well as the intelligent, will not only laugh at them, but utterly scorn and detest them, and the, now, Promoters of them, as mere Cheats, Juggles, and Delusisions; by which they may see and judge, how miserable not only Kent, (for what I have writ, is only of some places, in that one County) but other Shires and Counties of England, were deluded by the fly Inventions, Magic Arts and Impostures of the JESUITS, Priests, Monks, Friars, & c. whilst POPERY reigned here, to the great Dishonour of GOD, and the Woeful Seduction, and consequently the Eternal Destruction of Million of credulous Papists, with whom, even to this very day, the words and persuasions of one blind Priest, was and is of more Force and Authority than the whole Scriptures. For, they are bound, and that under great Penalties to believe every thing, or any thing whatever, be it never so absurd and false, for an undoubted Verity, that either the Pope or his Clegy shall teach, impose or command: And amongst the rest, any false Miracle: and indeed, they shall not need take any great Pains in persuading their blind People to a Belief; for they are naturally prove to imbibe any Absurdity, and swallow down any Morsel be it never so pestiferous, false, vain, destructive or tragical: yea, to the murdering of their dearest and nearest Relations: by which we may learn, That there is no obliging a Papist, not, not by the greatest Kindness, and Courtesy imaginable; for, if he will be true to the Dictates and Principles of his own Religion, he must seek and endeavour the Utter Ruin of Protestants, yea, though they should have saved him from the Gallows!  
O! Sirs, Who would be of so black a Society? of so bloody a Religion? who but the worst of men, Whoremongers, Idolaters, Tracebreakers, Sots, Idiots or Madmen would subject the Faculties of their Souls, and Senses of their Bodies, to the imperious Wills and Pleasure of every proud Prelate and blind Curate? But the Papists do so: Erge.  
I shall conclude my Preface with the Story of a great Popish Doctor, Cardinal Hosius, who thereby gives you to understand what kind of Believers the BULK of Papists are.  
Now, I shall proceed to my purpose, and it matters not if I begin with Thomas Becket, sometimes Arch-Flamin of Canterbury, Arch-traitor to his Prince (Hen. II.) Arch-Enemy to his Country, and Arch-Friend or grand Vassal to his Unholy Holiness the POPE.   

A PAQUET OF POPISH DELUSIONS, False MIRACLES and Lying WONDERS, Published to the Shame of POPERY.  

Delusion I  
THIS Man, of whom we are going to speak, was in few years after he was made Archbishop of Canterbury, grown to that height of Pride and Ambition; and to that degree of Insolence; and into such high Favour with the Pope; that he began not only to slight, and domineer over his Fellow-bishops, but also the prime Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom; and not these only but the King himself, Henry II. whom he had often nosed with most malapert and saucy Language, and proud behaviour: yea, so imperious was he grown that he suffered (or rather created a kind of necessity for it) the King twice in one day to hold his Stirrup in Normandy: Until at last, he was grown so intolerable in his Deport, in so much that the King could not longer brook him. Many times would he lament his own sad Condition, because he was forced to bear with his Pride and Arrogancy, for fear of the Pope. And whilst he was considering what to do with him; Four of his Gentlemen, knowing his mind, and the justness of the thing, resolved to revenge his quarrel, and do that with their own Swords, which the Pope would not give way to be done by the Sword of Justice: And thereupon soon after slew the Traitor in Christ's Church in Canterbury.  
Not sooner heard the Pope of the Death of this his great Champion, but he canonised him for a shining Saint in Heaven: and sent the Deed-doers with his black Curse down to the Pit of Hell, as he thought.  
And, as soon as Stephen Langton, (his fourth Successor) had made a Golden Shrine for his body, and commanded the annual day of his death to be kept holy: not only the common People, but Princes, Nobles and Bishops, not only of this, but other Kingdoms, resorted in Pilgrimage to his Tomb, in the same Church wherein he was done to Death; and flocked to his shrine for Remission of Sins: Insomuch, that multitudes thronged to see, touch, yea to kiss even the vilest parts of his Body or Relict: Whereby the Church became so rich in Offerings of Silver, Gold, Jewels, etc. that it far exceeded the King's Treasury: Every Monk and Friar sounding forth the Praises, and reporting the Miracles, and Pardons of that blessed Martyr, as they styled him; (but surely it is not the death, but the Cause that maker a Martyr) so that the name of poor CHRIST was now quite forgotten, and the Cathedral commonly called St. Thomas' Church of Canterbury.  
It would be too tedious to writ of the stately Churches, Chapels and Oratories built and dedicated to his Name, and of the blasphemous Hymns and Collects invented by Monks, etc. for his honour and Service.  
The Monks of St. Augustine's in Canterbury perceiving how little their old Relics were esteemed in comparison of Thomas Beckets, they by the Craft of their Abbot, got some part of his Blood, and one part of the Crown of his head, the Report whereof brought no small Credit and Profit to their Monastery: and though many thousands went a whoring e'en to this as well as the other Monastery: yet it appeared in the end, that there was no part of Becket brought thither, as it was made manifest especially (in the time of King Henry VIII) by that Worthy Peer Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, and others who were Commissioned for defacing Beckets shrine, and found all parts of his body entire and complete, so that the blinded People in this one matter were doubly deceived and deluded: 1. In going to worship him or any part of him at all. 2. In worshipping that which was not there, but only made to believe so, by the crafty and seducing Monks.  
Now, amongst the many Miracles that the miserable deluded Papists will needs have been wrought by this proud Prelate; these following are some, if any are so mad as to believe them.  
1. That his Palace at Otford wanting a good Spring of Water, he struck his Pastoral staff into the ground, and, that immediately Water gushed out in abundance (as Moses did) and there runneth to this day; which was called St. Thomas' Well.  
2. That, being at his Devotion in his Park, he was much disturbed by a Nightingale that sung in a bush hard by him; and therefore, by the Virtue of his Holiness, he enjoined that from thenceforward no such Bird should presume to sing thereabouts: and no more there did, say Papists, when the contrary is, and was than manifest to all the Neighbourhood.  
3. That the Blacksmith of the said Town of Otford having pricked his horse, Becket enacted again by the Authority of his Holiness, That no Smith should thrive in the Parish ever after: Cujus contrarium verum.  
4. That, Lewis the French King coming into England to visit King Henry, and in his Return would needs Visit St. Thomas of Canterbury, and, after great Offers at his Tomb, asked and also obtained of the holy Saint, That neither he in his Passage, nor any other for the future, should suffer shipwreck betwixt Dover and Whitsand: so that it seems Becket granted a Petition after his Death. Who can forbear laughing at these and such like Tales? However, God showed his Displeasure against him, and all Canterbury, perhaps for his sake, for in the very first year of his Prelacy, the whole City was consumed with fire.   

Delusion II.  
BEsides Saint Becket, there was another popish Saintling in great Veneration at Otford (in Saxon Ottanford) his name was Bartholomew, this Higler provided the Parish-priest with as much Poultry as he and his Friends were able to devour; for he was much frequented by all the Neighbour Parishioners, for a most rare and singular property which he professed.  
For the Manner was, That, if any woman with Child desired to bring forth a Son, she should offer to this St. Bartholomew a Cock-chicken: & if she would have a Daughter, than she should present him an Hen: so that through the fraud of this Fox, viz. Priest, the Country People, as wise as Capons, were many years together rob of their Cocks and Hens: even till the days of Henry VIII. who understanding the Cheat, commanded the Idol to be taken down.   

Delusion III.  
BEda (whose writing are stuffed with old Wives tales) informs us, that upon a time, a great part of the City of Canterbury being on fire, That the than Archbishop, viz. Melitus commanded, that they should bear him against the greatest fury thereof; and that whereas before it could not be quenched by the great labour of the People, yet at his only presence, together with Holywater, the fire immediately went out, 'Tis wonder why Becket did not the same in his time, but perhaps he was in a journey, as Elijah said of Balaam, Not Protestant hath reason to believe this, nor any such Tales, at which so many learned Papists laugh in their sleeves. The mentioning of Holywater brings to my Memory this Passage concerning it:  
A Protestant Boy (very well known to me) put a pretty Trick upon a Priest, and all his blind Congregation: Thus, in the Morning, a little before Mass-time, the Boy observing where the Priest had set his pot of Holywater, takes the pot, pours out all the Holy water, and pisses in it, so sets it in its place again: soon after the Priest takes the pot, and all besprinkles the people with the Piss, and they very reverently b●w down to it, and perceiving that the Water would not hold out to bles●●●em all, they thrust forward striving who should come nearest the P●t, for fear they should go away unblessed. But the Priest knowing he had filled the pot, was greatly amazed to see it all gone so soon; and thereupon, smelling to the Bottle, crossed (not blessed) himself: and, to satisfy his blind People (who were as much amazed as himself) he told them, That, no doubt but some Saint or Angel had got away the rest! And they without any hesitation believed him. But in a year or two, the Business came all out, and they with their Priest were well laughed at by the Protestants. However they threatened the Boy with Destruction, as the Priest did with Damnation; so that for this and other matters, done and said against Popery, he was forced to fly his Country, and live incognito, as he does to this day.   

Delusion IU.  
MAny Miracles are said to be wrought by Saint Augustine the first Bishop of Canterbury, and by many styled the English Apostle; and no doubt were as true as the rest: I shall not blot Paper with any of them, save this one, viz. When the Danes had plundered the City from end to end, (as the Papists long to serve London). Yet Saint Augustine's Monks and Monastery were never touched! and why? Because that when a Dane had taken hold of his Cloak wherewith his Tomb was covered; it stuck so fast to his Fingers, that by no means possible he could loosen it, till he came and yielded himself to the Monks and confessed his fault.  
But, either this Cloak (saith my Author) was weaved ex auro Tholosano, or, which I rather believe) this Canterbury-tale was forged Arabula Romano.   

Delusion V  
NOT far from Hyde in Kent, there was a Popish Synagogue, styled St. Nicholas Chappel: to this Saint, the Friars attributed Power over the Winds and Waves of the Sea; yea, that with his own Beck he could appease them, and preserve from Wrack and Drowning, as many as called upon his Name (but they must withal offer largely to his Picture.) And this was confidently believed by the Idolatrous people, as well seamen as others. If any Fisherman upon that coast had escaped a storm, than should St. Nicholas have not only all the thanks for that Deliverance, but some of the best fishes for an offering. But if any suffered Wreck (as many did) the Priest to save the Repute of the Saint, would say, It was because they offered too niggardly, etc.  
There was the like Cheat at Wind-Chelsey, in which place was the Picture of St. Leonard holding a Vane, or Weathercock in his hand, which was movable at the pleasure of any that would turn it to what point of the Compass best fitted the Return of the Husband or other Friend whom they expected from beyond Sea. After that done, and large offering made (for without offering these Idols would be idle) they promised themselves the desired Wind, but whether it fell out right or wrong the Priests got well by it.   

Delusion VI.  
THis that I am now upon, as it is one of the longest Stories, so, in my Judgement, it is one of the most notorious E●usio●s of all the rest, or at lest equal to the blackest of them: f●r, it was devised and carried on with such wondered craft and Secrecy, That not only the Vulgar, but the whole Gentry and Nobility of both Sexes, and many men of the greatest Learning and Judgement were for a time bewitched, and strangely and strongly possessed with false apprehensions of the Truth thereof; and many of them Protestants too▪ In relation whereof I shall for the most part, deliver it in my Authors own words.  
About Easter, in the 7 year of Hen. 8. An▪ Do▪ 1525▪ it happened that a certain Maid named Elizabeth Barton (by the Papists called the Holy Maid of Kent) was afflicted with a strange Disease resembling the Convulsion fits (for many times she seemed to be dead) and after she had thus continued by fits, some 7 months, in one of her fits: she asked if the child was dead? (for her Master's child lay desperately sick in the Cradle) 'twas answered, Not: It shall die anon, said she, and so it did, for every body expected it, whether she had said it or not.  
But this saving of hers concerning the Child's death, was by several (ignorant of the child's dying Condition at the same instant) blazed about for a wonder, and she termed no lesle than a Prophetess.  
After this, in sundry other Fits (though she seemed to be dead) she told of divers things done at the Church, and other places where she was not present. She spoke of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory; and of the Joys, and Sorrows that several Souls departed suffered there. She preaed much against the Corruption of Manners, and evil Living. She exhorted to hearing the Mass, Auricular Confession, Adoration and Prayer to Saints and our Lady. In short, she made, in all points, Confession of the Popish Religion.  
And among other things, this was much in her mouth, viz. She would go home; and yet she never stirred from the Place she lay. Whereupon (being in her Fits) one asked her, Where that Home was? She answered, Where she heard and saw the Joys of Heaven; where St. Michael weighed Souls; where St. Peter carried the Keys, and where she herself had the Company of our Lady of Courtopstreet; and, had hearty besought her to heal her disease: who also had commanded her, to offer her a Taper in her Chapel there: And to declare boldly to all Christian People, That our La●y of Courtopstreet (a Town near the Borders of Rumny-marsh) had revived her from the very point of death, and, that her pleasure was, That it should be rung for a Miracle. which her Master (Mr. Cob of Aldington) hearing, said, That there were no Bells in that Chapel: whereto she said nothing. But the voice (or Devil) that spoke in her proceeded, saying, Our Lady will show more Miracles there shortly; for, if any departed this life suddenly, or in deadly Sin, if he be vowed to our Lady hearty, he shall be restored to life again to receive shr●f● and housel, i e. be confessed, and have the Sacrament given: and after to leav● this World with God's blessing. Besides this, She told them what meat the Monk, or Hermit of our Lady's Chapel of Courtopstreet had for his supper; whereat (saith her popish Scribe) the hearers marvelled greatly.  
And, from that time forward, she resolved with herself to go to Courtop street (not far of) and there pray, and offer to our Lady, which she did accordingly; and was there delayed of her Cure for a season (and that was till her dying day, for she was never cured) but yet in the mean time put in assured hope thereof.  
During these Matters, the Fame of this marvellous Maiden spread abroad so, that it came to the ears of Wareham Archbishop of Canterbury: who sent to her Dr. Bocking, Barnes and Hadley, three Monks, Father Lewes and his Fellow: his Official, and the Parson of Aldington: with Commission to examine the whole matter.  
These men, finding her every way a true Child of the Church of Rome: not only waded not further in detecting of so great a Fraud; but gave  Countenance, and joined with her in setting forth the same. So, that at her next Journey to our Lady of Courtopstreet, she entered the Chapel with Ave Regina Caelorum, in prick song, accompanied with these Commissioners, many Ladies, Gentlemen, Gentlewomen of the best degree, with three thousand of the Vulgar besides. Being in the Chapel, she immediately fell into a wondered Passion before the Image, as if she had the Falling Sickness (like Mahomet.) in which she uttered sundry metrical and rhyming Speeches, tending to the Worship of the Lady of Courtopstreet (as she called her:) whose Chapel there she wished to be better maintained, and to be furnished with a daily singing priest: neither did she forget herself, for she said, It was our Lady's pleasure, That she should be put into some Nunnery. Whereupon the Arch Bishop▪ ordered her to that of S. Sepulchers in Canterbury▪ where she was still afflicted with her former Disease for all her promised Cure.  
Whiles she resided here, and continued her accustomed working of Miracles, (but what they were, none can tell) having often communication with our Lady of Courtopstreet, (as she said) who also ceased not to show herself mighty in operation there, for she lighted Candles without fire, restore▪ the sick to perfect health, and raised the dead to life, if you will believe it.  
Thus was Elizabeth Barton advanced, from the Condition of a poor servant, to the State of a glorious Nun, the Hermit or Monk of Courtopstreet enriched by daily offering; Saint Sepulchers honoured with the presence of the Holy Maid of Kent, God blasphemed, and the blessed Virgin abused, the silly People miserably mocked: the Bishops, Priests and Monks in the mean time with closed eyes winking, and the Devil with open mouth laughing at it. And thus the matter stood for sundry years: till the Question was moved about the King's Divorce:  
Whereupon this holy Wench (not contenting herself within her former bounds of Hypocrisy) began to meddle in that Matter: and feigned, That it was revealed to her, That if the King would be divorced from Queen Katherine, he should not be King one month after, (though after the Divorce he lived prosperously many years.)  
Upon which, her do were once again examined by faithful men; and in the end, her dissimulation was laid open; her Accessaries the Monks etc. were detected, the deluded people well satisfied; the grand Deceivers Worthily executed: and the Pope and the Devil, their Master quite and clean confounded. For E. Barton, herself confessed the whole Cheat to the Lords of the Privy Councils: Whereof you may see more in the 12 Chapter of the Statute in the 25 year of Henry 8. And most of them, which have been Sainted by Popes, for these 1000 years (I believe) are little better than this She-Impostor. O what a shame is this one Story to Popery, if Papists had any shame in them.   

