superior to the Jesuits in England which as they were sent privily so were they kept very closely and Communicated unto very few The tenor and purport of them was that they should admit no Man how near soever in Blood for King after the Queens death unless he would not only tollerate the Roman Catholick Religion but also promote the same with his whole might and undertake by Oath according to the manner of his Ancestors to perform the same which in true understanding was directly to exclude King James and his Family from the Crown These Bulls came forth upon the aforesaid negotiation of Tho. Winter in Spain at what time an Army should shortly after have been sent to Invade the Land and this was to be put in execution Quandocumque contingeret miseram illam seminam exhac vita excedere 16. b. when ever it should happen that that wretched Woman so pleased the High-Priest of Rome to call the Queen the greatest of Women cujus memoria semper erit in benedictione should depart this life Of these Bulls also within Two Years after was begot that dreadful roaring Monster the Powder Treason Their Force and Vertue was not confined with Tweed but extended it self also into Scotland For the Sword was prepared there also at the same time by the Rethuens Brethren to take away King James's life who boiling with revenge for their fathers death the Earl Gowry by Law in the Kings nonage by a Wile inticed the King to whom they were much engaged into their House most wickedly appointed him to the slaughter had not God the Protector of Kings prevented it by the help of John Ramsey and Thomas Areskin and turned it upon the heads of the Authors Having thus summarily declared the good intentions and faithful Service the Papists performed towards James 6th King of Scotland whilst he stood the next and undoubted Heir apparent to the Crown of England before he came to be King thereof I will now shew you one other great Plat-form and design of theirs for the ruine of this Nation and then proceed to shew you how faithful they were to King James after he came to be King of England and have been since unto his Son and Grandson The Seminaries being thus founded and established in divers places and at Vallodolid by the procurement of Parsons that Arch-Traytor who for his uncessant Romish Contrivances had by this time got great Interest in Rome and Spain that in them they might consult and act how to bring to pass their grand design of erecting their universal spiritual Monarchy for Rome Spain and Jesuitism and a seeming Title being made out by his Book of Titles or Succession of the Crown of England to the Infanta He then in another Book called A Memorial for Reformation or High-Court or Council of Reformation of England written at Sevil 1596. of which he was so fond that he kept it like a precious Jewel An Answer to a Jesuited Gent. as close in his bosom as the Dukes of Florence are said to keep Tully de rebublica vvhich not all the World have but themselves as laboured all he could to have it read in the Refectaries at Rome he there lays a secret Snare for our ruine by a Plat-form to vvork insensibly the Alteration of our Government by bringing it to a popularity and hovv near it vvas brought to effect in these late times by Papists as some Write under the Title of Levellers Agitators Independents Fifth Monarchy Men Quakers c. vvho are but Badgers Working Holes for the Foxes the Jesuits vvill be obvious to every intelligent Reader In this Book it is designed that no Religious Order should resort into England or be permitted to live vvithin its Dominions but Jesuits and Capuchins That all Abbey and Church Lands and those of Colledges Parsonages Bishops Vicarages 16 b. Monasteries Nunneries Frieries c. must be no longer in their Hands but must be brought into a publick Exchequer under the Government of Four Jesuits and Two Secular Priests to be chosen by the General and Provincial Jesuits vvho vvere to allovv the Bishops Parsons Vicars c. Stipends and Pensions as Bishops Suffragans and Mont Seigniors had in other Catholick Countries all the rest must be imployed in Pious Uses pro ut c. vvithou rendring an Account They prescribed Rules of Living for the Lords Temporal and other the Nobility and Gentry vvhat Retinue they vvould keep hovv much should be allovved them to spend yearly and what diet they should keep at their Tables That Magna Charta should be burnt the manner of holding Lands in Fee-simple Fee-tail Frank-Almanige c. by Kings Service Soccage or Villenage should all be brought into Villany Scoggery and Popularity the Common Laws to be wholly annihilated and destroyed and Caesars civil Imperials brought into this Vtopian Spiritual Monarchy Quodlibets 92 95. And the Reasons are given in these Quodlibats viz. For that the state of