IT is an Astonishment beyond the ••nary Comprehensions of Nature, Reason and Religion, that the Papists (esp•••••• the Priests and Jesuits of the Church of Rome so odious in their bloody Tenets, so prodigious in their Hellish Plots, such inc••crable Incendiaries, and furious Ass••ns for murdering of Princes, should be suffered to increase, and indulged to multiply in a Protestant Nation, as of late years they have done in this Kingdom. Assuredly it could never have been so, but that the Lord in his just Indignation against us for our God-provoking Sins of Atheism, Idolatry, Profaneness, Adultery, and other heinous wickedness, intends (and suffers us to ripen, and be prepared for some) dreadful Judgment, which God may justly bring upon this Land and Nation by the hand of the Papists, if we Repent not of those Abominations, and do not reform ⟨image 3⟩them. It is more than Manifest by woeful Experience, that the main End of the Papists in all their Plots and Conspiracies is the utter Destruction of the Protestants (whom they call Heretics) and the Protestant-Religion in England especially, and the Re-establishment of the Popish-Religion of the Church of Rome in this Kingdom; which End the Popish-Recusants in England (in this Bloody and Traitorous design, that Damnable and Hellish Plot contrived and carried on by them for Assassinating and Murdering the King, Subverting the Government, and for Rooting out and Destroying the Protestant-Religion, as the King and Parliament have voted and declared) are still endeavouring […] effect, and bring to pass. The concurrent […] our grand and greatest Enemies […] the World durst not entertain a Thought of Invasion, did they not Hope, (when Time serves) to find amongst us a Side and Faction of numerous and Seditious Papists to join, with them. Were we rid of the Papists, and were Idolatry, Atheism, Whoredom and Blasphemy put away, as in Policy, Reason, and Religion these ought to be, The Royal Person of the King would be safe from Assassination, and the Government secure from Subversion. And the Protestants, and Protestant-Religion free from utter Destruction, by the blessed Protection of Almighty God. Conformity unto all Oaths, Tests, and outward formal Satisfactions of State, concurring with a full
IT is an Astonishment beyond the ••nary Comprehensions of Nature, Reason and Religion, that the Papists (esp•••••• the Priests and Jesuits of the Church of Rome so odious in their bloody Tenents, so prodigious in their Hellish Plots, such inc••crable Incendiaries, and furious Ass••ns for murdering of Princes, should be suffered to increase, and indulged to multiply in a Protestant Nation, as of late years they have done in this Kingdom. Assuredly it could never have been so, but that the Lord in his just Indignation against us for our God-provoking Sins of Atheism, Idolatry, Profaneness, Adultery, and other heinous wickedness, intends (and suffers us to ripen, and be prepapared for some) dreadful Judgment, which God may justly bring upon this Land and Nation by the hand of the Papists, if we Repent not of those Abominations, and do not reform ⟨image 3⟩them. It is more than Manifest by woful Experience, that the main End of the Papists in all their Plots and Conspiracies is the utter Destruction of the Protestants (whom they call Hereticks) and the Protestant-Religion in England especially, and the Re-establishment of the Popish-Religion of the Church of Rome in this Kingdom; which End the Popish-Recusants in England (in this Bloody and Traiterous design, that Damnable and Hellish Plot contrived and carried on by them for Assassinating and Murdering the King, Subverting the Government, and for Rooting out and Destroying the Protestant-Religion, as the King and Parliament have voted and declared) are still endeavouring 〈…〉 effect, and bring to pass. The concurrent 〈…〉 our grand and greatest Enemies 〈…〉 the World durst not entertain a Thought of Invasion, did they not Hope, (when Time serves) to find amongst us a Side and Faction of numerous and Seditious Papists to joyn, with them. Were we rid of the Papists, and were Idolatry, Atheism, Whoredom and Blasphemy put away, as in Policy, Reason, and Religion these ought to be, The Royal Person of the King would be safe from Assassination, and the Government secure from Subversion. And the Protestants, and Protestant-Religion free from utter Destruction, by the blessed Protection of Almighty God. Conformity unto all Oaths, Tests, and outward formal Satisfactions of State, concurring with a full