Delusion VII.  
OF Saint Eanswid (so called) daughter of Eadbald King of Kent, many lying Wonders are reported, viz. That she lengthened the great Beam of a building three Foot, when the Carpenters (mistaking their Measure) had made it so much too short. That in the Might of her holiness she brought Water, over hills and rocks against Nature, to her priory a mile of. That she forbade certain ravenous Birds the Country, which before did much harm. That she restored the blind; Cast out Devils; and healed all Infirmities. I believe this to be as true, as that Ed. Gennings his Thumb came of with the touch of a Popeholy Sister.  
Madam Eanswide, for these her stupendious Miracles was after her death, by the Policy of Popish Priests, and folly of Common People, honoured for a Saint. And 'tis no Wonder, for it was, and is still, usual with the whole Rabble of Romish Clergy, not only to magnify their Benefactors of all sorts, but even to Deify them, especially such as were of noble Extraction: Knowing hereby many great Benefits accrued: as, 1. By that means they assured to themselves many great Personages, as Kings and Princes. 2. They drew by their Example infinite numbers of the common sort after them. 3. They adventure the more Boldly (under those honourable and glorious Names and Titles) to publish their false Miracle, the more strongly to delude. And this was the Reason that Sexburg in Shepy. Mildred in Thanet. Etheldred at Ely▪ Edith at Wilton, and this our Eanswid at Folkston: and sundry other idle Gossips of Royal blood, in this and other Nations were sainted by the Pope. Hence was it also, that Edgar, Ethelwold, Dunstane the Juggler, and many others were shrined here on Earth, and than to sit among the Saints in Heaven. If this Eanswide had such Power from above, than why did she not preserve her priory from the Fury of H. 8. in whose days all her pretended Miracles were openly derided.   

Delusion VIII.  
SWithin was Sainted by the Man of Rome, for making a Basket of broken Eggs whole, if you will believe the blind Papists, who swear it with as much Confidence as if they had seen it done: though 'tis many hundred of years since Swithin was in orb nostro. And all these Legends were divised to bring Credit and Profit to the Romish Church: whereat even little Children laugh in Scorn▪ And in good Truth, most Papists have as much reason to curse their own Plot and Plotters as we have; and wish it had never been: for hereby they have set so many Protestant Pens on Work to lay open the falseness, bloodiness, execrableness, ridiculousness and absurdness of their popish Religion to the world: which otherwise had been snent. For, before, People had a pretty good Opinion of the Papists; and would speak favourably of them: yea, and many of their Religion too: but now, they both hate them, and their Religion, for the means aforesaid: so that the more they stir, the more they stink in People's nostrils. I say again, That their hellish PLOT, which intended the utter Destruction of the Protestant Cause, seems to me rather an Advantage to it. Yea, though thousands of Protestants should fall by the hands of Papists: which yet would but confirm and illustrate that divine and glorious Apothegm, or Motto of the true Church, viz. Sanguis Martyrum, semen Ecclesiae, i e. The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church. And I must affirm, That in sanguine Sanctorum Ecclesiae Papisticorum primatiam obtinuit, i e. The Popish Church obtained the Primacy by shedding the blood of Saints.   

Delusion IX.  
STrange things are told us of St. Mildred (Lady Abbess of Minster-Abby in the Isle of Thanet) no matter whether they be true or not; but the Papists will swear it. This Saint (say they) was so mightily descended with divine Power, that lying in an hot Oven three hours together, suffered no harm. That she was of such virtue, That coming out of France, the very stone, on which she first stepped to land, received the Impression of her foot, and retained it for ever; having besides this property, that if it were removed never so far from its place, it would in short time return of itself without hand. Also, that she being at her devotions, the Devil put out her Candle, which an Angel lighted for her again. Who but Reprobates cannot see, that the Delusions and Abominations of Mystical Babylon (Rome) far exceed those of literal Babylon.   

Delusion X.  
I know not whether this I am now upon may be called a Miracle or not, but I am sure it is one of the loudest Lies that ever came out of the mouth of a Bishop; and in good Truth I can scarce writ for laughing at it. For, Henry Bp. of Rochester, in the Reign of Henry III. K. of England, mounting the Pulpit at Sittingbourn, and as he was in the midst of his Preachment, he on a sudden broke forth into a great Ecstasy of Joy, as one that had been wrapped into the third Heaven; and said, Rejoice in the Lord, my Brethrens all; and, Knowye assuredly, That now of late in one day, there departed out of Purgatory, Richard, sometime King of England, Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Chaplain of his, to go to the Divine Majesty; and on that day there issued no more but them three out of that place of Pain. Fear not to give full and assured Credit to these my Words: for this thing hath been now the third time revealed to me, and another man (in terra incognita) and that so plainly, as from my own mind, all suspicion of doubt is far removed. No doubt but this was as true, as that the Cow eat Tom Thumb, and sent him alive once more into the World▪ You may see with what wholesome Cates Prelates used to feed the People: And if the Bishops, the great Torches gave such a dim Light, what could be expected from rush▪ Candles, their blind Curates, and other  sir- john's.  
Concerning Purgatory, Virgil will show you what agreement there is between the Old Romans and the New Romanists, in these Verses, 1. 6. Aenead.  
Quin & supremo cum lumine vita relinquit,  
Non tamen omne malum miseris, nec funditus omnes,  
Corporeae excedunt pests, penitusque necesse est  
Multa diu concreta, modis inolescere miris.  
Ergo exercentur poenis, veterumque malorum  
Supplicia expendunt. Aliae panduntur inanes  
Suspensae ad ventos, aliis sub gurgite vasto  
Infectum eluitur scelus, aut exuritur igni:  
Quisque suos patimur Manes: exinde per amplum  
Mittimur Elysium, & pauci laeta arva tenemus:  
Donec longa dies, persecto temporis orbe,  
Concretam exemit labem, purumque reliquit  
Aetherium sensum, atque aurai simplicis ignem.  

Thus paraphrased.  
Moreover, when their end of Life, and light do them forsake,  
Yet can they not their sins nor sorrows all (poor Souls!) of shake,  
Nor all Contagions fleshly from them voids, but must of need,  
Much things congendred long, by wondrous means at last out-spread,  
Therefore they plagued are, and for their former faults and sins,  
Their sundry pains they bide: some high in air do hung on pins:  
Some fleeting are in Floods, and deep in gulfs themselves they tyre,  
Till sins away are washed, or cleaensed clean with purging fire,  
Each one of us our Penance here abide, that sent we be  
To Paradise at last: we few these fields of joy do see.  
Till compass long of time, by perfect course hath purged quite,  
Our former clodedred spots, and pure hath left our ghostly spirit,  
And senses pure of Soul, and simple sparks of heavenly light▪   
Now, if this Bishop's Poetry may be allowed for Divinity, than we may not only affirm, That Virgil's Aeniedes, but Homer's Iliads, Ovid's Fasts, and Lucian's Dialogues also may be made Canonical.  
All the Scriptures that the Papists bring to prove a Purgatory (which yet is no Canonical Scripture) is out of Maccabes 2. 12. You see how hard they are put to it, that they must fly to the Apocrypha for help; though all the World of knowing Christians in all Ages, to this day, have utterly rejected the Authority thereof, in comparison of the Old and New Testament, because not penned by the Holy Ghost. And wherein (as I could prove) are not only flat Contradictions, but some Lies.   

Delusion XI.  
THE Image of Edith, the Daughter of King Edgar, was much frequented in the Church yard at Kemsing, for preservation of Corn from Blassing, Mildew, etc.  
The manner of which Idolatry was this. The blind Farmer or Yeoman was to bring about a Bushel of Corn to the Church, and after Prayers made, offered it to the Image of the Saint. Of this offering the Priest used to take nine Parts for himself (for to be sure he would gain by the Bargain) the residue (perhaps 2 or 3 handful) he would besprinkle with holy Water, and than mutter over a few Words of Conjuration, which done he dedicated it to the Image, and so delivered it to the Fool that brought it; who went away with full persuasion That if he mingled that hallowed handful with all his Seed-corn, it would preserve it not only from harm, but caused it to prospero and grow most abundantly.  
Terentius Varro noteth of the Old Romans, that amongst infinite others, they had one God in great Veneration, called Robigus, to whom they used to sacrifice for preservation of their Corn; so that Robigus of the Old Romans, and Edith of the New Romanists, were both worshipped for the same end▪ And they not only agreed in this, but in the Properties of their Gods, in the manner and multitude of their Sacrifices, in the times and forms of their Solemnities, in the Report of their all se and feigned Miracles: and almost in the whole Heap and Dunghill of their filthy Superstitions and Idolatries.  
Plautus, though an heathen Poet indeed, yet in this more heavenly than any Papist, gives all men this following Counsel, thereby intimating, that they should worship but one God, Vnus dum tibi propitius est Jupiter, tu hosce minutos deos flocci feceris, i e. Whilst Jupiter is thy friend, set not a straw by all the Petty Gods.   

Delusion XII. XIII.  
EAdred, a blind Abbot, did wonderfully magnify him they call'st. Edward, or Edward the Confessor, because he so much magnified the Monkish manner of living. Therefore the said Abbot most impudently affirmeth, That the same King, while he heard Mass at Westminster, saw between the Priest's hands, Christ blessing him with his Fingers. That at another Mass, He saw the 7 Sleepers at Ephesus turn themselves, after they had slept 70 years on the other. Also, That St. John Baptist sent the same St. Edward (can any King be a Saint!) a gold Ring from Jerusalem, which he himself had sometime given to a poor man that asked alms of him in the name of S. John.  
I believe S. John Baptist is as much belied and abused in this kind, as any Saint whatever, and by none more than by the Papists in Ireland, for in the County of East Meath at (or very near) Dunsaney, there is a Well dedicated to his Name, of which many hyperbolical Tales are reported, and all the Cures done there (as they say, there have been many) are wholly attributed to St. John by the blind people, thereby giving to the Creature, the glory due to the Creator. Possibly some may have sound good in going to that Well, in some ailments (as they may at other Wells both in Ireland, England, etc.) but it is by the only Power of God who hath put Virtue in that, and other waters; and not in the lest by any operation or Mediation of St. John, or any other Saint, as the Papists dream.  
Here take another strange Tale reported of a Gentleman that sometime lived hard by the same Well. His name was Waren or Waring, commonly styled Waring of the Well. This person would needs v. sit the holy Lard (so called▪) And when he arrived there, or thereabouts, one day passing a River, his pilgrim's staff by chance slipped out of his hand into the River, and by the violence of the Stream was carried quite away, to the great grief of our Pilgrim, because the staff had been hallowed, and had a Crucifix and other knacks upon it. But behold! what strange luck this man had: For, at his return home, or, before it, (for I have almost forgot the story) his staff was found at the Well aforesaid, about 3000 mile's distance from the River where it gave him the Slip. I have heard this hotly affirmed by several Priests and Friars for a most certain Truth: and the return of the Staff they ascribe to St. John B. If this and the rest be not lies, than the Devil never told any: But indeed, I have known this, and many other pretended Miracles laughed at by several laypapists, as mere Fictions.   

Delusion XIII.  
WIlliam the Monk of Malmesbury, writing of Alpheus or Alphegus sometime Bishop of Canterbury (whom he and his fellow-Monks will needs have styled a Saint) affirmeth, That a dead stick being (after his Death) anointed with his blood, suddenly waxed green again: and (like Aaron's rod, Num. 17. 8.) began to blossom the next day.  
No doubt, but this is as true, as that the heathen Goddess, Dea feronia (as pope like Poet's fable) caused an whole Wood that was on fire, to wax green again: Of whom Virgil saith, Et viridi gaudens feronia luco.   

Delusion XIV.  
AShurst, in that point of Kent bordering upon Sussex and Sarry, though now a poor small Village, yet in old time most famous for the sake of a Rood, which had such a rare property, that multitudes of people came hundreds of mile to adore it.  
For the Popish Clergy blazed about (and the common people believed any thing they said, though never so ridiculous or absurd.) That the Rood, or Crucifix) of this Church, did by certain Increments continually wax and grow, as well in the bush of hair (or Periwig) that it had on its head as also in the length and stature of the Members, and body itself. By which Invention it came to pass, that the Parish-priest (before scarce able to subsist, his Incoms were so small) did not only live most splendidly, but also hoordid up much money: Whilst, he and his reverend Brethrens, laughed in their Sleeves, at the blinded people▪   

Delusion XV. XVI.  
OF Justus, a quandam Bishop of Rochester, the Monks report this for a great Miracle: That when his Body, many years after Burial, was to be removed to Canterbury, it yielded a most sweet and pleasant smell to all that were present: which thing, how strange it was, when he had been before his Interment embalmed with most precious and odoriferous Spices; Let any man judge, that hath not resolved to believe all manner of Delusions.  
But I have not done with Rochester, having another Saint and his Miracles to tell you of. The Monastery of this City being erected by Gundulphus their Bishop, having with its Monks suffered many Miseries, 1. as being twice burned in lesle Compass than one hundred years. 2. Through the great Contentions arising betwixt them and their Bp. Gilbert Glanvile (who always hated Monks) in so much that he in great displeasure bereft them, not only of their goods, Ornaments and Writings, but also of a great part of their Lands, Possessions and Privileges: and they (turmoiled themselves in suit to the Pope, for remedy, and for their Charges) were driven to coin their Silver shrine of Paulinus into ready Money; which Act of theirs wholly took away the Estimation of their Church, and that reverence which the blind People before shown their Saint Paulinus: To these Calamities were added other great Losses sustained through the Wars of King John, who in his Siege against the Castle of Rochester, so spoiled this Church and Priory that he left them not so much as one poor Pix to stand upon their Altar.  
Therefore, it was now high time to device some way whereby the Priory might be, if not altogether restored to its former splendour, yet at lest, somewhat relieved from this present penury and abjection.  
To bring this about, the crafty Monks, had by degrees drawn the silly people to think very reverendly of one William, that lay buried in the Church: and knowing by Experience, that there was no one way in the world so conducible to their profit, as the advancement of a Pilgrimage▪ therefore they procured of the Pope, the canonisation of the said William: with Indulgence to all such as w●uld offer at his Tomb.  
But to the end that it may appear to what hard shift for a Saint these popelings were driven, and how easy the wretched people were than deluded, you shall hear what great man this Saint William of Rochester was.  
Indeed, he was a Scotchman, born at Saint-Johnstown, a Baker by Trade, in (blind) zeal so fervent, That he vowed to visit the Holy land (as they call it) and in his way passed thro' Rochester, where having a while refreshed himself, he marched towards Canterbury; but he had not gone far from Rochester, but either his servant (or some high way men) robbed him both of his Life and Money: and because he died in so holy a purpose of mind (forsooth) the Monks conveyed him to St. Andrews, laid him in the choir; and was promoted by the Pope (as you heard) from a poor Baker, to a blessed Martyr: and wrought Miracles as fast as Bell (in the Apocrypha) eat Mutton. However, it is certain, that mad Folks offered liberally to him, even till the days of Hen. 8.   

