A divine herbal together with a forrest of thorns In five sermons. ... By…A divine herball together with a forrest of thornes In five sermons. ... By…

5 We have Papists amongst us; look to them, they are rankling thorns, and renting briers. False Gibeonites they are; and howsoever they pretend their old shoes, the antiquity of their Church, we have ever found them thorns; ready to put out our eyes, and (if they could) the eye of the Gospel. They exclaim against us for persecution; and cry themselves (louder then oyster-women in the streets) for patient Catholics, Saints, Martyrs. But match the peace they enjoy under us, with the tyranny they exercised over us; the burning our Fathers at stakes, the butchering our Princes, their conspiracy against our whole Realm, their continual bending their weapons against Sovereigns and subjects throats; and you will say, they are thorns. I have read of a bird, that when men are devout at their sacrifice, takes fire from the Altar, and burns their houses. All their black treasons, and bloody intendments, they derive from the Altar; and plead the warrant of Religion, to set our whole Land in combustion. O that these brambles were stocked up: that Ishmael were cast out of doors, that Sarah and her son Isaac might live in quiet.

5 We haue Papists amongst vs; looke to them, they are rankling thornes, and renting bryers. False Gibeonites they are; and howsoeuer they pretend their old shooes, the antiquitie of their Church, we haue euer found them thornes; ready to put out our eyes, and (if they could) the eye of the Gospell. They exclaime against vs for persecution; and cry themselues (lowder then oyster-women in the streets) for patient Catholicks, Saints, Martyrs. But match the peace they enioy vnder vs, with the tyrannie they exercised ouer vs; the burning our Fathers at stakes, the butchering our Princes, their conspiracie against our whole Realme, their continuall bending their weapons against Soueraignes and subiects throtes; and you will say, they are thornes. I haue read of a bird, that when men are deuout at their sacrifice, takes fire from the Altar, and burnes their houses. All their blacke treasons, and bloudy intendments, they deriue from the Altar; and pleade the warrant of Religion, to set our whole Land in combustion. O that these brambles were stock'd vp: that Ishmael were cast out of dores, that Sara and her sonne Isaac might liue in quiet.