The church of Rome, no safe guide, or, Reasons to prove that no rational…

I answer two things; (1.) That those who have these Principles, who teach these Practices, are all of them appointed unto their Office and Work, imposed on the consciences of men as their only Guides, by the Authority of the Church it self. No Caution is given by it against them; no Rule prescribed whereby they may know them; but they come all armed with the Authority of the Church, and as such are received by their credulous followers. The whole therefore of what they do, may justly be ascribed unto the Church it self. (2.) It may be made to appear, that for about an hundred and ⟨p. 40⟩fifty years past, no Plot, no Design hath been conceived or perpetrated, wherein Kings, Princes, private Persons were to be murdered or destroyed, wherein Nations were to be embroiled in blood and confusion, in order unto the promotion of the Catholic Cause, but the Church it self was either the Contriver or Approver of it. Who approved of the murder of the two Kings in France, one after another? of the Massacre there of an hundred thousand Protestants? who designed and blessed all preparations for the murder of Queen Elizabeth; with the unjust Invasion of the Nation in 88? who blessed and protected what in them lay the horrible Massacre of Ireland; with the slaughters that have been made in other places on the same Principles? was it a few Jesuits only? was it not the Church it self in its Head the Pope, and its Horns the Cardinals at Rome?

I answer two things; (1.) That those who have these Principles, who teach these Practices, are all of them appointed unto their Office and Work, imposed on the consciences of men as their only Guides, by the Authority of the Church it self. No Caution is given by it against them; no Rule prescribed whereby they may know them; but they come all armed with the Authority of the Church, and as such are received by their credulous followers. The whole therefore of what they do, may justly be ascribed unto the Church it self. (2.) It may be made to appear, that for about an hundred and ⟨p. 40⟩fifty years past, no Plot, no Design hath been conceived or perpetrated, wherein Kings, Princes, private Persons were to be murdered or destroyed, wherein Nations were to be embroyled in blood and confusion, in order unto the promotion of the Catholick Cause, but the Church it self was either the Contriver or Approver of it. Who approved of the murder of the two Kings in France, one after another? of the Massacre there of an hundred thousand Protestants? who designed and blessed all preparations for the murder of Queen Elizabth; with the unjust Invasion of the Nation in 88? who blessed and protected what in them lay the horrible Massacre of Ireland; with the slaughters that have been made in other places on the same Principles? was it a few Jesuites only? was it not the Church it self in its Head the Pope, and its Horns the Cardinals at Rome?