Delusion XVII, XVIII.  
SEEing Stroud is so near, let's pass over the Bridge, and hear what was done there to St. Thomas Beckets horse, and how he was revenged on the Deed-doers. The Story is this,  
St. Thomas (saith Polidore Virgil, the Pope's Sycophant, and gatherer of his Peter-pences in England) being hated of the King, (Hen. 2.) and commonly neglected and despised; that when, one time, he happened to pass through Stroud, either some of the Inhabitants, or one Robert Brock of Canterbury, cut of the tail of Beckots horse, for which act it so happened (by the will of God, saith Polidore) that all the posterity of them that had played that naughty prank, were born with tails, even as bruit beasts are. And this is the very Reason, that as Kentish men are in merriment called Kentish long-tails, at home; so all Englishmen in foreign parts are flouted, especially by the Vulgar, who have been made believe by their Clergy, that the English were Monsters, and have tails by nature. Hence it is, that the Dutch call them STARTS. But no people d●d believe it so much as the Spaniard (those ancient and most inverterate Enemies of England) though at last they became of another mind: for King James having sent an Ambassador into Spain, with an attendance of many brave Gentlemen, the Spaniards very earnestly minded and viewed them whether they had tails or not, but finding they had none, and the Report to be false, they railed at their Clergy, who had told it for a certain truth.  
Such another like Story is reported of St. Augustine the English Apostle, and Beckets Predecessor; who (as the same Author saith) when fish-tails were despitefully thrown at him by some in  (at Miglington says Hector Boetius) the meek Prelate grew thereat into such a Fairy, that He called upon God for Revenge, who forthwith heard him, and struck them with Tails for their Punishment.  
He that believes this or any of the rest, I am sure did never rightly believed in God.  
Before I proceed any further in these lying Wonders, Let me, for Diversion sake, and to make my Reader a little sport, give you an account of a Religious Skirmish, between the Monks of Rochester, and the brethrens of Stroud Hospital. The said Monks, by reason of a great Drought, agreed among themselves to make a solemn Procession from their own house thorough the City, and so to Friendsbury, on t'other side the Water, of a special intent and purpose to pray to God for Rain: and because the day of this their appointed Journey happened to be very boisterous and windy, the which would not only have blown out their Lights, and tossed their Banners, but have stopped the mouths of their singing men, and toiled them in their heavy and masking attire; they desired licence of the Master of Stroud-hospital, to pass thorough the Orchard of his House, whereby they might both ease themselves, and save the glory of their Show.  
The Master easily assented to their Request, but acquainted not his brethrens with it: who, so soon as they heard of it, called to mind that their Hospital was founded by Gilbert Glanvile, sometime Bishop of Rochester, between whom and the Predecessors of these Monks there had been great heats for the Erection of the same. Therefore, fearing that the Monks, pretending a Procession, intended to attempt somewhat against the●r Privileges, they resolved with all might and main to resist them. And for that purpose (unknown to their Master) they furnished themselves, and others that assisted them, with Bats, Clubs and Coulstaves, and so laid in Ambush for the Monks coming into their Orchard, who little dreamed what was preparing for them.  
It was not long, but the Monks (having made all things ready) approached in their Battle array, with their Banners displayed, and so (thinking no harm at all) entered the hospital boldly, through which they passed into the Orchard, merrily chanting their Latin Litany: but when the Brethrens and their Auxiliaries espied them within their danger, they rushed out of their lurking holes, ran upon them, and made it rain such a shower of Bats and Clubs upon the Monk's Copes, Cowls, and Crowns, that for a while the miserable men knew not which way to turn them.  
After they had a little recollected their wits (of which, through mere amazement they had been a while bereft) and making Virtue of the Necessity, and the best shift they could for themselves: Some tra●rsing their ground, declined many blows, yet now and than bore of with head and shoulders; others used the staves of their Crosses, behaving themselves like pretty men: some made pikes of their Bannerpoles; others closing with their adversaries, wrested their weapons out of their hands: among the rest, one (saving his Charity) laid load on a married Priest, absolving him à Culpa, but not à Poena: another drove one of the brethrens into a ditch: a third, as big as any Bull of Bas●an, ran at the back door of the Orchard so vehemently with his head and shoulders, that he bore it clear down before him, and so both escaped himself, and made way for his fellows, who with all possible speed conveyed themselves out of the Precincts of the Hospital: and than, shaking their ears, they fell afresh to their Orgia, I would say, to their Orisons.  
After this Storm was blown (or rather born) over, I do not wonder if the Monks never sought to carry their Procession through Stroud-Hospital, to avoid the wind; for indeed it could not likely blow more boisterous out of any quarter. And thus, out of this tragical history, arose t●● byword of Frindsbury Bats. And although there was none s●ain in this holy War, yet I make no doubt but that they were so well dressed, that they had cause to remember it many years after.  
However, the Brethrens of the hospital, for Penance of their fault, were enjoined every 〈◊〉 Monday to come into R●chester in way of Procession with their Crabs: for this their offence (it seems) was never to be forgiven, whilst the Monks remained. I doubt some of these Monks had forgot to carry their Agnus Dei's about them, which, as the blind Papists believe, will defend a man from all Enemies, even from the Devil himself: but this Legend is like the rest, and can be disproved in many Papists in Ireland, etc. and more lately in Flanders, where thousands were found dead with their Agnus Dei's about them. And a certain great Papist being to pass near the Enemy's Garrison, his Confessor asked him, if he had his Agnus Dei with him? he answered, No. O, by any means (said the Priest) Take it with you, or you will come to some harm: so he took it, but before he had gone six miles he was killed and stripped of all. Here you see what Virtue was in the Agnus Dei.  
When I was a Boy, I had a longing desire to know what an Agnus D●i was, because Papists youths my School fellows kept such stir about them, as if no Angel could guard a man better (as they said, their Priest told them.) At last I got a little Child into a corner, and opened his Agnus Dei which hung about his neck in a little silver case, shaped like a heart▪ and found nothing in it, but one grain of wheat wrapped in a 〈◊〉 Cotton, which had been hallowed by the Priest: but, if the true Agnus Dei had not defended me, I had been mortally chastised for this, and other things, as burning Beads, etc.  
It is impossible to writ in what Veneration they have Saints Relics, and how many they have, as pieces of old hats, caps, gloves, shoes, boots, cords, garters, sho-stings, coats, cloaks, points, laces, skulls and other pieces, bits and fragments of their Bodies. B●shop Becket's shoe was kept at Harbledown near Canterbur●, i● an Hospital standing near the road, Where an old D●tard offered it to kiss, to all Passengers, after they had been first besprinkled with holy-Water.  
It is also as lamentable to think what Confidence they put in Images, which this one Story following may serve to evince, if there were no more (as there are thousands) which some in London can testify to their Shame. For, some Town or City in Flanders (as I take it) being besieged, and fiercely assaulted by the Enemy without; in so much that all the people were in a terrible fright: which one of their Priests, or some other popish Votary perceiving, he got all the Keys of the City Gates, and in all haste put them into the hands of an Image there, which was the Patroness of the Town: which having done, Now (said he) there is no fear, for, I'll warrant you, she'll defend the City from the Enemy, (or w●rds to that effect) and yet the place was taken presently after. And for all this, and a Thousand other Delusions, the blind and bewitched people are still mad upon their Idols (Jer. 50. 38.)  
It is no marvel indeed, that they who rely so much upon Images, should so little hope and confided in the true God. Nay, the Papists, (yea, and many papistical Protestants too) affirm, That no man can be sure of God's favour in this life: and their Tridentine Council hath so defined: which Position is directly contrary to these Scriptures, (and which are too divine for those Terrae fi●ii' s once to mention with their polluted lips.) Rom. 8. 15, 16, 17. Gal. 4. 6, 7. 2 Cor. 13. 5. 2 Tim 4. 8. Rev. 2. 17▪ Joh. 14. 22, 23, 26.   

Delusion XIX.  
PRoceed we now to the popish Synagogue at Swanscomb, which was much haunted till Henry the VIII time: for, to the Image of St. Hildeferth such ran as were distracted, for restitution of their Wits, as fast as men were want to sail to Anticyra, for Helleborus.  
This Cure was performed here, by close keeping, good diet, and other fit means, not only not strange, or miraculous, but mere natural, common and ordinary. And therefore, as on the one side, they might truly be thought mad men that frequented this Pilgrimage: so on the other side, St. Hildeferth, of all the Saints that I know, might best be spared: Seeing the keeper of Bediam works mightily in the same kind of Miracles. However, if any happened to be cured, St. Hildeferth and his Image had all the praise, and the Priest all the profit. Thus the blind lead the blind into the Pit of Destruction, Mat. 15. 14.   

Delusion XX.  
YOU have here in this Subsequent Narration, an Account of the great and wondered V●●t●es of Holywater: especially in frighting away the Devil, though he came to your bedside, or wherever you are, by night or by day: yea, if you do but show him the Holy water pot itself (if we believe Papists) he dares not come near it for his ears, but will pull in his horns, and sneak away; and glad to escape so too.  
† Reader, This Devil completely represents Strange, Cellier, the Compendium ' s Aut●●r, & all other that reproach the Protestant Religion, & seem to put a Virtue upon the Popish.  
For, as they passed along in this gorgeous Array, they used to have somebody dressed up like a Devil, who should offer to invade or set upon the Company, and as though he would take the holy Cross from th●m: than out steped some bold fellow appointed for the purpose, with the holy-water-pot in his hand, and with all his might flings holy water at him; at which this Counterfeit Devil must fearfully start back f●r doubt of scalding, and though many times he grinned, and made as if he would fly in their Faces, yet might he never durst be so bold indeed, as to approach, or come within the fall of any one drop of the holy water.  
And thus (forsooth) the Virtue of Holywater in putting the Devil to slight, was confirmed at Motinden by a demonstrative Argument: Which, if it be so, than greatly was the Apostle Paul deceived, Ephesians chap. 6. where he would have us arm ourselves Cap à Pe from the assaults of the Devil: for alas, what needed he to recite Sword, Shield, Helmet, and so many other parts of Defensive and Offensive Furniture, when the Holy-water stick alone would have served the turn! or at lest, what meant he to omit it, being a thing so serviceable, and easily provided? But we must give these blind Popelings leave (after their wont manner) to s●t the Ho●y Ghost to School. And yet, by the way, I must tell them, That they cannot Leonem larva terrere, scare a Lion with a Vizard. It is not their Aqua lustralis, which they have fetched from Apollo's Pot, and not from the Fountain of God's Word, that can make that roaring Lion fly in good earnest: nay, rather let them beware this his Stratagem, and consider, That even in worldly Warfare, 〈◊〉 are never in more danger of the Enemy than when he feigneth to fly from them.  
But Majora canamus! Often, in Ireland, have I seen Papists go round the Verg●● of their Cornfields, and all to besprinkle them with their Holy-water, to preserve it (as they thought) from lightning and blasting; and all to no purpose, for, I have observed, That when they forbore their Holy-water, their Corn hath rather done better than when they besprinkled it. They use the same Vanity in great thunder and Lightning, for than they will besprinkle their Sheep, Cows, Horses, and all persons present; and every womankind is to curtsy, and every mankind to pull ●ff his hat and bow, when the water is fling at them, which, if any refuse to do, (as Protestants have) they shall be sure to be turned out of doors, or have a sound cuff on the ear (or worse) as I have had several. Yea many strokes, stripes, and cruel whip even at 7, 8, 9 and ten years of age, because I would not go to Mass (unknown to my Father) or bow to an Image: and for the same, my flesh hath been cut or lanced with Pen-knives, at the age above mentioned: so that at last, I was forced to fly for my life; and for that cause chief have I lived as a wand'ring Pilgrim in obscurity, many years: in which time, I have endured a thousand Miseries, wh●ch are the dire Concomitants of a voluntary Banishment: for they murdered my Brother, poisoned my Father, plundered & burnt his house & threatened me with death, whereupon I fled the Country.   

Delusion XXI.  
TWO young Gentlemen of Royal Extraction, and own Brothers, having been murdered at a place called Eastry: the Archbishop of Canterbury, by any means, would needs have them buried at Christ-Church in that City, intending to have them sainted: whereupon he knew would undoubtedly follow, Pilgrimages, and Offerings, to the enriching of himself, and the Monks there (such was the madness of People in those days) but mark the ill luck he had in this his pious intention (pious Fraud, I should say) for (saith the Tale-wright) when the Hearse was ready, it would not be moved by any force towards that Church: as truly (saith one) as the Cross of Waltham, with twelve oxen, and so many kine, could not be stirred any other way, but towards the place appointed: or, as the Image of Berecynthia, which the Romans had brought out of Asia, could not be removed till the Vestal Virgin Claudia, had set her hand to it: but, to the premises.  
Hereupon the Company assayed to convey it to S. Augustins': but all in vain: at the last, they agreed to have it to the Monastery of Watrine, and than (forsooth) it passed as lightly, as if nothing had been wit● in it.  
What horse would not break his Bridle (as we say) at the hearing of this Prodigious Lie? or, who can forbear laughing, at this, and other such devised Vanities? which, yet the blind Papists think a deadly sin to question the truth of, especially when attested by a Monkish Authority, as this is, as well as all the rest. But these things were foretold by an unerring Author, ● Thess. 2. For the Mystery of Iniquity doth already work. 7. And than shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of ●is Coming, 8. even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all Power, and Signs, and lying Wonders 9 and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, in them that perish; because they received not the [love] of the Truth, that they may be saved 10. And for [this] cause (mark) GOD shall sand them strong Delusions, that they should believe a Lie 11: That they all might be Damned, who believe not the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness 12. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall departed from the Faith (mark) giving heed to seducing Spirits, and Doctrine of Devils, speaking Lies in Hypocrisy, having their Conscience seared with a hot Iron, 1 Tim. 4. 12. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these (Papists) resist the Truth, men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the Faith: But they shall proceed not further, for their Folly shall be manifest to all men (to all true Protestants) as theirs also was 2 Tim. 3. 8, 9  
I make not doubt, but there are others besides the Papists, concerned in these Scriptures, eve● in England at this very day: for Antichrist is come forth into the World in several shapes: there are not only Wolves in Sheeps-clothing, but Foxes also in Lambskin. And no marvel, for Satan himself is even now these present times, transformed into an Angel of Light (2 Cor. 11. 14.) in so much that if it were possible they should deceive the very Elect, Matth. 24. 24. But many thousands have been and shall be deceived, and are, even now, now, every day; though they do not see it, because they do not believe, nor worship God aright, etc.   