the Crown and Kingdom by the Common Laws is so strongly settled as whilst they continue the Jesuits see not how they can work their Wills He hath also set down a Course how all Men may shake off Authority at their pleasures And this Stratagem is how the Common people may be inveigled and seduced to conceipt to themselves such a liberty and prerogative as that it may be lawful for them when they think meet to place and displace Kings and Princes as Men may do their Tenants at Will Hirelings or ordinary Servants 286. Princes had need be fond of such Subjects and account them their best Friends Having thus acquainted you with the Plat-form laid long since deep in Council for our Ruine I leave to all Contemporaries of these late Rebellious Anarchical times to judg how much of this Train hath taken Fire and how much of the substance of this Plot hath been put in Execution and how near the whole design was like to have taken Effect when the Assembly Elected only by the Army Officers on the 20th of August 1653. as the Diurnals printed they ordered there should be a Committee selected to consider a new Body of the Law for the Government of this Common Wealth who were to new mould the whole Body of the Law and is not this according to T. F. Parsons Plat-form He that would know more of it must read the Book it self which is still in great esteem amongst them or because that is rare he may read a Book of the same Parsons Entituled A manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of the secular Priests wherein this Memorial is owned by him and Analysed and Excused from f. 55. to 64. or W. Clark a Roman Priest his Answer to the Manifestation Entituled A Reply unto a certain Libel lately set forth by Fa. Parsons p. 74 c. or Watsons Quodlibets p. 92 95 together with a Reply to a brief Apology and several other Books which above 60 Years ago the Priests wrote
not succeed being Illegitimate and that it was a great boldness to assume the Name and Government without him and therefore refused to hear Sir Edward Kerne her Ambassador All this and more was pretended to have been done in favour of that Admirable person M. Queen of Scots But what think you would they have done if the Tables had been turned And Q. Eliz. had been an Illegitimate Papist and M. Q. of Scots a Legitimate Protestant would you then have been so zealous and industrious for the Q. of Scots Certainly not which is demonstrable by their Actings and Endeavours to hinder King James from the English Crown And it is plain that it was not Bastardy but Heresie i. e. for being a Protestant that made their malice so implacable and this is apparent by the Bull of Pope Pius V. Dated 25. Febr. 1570. in which there is not the least mention of Bastardy No No Illegitimacy is not so monstrous a Gudgeon but that it will easily be swallowed at Rome Gregory XIII had a Bastard James Buon Compagna and to him he gave Ireland and impowred Stewkely with Men Arms and Money to Conquer it for him And England he gave to Don John the Emperors Bastard both admirable Catholicks without all peradventure and gave him leave to Conquer it for himself Christs brave Vicar give that which was none of his own or had any thing to do withall But that perverse Queen had no occasion to part with either on such ridiculous Nods And his Successor Sixtus Quintus took no Notice at all of King James proceeded against her with all his Italian Scarcrows curst her afresh and publisht a Croysade against her and gave all her Dominions to Philip II. King of Spain but forgot to give his Benedictions of Craft and Cunning to get them and so they still remain vested in the hands of the right owners and long may they so do even till time shall be no more Now if Romish zeal for Qu. M. of Scots had had its Rise and Original from her more rightful Title to the Crown of England then it would have continued unto King James also but their Actings being Diametrically opposite and contrary it was visible to all the World that it was Popery not the Title that they contended so furiously for And it was the common voice amongst the Jesuits of those days That if King James would turn Catholick they would follow him but if not they would all die against him Watson Quodlib p. 150. The mutual love and amity that was between Queen Elizabeth and King James his immovable constancy in Religion the strict Laws made against Jesuits and such kind of Men the Execution of Graham of Feutre the forwardest of all those that affected the Spanish party the granting of Supreme Authority in matters Ecclesiastical to the King by the States and the assotiations against the Papists did so quash all hope of restoring Popery in England and Scotland that some of them in England which most of all favoured his Mothers Title began to project