The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

The bondage under Antichrist is, 1. Outward, in Estates and Lives. 2. Inward, a soul bondage.

1. An outward bondage, doth not he challenge power over Kings and Princes, and to free people from Loyalty to their Princes, that except there were a delusion ⟨p. 201⟩upon the hearts of the great ones upon Earth, It were unpossible for them to submit unto that base bondage. Many cry out of the Godly that they are no good subjects, they do not love to be under government, but what do you think of Papists, that do teach for to free subjects from their loyalty: A Papist hath this expression concerning Antichrist, The Pope their head, He is the Sheppard, and the Kings and Princes are Dogs, and if Dogs will do their duty, they must be at their Masters command, but if they will be lazy, and bite and not do as they ought, the shepherd must remove them. And for their Estates: Its a woeful estate that Countries are in, in regard of their estates. I read a speech of Bonner, in a preface to the Treatise of Gardener; that the Pope had near as much out of England yearly, as the Revenues of the Crown came to. And it was the speech of Innocent the fourth Pope of that name England was his pleasant Garden and a well that never was drawn dry and in England many things grew, & abounded and many things were to be had from it: So that the estates of men are in great bondage where Antichrist prevails: as also, the lives, and liberties of men.

1. An outward bondage, doth not he challenge power over Kings and Princes, and to free people from Loyalty to their Princes, that except there were a delusion ⟨p. 201⟩upon the hearts of the great ones upon Earth, It were unpossible for them to submit unto that base bondage. Many crie out of the Godly that they are no good subjects, they do not love to be under government, but what do you think of Papists, that do teach for to free subjects from their loyalty: A Papist hath this expression concerning Antichrist, The Pope their head, He is the Sheppard, and the Kings and Princes are Dogs, and if Dogs will do their duty, they must be at their Masters command, but if they will be lazey, and bite and not do as they ought, the sheppard must remove them. And for their Estates: Its a woful estate that Countries are in, in regard of their estates. I read a speech of Bonner, in a preface to the Treatise of Gardener; that the Pope had neere as much out of England yeerly, as the Revenues of the Crown came to. And it was the speech of Innocent the fourth Pope of that name England was his pleasant Garden and a wel that never was drawn dry and in England many things grew, & abounded and many things were to be had from it: So that the estates of men are in great bondage where Antichrist prevails: as also, the lives, and liberties of men.