Delusion XXII.  
IT happened that the dead Corpse of a man (lost thro' Shipwreck belike) was cast on land in the Parish of Chatham, and being there taken up, was by some charitable people committed to honest ●urial in their Church and, which was not sooner done, but our Lady of Chatham (as they styled her, for her Image there was highly reverenced) finding herself offended therewith, arose by night (saith the Fable-Forger) and went in person to the Parish Clark's house, making a noise at's window, awaked him; he, at the first, demanded somewhat roughly (for it seems he was in a profound sleep) Who was there? but, when he understood by her answer, that she was the Lady of Chatham, he changed his note, and most mildly asked the Cause of her good Ladyships coming: she told him, That there was lately buried near to the place where she was worshipped, a sinful Person, which so offended her eye with his ghastly grinning, That unless he were removed, she could not but (to the great grief of all good people) withdraw herself from that place, and cease her wont working Miracles among them: And therefore she willed him to go with her, to the end that, by his help, she might take him up, and throw him again into the Water.  
The Clerk obeyed, arose, and waited on her towards the Church: but the good Lady (saith the Reporter) not wont to walk, waxed weary, and therefore was enforced, for very want of breath, to sit down in a Bush by the way, and there to rest her; and this Place (forsooth) as also the whole Track of their Journey, remained ever after, a green path.  
Now, after a while, they go forward again, and coming to the Churchyard, digged up the Body, and carried it to the waterside where it was first found.  
This done, the Lady Shrunk again into her Shrine, and the Clerk peaked home to patch up his his' broken Sleep: but the Corpse again floated up and down the River, as it did before, which they of Gillingham perceiving, it was once more taken up, and buried in their Church yard. But see what followed upon it! for not only the Rood of Gillingham (say they) that a while before was busy in working Miracles, was now deprived of all his former virtue, but also the very Earth and place where this Carcase was laid, did continually sink downwards.  
This Tale, received by Tradition from the Elders, was (long since) commonly reported, and faithfully believed of the Vulgar sort: for what Absurdity is that they will not credit!  
But here (saith my Author) if I might make bold to add to this Fable, I would tell you, That I think the Moral and Meaning of the Tale to be none other, but that this Fabulator, being either the Farmer, Priest or owner of the Offerings, given to the Lady of Chatham, and envying the Common Haunt and Pilgrimage to the Rood of Gillingham (lately erected to his loss) devised this Apparition for the Advancement of the first, and defacing of the second.  
If that Age had been as prudent in trying Spirits, as it was prove to believe Delusions, it should have found, That our Lady's path (aforesaid) was some such green trace of grass, as we daily see in the fields, proceeding indeed from a natural Cause; though by old wives, and superstitious people, reckoned to be the dancing places of Night-spirits, which they call Fairies. And that this sinking of the Earth, was nothing else but a false filled Pit, of the Clarks own digging. Since than, the whole Religion of Papistry itself, is Theomachia, and nothing else, and that is, A resisting of God: Who but the Worst of the worst of Mankind, blind Sots, Atheists, Ruffians, Ranters, Robbers, Rogues, Whores, and Theives will own Popery, or dare hope to have it introduced either by Fawns or Frowns.   

Delusion XXIII.  
COME we next to Boxly Abbey, which I had almost forgot, but by no means would so do, jest the Favourers of false Religion might rejoice at the Omission, and the Followers of God's Truth justly cry out upon me; because much of their popish Mysteries, prestigious juggle, and deluding Practices are enveloped in this one Story: and with which I resolve to conclude, not for want of matter, but because I think the aforementioned Relations sufficient (if there were nothing else) to detect and evince the salsness, baseness and odiousness of the Romish Religion.  
In the days of Q. Elizabeth it was fresh in the minds of both Protestants and Papists, and shall (I doubt not) to the profit of the one, be continued in perpetual Memory to all Posterity) by what Mystical Imposture, Fraud, Juggling, and Legerdemain the silly People were seduced by the crafty Foxes of this Abbey. The manner whereof I will said down in such sort only, as the same was sometime by themselves published in print, (for their Estimation and Credit, as they thought:) but, say I, to their own everlasting Reproach, Shame and Confusion.  
It chanced on a time, That an English Carpenter was taken Prisoner in the Wars betwixt England and France, who (wanting otherwise to pay for his Ransom) thought with himself, having leisure enough, to device some curious piece of work to make Money thereof, and therefore, getting together fit Mater, he compacted of Wood, Wyer, Paste, and Paper, a Rood of such exquisite Art and Excellency, that it it not only matched in Comeliness, and due proportion of Parts, the best of the Common sort, but in strange Motion, Variety of Gesture, and nimbleness of joints, passed all other that before had been seen; for it could bow down, and lift up itself: Shake and stir the hands and feet, nod the head, roll the eyes, wag the chaps: bend the brows, etc. so that now it needed not Prometheus' fire to make it a lively man▪ but only the help of the eovetous Priests of Baal, or the Aid of some crafty College of Monks to deify, and make it pass for a very God.  
This done, he made a Shift for his Liberty, came into England on purpose to utter his Merchandise; and laid the Image upon the back of a poor Jade he drove before him.  
Now, when he was come as far as Rochester, he stepped into an Alehouse to drink, suffering his horse to go forward alone: he was not sooner out of his Master's sight, but missing the strait Western Road, which his Master intended to have gone, and turning South, trotted away towards Boxly; and being driven, as it were, by some divine Fury, never ceased till he came to the Abbey door, which he so beaten and bounced at with his heels, that divers of the Monks hearing the noise, came to the place to know the matter, and wondering at the strangeness of the thing, called the Abbot and his convent to behold it.  
These Monks seeing the horse so earnest, and discerning what he had on his back, for doubt of deadly Impiety, opened the door, which they had not sooner done, but the horse rushed in, and ran in great haste to a pillar (which was the very place where this Image was afterwards advanced) and there stopped himself and stood still.  
Now while those Disciples of Antichrist, the Monks, were busy in taking of the Load, in comes the Carpenter, who by great inquiry had followed, and challenged his own: But the Monks, loathe to lose so beneficial a Stray, at first made some Denial: but at last, being assured that he was the very Proprietor, they granted him leave to take it with him: Whereupon the Carpenter taketh his horse by the head, to lead him out of the Abbey, but he would not stir, than he strikes him, but the Jade was so resty, and fast nailed, that he would not once remove from the Pillar; at last, he takes of the Image, thinking to have carried it out by itself, and than lead his horse after it; but that also cleaved so fast to the ground, that notwithstanding all that ever he could do, it would not be moved one inch (saith the popish Author) cretense mendacium; so that in the end, partly through weariness, and by persuasion of the Monks, who were all in love with the Picture, and made him believe, That it was by God himself (blasphemous Wretches) destinate to their house: he was contented for a piece of Money, to leave the Image behind him: which the Monks christened, The Rood of Grace.  
Thus you see the Generation of the great God of Boxly, comparable to the Creation of that beastly Idol of Lampsacus, of which the Poet saith,  

— Olim truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum,  
Cum faber incertus scamnum, facerente Priapum,  
Maluit esse Deum, etc.  
— A Log unmeet for use,  
Till Carver doubting with himself  
were't best make Pr●apus,  
Or else a Bench? resolved at last  
to make a God of me:  
Thenceforth a God I am, of Bird  
and Thiefs most dread, you see.   
This This of the Poet agreeth with the Prophet Isaiah, viz. The Carpenter stretcheth out his rule, he marks it out with a line, he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with a Compass, he maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the Beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house: He beweth him down Cedars, and taketh the Cypress and the Oak,— He burneth part thereof in the fire, etc. and the residue thereof he maketh a God, even a graven Image, he falleth down to it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, & saith, Deliver me, for thou art my god, Isa, 44. 12, 17. Again, They lavish Gold out of the Bag, and weigh Silver in the Balance, and hire a Gold smith, and he maketh it a God, they fall down, yea, they woship, they bear him upon their shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands, from his place shall he not remove, yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his Trouble, Isa. 46. 6, 7.  
And all this contrary to the express Command of God. Thou shalt not make to thyself any Graven Image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, or in the Water under the Earth, thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor worship them, Ex. 20. 3, 4, 5. so than, it is very plain, that in the multitude of gods, and in the manner of Woship, the Papists may well be compared with the old Heathens, si●h they follow their rules, and examples, and not the Rule of God's word. And therefore they may be said to be the People of his Curse; for it is written (and I am sure it points at them as much as any) Cursed be the man that maketh (or causeth to be made) any graven, or molten Image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hand of the Crafts man, and putteth it in a secret place, and all the People shall say, Amen. Deut. 27. 15.  
But the Papists do not only worship Images in secret Places, but in public also; whereby they openly declare themselves to be the very Enemies of Christ, and the real Friends and Followers of Antichrist? for do they not receive, and carry about them his mark, not only privately in their right hand, but also most conspicuously in their Forehead: ergo. Rev. 13. 16. 17.  
Now let us return to Boxley, from whence we have a little digressed.  
It cannot be fully declared how lewdly the Monks of that place, to their own enriching, and robbing of the blind people, abused this their wooden God, after they had thus gotten him: and which, by the just Judgement of the true God, was by that worthy Patriot, and zealous Protestant, the Lord Cromwell, and pious Cranmer, pulled down, as well as the Abbey, and the Monks quite dispersed, in the Reign of Hen. 8. And the whole Cheat laid open.  
But now, if I should thus leave Boxley, the Papists would laugh in their sleeves at my remissness; for indeed the Cream of the Jest, (as we say) and the grand Cheats and Juggle are still behind, and therefore I pray attend; for I doubt not but to make you smile, before I have done.  
You must know, That besides this (ungracious) Rood of Grace, as the Monks styled it, they had also another Image, which was much 〈◊〉 in the same Place, called St. Rumbald, or, as others, St. Grumbald; ●●●refore, I must spend a little time in the Detection thereof, as well for that it was as very a Delusion as the former; as also for that the use of them both was so linked together, that the one cannot well be understood without the other.  

And this was the Manner.  
If you intended to have any benefit by the Rood of Grace, so called, You must first be shriven, of one of the Monks, i e. you must confess all you sins to him, and be forgiven: than by lifting at the Image of St. Grumbal, you must make Proof whether you were in clean life, or no: i e. if you had not left some sins unconfessed: and, if you were in clean life, than was your way prepared, and your Offering accepted of the Rood: if not, than you must be confessed anew, for it was to be supposed that you had concealed somewhat from your Ghostly DAD, and therefore, not yet worthy to be admitted Ad sacra Eleusina.   
Now, that you may know how this Examination was to be made, you must understand that this Grumbal, or Rumbal, was a pretty. Saintling, or the Picture of a Boy-saint of Stone, standing in the same Abbey; of itself short, and not seeming to be heavy: but for as much as it was wrought out of a huge weighty stone, (being the base thereof) it was hardly to be lifted by the strongest man that was; nevertheless (such was the crafty Conveyance) that by the help of an Engine, fixed to the back thereof, it was easily raised up with the foot of him that was the Keeper, and therefore of no moment at all in the hands of such as offered largely; and contrariwise, by the means of a pin running into a Post (which that Religious Impostor standing out of sight, could put in and pull out at pleasure:) to such as offered faintly, it was so fast and unmoveable, that no force of hand could stir it, insomuch as many times it caused much saughter, to behold a great Lubber lifting at that in vain, which a little Boy or Wench had easily taken up before him, because they offered more frankly than he did.  
I omit how many chaste Virgins and married Wives went often a way with blushing Faces, leaving (without cause) in the minds of the lookers on, great suspicion of unclean Life, and wanton behaviour; for fear of which scandalous note, women (of all others) stretchd their Purse-strings, and sought, by liberal Offerings to make St. Crumbals man their good friend and favourer, by which, Whores also came of with as much credit as honest Women. O! The Deceits of Popery!  
But mark, (I beseech you) their Monkish craft and policy in picking people's Purses, (for it was not better.) It was in vain (as the Monks persuaded) to presume to the Rood without shrift; yea, and Money lost there also, if you offered before you were in clean Life: as they call it: and therefore the matter was so ordered, that without treble Offerings, viz. first, to the Confessor; secondly, to St. Grumbal; thirdly, to the Rood of Grace; the Pilgrims could not assure themselves of any good gained by all their cost and labour. I cannot conjecture (saith my Author) what Reason moved them to make this St. Rumwald (or Grumbal) the Touchstone of clean Life and Innocency, unless it be upon occasion of a Miracle that he did, in making two Priests (now look for a whisker) to lift a great stone easily, which before, divers Lay-people (that is, profane, as they will have it) could not stir with all their strength: which thing (as also his Life and Death) to the end that the Tale shall want no part of due Credit, I will briefly recite, as in the Work (called Nova Legenda Angliae) John Capgrave hath Reported.  
A Pagan Prince of Northumberland, had married a Christian Woman, (if a Papist be a Christian) Daughter to the King of Mercia, or Mid-England, wh● by no means would bed with her Husband, till he left his Idolatry (and took up another as had) and become a Christian: at last he co●sents, and sh● grows big with Child, and as th●y were in their journey; to visit her Father, she unexspectedly falls in labour, and as soon as ever the Child was born (being a Son) he cried out with a loud voice, three several times, Christianus sum, & c. I am a Christian, I am a Christian, I am a Christian; and so made profession of his Faith, desired to be Baptised, and with his Finger directed the standers by, to fetch him a great hollow stone which he would have for his Font.  
Hereupon sundry of the King's Servants, assayed to have brought the Some, but it was so far above their strength, that they could not once move it: which, when Rumbaldus perceived, he commanded the two Priests, (his appointed Godfathers) to go and bring i●, which (saith the Legend) they did forthwith most easily (by virtue of their Holiness forsooth) this done, he was Baptised, and within three days after his Spirit departed out of his Body, and was by the hand of Angels conveyed to Heaven: But before his Translation, he discoursed cunningly (as St. Anthony's Pig no doubt) of sundry Popish mysteries, and bequeathed his Body to remain one year at Sutton, two at Brackley, and for ever at Buckingham.  
Statius P●pinius a Poet, that lived in the Reign of Domitian, whether he were a Pagan or a Christian, I know not; however, more Christian than any Papist, whom he seems to Reprove, and point at as well as Heathen Idolaters, in this following Verse. Lib. 12. Thebais.  

Nulla autem effigies, nulli commissa metall●  
Forma Dei, mentis habitare & pector a gaudet.   

God's form by Pictures cannot be expressed,  
He loves to devil within the Heart and Breast.   
Here you have had (Reader) above twenty Popish Delusions, False Miracles, and Lying Wonders laid open, and that but in some places of one County; by which you may guests what was in the rest of England; nay, in all Europe, whose Superstitions and Idolatries were infinite, whereby the blind People of those dark Times were most miserably, nay willingly fooled, cozened and cheated of their Monies, Houses, Lands, etc. (and of their Wits too) and also abused, blinded, deluded and ruined in their Eternal Estates. And all the Premises are still carried on, by the Twelve grand Disciples of Antichrist: and they are Popes Cardina's, Patriarches, Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Arch-Deacons, Officials, Abbots, Cannons, Monks, Friars, Jesuits.  
These last, being the very Life and Soul, the preserver, maintainer, upholder and protector; yea, the very Chariots and Horsemen of the POPE, and the great Bulwark of Papistry; that he sespecially) could better be without his right Eye, or his right Hand, than without them: for, they are indeed his right Hand, his Battleaxes, his Rock, his Refuge, his Achitophel, his Tower, and (under his Lord Lucifer) his grand Fulcrum, or prop and stay: for I am almost confident, were it not for that Politic Order, there had been no Pope at this day; or if there were, it had been only in titulo, not in exercito. But one chief reason of the continuance of both, is the Sins of all the Species of Protestants, in General: together with the Impurities in Doctrine, or Errors in Judgement and Discipline, amongst others of them: (from whence sprang all our dire Divisions and Dissensions) I shall name none, the sound Christian knows who, which, and what I mean.  Now, forasmuch as the whole World of Papists, are already acquainted with all the Differences and Dissensions that are amongst Protestants; I shall therefore make the ignorant Protestants (the Learned sort knowing it without me) acquainted with a few of the Divisions and Dissensions amongst even the grand Papists: for-all their seeming Unity: I say a few, for it is impossible to recite the one half of what I have read and heard, (to say nothing of what others know) and if I could, yet I have not room enough, for I resolved when I began this Work not to exceed my bounds, of so many sheets of Paper: Therefore I must perforce omit two thirds of what might be exposed.   