how to substitute some English Papists in the Kingdom of England when they could not agree uon a fit man of their own Number they cast their Eyes upon the Earl of Essex who never approved the utting of Men to death in the cause of Religion feigning a Title from Thomas of Woodstock King Edward the Third's Son from whom be derived his Pedigree Indeed rather for any Body then for King James who they foresaw would be Malleus Hereticorum such was their faithfulness to him as also witness the designs of Gordon Creighton Abercromy Jesuits and others plotting the ruine of King James of Scotland And also the Two Breues sent by Clement the 8th to exclude King James from the Inheritance of the Crown of England unless he would take an Oath to promote the Roman Catholick Interest But the Fugitives favoured the Infanta of Spain although they feared lest the Queen and the States would by Act of Parliament prevent it by offering an Oath to every one and they held it sufficient if they could set the King of Scots and the Earl of Essex at Enmity To which purpose to Book was Dedicated to Essex under the Counterfeit name of Doleman but wrote by Parsons Cardinal Allen and Sir Francis Inglefeild as was believed In this Book despising the right of Birth they project that the Antient Lawsz of the Land concerning Hereditary Succession to the Crown of England are to be altered that new Laws are to be brought in cocerning Election That no man but a Roman Catholick 14. b. of Blood soever they be is to be admitted King And was not this another piece of meritorious service to King James like the rest no doubt of those that went before and of those that will follow They traduced most of the Kings of England as wrong possessors and all in England of the Blood-Royal as either Illegitimate or uncapable of the Crown The most certain right of King James to the Crown of England they most unjustly sought to overthrow and did by forged Devices most falsely Entitle thereunto the Infanta Isabella of Spain because she was a Roman Catholick Yea they proceeded with that violence herein that they compelled the English in the Spanish Seminaries if they themselves are to be credited to subscribe to the forged title of the Infanta therein set down and exacted in Oath of the Students in the Seminaries to maintain the same brave Blade They rested not in their Pens and Tongues but prosecuted the same by Actions For Thomas Winter as he himself confessed and Jesmund a Jesuit being come into Spain from Garnet and others of them privily plotted to cast off Queen Eliz. and exclude James King of Scots from his most just Title to the Crown of England Yet not long after when King James was proclaimed this Impudent Parsons excused by Letters to a Friend of his as proceeding not from a mind to do King James wrong but out of an earnest desire to draw him to the Romish Religion and he hoped he should be excused for that these Injurres did not prejudice the King because forsooth they failed of success As in the Year 1592. Patrick Cullent Treason who was incited by Sir William Stanley Hugh Owne Jaques Frances a base Laun dress Son who said That unless Mrs. Elizabeth be suddenly taken may the State of England is and will be so settled that all the Devils in hell will not be able to prevail with it or shake it Hitherto a true Prophet I hope will be so still And Holt the Jesuit vvho resolved to kill the Queen vvas accompanied vvith a Book called Philo-pater written for the abetting and warranting of such a Devilish Act in general by Creswel the legier Jesuit in Spain so was Tesmunds Treason accompanied with Two Bulls or Breues from Pope Clement the 8th when the Queen was full of days and infirm one to the Clergy the other to the Laiety unto H. Garnet
Catholick Cause in England by making away the King whom there was no hope to turn from his Heresie which was answered affirmatively After which the same persons went to Rome where the Question being propounded and debated it was concluded by the Pope and his Council That it was both lawful and expedient for the Catholicks to promote the alteration of State What followed that Consultation and Sentence all the World knoweth and time the bringer forth of Truth will let us know But when that Horrible Paricide committed on the Kings Sacred person was so universally cryed down as the greatest Villany that had been committed in many Ages the Pope commanded all the papers about the Question to be gathered and burnt In obedience to which order a Roman Catholick in Paris was demanded a Copy which he had of those papers but the Gentleman who had refused to consider and detest the wickedness of that project refused to give it and shewed it to a Protestant Friend of his and related to him the whole carriage of this Negotiation with great