And seeing the new upstart Church of Rome teacheth in all these, and in innumerable other points, clean contrary to that which the Apostle taught the Primitive Romans, let God and this Epistle judge betwixt them and us, whether of us both stands in the true ancient Catholic Faith, which the Apostle taught the old Romans? And whether we have not done well to depart from them, so far as they have departed from the Apostles Doctrine? And whether it be not better to return to St. Paul's Truth, than still to continue in Rome's Error? And if this be true, then let Jesuits and Seminary Priests take heed and fear, lest it be not faith, but faction; not truth, but treason; not Religion, but Rebellion, beginning at Tiber, and ending at Tyburn, which is the cause of their deaths. And being sent from a troublesome Apostatical See, rather than from a peaceable Apostolical Seat, because they cannot be suffered to persuade Subjects to break their Oaths, and to withdraw their Allegiance from their Sovereign, to raise Rebellion, to move Invasion, to stab and poison Queens, to kill and murder Kings, to blow up whole States with Gun powder, they desperately cast away their own bodies to be hanged & quartered; and (their souls saved, if they belong to God) I wish such honour to all his Saints that sends them.1 And I have just cause to ⟨p. 451⟩fear, that the miracles ofa Lipsius's Two Ladies, Blunstone's Boy, Garnet's Straw, and the Maid's fiery Apron, will not suffice to clear that these men are not Murderers of themselves, rather than Martyrs of Christ.
And seeing the new upstart Church of Rome teacheth in all these, and in innumerable other points, clean contrary to that which the Apostle taught the Primitive Romans, let God and this Epistle judge betwixt them and us, whether of us both stands in the true ancient Catholick Faith, which the Apostle taught the old Romans? And whether we have not done well to depart from them, so far as they have departed from the Apostles Doctrine? And whether it be not better to return to St. Paul's Truth, than still to continue in Rome's Error? And if this be true, then let Jesuites and Seminary Priests take heed and fear, lest it be not faith, but faction; not truth, but treason; not Religion, but Rebellion, beginning at Tiber, and ending at Tyburn, which is the cause of their deaths. And being sent from a troublesome Apostatical See, rather than from a peaceable Apostolical Seat, because they cannot be suffered to perswade Subjects to break their Oaths, and to withdraw their Allegiance from their Sovereign, to raise Rebellion, to move Invasion, to stab and poison Queens, to kill and murther Kings, to blow up whole States with Gun powder, they desperately cast away their own bodies to be hanged & quartered; and (their souls saved, if they belong to God) I wish such honour to all his Saints that sends them.1 And I have just cause to ⟨p. 451⟩fear, that the miracles ofa Lipsius's Two Ladies, Blunstone's Boy, Garnet's Straw, and the Maid's fiery Apron, will not suffice to clear that these men are not Murtherers of themselves, rather than Martyrs of Christ.
- 1Psal. 149. 9.
- aUt Alexandri causa iis qui ill•m scire cupiunt pate••t: judicatus est Ephesi ab AEmilio Frontino Proconsule, non propter professionis nomen, sed propter perpetrata latr••cinia, cùm j•m esset, prevaricator (& pr•ditor) Eu•eb. Hist. Eccles lib. 4. cap. 18.