Popish DIVISIONS. OR, Their Dissensions amongst themselves, Even in Fundamental Points.  
Wherein you'll found Pope against Pope, Council against Council, Cardinal against Cardinal, Bishop against Bishop, Priest against Priest, Jesuit against Jesuit, etc.  

I. Division.  
BEllarminus and others affirm (l. 1. de cler. cap. 19) that Clergymen aught not to Mary; but their Cannon Law tells us, They may, dist. 56. cap. where it is thus written, Cum ergo ex sacerdotibus nati in sums pontifices supra legantur esse promoti, etc. when therefore we read, that they were promoted to the Popedom, who were the Sons of Priests, we must not understand them to be Bastards, but born in lawful wedlock: which Marriages were lawful for Priests, before the Pope: and they are held to be lawful in the Eastern Churches to this day. So that Papists will affirm any thing, though against their own Laws, and the Laws of God, 1 Tim. 4. 1, 2, 3 and in the said Cannons you shall found, That many Popes that there were Priests Sons, as, Felix, Deusdedit, Agapitus, Bonifacius, Sylverius▪ etc. Here have you some Popes and their Clergy and Cannons for Priest's Marriage: and other very hot against them! Why than, O ye Papists, do you tell us of our Divisions? when ye yourselves are more divided, even in Fundamentals.   

II. Division.  
NAvarrus, That great popish Canonist, saith, That Men are bound to confess only their great and Mortal Sins; and, that a man may confess some and conceal others. Whose words are these; Hoc Preceptum non includit Venialia, etiamsi mixta sunt mortalibus▪ Quibus consequens est posse quem si velit, confesso uno peceato veniali, alterum tacere. This Precept (says he) doth not include Venial Sins, though they are mingled with mortal Sins. Whereupon it follows, That the Penitents may (if they will) confess one Venial and conceal another. (Vide Navar. c. 21. n. 34 in Enchir.) So by this Doctrine, any Papist may dissemble in Confession, deceive the priest, and yet not sin at all.  
But Gerson, Chancellor of Paris, is against him, in these words, Omne peccatum pro quanto est offensa Dei, & contra legem ejus aternam, est d● sua ca●ditione & indignitate mortiferum, etc. every sin, in that 'tis a● Offence against God, and his eternal Law, is mortal of its own condition and indignity, according to the rigour of Justice, and divider● us from the life of Glory. The Reason is, because God may justly punish every offence as well with eternal as temporal Death, therefore every si● is mortal of its own Nature. The assumption is deduced from this, for that not (such) punishment is so evil as the Offence, because every punishment and death itself aught to be endured, rather than the lest sin committed: Grant the contrary, sin shall b● lawful, o● be no sin at all. Vide Gerson. de vita Spirituali. lect. 1. pa●●. 3. circa medium. Thus Gersonus, whose judgement in this particular all sound Protestents assent to.  
Concerning Venial Sins, I have heard myself, not many years since several Papists hold with Navarre, and others with Gerson: pray tell me now, what greater Division can there be among Protestants than this? nay, among the sound ones there is not the lest difference about this, for they all agreed, that the lest Sin, of its own nature, incurs Damnation. Than cease boasting of your unity, O ye Papists, sigh ye are 〈◊〉 divided among yourselves than the bulk of Protestants know of▪ who are also as ignorant of Divisions amongst the P●pe● themselves▪ as Pope Stephen against Formosus, and Pope Romanus against Stephen, and S●rg●us the III. pe●secutes the very name of 〈◊〉, w●os● Body after buried, he commanded to be taken up and B●h●●ded; be●ides many other Popes which have been miserably divided concerning which, read Platina and Caranza in summa Concil. fol. 354. and 355. Dive●s other Popes have come to that Dignity some by the Sword, some by private Murder, and some by Magic Art: as Christopher I Boniface VII. Sylvester TWO: Damasus TWO▪ etc. I shall conclude this, with the Epitaph of Pope Benedict the XII▪ made by one of his own Clergy, by which you may see▪ what kind of men most of them were.  

Hic scitus est Nero, laicis mors viper a clero,  
D●vius à vero, cupa repleta mero.   

That is,  
Here's Nero laid, to Laymen was a Death▪  
To Clergymen a Viper voided of Faith.  
His Heart a wanderer from all Truth Divine,  
His Head a Cup filled up with strongest Wine.   
Platina calls Pope John the XVIII▪ a Thief, a Robber: and Caranza (in summo conciliorum fol. 369.) that great Thomist, thus painteth Boniface VIII.  
Intravit ut Vulpes, regnavit ut Lupus, mortus est ut Canis, i e. He entered as a Fox, He reigned as a Woof, He died as a Dog.   

III. Division.  
THe Pope, Cardinals and Jesuits affirms, that Infidels, are not bound to their Auricular Confession: But Angelus, Richardus, and Gabriel hold the contrary. See Jos. Engles. in 4. S. ar. 2. de confess.  
Now concerning Auricular Confession, papists differ among themselves; and that it was never commanded by Christ nor his Apostles, as their own Doctors out of their own Canon Law testify; of which thus writeth Sylvester Prieras. de confess. secundo. par. 4. Vtrum ad Confessionem teneamur divino jure vel humano? &c It is demanded saith he, whether we are bound to this Confession, by the Law of God or man? I say, that the Canonists hold, that we are but bound by the Law of Man. And the Popes own Decrees say no lesle in these words: Quibus authoritatibus, vel quibus rationum firmamentis utraque sententia satisfactionis & confessionis nitatur, etc. (vide de poe ●it. d. 1. cap. quamvis) viz. upon what Authority or Reasons either Opinion is grounded, is showed before. Now to which of them the Reader should adhere, I leave it to his own discretion, for either Opinion (pray mark) hath wise and Religious men, that aver the same.  
Observe (good Reader) that not only the Popes own Doctors, but his own Law, and the Commentators thereon, acknowledge that Au icular Confession is grounded only upon Human Laws, and take notice their own Gloss tells you, that Wise and Religious men hold, some for, and some against it. O the rare Unity of the Church of Dome! if Discordancy and Repugnancy be Unity?   

iv Division.  
NAvarrus and the Jesuits teach, that a man may both deny in word and upon his Oath, that which the Judge demandeth of him; so he equivocate and make his own sense to himself, (Navar. in enchir. c. 18. n 61. and cap. 25. n. 43.) But Dr. Sepulveda, is utterly against it: yea, the Jesuits will sometimes by equivocation, and mental reservation deny themselves to be Christians, as their own Brother John Much confessed, in Queen Elizabeth's time: and if so, as no doubt but it is: Than what heed can be given to the several Plea's and dying speeches of Harcourt, Whit: bread, etc. when they took it upon their Salvation, that they were as Innocent of all that was laid to their charge, as the Child unborn: and though many foolish people ignorant of the depths, quaerks, quacks, knacks, tricks, illusions and curious Arts of Jesuits and Jesuitism, possibly may have been amused, startled and staggered at the serious, solemn and dying asseverations, and deep protestations of the said Harcourt, Whitebread, and the rest▪ yet for my own part, I do not more value their words, their dying words, than I do the chattering of a Magpie, or the tears of a Crocodile; for, if people knew their Principles, their canting, quaerks, & c. as well as I do, they would abhor them for the verriest wretches, and mearest miscreants in point of mental reservation, and equivocation, that ever the Earth bore: for I have been acquainted with several of them in my time.   

V Division.  

AQuinas, Bellarminus, etc. affirm Matrimony to be a Sacrament; but Durandus is against them, denying (as they affirm) that it neither conferreth Grace, no: is properly a Sacrament (Durand. in 4. dist. 26 qu. 3▪) and with him held Alphonsus à Castro, and Petrus à Sot●, (apud Bellar. l. 1. d● matri. c. 6.)  
And their Bishop Mel. Canus, perceiving such difference in Judgement concerning this matter, that he counts him a mad man that believes any of them: His words are these:  
Lege Magistrum (Aquinum) Scotum, Richard. Bonaven. Durand. caterosque Schol● Theologos, & nisi statim corum pendents at vacillantes animos deprehenderis, tum vero me aut stultum, aut temerarium judicato, etc. can. de locis. l. 8. cap. 5. p. 245.   

Thus Englished.  
Read the Master (Aquinas) Bovadventure, Richardus Paludanus, Durandus, etc. and if thou dost not perceive their wavering and doubtful minds, than (saith he) judge me either a fool or a rash fellow: for when they inquire if Matrimony confer Grace; that which was especially to be Defined, that, Define they not at all, but only tell us what others think thereof: also in determining the matter and form of this Sacrament, they are so unconstant and various (mark) so uncertain and ambiguous that he may be judged a fool, whom in such Dissension, will establish any constant Doctrines. Here the Protestant Reader may see Papists dissenting, even about their Sacraments, & most important matters.    

VI Division.  
PAnormitanus, Almainus, Cusanus, Gersonus, Abulensis, with the whole Council of Constans, affirm, every General Council to be above the Pope, (as I can prove more largely, had I room enough) But all the Dominicans, Jesuits and Seminaries do with open mouth thunder out the contrary, as their Writings, and Experience teacheth us.   

VII. Division.  
AVgustinus de ancona, and Sylvester Prieras (de Papa. num. 10. and 14.) hold, that the Pope doth more excel the Emperor in Dignity, than Gold doth Led. But Bellarmine (l. 4. de Rom. Pont. c. 1.) and Fra. Victoria (rest. ecclesia pag▪ 38.) sharply impugn their Opinion.— Igitur summus Pontifex (saith Bellarmine) ut Christi Vicarius, atque adeo ut summus Pontifex est, inullum habet temporale Dominium. i e. Therefore the Pope as Christ's Vicar, and consequently as Pope, hath no Temporal Dominion. And saith Victorian, in the forequoted place. Potestas temporalis non dependet à summo Pontifice, s●out aliae potestates spirituales inferiores, & paulo post, Licet assertores alterius partis commuinter dicunt, quod papa instituit omnem potest atem temporalem, etc.— Sed totum hoc, est fictitium, & sine quecu●que probabilitate, nec innit●tur velratione, vel testimonijs, vel Scriptura, vel saltem alicujus ex puribus, vel vere Theologis, sed glossatores juris hoc Dominum dederunt Papae, cum ipsi essent pauperes rebus & d●ctrina. Temporal power (saith he) and he saith true, doth not depend upon the Pope, as inferior Spiritual powers do: although others on the other part, commonly say, that the Pope Ordained all Tempora power, & c.— But all this is a mere Fable, and voided of all probability, neither hath it any ground, either of reason or Scripture, or Ancient Fathers, or good Divines; yet the Glossers of the Canons (mark) gave the Pope this pre-eminence, because themselves were beggarly fellows and unlearned.  
Behold here the Original of Papacy, whereof Ignorance and Poverty were the Advancers; a●d that by the Testimony of this most learned Popish D●ctor▪ With whom holds Bellarmin. Obrave Unity! if Disunion be it!   

VIII. Division.  
MAny great Papists, viz. Marsilius, Richardus, Paludanus, Aquinas, Pope Gregory, with all his Canonists affirm, That a Priest by Virtue of the Pope's Dispensation, may lawfully and effectually minister their Sacrament of confirmation. See Bellarmine and Jos. Angles. upon that Subject. And Covarruvias Tom. 2. l. 1. c. 10. p. 24. de sacra confirmatione.  
But these are hotly impugned by John Maior, Bonavent. Alpho●sus, Scotus, Durandus, and Pope Adrian, saying, that Pope Gregory was a Man, and therefore subject to err.  
See here, what greater dissension can be than this? for Confirmation is one of their seven Sacraments.   

IX. Division.  
BOnaventura, Jo. Maior, Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Almainus, Richardus, etc. firmly hold, that every of their Seven Orders is a Sacrament (vide Bellarmine, Jos. Angles,) But Durandus, Petrus Lombardus, Gajetanus, V●ctoris and Jos. Angles, hold the contrary▪ vide Jo. Angles de sacr. ord. art. 2. distic. 3. & victoria. de potest. eccles. relect. 2. p. 90. & de Sacramento, ord. p. 119.   

X. Division.  
THE Pope and his Jesuits affirm, that the Virgin Mary, was conceived without Sin; but Aquinas and the Thomists stoutly defend the contrary Opinion. Aquin. 1. n. 3. part. 9 27. ar● 2. ad 3.   

XI. Division.  
THE Scotists avouch, that we can keep all the Commandments quoad substantiam operis. The Thomists say, we can keep some, but not all; but Gregorius their great Schoolman holds, That we can keep none. Short and Sweet.   

XII. Division.  
THE Papists are miserably divided concerning Venial Sins, which (say many of them) are no breach of the Law, because they are not contra legem, but praeter legem say they: but this Opinion is sharply reproved by other Papists. vid. M. Baius. apud. Bellar. de. Purgat. l. 2. c. 4. etc.  
In the year 1673. I was present at a dispute upon this subject, between a Priest and a Papist Gentleman; the fir●● held Venial Sins, but the second, not only denied them, but utterly confuted the Priest, and all his partakers: but at last they grew so hot on both sides, that they bent their Fists, and shook their Canes at one another. (Of this point:) see Jos. Angles. in 4. sent. de sacram. p. 219)   

XIII. Division.  
INcredible is the Dissension among Papists, touching the production of a substance, out of the accidents, which Papists imagine to remain without subjects in the Eucharist: concerning which, Richardus holds one Opinion, Scotus another, Cajetanus another, Innocentius another, Aquinas two, the one repugnant to the other. vid. Jo. Angl. in 4 art. ult de a●cid. euchar. Let not the Papists henceforward boast of their Unity, nor charge the Protestants with dissensions, for in truth, it is as much and more their own Badge, if all were known.   

XIV. Division.  
THE Church of Rome teacheth it as matter of Faith, to believe Christ's Body to be in every part, when one of their Bread-Gods, or consecrated Hosts, is broken in pieces, but John Mayor, their School Doctor, saith, it is a Problem. J●s. Angl. in 4. Senn. 91. de euchar. d●ffic. 7.   

XV. Division.  
Johannes Parisi●nsis affirmeth the substance of Bread to be united to the Body of Christ, Hypostatically: Durandus holds that the substance of Bread is destroyed, but the matter of Bread abideth still with Christ's Body Caje●anus saith, (and he saith true) that nothing in the Gospel enforceth us to understand these words, This is my Body, so grossly and carnally as the Papists do. The Council of Trent teacheth, that the Bread is neither annihilated, neither abideth in the Sacrament▪ Sirs, who cannot but smile at these Absurdities! For, if it be neither in the Sacrament, or become nothing, I would know what it is, and where it abides. Vide Aquinas, p. 3. q. 65. ar. 4. apud Joseph▪ Angle's. in 4 Sent. de convers. p. 166.   

