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Consider, the Season of it. It was when the Protestant Religion was Lying at the Stake; and foreign Popish Writers did not stick to tell the World in Print, That there was a private League made between two of the most Potent Monarchs in Christendom, (which one of their own Ambassadors also▪ did in a manner own) for the Extirpation of Heresy; and that not only the subduing of Holland, but also the Enslaving of England were steps to be taken in order thereunto. It was when the Indefatigable Drudges of the Papacy, who had more than Ten years before declared, We have here a Mighty Work upon our Hands, no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms, and by that perhaps the utter subduing a pestilent Heresy, which has domi••ered•a long time over a great part of this Northern World; whereof never such Hopes as now; had now got all the Advantageous Posts of the Nation into their Hands, and had so modelled all their Business that they counted themselves out of the Reach of chance for ever; and were even ready like Haman to cast Lots for a Lucky Day to throw all their Visors off. It was when the Fundamental ⟨p. 34⟩Laws of the Kingdom were overturned, and the Frogs of the Romish Egypt were swarming in a main, to take possession of the Glorious Holy Mountain between the Seas ▪ When things were thought hastening to that pass, that every vacancy in the public Employments would have made several Proselytes unto Popery; when a great Creation would suddenly have given the Papists a majority in the House of Lords, and New Charters with Bold Returns might quickly have given them a Majority in the House of Commons too; a Condition of Affairs that was formidable to all that penetrate into the Tendencies of Popery.

Consider, the Season of it. It was when the Protestant Religion was Lying at the Stake; and forreign Popish Writers did not stick to tell the World in Print, That there was a private League made between two of the most Potent Monarchs in Christendome, (which one of their own Ambassadors also▪ did in a manner own) for the Extirpation of Haeresy; and that not only the subduing of Holland, but also the Enslaving of England were steps to be taken in order thereunto. It was when the Indefatigable Drudges of the Papacy, who had more than Ten years before declared, We have here a Mighty Work upon our Hands, no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms, and by that perhaps the utter subduing a pestilent Heresy, which has domiereda long time over a great part of this Northern World; whereof never such Hopes as now; had now got all the Advantageous Posts of the Nation into their Hands, and had so model'd all their Business that they counted themselves out of the Reach of chance for ever; and were even ready like Haman to cast Lots for a Lucky Day to throw all their Vizards off. It was when the Fundamental