Two sermons preached at Northampton at two several assizes there The one in the…Two sermons preached at Northampton at two severall assises there The one in the…

Thirdly, By tampering with our Articles of Religion, (as sound and orthodox, for any thing I know, as any, since the Apostles times, which make our Church as happy at this day, as any under the cope of heaven. If we be so happy as to hold them in that purity, and true sense, as we received them of our predecessors, and as they came streaming down to us in the blood of our glorious Martyrs) by labouring to put false glosses upon them, & talking of some reconcilement of our Church to the Romish Synagogue, which is as impossible, as to reconcile CHRIST unto Antichrist. Besides the concurrent judgement of ⟨p. 77⟩those uncomparable, and renowned Divines in Queen Elizabeths time, our present orthodox Divines, and Doctors, apprehend aright and acknowledge the infinite antipathy and utter impossibility, speaking thus; Roma is irreconciliabilis, saith the Bishop of Exeter: Light and darkness may meet, saith another, in the twilight, but mid-day and mid-night can never possibly come together; and such is Popery, and Protestancy. The truth is, saith Doctor Worship, such is the antipathy between a Protestant and a Papist, as there is between the two birds in Plutarch, the Siskin, and the Muskin, which will fight eagerly alive, and being dead, if you mix their blood it will run apart, and dissociate. They are like the two poles of heaven, saith another, which stand for ever directly, and diametrically opposite.

Thirdly, By tampering with our Articles of Religion, (as sound and orthodoxe, for any thing I know, as any, since the Apostles times, which make our Church as happy at this day, as any under the cope of heaven. If we be so happy as to hold them in that purity, and true sence, as we received them of our predecessours, and as they came streaming downe to us in the blood of our glorious Martyrs) by labouring to put false glosses upon them, & talking of some reconcilement of our Church to the Romish Synagogue, which is as impossible, as to reconcile CHRIST unto Antichrist. Besides the concurrent judgement of ⟨p. 77⟩those uncomparable, and renowned Divines in Queene Elizabeths time, our present orthodoxe Divines, and Doctours, apprehend aright and acknowledge the infinite antipathy and utter impossibility, speaking thus; Roma is irreconciliabilis, saith the Bishop of Exceter: Light and darknesse may meete, saith another, in the twilight, but mid-day and mid-night can never possibly come together; and such is Popery, and Protestancy. The truth is, saith Doctour Worship, such is the antipathy betweene a Protestant and a Papist, as there is betweene the two birds in Plutarch, the Siskin, and the Muskin, which will fight eagerly alive, and being dead, if you mixe their blood it will runne apart, and dissociate. They are like the two poles of heaven, saith another, which stand for ever directly, and diametrically opposite.