XVI. Division.  
IT is a great Question, and breeds much Dissension among the Papists: What that is which a Mouse eateth, when she eateth their reserved Host? Peter Lombard, Bonaventure and others, affirm, That the Mouse eateth not Christ's Body: (and I am of their mind) But the Popes, Cardinals and Jesuices, hold the contrary, as a grounded Article of their Faith▪ Lombard and Bonavent. in 4. sect. d. 13. Behold what rare Unity here is!   

XVII Division.  
THE Popish Clergy and their Tridentine Council deny their Communicants the Cup, and give them only the Bread; nay, the said Council curse such as affirm. That the people should receive under both kinds. But their own Pope Gelasius is against them, when he decreed as followeth. Comperimus, quod quidam sumpta tantum modo corporis sacriportione à ca●ice s●cr●●● crueris a●stineant, etc. (Vid. de cons dist. 2. cap. comperimus.) We understand (saith the Pope) that certain receiving the portion of Christ's body, abstain from the Cup: which men, (doubtless trained up in Superstition) let them be forced either to receive the whole Sacrament, or be restrained from the whole; because this dividing of the whole M●stery cannot be without great Sacri●●dge— I pray n●w tell me, To which of these in 〈◊〉 great Dissension among themselves, in this great point, should the people adhere? for, if they follow the Council, the Pope condemns them, if they obey the Pope, the Council curseth them. L●t therefore Pap●sts▪ case to twit Protestants with their Divisions, since themselves 〈◊〉 divided more than we.  
The Papists are not only divided in their Exposition of Scripture, but also very erroneous: especially in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, they take the Sign for the thing signified: the Earthy for the Heavenly: The substance of bread, for the very body of Christ: the thing vi●●ble, for th● invisible: the King's picture (as I may say) for the King's person. So that where they should use a Trope or Figure in expounding, they sti●k to the letter: and where they should stick to the letter, there they force an Allegory. In these words of Christ Mat. 26. 26. This is my Body: They perversely keep to the letter: which being a figurative Speech, must be understood, This signifies my Body. But these Idiots, hand over head, must and will take the resemblance, representation, or figure of Christ in the Sacrament, for the real substance of his body, flesh, blood and bones, in all its proportion as when he was nailed to the Cross! O ye senseless bruits!  
The ancient Orthodox Writers (and divers Papists too) expound it sacramentally, as we do. Tertullian, in his 2 & 4 Book against M●r●i●n (whom Iraenaeus styles Os Diaboli) renders it, figura corporis mei. Again, he saith, Dominus, pane corpus suum representat, The Lord represents his Body by bread. So saith Augustin in his Preface to the 3 Psalm. And against Adanantius, you may thus read him; Non dubitavit Deminus dicere, Hoc est corpus meum, cum daret signum corporie fui, Christ doubted not to say, This is my Body, when he gave (mark) only a sign of his Body. Again, Judam adhibuit ad convivium, in quo corporis & sanguinis sui figuram commendavit discipulis, Christ admitted Judas to his Supper, in which he commended to his Disciples only the figure of his body, Aug. in Psam. 3. Judas only received the bread of the Lord, the Apostles received the bread and the Lord. And the same Author upon Psam 50. touching the words of Christ, in John 653. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, ye have no life. This (saith Augustine) is understood very grossly and carnally by many: as though Christ would cut away lumps and pieces of his body and give it them.— But they said, v. 60. This is an hard saying; but they were (as the Papists are) hard of belief, and not the saying: for had they had true Faith th●● would have understood him spiritually: fo● in these words, and all other words of the same purpose, there lieth hid a sacramental meaning and mystery: which therefore must always be understood spiritually, mystically, figuratively, tropically; and not popishly, grossly, carnally, or literally. And Augustin expounds this Text, The Rock was Christ, thus, The Rock did signify Christ: See lib. 38. de Civit. Dei, cap. 38. for Christ was not a natural stone, though he was the Stone figuratively. And so saith L●r●nrus, Solet res quae significat nomine rei, quam significat nominare, The thing which signifieth (saith this learned Papist) is want to be cal●ed by the name of the thing which it doth signify: and so is the stone signifying Christ, called Christ, when it is not Christ indeed, but a figure of him: Ergo, the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament is not more.  
This Exposition is also confirmed by their own Bernard, in ass. mar▪ f●r▪ 5▪ per significationem, non proprietatem, Christ is a stone by signification, not that he is properly so.  
The blind Popish Doctors, and all Papists (as well as the perverse Scribes and Pharisees, and the stiffnecked Jews,) are greatly mistaken in their exposition concerning the Words of Christ. John 6. 54. Who so eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal Life. Now, these Words cannot be understood Sacramentally (in this place) as the Papists Dream; because they were spoken before the institution of the Sacrament: thus they Wrist the Scriptures to their own Confusion.  
Now, concerning the real Body of Christ in the Popish Sacrament, if they hold (as many of them do) that Christ is there without Dimensions; their great Evangelist Aquinas is against them. (v. Aqu. p. 3. q. 76. art. 4.) but their last shift is this (from which they will not stir in Life and Death) viz. God can miraculously bring it so to pass. Neither will this shift help them, for ultra posse, non est esse: for in the Judgement of Wise men, yea, even their own School Doctors; there are some things which God cannot do, or rather which cannot possibly be done: For instance, God cannot Sin, God cannot make time past, not to be passed; God cannot make that a Blind man remaining Blind, not want his sight, though he can give sight to the Blind: God cannot make that a Dead man remaining Dead, have Life, though he can restore Life to the Dead: in short, God can do nothing that implieth Contradiction: and all this Argues no Impotency in God, who is Omnipotent; but defect in the things themselves, that should be done. So than, this imaginary being of Christ's whole Body in a little round Cake as big as a fix pence, is a flat contradiction, therefore cannot possibly be done. For, what power can bring to pass, that a Body of six foot long, and two foot broad, remaining still so long and so broad, shall be contained in another Body of three foot long, and one foot broad? Why this is the very Case of Christ's Body in the Popish Cake. I could never yet meet with any Papists that could resolve this: for indeed 'tis impossible. Ergo, their Doctrines, are most false, erroneus, blasphemous, absurd and ridiculous: For, what is more absurd, than to hold, (as they do) That Christ's real and whole Body is in a thousand places at once, and at the same time chewed and swallowed down into the Stomach and Bells of thousands, and afterwards let fall into their houses of Office! O, most execrable Doctrine! O, most abominable Papists, and Papistry! Who but Fools, Madmen and Rebrobates would be of your Religion!  
Give me leave once more (good Reader) to touch upon some pertinent passages before inserted.  
Signs or Sacraments in Scripture, are called by the names of the things signified; or whereof they are Signs and Sacraments.  
Christ (as aforesaid) is called a Stone, (Acts 4. 11.) A Vine, (John 15. 1.) A door. (John 10. 7.) A Shepherd, (Heb 13. 20. and John 10. 11.) and his Father a Husband man (John 15. 1.) is Christ therefore a Stone indeed? a natural Vine? a material Door? a mere rustical Shepherd? and is his Father a Country Farmer, Ploughman, or Husbandman? (for they are all one) must all these therefore be understood literally?  
Again, Christ is called a Star. (Numb. 24. 17.) a Branch, (J●r▪ 33. 15.) can any of these be expounded without a Trope or Figure? no more can the Body of Christ in the Sacrament.  
Again, Christ called John Baptist, Elias (Mat. 11. 14.) is John therefore the very same Elias, in 1. Kings 18? Christ called john, the Son of Mary; and Mary, John's Mother, (john 19 26, 27▪) Was john therefore the very natural Son of the Virgin Mary? and she the true Mother of I●hn? I think there is no Papists so Mad as to affirm it: Not more than, is the Sacramental Bread, Christ's natural Body; though Christ called it his Body, that is, Figure of his Body.  
Indeed the Papists grant, that divers other Scriptures are to be understood Figuratively, but th●s and some others must not: and why? because the Pope hath so decreed, therefore they must (jump with the Collier) Believe as the Pope Believes; and obey his Commands before Christ and his Apostles: But those that are true Worshippers of God, are n●t bound by the Law of God, to obey Popes, Princes, nor any Magistrates whatsoever, in matters of Religion, if they command contrary to the Scriptures. And, for this we have many precedents, whereof I shal● here insert some:  
1. The Godly Midwives would not obey Pharaoh in killing innocent Children. Exod. 1. 17.  
2. The three young Israelites refused to obey the Command of Nebuchadnezar, to worship the Golden Image. Dan. 3. 18.  
3. The Prophet Daniel refused to ob●y the ungodly decree of Darius. Dan. 6. 10, 13.  
4. Th● faithful Jews refused to obey the Law of Antiochus Epiphanes, when he commanded them to Sacrifice to Idols. Vide Josephus, etc.  
5 M●●cha, the Mother of King Asa, Worshipped Idols, as did many others, but th●se that feared God abhorred her do.  
6. Jeroboam commanded Israel to Worship his Golden Calves: but the true Servants of God would not obey him. 1 Kings 12. 28.  
7. Queen Jezebel worshipped Baal, and commanded others to ●o so: but all that feared the Lord utterly rejected her; whom she Persecute●, and Murdered the Prophets of God: read Ahabs reign 1 Kings 16. 31. etc.  
8. Athaliah, a great Queen, was an Idolatress, and enticed her Son Ahaziah, and commanded others to the same Idolatry; but the faithful Servants of the Lord, obeyed neither the King nor his Mother in that matter.  
9 The Priests, Lawyers, Scribes, Pharisees, and Saduces, were great Rulers. And they commanded the Apostles to Preach not more in the name of jesus: but they obeyed them not. But stoutly answered, Whether it be right in the sight of God, to hearken unto you, more than to God▪ judge ye▪ Acts 4. 19  
Now, What became of all these persecuting Kings and Queens? Pharaoh and his Subjects were Plagued, and afterwards perished in the read Sea. Nebuchadnezar convinced; and after punished seven years for his Pride. Antiochus died miserably. Maacha deposed, and scorned. jezebel eaten up of Dogs. Ahab slain. jereboam punished in his posterity. 1 Kings 14. 10. Athaliah was slain, for all her crying out, Treason, Treason! 2 Kings 11. 14. 16. Herod, a great persecutor, was eaten up of Worms. Acts 12. The High Priests, Lawyers, Scribes, Pharisees and Saducees, together with their chief City, and Temple, whole Country and people, were utterly, totally, and finally destroyed by the Romans.  
These I think, are sufficient warnings to all Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Princes and Magistrates of all degrees, that they impose nothing on their Subjects in matters of Religion, contrary to the express Commands of God in his Word.  
To conclude, tell me, What has the King of Spain (to name not more) got by setting up, a●d allowing the Bloody INQUISITION in his Dominions? Truly, he has never thrive since: has he not lost seven of his seventeen Belgic Provinces, and a great part of the rest to the French! Nay, has not the Pope himself lost England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Swedeland, a great part of Germany, France, Poland, Switzerland, etc. For his Cruelties, and Idolatrous impositions in matters of Religion? And particularly, that Saint-torturing, and Murdering engine, viz. TRANSUBSTANTIATION, concerning the Words, This is my Body. I cannot but grieve to found how ignorant many Protestants are, and those too, of good rank and quality, grave and serious, of refined parts, old professors of both Sexes: several of whom, I have often seen at a loss (to their shame be it spoken) and woefully non-plused in discourse with Papists, answering so weakly and childishly! yea, most shamefully baffled, and silenced, even by Popish Children; to the great disadvantage ●f the Protestant Religion. (And all through their slothfulness, wordliness, etc.) To prevent which mischief among Papists, Priests, Friars, and many Parents, in what Family soever they found an acute Boy or Girl, they teach them how to dispute of some special points of Religion: the neglect whereof among Protestants is (in my Judgement) not only shameful but sinful. And truly I could wish, that Ministers in their public Assemblies, would preach oftener than they have done upon Mat. 26. 26. and 16. 18. and 18. 18. john 20 23. and such like. With which your crafty Papists make a deal of stir in the company of ignorant Protestants. And I have often found, that they had rather discourse upon one of those four Texts, and other such, than any other Scriptures; which they will by many Tricks, shifts and excuses labour to avoid. By which we may see, that Papists have more Zeal for Antichrist, than Protestants have for Christ! Nay, They have, do, and will with more cheerfulness, and willingness spend thousands for their Catholic Cause, than thousands called Protestants, will hundreds for the Cause of God O COVETOUSNESS! Thou art become the Master-Devil amongst us! Thou'lt bury thy Money, or keep it for the Papists, rather than employ part of it t● preserve thy Life and Religion; as the Constantinopolians did, when Mahomet & his Turks besieged them; but after he took the City, and found their hidden Treasure, he uttered this reproachful Taunt. viz. Behold! Here was Treasure enough to have raised an Army, sufficient to defend their City and Country from us! implying, That they loved their Money better than their Live●, Liberties and Religion! So, that through their Covetousness, they lost all at once, To their eternal shame and infamy, the great disgrace of Christian Religion, and dishonour to Christ among Turks! So now, there are many wish well to the cause of Christ: but they will do little enough for it, either in purse or person: they are godly for their own private good, if they have but grace sufficient to carry them to Heaven, they care for no more, let the Protestant cause sink or swim, and now it is in danger, they cry God help, God help, and that's all. O, what narrow spirited, and frozen hearted E●●esian●, and Laodiceans are these! Rev▪ 2. 4. 5. and 3. 15.   

XVIII. DIVISION.  
MOST vehement are the exclamations of Catharinus against Cajetanus, and of Antonius Fontsecca, against Catharinus, concerning the formation of EVE, as also Burgensis, against Lyranus, and M. Thoring against Burgensis, in many other things, and all this will appear to such as will peruse their Glosses upon the Old and New Testament.   

XIX. Division.  
POpe Hadrian, Richardus, and Panormitanus, affirm, That a Priest being contrite: may say Mass before he be confessed. But the Council of Trent is against it, as a damnable Sin. Ios. Angles. in 4. ss. p. 117.   

XX. Division.  
THE Council of Lateran, (where a monstrous OWL, the Emblem of the evil Spirit which guided them (as the Dove is of the good) appeared to the great amazement of the Pope and his Achitophel's, defined absolutely, that Angels were created with the World. But Nazianzenus, Damascenus, Basi●ius, Hieronimus, Augustinus, and Aquinas, deny it to be a matter of Faith. Council. Lat. Can. 1. de side Cathol. and Canus. de locis. lib. 5 p. 169.   

