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The Priests of perverted Israel, ¹were but shadows of these of apostate Rome: As Thieves wait for a man, so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent. Hence that Proverb carries no less trueth, then antiquity with it: An Englishman Italianate, is a Devil incarnate: these are those Jesuits, Jebusites, Incendiaries, Traitors, and not less then Devils, but that they have bodies. God bless us from such Watch-men: if these be Watch-men, who are enemies?

The Priestes of peruerted Israel, ¹were but shadows of these of apostate Rome: As Theeues waite for a man, so the company of Priestes murder in the way by consent. Hence that Prouerbe carryes no lesse trueth, then antiquitie with it: An Englishman Italianate, is a Deuill incarnate: these are those Iesuites, Iebusites, Incendiaries, Traytors, and not lesse then Deuils, but that they haue bodyes. God blesse vs from such Watch-men: if these be Watch-men, who are enemies?

1. 1Hos. 6. 9.

We see then the vanity of their labours, that would undertake to bring us to a composition: if Heresy can be made Sincerity, Idolatry true Religion, Treason Obedience, we may be united: but it is a sure rule, Contraries in the abstract, can never be reconciled: God put an un-appeasable Contention betwixt the ⟨image 16⟩two Seeds of the Woman, and Serpent, when he put Enmity between them▪ for an Enemy may be made a Friend, but Enmity can never be made Friendship: the Air that is dark, may be made Light; but Darkness cannot be made Brightness; a Papist may be converted to a Christian, but Papistry can never be made Christianity, no more then Antichrist can become Christ: our strife with them is not for the extension of Limits, but for the possession of the Inheritance, whether Grace or Nature, the Popes Law or Gods, shall take place in the Conscience: So I have read of that audacious and sottish Hermite, that would undertake, to make God and the Devil friends: the impossibility of which attempt, the Devil could tell him; God is all Light, and I am all Darkness, that my foul nature can not be hidden: our affections, seats, persons, are so opposed, that I have no hope of peace. They will not, we may not yield; except the Sheep shall compound with the Wolfe, or the Mice with the Cat; which the old tale forbids, though the Cat get on a Monks Cowl, & cries demurely through the crevices, Quod fueram, non suw, fraer, caput aspice tonsum. Good brother Mouse, creep out thy house, come forth, & let us chat: Behold my Crown is shaven down, I'm now a Priest, o Cat. When Cats say Mass, the Mice (alas) must pray against their will: Kind Puse, your pate is smooth of late, your heart is rugged sll.