Indian dialogues for their instruction in that great service of Christ, in calling home…

Keit. Oh strange! how many of these wicked Ministers be there, that they are so potent?

Will. Oh, a great many. The Ministers of I know not how many Countries combine together, and be of one mind to uphold one another; and they choose one Chief, and call him a Pope, and say that he has power to pardon mens sins, and will sell Pardons for Money, and by that means they get a great deal of wealth, for people are such fools as to think that he can pardon them, when as the Popes be as vile sinners as any body, and keep W•ores, and get Bastards. Other of these Ministers they call Cardinals; others Lord Archbishop; others, Lord Bishop; other, Lord Abbot; other, Lord Prior, and I cannot tell how many more: and many of these as rich as Sachems, and leave their wealth to their successors, because they have no lawful Children, only keep Whores, and get Bastards. And they will allow their Sachems, or any body else, to keep Whores, and get Bastards, and the Pope will pardon them for money. And this that I tell you, is but a little of the filthiness that is among these wicked Ministers. Now if people should but look into the word of God, they would presently find that no body can pardon sins but God; and they would presently find, that God has appointed no such Ministers as these, they are all of them the Devils Ministers, and not God's: and if Sachems and people knew this, they would buy no more Pardons of them, and the Sachems would suppress them, and take away their great riches, or employ them to better uses. And for this reason they will not suffer any but themselves to read the Scripture, they will kill them if they do; and they have Lords Inquisitors, as they call them, to watch and search if any body have a ⟨p. 58⟩Bible, or any other good Book, that opens and discovers their Villainy, he shall be killed: And these Lords Inquisitors are as rich as Sachems. And thus they keep all men in subjection to them, and in fear of them, and Sachems are afraid of them, and they do what they list.

Will. Oh, a great many. The Ministers of I know not how many Countries combine together, and be of one minde to uphold one another; and they choose one Chief, and call him a Pope, and say that he has power to pardon mens sins, and will sel Pardons for Money, and by that means they get a great deal of wealth, for people are such fools as to think that he can pardon them, when as the Popes be as vile sinners as any body, and keep VVores, and get Bastards. Other of these Ministers they call Cardinals; others Lord Archbishop; others, Lord Bishop; other, Lord Abbot; other, Lord Prior, and I cannot tell how many more: and many of these as rich as Sachems, and leave their wealth to their successors, because they have no lawful Children, onely keep VVhores, and get Bastards. And they will allow their Sachems, or any body else, to keep VVhores, and get Bastards, and the Pope will pardon them for money. And this that I tell you, is but a little of the filthiness that is among these wicked Ministers. Now if people should but look into the word of God, they would presently finde that no body can pardon sins but God; and they would presently finde, that God has appointed no such Ministers as these, they are all of them the Devils Ministers, and not God's: and if Sachems and people knew this, they would buy no more Pardons of them, and the Sachems would suppress them, and take away their great riches, or imploy them to better uses. And for this reason they will not suffer any but themselves to reade the Scripture, they will kill them if they do; and they have Lords Inquisitors, as they call them, to watch and search if any body have a