XXI. Division.  
BEllarmin avoucheth, That the Mayor Voice in general Councils, must needs be of most force. But Canus holdeth, That the m●nor part is the best, if the Pope hold with it. And yet in their agreement in this point, resteth the Foundation of their Ropish Religion.  
But to what end are Councils, if the Pope hath a Negative Voice, and rule them as he pleaseth: though absent, for indeed, Popes have been very seldom present at General Counsels; as Bellarmine recordeth, Summus pontifex nunquam interfuit concilijs orientalibus per se, etc. Bellarmine lib. 1. de concilijs cap. 19  
The Pope (saith he) Was never present at the Counsels in the East-Church in his own person. And why? Because the Emperor Sat in highest place. Which the humble Pope could by no means endure, because he would not sit in the second place: yet he styles himself, Servus Serv●rum De●! when he never meant it.  
Many more Dissensions, and Divisions amongst Papists might be brought to light: as well as many ridiculous absurdities, errors, heresies, and damnable Doctrines, or Doctrines of Devils: for what else is burning the Bible, when printed in the vulgar Tongue of any Nation, and not only that, but all that read it, as Popes have Commanded: and to have all things done in strange Tongues, contrary to the Scriptures. 1 Cor. 14. 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 2 Tim. 4. 3, 4.  
The Pope excommunicates all Lay persons, though never so well Learned, that reasoned in matters of his Faith.  
Again. What an absurd thing is it, to hear a Priest pronounce an Absolution, which neither the penitent, nor himself, understands often times.  
Vid. 6. decret. 1. 5. cap. quicunque. And all their Church Services, Homilies, and Sermons too for the most part are in Latin! Which yet they term an exposition of the Scripture. What a ridiculous thing is it, to see the ignorant vulgar people (Commanded to) hear the Gospel read in Latin, and withal to behold them earnestly listening with their Ears, lest any one word should not be beard, though impossible to be understood: for which, any man well in his wits would suppose them all to be Mad.  
There are not lesle than an hundred Sects, Sorts, Degrees and Orders of Friars, Monks, Nuns, etc. in the Church of Rome, all which have been set up and confirmed by divers Popes successively. See Fox. Acts and Monuments p. 337.  
Now, it is impossible that such a prodigious rabblement, or such a numerous Heterogeneous Herd, divided and subdivided; not only into so many sorts and degrees, but also into so many opinions (as you have heard, and many more besides) should keep within bounds, if the Pope, his Cardinals, and the rest of his Grand Clergy, and spiritual Bashaws, together with his Popish Kings, Princes, States, Nobility, and Magistracy ●f all degrees, did not by their great power and authority keep them in Aw, in preferring some; in threatening and most severely punishing othe●s, both Laity a● a Clergy, even with Death itself; so that none of 〈◊〉 dare so much as qua●ko● stir in the lest: No not to ●sk, Why 〈◊〉 is? Or, Wherhfore is that? Such slaves are they: For they are not to question any false Doctrines of the Popes: For his ●anon Law forbids them in these Words. Non spectat ad subditos a●terminar●, aut examinare quia possit papa, aut quid non possit, & 〈◊〉 ten●a●●ur p●rere vel non, qui Sacrilegium est desputare de potentia papae. It belongeth not to the Pope's Vassals (viz. Catholics) to determine, or examen, what the Pope may do, or what he may not do, for his Law (mark) hath made it Sacrilege to dispute his power. And those that dare do it, must look for no lesle punishment than Fire and Faggot.  
O than! What a Heavenly happiness, and blessed Liberty Protestants enjoy, could they but see it, and knew how to use it. And what a miserable slavery it is to be a Papist? Let any man of reason Judge.   

Having thus given an Account of some of the grand Divisions and Differences amongst the Papists, and their Clergy. Give me leave also to show you most of the principal differences between Papists and Protestants. Which I recommend to ignorant people, too many of them being very apt to be seduced and consequently, destroyed in their Souls; for lack of true knowledge, whereof God himself complains, Hos. 4 1. 6.  
And I think it may be affirmed with Dr. Featly, That there is no positive Article of our faith, which the Papists or the most Learned amongst them, do not hold and Believe for Truth and Catholic. So that we are upon sure ground, even by their own Confession. Vid. Featly Cont. Roffen.  
For instance.  
1. WE believe the Scriptures to be the Word of God. So do the Papists. But they add thereto the Apocrypha, etc.  
2. We believe the Originals of the Old and New Testaments in Hebrew and Greek to be Authentical, and of undoubted Authority: The Papists (I suppose) believe the same. But they add, That the vulgar Latin Translation is Authentical also.  
3. We believe the Written Word of God to be the ground of Faith, so say they, but add thereto the unwritten Word, of men's Traditions. Mat. 15. 3. Colos. 2. 8.  
4. We believe that Christ is the Head of his Church: So do they, but add to him a visible Head, the Pope.  
5. We believe there are two places for the departed, Heaven and Hell: They believe so too, but add other places more, as Purgatory, Limbus patrum, and Limbus Infantum, all three in Utopia.  
6. We believe that God is to be Worshipped in Spirit and in Truth: So say they too; but add, That he may be Analogically, and relatively Worshipped by Images, etc.  
7. We believe that we aught to call upon God: They believe so too; but add, That they may call upon Saints too.  
8. We believe that Christ is our Mediator both of Redemption and Intercession: They believe the same; but add to him Angels and Saints: upon whose intercession and merits they in part rely; and so make to themselves fellow saviours with Christ. Whereas the Scripture saith▪ That he is able to save them to the uttermost, that come to God by him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Heb. 7. 25.  
9 We believe that the Saints in Heaven bear most ardent affections to the Saints on Earth: and pray in general, for the Church Militant: The Papists believe so too; but add, That they have knowledge of our particular wants and necessities, and pray to God in special for us, which we deny.  
10. We believe that Christ hath instituted two Sacraments in his Church, viz. Baptism, and the Eucharist: they believe so too; but add to these five other of their own inventions: viz. Matrimony, Penance, Ordination, Confirmation and extreme Unction.  
11. We believe that Grace is annexed to the Sacrament, in such sort, that all those who worthily receive them, participate also of sanctifying Grace: they say so too; but add, That the Sacraments confer this Grace, ex opere operato, and that God is tied to them. So that, by this Doctrine, Children dying without Baptism, are necessarily Damned.  
12. We believe that the intention of the Minister is requisite to the right administration of the Sacrament: they believe so too; but add, That the effect of the Sacrament dependeth upon the intention of the Minister or Priest.  
13. We believe that in the Eucharist, the worthy communicant really partaketh of Christ's Body: they believe so too; but add, That Christ is Really and Carnally received under certain accidents, the Elements being Transubstantiated. Which is an Impossibility, therefore a mear Nullity.  
14. We believe that we are Justified and Saved by the Merits and passion of Christ; they say so too; but add, Their own Merits and Satisfaction.  
15 We believe that we aught to pray for all the Members of Christ his Church Militant on Earth: they believe the same; but add, That we may, and aught to pray for the Dead also.  
16. We believe, and receive the Three Creeds, viz. The Apostles Creed; The Nicene; and that of Athanasius: They believe them also; but add A Fourth Creed, The XII new Articles coined by the Pope, and annexed to the Council of Trent.  
By these you may see, how that Human Additions, Traditions and Inventions, has strangely Marred and Defaced the Worship of God, whom they must be teaching, and still putting the Holy Ghost to School. However, Let the Reader observe and see, How the Articles of our Belief are drawn out of their own Confession. That which we, Protestants, hold for Matter of Faith necessary to Salvation, the Papists hold as well as we: And therefore Ours is the true▪ Catholic Doctrine; Whereas, Their Superstitious Additions to the Catholic Faith, were never entertained or owned, neither by all Christians in any Age, nor by any Christians in all Ages. Neither are all the Papists in the World able to prove any one point of their Tridentine Faith (wherein they differ from us) to be Catholic. See Featly against Fisher.   

Now, as you have had a View of some of their Popish Delusions whereby they delude and abuse the common People, rendering them more senseless than Bruits, etc. And also a brief Account of some of the principal Divisions and Differences amongst the Papists themselves; With those between Papists and Protestants: So, let me inform the ignorant (for to them I chief direct my Discourse) wherein the Protestants differ: For, '●is high time we understand one another, and as one man oppose the Papists, those Common Enemy of God and good men, if their infernal Impudence and Confidence should set them upon us. Protestants, I say, For I understand there are some among us that reject and disown that Term or Denomition, or at lest, care not for it: Therefore I shall here omit them; and only set down such as call or own themselves Protestant's: And, they are especially these Four, viz. The Episcopist. The Presbyterian. The Independent, and The Baptists, one sort of them.  
WELL than, Wherein differ the first, from the Three last?  
Answer, In Rites and Ceremonies.  
Wherein differ the Second and Third?  
Ans. In Discipline only.  
Wherein differ the Fourth from the Third?  
Ans. In Time only: And from the Second, in Time and Discipline. So, their main Dissensions consist in Circumstancials, not Substantials: which always may be matter of great Comfort to Protestants.  
Now, If any Protestant be not pleased with this short Account, let give a better. For my own part, I understand not of any Difference amongst them, in any Fundamental Points of Religion: as you see there is among the Papists, for all their vain Boasting of so much Unity. And, who would feign, especially at this day, Set us together by the Ears, and than laugh at us: And for this end, have their Agents and Proselytes continually among us, or, at lest to stir us up to Preach, writ, and rail against each other. And herein (with grief I speak it) they have prevailed with too many, even lately: as, I fear they may still, with hot spirited prejudicated persons (and perhaps some of them here omitted) for that is it our Common Enemy, the Papists, would have, and whereat they greatly rejoice and glory in: whilst in the mean time, they plot, and really design the Destruction of us all: which, with them is not only Lawful, but Meritorious.   


SEEing the Papists cannot down Dispute  
CHRIST'S Kingdom, nor the Protestants refute,  
By all their Arguments, both old and new,  
And those (though silly ones) are not a few:  
Therefore, seek otherwise, them to annoyed,  
And (if they can) them with the Sword destroy.  
Now, Justice Arnold they assaulted have,  
As well as Godfrey: still more blood they Crave▪  
Note well, that Godfrey, God's Peace signifies  
(Whom to their Lust they made a Sacrifice.)  
And Arnold, Honest, as he is indeed,  
Sigh for his Honesty they made him bleed.  
These, cowardly and sneakingly did they  
Assassinate, where no man could them spy.  
They dare not fight till they are three to one,  
Which unto me and many more is known.  
Prodigious Projects, ominous and black  
Are framing still to bring us all to wrack.  
Preponderated PLOTS and Treacheries  
Are now conspicuous unto our eyes▪  
Our Horizon they feign would culminate,  
And with Narcotick fumes contaminate  
Great Britain once again (now too secure)  
Where, many Sparks they have brought to their jure:  
Rude Wretches (wherewith London doth abound)  
Will soon turn Papists, if the Pope get ground.  
Atheists and Semi-Papists, young and old  
Spring daily, yea, grow very high and bold,  
While Protestant's mind nothing but their pelf,  
Not minding public, not, but private self.  
These are too narrow spirited, also,  
Too dasterdly into the field to go  
And fight the Papists: Were we all like these,  
The Pope might master England when he please.  
But there are others of a nobler mind  
That are resolved (as Jesuits ye shall found)  
To sacrifice their, Lives and whole Estates,  
(And many of them too are prime Magnates)  
‛ E'er Popery shall have the upper hand,  
Or once be tolerated in the Land.  
But all our Trust is only in the Lord,  
Thereto encouraged from his sacred Word.  
What fearful Storms and Tempests of Sedition, etc.  
Have Papists raised against the true Religion?  
Who can the number of their Projects tell?  
What Hurricanoes have rise out of Hell,  
To blow the Gospel out of Britanny,  
And in its room set up IDOLATRY?  
The Jesuits their Pericraniums crack  
How to seduce by any crafty knack:  
A sect impulsed by Infernal Hate,  
Witty in Vengeance and things desperate:  
Men may, but GOD out-witted cannot be,  
'tis well for Saints there's such a GOD as Herald  
The Pope and Jesuits all, he can confounded,  
And beaten their grand Partakers to the ground;  
Yea, He can frown them all to HELL, and make  
Great KINGS and PRINCES at his power quake:  
What can ye do, O Papists, if our GOD  
Forgive our SINS! or sand another Rod,  
Not You, to scourge us? We had rather be  
Chastised by Turks than such fallen Fiends as ye.  
But if it be decreed, That we must fall  
Into your hands; Cannot the Lord of all  
The Earth remove from us so great a Pest,  
And US restore to Liberty and Rest?   

Rome, Rome! Our God is a Consuming Fire,  
Look to thyself, Thou canst not long respire,  
For thou art Stubble, therefore thou must burn,  
GOD, in due time will Thee to Ashes turn,  
Out of which shall no Phoenix rise, as did  
From London' s Ashes; not, it is forbidden.  
O, STRICTINELLA! thou art rotten hay,  
And all thy Asses, now begin to bray:  
There's none but Fools and Desperadoes will  
The cursed Commands of thy 
* Pope  Nero fulfil:  
Atheists and Papists go together go,  
For ye are both alike: and such a Foe  
I'd rather fight than any: for the Devil  
Cannot exceed them both in any Evil.  
've made themselves most hateful to the world,  
Which they have often into Confusion hurled:  
Their Works of Darkness shall be brought to Light,  
Moore Colemen, in due time will come in sight:  
Moore Foxes, and more Guido Fauxes too  
With their dark Lanterns (set on work by you)  
Will be discovered 'ere long, we hope,  
And to receive their just Reward— A Rope.  
Yet, if the Pope but saint them, all is well,  
Though many of his Saintlings burn in hell.  
Rogues, Traitors, Cutthroats, ruffians, strumpets have  
Been sainted by his Holiness: O brave!  
Saint Coleman, and Saint Whitebread (for so you  
Blind Papists style them) nay than, Saint Judas too:  
Saint Satan also, for, he's on your side,  
And your chief Friend, it cannot be denied,  
What profits such a glorious Appellation,  
If Jesus Christ judge them to Condemnation?  
Over of your Saints, when dead three days he lay,  
With ghastly looks, these fearful words did say:  
1. Ad judicium vocatus sum! the first day.  
2. Judicatus sum! the second day.  
3. Condemnatus sum! the third day: and than they buried him.   
I can take my Oath, that I have heard this verified by many Priests, and other Papists, at several times.  

All is not Gold that glistereth: not, not,  
For none are Saints, but whom God maketh so:  
(Some Protestants are Saints of their own making,  
So ruin themselves through their own mistaking:)  
Phanaticism, high-Towr'ing Speculation  
Or Jesuitism, some think, is true Salvation.  
The 
* See the Censures of the Sorbonists in a Treatise, called, A Truth known to few, etc.  Sorbonne Censures of their Propositions;  
Show they are Atheists; and mere Politicians.  
The Jesuits, that Pharisaical Tribe,  
No bounds to their bloodthirsty Wills prescribe:  
They, they would rule the Roast in every place,  
And meddle in every matter, thing and case:  
They take upon them (and that more of late,)  
To Tutor Princes in Affairs of State:  
Imposing on the World their addle Themes,  
Driving wild Fancy's into hot Extremes  
Of dire Dissension, that they might thereby  
Confounded, amaze, astonish, stupify,  
Distracted, disturb, dissettle, and divide,  
Exciting men to blood, on every side.  
Unbounded in their Malice to all those  
That cannot with their Machinations close:  
Damned Wretches, what, will nothing serve your turn,  
But Towns and Cities through mere Malice burn?  
Will nothing satisfy your 
* Pope  Hildebrand,  
But the Destruction of a Christian Land?  
What strange Catastrophe's? what woeful things  
Have they brought upon Kingdoms, States and Kings.  
Setting them altogether by the Ears,  
Filling the world with Terrors, Frights, and Fears.  
What Fools have been the Kings of France and Spain  
To kiss their Gouty Toes, and hold their Train,  
And stirrups too! walking by their Horse-side,  
Whilst they did swell with Arrogance and Pride?   

