Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho

Surely Mad-men are dangerous without restraint. Papists are ready instruments of commotion, perversion, treason.¹ These are a sickness, immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum, ne pars sincera trahatur.

Surely Mad-men are dangerous without restraint. Papists are ready instruments of commotion, peruersion, treason.¹ These are a sicknes, immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum, ne pars sincera trahatur.

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Our land cannot be at ease, so long as these lye on her stomach. They prick and wound her sides, not with praying against her, (for their imprecations we hope, are irrita vota) but with preying upon her: and when all stratagems fail, ready to fetch arguments from the shambles,¹ and conclude in ferio. Whose Religion is politic, learning bloody, affections malicious, ambitious, devilish. The Inquisition is their Grammar, fire and fagot their Rhetoric, fleet and fetters their Logic, the Cannons roar their Music, and poisoning is their Physic. Whose Priests have such almighty power, that they can make their Maker, that whereas in their Sacrament of Order, (as they term it) God ⟨p. 71⟩makes an impotent creature a Priest: now in their Sacrament of the Altar, the Priest shall make Almighty God. Yea, as he made them with a word, and put them in their mothers womb: so they can make him with a word, and put him in a box. They that thus blaspheme their Creator, shall we trust them with their fellow-creature?

Our land cannot bee at ease, so long as these lye on her stomacke. They pricke and wound her sides, not with praying against her, (for their imprecations wee hope, are irrita vota) but with preying vpon her: and when all stratagems faile, ready to fetch arguments from the shambles,