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And therefore in the Name of God let Princes and Parliaments be vigilant: for they watch for the outward security of the Church and Common-wealth (as Ministers do for our spiritual well-fare) as those that must give account. And let the people take heed what Parliament or Magistrates they choose: ⟨p. 362⟩And let all that love the Gospel, and the prosperity of the Christian world, and of their posterity, have their eyes in their head, and take heed of that bloody hand, that hath in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Savoy, Low-countries, Germany, Bohemia, &c. already spilt so many streams of Christian blood. If the Wise, the Learned, Moderate Lord du Plessis, was so zealous for the Lawfulness of Necessary Defence, as Grotius chargeth him, as to put it into his Testament, (whom he makes also the Author of Junius Brutus, I know not on what ground) doubtless he knew with whom he had to do, and thought that every Guisian League was not a Law of God or of the King.

And therefore in the Name of God let Princes and Parliaments be vigilant: for they watch for the outward security of the Church and Common-wealth (as Ministers do for our spiritual wel-fare) as those that must give account. And let the people take heed what Parliament or Magistrates they choose: ⟨p. 362⟩And let all that love the Gospel, and the prosperity of the Christian world, and of their posterity, have their eyes in their head, and take heed of that bloody hand, that hath in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Savoy, Low-countries, Germany, Bohemia, &c. already spilt so many streams of Christian blood. If the Wise, the Learned, Moderate Lord du Plessis, was so zealous for the Lawfulness of Necessary Defence, as Grotius chargeth him, as to put it into his Testament, (whom he makes also the Author of Junius Brutus, I know not on what ground) doubtless he knew with whom he had to do, and thought that every Guisian League was not a Law of God or of the King.

Some Princes think that it is their safest way to please the Pope and Jesuits, and so will be Papists, on the terms as some of the Indians worship the Devil, because he is so naught, that he may not hurt them. But these men were wiser, if they understood, that the malice of Infernal Spirits is not to be avoided by pleasing them, but by resisting them. They are too bad to be ever pleased by any means, but what will be your utter ruin: And they are not stronger then the Devil himself, who will fly if we resist him. If the best were not the most Powerful, what would become of the world? And if God be stronger then the Devil, he should rather be pleased then the Devil; for he is able to defend you from the Devils displeasure: and he is most able to hurt you if you be despisers of his power: which Justice will effect more certainly on the bad, then Satan's malice can do upon the good. Men think themselves wise, that shift for their safety by carnal and unlawful means: But they shall all find at least, that plain honesty is the best policy, and the favour of God the best security, and a life of faith the most prudent life; and that shifting for your selves in unbelieving ways, is the greatest folly. It is the design of the Papists by the strokes of Clements, Ravilliacks, Vauxes, and such others, to terrify Princes, that they may not dare to resist them, but may see that they have no hold of their lives while they are under their displeasure. But yet such as have most displeased them have scaped best. It is recorded by one, that the great King Henry of France, being persuaded to stand it out against the Jesuits, answered, [Give me security for my Life then] And what a security did he find in his unbelieving way?