O, Generation of Vipers, when  
Will ye cease to be Devils, and act like men?  
When will ye cease to prey upon your kind?  
Which Cruelty, in Wolves, ye cannot found:  
Your Ours, and Countermines, are dug as deep  
As Hell, with which, ye Correspondence keep:  
Ye Mine for Blood, and undermine to bl●w  
Up Parliaments for we have found it so:  
Witness that noted fift day of November. 
1605.   
Which, without horror, we cannot remember.  
The Massacres in France, poor Switzerland,  
Bohemia, Piedmond, Ireland, Pomerland,  
Hungaria the Spanish Inquisition, etc.  
Of Protestants, have made away a Million! 
Jesuits by Equivocation have denied themselves to be Christians.   
Yet do the Jesuits, and all the Rout  
Of Papists, impudently face it out,  
That there were no such things! No all are Lies,  
Which you (say th●y) on purpose did devise!  
The Powder-Plot was forge● too! (They Cry)  
Though Faux, (etc.) confessed it, and therefore did die. 
As did Sir Edw. Digby, R. Winter, T. Winter, A. Rookwood, R. Keys, J. Grant T. Bates, etc.   
Nay! they deny the PLOT discovered, now,  
By Oats and Bodloe! Yea, they swear and vow,  
Such things were ne'er intended! Thus, you see,  
What impudent, what canting KOGVES they be?  
Hoping thereby to blear the eyes of some,  
Lest they should see the Villainies of ROME:  
Yet, surely, none but Reprobates will heed  
Such Cannibals as love on Saints to feed,  
And suc● the Blo●d of Innocents', because  
They 〈◊〉 subscribe to their Prodigious Laws.   

Ye Jesuits, O, ye State-Mountebanks!  
That with your Projects, and Hell-hatchd▪ pranks  
Do so much Mischief, till ye are pulled down,  
No Christian Prince can safely beware a Crown:  
Sure, ye must needs be of the Race of Cain,  
For that your greatest Care is how to Slain  
The Earth with Brooks of Blood of such as are  
True Abel's, or watch how, them, to ensnare.   

From JESUS, ye, yourselves denominate,  
Jesuits! and yet his Gospel-truths' ye hate!  
And all 
* Quos timemus, odimus.  true Gospelers: Nay, do not ye  
Make him the Spring of all your Villainy!  
Lord God Who can their Blasphemies express,  
A Patron unto all your Wickedness!  
Without Astonishment and Indignation!  
Was e'er such Devils on Earth since the Creation!  
A JESVITE, (i e.) à Jesus ite, Go  
From Jesus: but he never owned them, no:  
Yet, in his Name all evils they begin,  
Hoping thereby more Proselytes to win.  
Therefore it may be said of their blind BAALAM,  
☞ In nomine Domini, incipit omne Malum!  
And they also, which, in a sense, is true;  
But they, and all their Heterogeneous Crew  
Will have the blasting Benediction  
Of their Arch Flamen  they fall upon  
The Protestants, which having got, they than,  
Believe themselves to be more than men,  
As they're, indeed in a right sense, for why?  
All others they exceed in Cruelty.  
GOD bless, US, from the blessing of the POPE,  
For in GOD's blessing is our Help and Hope.   

We plainly see it is thy Drift and Aim,  
Us to enthrall, O Cushan-rishathaim!  
But art thou sure to carry't? Canst thou tell  
What God will do? Canst bear away the Bell  
By thine own Power, force and Policy?  
Yes, thou thinkest: yet who knows but the most HIGH  
At last may smile on us, and Us succeed?  
And all thy Colemen from amongst us weed,  
And make us, yet, to see more Haltion days:  
If so, thy Jesuits cannot wear the Bays.  
Therefore consider, Look before you Leap,  
Jest Wrath and Vengeance on thyself thou heap.    

Reader, That thou mayst not have the lest Thought of complying with these Cursed Enemies of our dear LORD JESUS CHRIST, and the Simple Purity of his Worship, Not, though to save thy life: for having here observed how thou art to be deluded and abused in thy Temporal Concerns, and much more in thy Eternal, by ignorant, sottish Priests, etc. I shall add a dreadful Example of God's Judgement upon a parcel of Wretches who turned in a moment from being Protestants to be Papists: being a Seasonable Warning to Apostatising Protestants; verifying in the very Letter those Words of our Saviour, which contain in them a Curse, and a Blessing, viz. Whosoever will save his Life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his Life for my sake, shall found it, Mat. 16. 25. as, in the following Story is made out.  
NOW are the Days, doubtless, whereof Christ and his Apostles forewarned us; That there should be a departing or falling away from the Faith: (1 Tim. 4. 1. 2 Pet. 3. 3. Judas 18.) and that because of Iniquities abounding, the love of many should wax cold, Matt. 24. 12. Cold for Christ and the true Christian Religion; Nay, They shall even deny Christ, 2 Pet. 2. 1. 2 Tim. 2. 12. And these things, with many more are come to pass at this very day.  
And this hath proceeded from the cursed design of the JESUITS, and the rest of the Romish Faction, who debauch many great Ones, and, they, by their wicked Example (which almost carries the force of a Command with it) the whole Comonaley, (by deluding them with pretences of Venial sins, and Pardons, etc.) For is not Whoring, Swaring, Drunkning, Lying, Aequivocating, etc. become as a mighty Stream overflowing the whole Land, thereby fitting us for some worse Judgement, if the Plague, the Fire, and other Punishments we have had, do no good upon us. Therefore be steadfast: How dreadful is it to consider, and what a sure Token of approaching Judgement is it, to see  
I. Many quandam zealous Protestants, grown of late so cold, (colder since the PLOT than before) so narrow spirited and basely timorous, (thinking 'tis a great piece of discretion, and that they show an emphatical piece of Wisdom) That when Discourse is raised in Company, concerning POPERY, they will either shifted it of with a Drool, force some other Discourse, or sneak away, in hopes to save their Bacon, (cujus contrarium verum est,) so that, really, they are ashamed, or half afraid to own themselves Protestant's: Showing not so mch zeal for the true Worship of the true God, as a Turk does for Mahomet's, or a Heathen for his Idol: hereby declaring that they have sat under a dead Ministry, of whom God hath said, They shall not profit the People. Those that never felt the Power of God, under an Ordinance, in turning them from all Sin, and showing them the desperateness of their Condition without Christ, a holy Life, etc. will turn to any, the worst of prevailing Religions, especially to that which tolerlates Sin, as Popery does: nay, makes it meritorious, as murdering Kings, burning Cities, & c!  
II. Others are so pusillanimous, so dirty, and dastardly; That they dare not own the Truth, when they hear it traduced and impugned by men popishly affected: when e'en the Spirit of God and their own Consciences prompt them to speak: as if they were ashamed of Christ, (See Mark 8. 38.) and with Spira, desperately quench and resist the Motions of the Holy Ghost: and if any put them to it by Interrogatories, they'll answer with an Equivocation, or an Italian shrug: Know, they that dare not Speak for Christ, will hardly either Do or Suffer for him; These are light Wheat, that will soon be blown aside, if the Wind rises a little: especially, if Euroclydon blow hard.  
III. There is also another sort, who, though they will talk pretty freely concerning the PLOT, etc. yet their words are so cunningly and artificially placed, as if they were coined on purpose: Yea their Expressions are many times so ambiguous, and savouring of the JESUITS canting Quirks, that the wisest Man alive can hardly tell what to make of them: and all these three aim at the same thing, viz. hoping, by Silence, Indifferency, and Neutrality, to found favour of the Papists, if they should get uppermost; which is the greatest Folly imaginable: as I could evince by many woeful Examples, in the Rebellion, in Ireland▪ where they were most egregiously perfidious, promiting the Protestants quarter, but in stead thereof murdered them in cold Blood: And this one Relation, shall serve in stead of many, whereby you may see, if you will, what you are to expect when they have the Sword, etc. Take it faithfully as I received it from Captain Edward Leventhorp, and others.  
DUring the late Wars in Ireland, A Castle well manned with English, Protestants, being suddenly and straightly besieged by the Enemy, in so much, that in few days, they were reduced to so great Extremity, that they must of necessity either starve, or yield to the Mercy of the merciless and implacable Papists (whose tender Mercies are Cruelty; as all along the Maryan Days, the Troubles in Germany, and the Irish Rebellion hath been proved.)  
Say you so? Quoth the Popish Commander! But what, I pray, Don't you think the others, that separated from you, good Catholics? Not, (said the steadfast Soldiers) because they never owned themselves as such till now, and they do it for fear of Death.  
I verily believe it (said the Commander) for I thought as much before. Than turning to the rest of his Officers and Soldiers, he said, Them yonder, meaning those that separated, are but Sergeant Catholics, and the Rogues do it only to save their LIVES, and to abuse us, for they will run away the next Opportunity: Therefore, by GOD, they shall die every man of them, and the other for standing so bravely to their Principles shall live; and whom I would sooner trust, upon any occasion, than the other, or any such Time-serving Rascals, as they are!  
In short, he put all the Revolters to the Sword, any saved the other for their brave Resolution: and not only so, but sent them with a safe Conduct to the next English Garrison, having as many of his own sent in Exchange▪ that had been Prisoners. By this noble Act, the said Commander won great Applause amongst the English.  
Now, consider this, all ye that think to save your Lives and Estates by temporizing and basely antedating your Religion, or dirtily complying with, and fawning upon every base pitiful (the most of them are no better) Papist before hand, as if ye would fore-speak Friendship, as I am too sure many do. And possibly, you that are next to, removed but one little step from them, may found some favour, for a very little time, from them, till you and them, if they can by any idle foolish pretence get you to assist them against such as are more zealous against their Idolatries: But, when their work is so far done, than they will more easily cut you of too, for the lest step of Reformation since Cue▪ Mary's days, their Soul bats, even as the purest worship. For I can liken them to no better a Crew than Rogues and Thiefs that live in an honest place; who will carry it very fairly among the Neighbourhood, to have some bodies good word at a pinch: so they, make to some one party to shelter under them: and than, only Polyphemus' Courtesy will be yours, that is, to die last, when you have seen the Throats of others cut, your own turn comes next.  
There are Seven sorts that above all others are most likely to turn Apostates, viz. The Covetous, the Ambitious, the Self-lovers, the Overnice, the Forma●ists, the Ignorant and the Fearful. See Rev. 21. 8. Mat. 10. 33. Mark. 13. 13. Rev. 2. 10▪ 25. 1 Cor. 16. 13. Phil. 4. 1. 1. Cr. 10. 12.  
These 7 include the first three abovenamed; and are wrapped up in the word HYPOCRITE; and amongst them, there are divers great Professors even of all sorts, who (as well as the lose, ignorant, debauched, profane Protestants) for fear or favour, may join with the Papists against sincere Protestants; as the Lutherans joined with Papists against the Calvenists, An. 1567. and about the 10 year of Q. Eliz. especially when alluted thereto by the curious Arts of Jesuits and their Proselytes, the Philtring Baits of Profit and Preferment: Seconded by the lusty (though feigned) Promises of some principal Papists and their Agents. But God can (and perhaps will) bring it so to pass, That such revolting Wreaths, may be served as they above mentioned: or, if not so, yet they cannot escape Vengeance: for I am confident they will perish by one means or other, perchance by the hands of true Protestants: And, for my own part, I do profess, (if God will make use of the Arm of Flesh, in our defence) I would sooner give quarter to French or any other outlandish-Papist, than any English Apostate whatsoever (Laity or Clergy) that should join in Arms with them, or our domestic or home-born Papists against the Protestants Cause.  
And I writ this with an heart that never yet feared the greatest or the proudest Papist in the World: who have been at the routing of such, almost an hundred times, in my junior days: and therefore, I think, I should know the better how to deal with them now; if they will needs force us to it, by falling upon us first: for till than we will not stir one foot: Let them otherwise provoke us never so much, as they have done very often, and do daily: besides burning of London, Southwark, etc. But as crafty Fowlers as they are, they shall not catch old Birds in the Chaff ☞ Be steadfast, 1 Cor. 15. 58.— stand fast, 1 Cor. 16. 13. For, In all God's Armoury, there's no defence for the Back, the Runagade or Apostate must everlastingly perish. O Apostate, bethink thyself betimes!  

True Protestants will rather choose to die,  
Than Christ, or their Religion deny:  
And bravely persevere, come, what will come,  
But Hypocrites will how the Knee to Rome,  
Even these 7 Monsters, which I named before,  
Would Popery, if it were up, adore.   
Notwithstanding all this, Let us, and all that think they stand, beware jest we fall, (1 Cor. 10. 12.) as they may, without Divine Assistance: Self-Confidence being a most dangerous Rock on which many have split, even in this present Age: Remember the Apostle Peter, and the Apostate Pendleton, in the Book of Martyrs.   
FINIS.   

Errata. Page 6. l. 6. r. Delusions: p. 32. l. 16. after Pope, add forbade them. p. 34. l. 16. r. Angles. p. 40. l. 15. r. Connivium. p. 50. l. 7. r. him give. p. 53. r. the 14 & 15 lines before the 12 & 13. p. 55. read line 6 before line 5.   

BOoks and single sheets Printed and sold by Tho. Dawks, in Blackfriar's, and by La Curtiss in Goat Court on Ludgate-hill, where may always be had, 1. Godfrey's Murder made visible, and the Papists Cruelty therein. 2. A Chronology of Popery, showing When, and Who brought in their idle, foolish F●perys. 3. The only Historical Plot Cards, with a Book, illustrating the PLOT, greatly satisfying the Protestant Reader. 4. The Beggars Petition to H. S. showing Reasons enough why he threw Popery of, and, we are not to be befoold into it. 5. The 3 Prime Discoverers, their Pictures, with Verses showing their Reasons why they discovered this Hellish Popish Plot. 6. Rome's Hunting-Match for 3 Kingdoms. 7. England's Calamity foreshown, from the growth of Popery, in Germanys Misery. 8. A Seasonable Caution to Apostatising Protestants; or Gods eminent Judgement upon Protestants that turned Papists to save their Lives, but perished. 8. The Resurrection proved in a Relation of what happened to Mistress Ann Atherton, who lay 7 days in a Trance, declared in an astonishing Speech when she came to life.  
9 A great Truth, The Jesuit a downright Complete Atheist, proved such, and condemned for such, by the Famous Faculty of Sorbonne (well known to be the best Divines of all the Catholic Party; and by the French Bishops) & Pope Alexander 7. Showing how they make a Mock at Sin, deny God, and overthrew all Religion. Their Design being to Debauch Mankind, wherein they, as a Judgement from God upon us, have succeeded pretty well, but speedy Judgement attends its Promoters.  
10 Famous Master Rich's Absence supplied by a KEY to his Sort-hand-TABLE, entitled The PENS Dexterity, Allowed and Approved by both Universities. Fully discovering the whole Art to the Meanest Capacity, in that Method he Taught his Scholars, with the reserved Rules in their proper Places: by T. Dawks, a quandam Scholar of his; the like never publicly discovered before; all Books and sheets relating to this Hand has been Abuses to the Public, & the Buyers of them much deceived, for the Table alone was ne'er designed by Mr. Rich to teach the whole ART, but to bring Scholars to him: And for the Truth of what I say, as well in relation to this K●●, as to other spurious Books, I refer myself to Mr. Rich's Scholars, as fittest Judges, knowing not where else to appeal. Also I have added since it came to my hand (besides the Key, to distinguish this from all falls Tables) Directions concerning the place of Vowels, which he gave me in writing among the private Rules. Wherhfore, all old Tables without the Key are false ones, beware of them. These true ones are sold by T. Basset, at the George by S. Dunstan's, Church in Fleetstreet: by Fr. Smith at the Elephant by the Exchange in Cornhill.  
11. Magnalia Naturae. The Philosopher's Stone, Exposed to public Sight and Sale. Being an Account how Wenceslaus Seilerus, at the Emperor's Court, in Vienna, came by, and made ●way with great quantities thereof. Attested by the Emperor himself, by Count Wa●lestein his late Resident here: and by Dr. Becher a Commissioner for the Examen of this particular Affair.  
12. Dr. Salmon's Soul of Astrology.  
13. His Synopsis Medicinae will speedily be published.