abhorrency of the practises of the Jesuits In pursuance of that Order from Rome for the pulling down both of the Monarch and Monarchy of England many Jesuits came over who took several shapes to go about their work but most of them took party in the Army About Thirty of them were met by a Protestant Gentlemen between Roan and Deipe to whom they said taking him for one of them That they were going into England and would take Arms in the Independent Army and endeavour to be Agitators A Protestant Lady living in Paris in the time of our late Calamities was perswaded by a Jesuit going in Scarlet to turn Roman Catholick When the dismal News of the Kings Murder came to Paris this Lady as all other good English Subjects was most deeply afflicted with it and when this Scarlet Divine came to see her and found her melting in Tears about that heavy and common disaster he told her with a smiling Countenance That she had no reason to lament but rather to rejoice seeing that the Ca-Cholicks were rid of their greatest Enemy and that the Catholick Cause was much furthered by his death Upon which the Lady in great anger put the Man down the Stairs saying If that be your Religion I have done with you for ever Many Intelligent Travellers can tell of the great Joy among the English Convents and Seminaries about the Kings death as having overcome their Enemy and done their main Work for their settlement in England of which they made themselves so sure that the Benedictins were in great care that the Jesuits should not get their Land And the English Nunns were contending who should be Abbesses in England An understanding Gentleman visiting the Friars of Dunkirk put them on the discourse of the Kings death and to pump out their sence about it said That the Jesuits had laboured very much to compass that great Work To which they Answered That the Jesuits would engross to themselves the Glory of all great and good Works and of this amongst other Works whereas they had laboured as diligently and as effectually as they So there was striving for the glory of the Atchievment and the Friars shewed themselves as much Jesuited as the Jesuits In the height of Olivers Tyranny Tho. White a Priest and a right Jesuit in all his Principles about Obedience set out a Book Entitled The Grounds of Obedience and Government wherein he maintains That if the people by any Circumstance be devolved to the state of Anarchy their promise made to their expelled Governor binds no more That the people are remitted by the evil mannaging or insufficiency of their Governour to the force of Nature to provide for themselves and not bound by any promise made to their Governour that the Magistrate by his miscarriages abdicateth himself from being a Magistrate and proveth a Brigand or Robber instead of a Defender that word Defender he writes with a great D. that the Reader may take notice whom he means His Book is full fraught with Argumentations of this Nature All in barr and prejudice to His Majesties Restauration Of the same opinion was F. F. Bret when at St. Malo he was earnest with those Gentlemen that had so gallantly defended the Castle of Jarsey to take the Engagement from which they ought to be freed by the Articles of their Rendition maintaining that they were not to acknowledg any Supreme but the prevailing power Du Monlin Ibid. § Having dwelt thus long on this unpleasant Theme it is now time to wind up this Botton and therefore Admit the Papists had merited in these late troubles as much as they pretend they have from the King and his Father yet doth it not follow that they ought therefore to be rewarded with a Tolleration of their Religion or with any Mitigation of our Laws prohibiting the exercise thereof no more than it was fit Joseph for the good service done to his Master should be be gratified with the company of his Masters Wife Neither did his Master think this reasonable though he acknowledged the extraordinary good Service of his Servant much less did Joseph expect it In like manner the Papists must first satisfie us That the Tolleration of their Religion is not Tolleration of Idolatry which the Scripture calls Spiritual Adultery nor yet the exercise of a World of Impieties under the Mask of Religion before they can convince as whatever their Loyalty may otherways be that it is either lawful or reasonable for Magistrates whom the Scripture stileth Gods and who standing in Gods stead ought to be as jealous of his Honour in that case as a Husband would be of his Wife Nay as much as in them lies even as God himself who professeth himself to be a Jealous God to Authorize or connive at the Exercise of such a Religion or as to account very strict Laws too severe in that Case for which there is both Precept and Example in the Word of God It is a