But Rome hath murdered thousands of the King of heavens children: yea, Rome hath murdered the great heir of heaven and earth, I mean, the very Son of God:1 (for Christ was put to death by the Roman power and authority, and by a Roman Judge, as before hath been showed:) Therefore let all men judge what Rome is worthy to have. Moreover, Saint John telleth us,2 that Rome with her enchantments hath deceived all nations. Then let the matter be referred to the judgment of any indifferent man, to determine and set down what punishment ⟨p. 354⟩sorcerers and enchanters are worthy of; especially spiritual sorcerers and enchanters. Besides all this, the holy Ghost saith,3 that Rome is the habitation of Devils, and the hold of all foul spirits, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. What think you is like to come of an habitation of Devils? What trow ye will be the end of a shoal of foul fiends, and a company of most ugly monstrous hell-cats? What is like to become of a cage of howlets, ravens and vultures; yea, a nest of vipers, toads, snakes, adders, cockatrices, and all the most stinging serpents, and venomous vermin in the world? What will be the end of pilled Priests, filthy Friars, mangy Monks, rogning Jesuits? Are not these a cage of unclean birds? What do they study? what do they plot? what do they practise every day, but seditions, perjuries, murders, conspiracies, treacheries, and all manner of villainies? If I had no other reasons to persuade me that Rome shall fall, and come to a miserable end, yet this only would make me so to think, that these villainous Jesuits do teach and conclude in their cursed conventicles, that it is not only lawful, but also meritorious, to murder any Christian Prince that ⟨p. 355⟩is not of their catholic religion: Oh monstrous villains! O most hideous hell-hounds! have not these monsters suborned divers desperate caitiffs to embrue their hands in the blood of Christian Princes? How many have been their plots? How desperate have been their practices to murder and poison our late Queen Elisabeth, the French King, and our most gracious and late Sovereign King James, and other Christian Princes? But can such proceedings prosper? can such courses be blessed? can a man be established by iniquity?
But Rome hath murthered thousands of the King of heavens children: yea, Rome hath murthered the great heire of heaven and earth, I meane, the very Son of God:1 (for Christ was put to death by the Roman power and authority, and by a Roman Judge, as before hath been shewed:) Therfore let all men judge what Rome is worthy to have. Moreover, Saint John telleth us,2 that Rome with her inchantments hath deceived all nations. Then let the matter be referred to the judgment of any indifferent man, to determine and set downe what punishment ⟨p. 354⟩sorcerers and inchanters are worthy of; especially spirituall sorcerers and inchanters. Besides all this, the holy Ghost saith,3 that Rome is the habitation of Divels, and the hold of all foule spirits, and a cage of every unclean and hatefull bird. What thinke you is like to come of an habitation of Divels? What trow yee will be the end of a shoale of foule fiends, and a company of most ugly monstrous hel-cats? What is like to become of a cage of howlets, ravens and vultures; yea, a nest of vipers, toads, snakes, adders, cockatrices, and all the most stinging serpents, and venemous vermine in the world? What will be the end of pild Priests, filthy Friers, mangy Monks, rogning Jesuites? Are not these a cage of unclean birds? What do they study? what do they plot? what doe they practise every day, but seditions, perjuries, murthers, conspiracies, treacheries, and all manner of villanies? If I had no other reasons to perswade me that Rome shall fall, and come to a miserable end, yet this onely would make mee so to think, that these villanous Jesuites do teach and conclude in their cursed conventicles, that it is not only lawfull, but also meritorious, to murther any Christian Prince that ⟨p. 355⟩is not of their catholick religion: Oh monstrous villains! O most hideous hel-hounds! have not these monsters suborned divers desperate caitifs to embrue their hands in the bloud of Christian Princes? How many have been their plots? How desperate have been their practices to murther and poyson our late Queen Elisabeth, the French King, and our most gracious and late Soveraigne King James, and other Christian Princes? But can such proceedings prosper? can such courses be blessed? can a man be established by iniquity?
- 1Chap. 11.8.
- 2Chap. 18.23.
- 3Chap. 18.•.
