Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury,…

XVI. And beyond Sea, the Papists have found it the greatest Expedient to their Successes, to keep Great Men from Study, and Learning, yea, and from Conscience and Sobriety, and train them up with Sport, and Wine and Women, and Debauchery, and ranting Jollity, and scorns at Conscience and Preciseness, that they may not discern their own interest, nor have understanding enough to see the Snare, but may tamely put their foot in the Stocks & under pretence of Universal Concord and Government, make themselves the Subjects of a foreign Usurpation. And if the Pope may but govern till the next General Council, it will be like a Lease of many Hundred Years, as good as a Fee-simple; And may he but Rule all as Patriarch and Principium Unitatis by the Canons already made, it will be as good as the Guardianship of Infants, that will never call the Guardian to Account.

XVI. And beyond Sea, the Papists have found it the greatest Expedient to their Successes, to keep Great Men from Study, and Learning, yea, and from Conscience and Sobriety, and train them up with Sport, and Wine and Women, and Debauchery, and ranting Jollity, and scorns at Conscience and Preciseness, that they may not discern their own interest, nor have understanding enough to see the Snare, but may tamely put their foot in the Stocks & under pretence of Universal Concord and Government, make themselves the Subjects of a foreign Usurpation. And if the Pope may but govern till the next General Council, it will be like a Lease of many Hundred Years, as good as a Fee-simple; And may he but Rule all as Patriarch and Principium Vnitatis by the Canons already made, it will be as good as the Guardianship of Infants, that will never call the Guardian to Account.

§. XIX. I must say after all this, that I love the French Church much better than the Italian, and if we must all be Papists, had rather we were French Papists, of the two. And yet that I more ⟨p. 33⟩fear the French Papists than the Italians. For the Italian Party are at so visible a distance, that they can design no way for their advantage but a Toleration (unless they could get the Government) And their Toleration would a while but make the Nation better know them, and more dislike them: But the French Party cry down Toleration, and trust wholly to a Coalition and to force: They hope to do their work before its known what they are doing: They will cry down Popery, meaning only the Pope's absolute Power above Councils: It is but abating the Latin Service, Transubstantiation, Priests Marriage, granting the Cup to the Laity, and two or three more such things, and crying up nothing but the Name of the Church of England (though changed by Subjection to a Foreign Jurisdiction) and then crying up Obedience and Conformity to it, and crying down Schism as an intolerable thing, and the Papists shall seem to turn to us, and not we to them, and then no Dissenter shall be suffered. Mr. Thorndikes Book of forbearance of Penalties, tells us of no other hope of sufferance, but on supposition that we all agree in subjection to the thing called, The Universal Political Church. And a Learned Tribe by Interest and Opinion engaged in the Cause may be ready by confident triumphant Writings and Disputes to make good all this, and scorn and tread down Gainsayers as Schismatics. And the Coalition will take in the parts and labours of those that now are called Papists, who are trained up in Militant Arts.