very great Truth That Kings neither can nor ought to give permission or allowance of any things which in their own Natures are evil and opposit to the Salvation of Mens Souls and which though they should permit them would nevertheless continue and remain sins and exclude them that do and practice them from obtaining Salvation And of such a Nature are many Popish Doctrins c. And certainly those Princes are most worthy of the praise of God and Men that endeavour to remove such Abuses and all things forbidden by God which remaining make it impossible for men to be saved or if saved yet so as by Fire very difticultly But in things not repugnant to the will of God all Princes have liberty to do that which the good and weal of their State requires I appeal to all the Oaesars in the World nay to all mankind if it be reasonable that the requital of the good Services of particular
be made 5. Novemb. for the Gun-powder-treason to root them out of the Confines and Limits of the Kingdom protesting in Parliament that he could not permit the increase and growth of Popery without betraying the liberty both of England and Scotland and of the Crown in his posterity and did declare in his Speech in Parliament 1605. That none of those that truly know and believe the whole Grounds and School-Conclusions of their Doctrins can ever prove-good Christians or good Subjects Vide his Works 504. Nay farther in the Second Year of his Reign ter ' tr ' upon a false rumor being spread that His Majesty intended to grant a Tolleration to Papists he commanded all the Judges with divers of the greatest Nobility viz. Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer and to Assemble in the Star-Chamber to receive their opinions upon these and other points at which time the Lords severally declared how the King was discontented with the said false Rumor and had made but the day before a protestation unto them that he never intended it and that he would spend the last drop of Blood in his Body before he would do it And prayed that before any of his Issue should maintain any other Religion than what he truly professed and maintained that God would take them out of the World Vide Sir George Crokes Reports part 2. ter tr Anno 2 Jac. Reg. in Banco Regis § When a Match with Spain was propounded to King James for Prince Charles and there with an Article defired for a Tolleration of the Popish Religion which when King James had propounded to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1623. the Arch-Bishop did write his Sentiments of King James in which Letter He besought His Majesty to take into his consideration what your Act is and what the Consequence may be by your Act you labour to set up the most Damnable and Heretical Doctrine of the Church of rome the Whore of Babilon How hateful it will be to God and grievous to the good Subjects the professors of the Gospel that your Majesty who hath often disputed and learnedly written against those should now shew your self a Patron of those wicked Doctrins which your Pen hath told the World and your Conscience tells your self are Superstitious Idolatrous and Detestable Besides this Tolleration which you endeavour to set up by your Proclamamation cannot be done without a Parliament unless your Majesty will let your Subjects see that you will take unto your self ability to throw down the Laws of the Land at your pleasure c. prout King James not long after viz 23. Ap. 1624. returns this Answer to a Petition of his Parliament touching Recusants viz. What my Religion is my Books declare my profession and my behaviour do shew and I hope in God I shall never live to be thought otherwise sure I am I shall never deserve it And for my part I wish that it might be written in Marble and remain to posterity as a mark upon me when I shall swerve from my Religion for he that doth dissemble withy God is not to be trusted by Man My Lords Ip rotest before God my Heart hath bled when I have heard of the increase of Opery and God is my Judg it hath been so great a grief unto me that it hath been like Thorns in my Eyes and Pricks in my sides so far have I been and ever shall be from turning any other way And my Lords and Gentlemen you all shall be my Confessors if I knew any way better than other to hinder the growth of Popery I would take it and he cannot be an honest man who knowing as I do and being perswaded as I am would do otherwise The Romish Catholicks for want of this liberty and tollerance in the time of Queen Eliz. and since have made and written many bitter Complaints and Invectives against the Rigour of our Penal Laws c. Rex Talionis I could requite them by commemorating the flames they kindled in England to burn their Brethren to dust How Pius Qintus conferred England on Philip II. King of Spain and approved as an Act lawful by Azorius Instit Mor. part 2. lib. 11. c. 5. And how many Princes they have displaced poisoned and murdered The Holy House which the Friars have planted in spain resembling the Torments of Nero his Garden the Massacres of Provence Piedmont of old and of late and of Paris where they murdered Men Women and Children by Thousands against the very Grounds off all Equity Piety Charity and Humanity without Convicting Accusing or so much as Calling them before any Judg to hear what was misliked in them And when was any of this put in Execution some of it even the 24 Aug. 1572. the very Year that Charles IX the French King pretending great kindness to the Protestants had in Testimony thereof desired a Confederacy at Blois with Queen Eliz. and the Princes of Germany in favour of them whom notwithstanding he had secretly and treacherously designed to the flaughter For no sooner were the Articles of Confederacy agreed on which was the 11th of April and confirmed by Oath by the Queen at Westminster 15. May in the presence of Montmo rency stiled the first Christian Prince and accounted the most Noble Family of all france who also again earnestly sollicited the Marriage with the Duke of Anjou but for that they could not agree about the Exercise of Religion he hasted into France to the Marriage of Henry of Navarre and Madam Margarite the French Kings Sister To this Marriage in pursuance of the said Bloody Design were invited the Queen of Navarre and all the choicest of the Protestants and also Burleigh and Leicester our of England pretending Honour to them and the Palatine Elector's Sons out of Germany that being brought into the snare both they and with them the Protestant Evangelical Religion might with one stroak if not have had their Throats cut yet at least receive a Mortal Wound For no sooner was the Marriage Solemnized but that barbarous Massacre of Paris and the Bloody Butchering of the Protestants throughout the Cities of France upon men of all Estates was cursedly put in Execution and that within Two days after Mota Fennelon the French Ambassador had propounded the Marriage between Queen Eliz. and the Duke of Anjou at Kenelworth Camb. Elisab 162. Which considered I annot but wonder to hear you thus complaining at the Fatherly Chastisement wherewith this Realm seeketh your amendment and sucketh not your Blood Compare the penalties which you fret at with the Laws of former Emperours and you will see how easie they are in respect of their ancient Edicts which restrained such as did forbear to communicate with the Church of Christ from buying selling disposing bequeathing Goods or Lands by will or otherwise yea from receiving any Legacies or enjoying their Fathers Inheritance the place where Schismatical Service was faid Chappel or House to be forfeited and the Bishop and Clergy-man
looks too like a slander to intimate it and it is our belief that the worse the men and their Religion are the more need they have of their own and other mens prayers to make them better but then they must be made to God and his Son and not to Pictures and Images nor yet to Stocks and Stones and those in a Language to themselves Intelligible It is is indeed the desire and design of our Souls that being converted our selves to strengthen our Brethren and to hinder some scabbed Sheep from infecting the rest of the whole Flock to hinder the traficking of your private Idolatrous Masses or the feeding His Majesties best Subjects with Fragments of Communions or to mock the weaker Brethren with prayers not understood or weary them with ridiculous Gestures and to binder the giving the Glory that is due to God unto Stocks and Stones Prayers understood or not understood to Saints Pictures and Idols Ave Maries and Beads Agnus Dei's and such Abominations which will never prevail with God for Blessings but will rather pull down his Curses and Judgments upon you Prayers to God and his Son are by God commanded and are acceptable to him without dispute to Wafers Saints and Pictures are not so it being indisputable Idolatry to give Divine Honour to a Creature to a Wafer God that Dogs Mice and Rats may eat Do but what our Saviour undeniably did viz. break and give to all Mat. 26.26 27 28. that all may be partakers one Bread 1 Cor. 10.16 17. Divide the Cup that all may drink thereof Do that which he commanded to be done who first ordained this Mystery Do that which St. Paul received of the Lord and delivered to the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 11.23 24 25. Do that I say which the Primitive Church of Christ always did and you need not doubt of publick Allowance nor of publick places and oratories Do not make your selves wiser than God himself by putting a Padlock on the Scriptures which Christ hath commanded every man to search for in them ye think to have Eternal Life and they are they which testifie of me John 5.39 and which was taught Timothy from a Child and are able to make wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus and is profitable for Doctrin for Reproof for Correction for instruction in Righteousness that the man of God may he perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works 1 Tim. 3.15 16 17. Do not go about to rob God of his Glory by denying the Work of his own hands and the Redeemed of his own Blood the Efficacy of the Scriptures with the assistance of his Spirit not us of our Senses as if we could not distinguish Bread from Flesh or the Juice of the Grape from the Blood of Christ Do not substract from Gods own Decalogue one of his own Commandments under the pain of Eternal Damnation add 14 new Articles to the Apostles Creed which squint more at belief in the Pope and Papal Definitions than towards God and his Word lest ye Incur the plagues denounced against such Arithmetick and your part in the Book of Life be taken away Rev. 22.18 19. Neither be of those many which corrupt the Word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speake and write in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 These few of many are sins so gross that they go open before to Judgment and are as manifest as the Deeds of the Flesh which are Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Murders Revelings c. Gal. 5.19 20 21. which both God and Nations abhor and make Laws against and Prohibitions so that none can be deceived but such as are given up to a reprobate sense and unto strong delusions to believe Lies 1 Thes 2.11 § It is true you have reconciled some Proselytes unto your Church which hath made both King and Parliament so Industrious to preserve the rest from Infection and Seducements and by so doing you have made them two fold more the Children of Hell than they were before meer Samaritans Worshippers of they know not what whereby we have lost little and you have not got much For indeed it matters little what Religion Men profess if they live not according to to the Decalogue It is neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision Gal. 〈◊〉 9. but a new Creature that availeth Gal. 6.15 For no man either knows or believes in God otherwise than the Devils do that doth not keep his Commandments And God knows the love of men towards him only by their keeping of his Commandments and by abstaining from that black Catalogue of sine Recorded Gal. 5.19 〈◊〉 without Holiness it is impossible ever to see the face of 〈…〉 comfort I know no medium between a Saint and 〈…〉 Purgatory bâ—tween Heaven and Hell 〈…〉 so it lies Heaven and Hell will divide the whole World at last As it hath been the unhappiness of former Ages so of this also that they that depart from evil make themselves a Prey and they that live Holily Godlily and Righteously in this present evil World are jeered and accounted but the off-scowring of the World Penitentiarii Asini Formal Fops But I fear when the King of Terrors shall Attacque the Copyholds of such Flowters and Magor-Missabib Fear and Terror shall be round about them and when they are drawing near to the Chambers of Death that then their Groans will be like the Groans of a deadly wounded man and their Hopes like the giving up of the Ghost and that then the 'l wish that both their lives and their deaths had been like those Formal Fobbs Therefore my hearty desire is That both this Dialogist and all the perverted reconciled Proselytes to Rome would return from whence they are fallen and repent and come out of that Inchanting City and Sink of sin that hath spawned more false Doctrins of a Scarlet Dye than all the Christian Churches in the World and be seperate and no doubt but this Church will receive them and our Kings and Queens will be their nursing Fathers and Mothers and you will become their Sons and Daughters else What fellowship can righteousness have with unrighteousness what Communion can Light have with Darkness What Concord can Christ have with Belial and what agreement can the Temple of God have with Idols Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate and God and this Church will receive you and God will be a Father unto you and ye shall be his Sons and Daughters 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16 17 18. § Reasons are as strong and convincing against Tolleration if the case be considered upon a Politick Account and Interest as well as upon a Religious for tordraw away Subjects to depend upon a Forrein Prelate or power from their Natural or Lawful Sovereign is in a Politick Consideration as the defiling of the Kings Bed and debauching of his Consort from him and this is that which makes Popery