The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

The Papists having hatched, & owned by several degrees, that monstrous figment of Transubstantiation (to instance among many in that Abomination) a folly, destructive to whatever is in us, as being living Creatures, Men, or Christians, or what ever by sense, Reason, or Religion, we are furnished with all, offering violence to us in what we hear, in what we see with our eyes, and look upon, in what our hands do handle, and our palates taste, breaking in upon our understandings with vagrant flying forms, self subsisting Accidents, with as many express contradictions on sundry accounts, as the nature of things is capable of Relation unto, attended with more gross Idolatry then that of the poor naked Indians; who fall down and worship a piece of red Cloth, or of those who first adore their gods, and then correct them; do yet upon the discovery of any Expressions among the Ancients, which they now make use of, quite to another End, and purpose, then they did who first ventured upon them, having minds filled with their own Abominations, do presently cry out, and triumph, as if they had found the whole far dell of the mass, in it's perfect dress, and their breaden God in the middest of it. It is no otherwise in the case of Episcopacy: men of these latter Generations, from what they saw in present being, and that usefulness of it to all their desires and interests, having entertained thoughts of love to it, and delight in it, searching Antiquity, not to instruct them in the truth, but to establish their prejudicate Opinion received by Tradition from their Fathers, and to consult them with whom they have to do, what ever Expressions they find, or can hear of, that fall in, as to the sound of words with what is now insisted upon, instantly they cry out, Vicimus Jo▪ Paean • what a simple generation of Presbyters, and Independents have we that are ignorant of all Antiquity, or do not understand what they read and look upon.

The Papists having hatched, & owned by several degrees, that monstrous figment of Transubstantiation (to instance among many in that Abomination) a folly, destructive to whatever is in us, as being living Creatures, Men, or Christians, or what ever by sense, Reason, or Religion, we are furnished with all, offering violence to us in what we heare, in what we see with our eyes, and look upon, in what our hands do handle, and our palats tast, breaking in upon our understandings with vagrant flying formes, selfe subsisting Accidents, with as many express contradictions on sundry accounts, as the nature of things is capable of Relation unto, attended with more gross Idolatry then that of the poor naked Indians; who fall down and worship a peice of red Cloth, or of those who first adore their gods, and then correct them; do yet upon the discovery of any Expressions among the Antients, which they now make use of, quite to another End, and purpose, then they did who first ventured upon them, having minds filled with their own Abominations, do presently cry out, and triumph, as if they had found the whole far dell of the mass, in it's perfect dress, and their breaden God in the middest of it. It is no otherwise in the case of Episcopacy: men of these latter Generations, from what they saw in present being, and that usefulness of it to all their desires and interests, having entertained thoughts of love to it, and delight in it, searching Antiquity, not to instruct them in the truth, but to establish their prejudicate Opinion received by Tradition from their Fathers, and to consult them with whom they have to do, what ever Expressions they find, or can heare of, that fall in, as to the sound of words with what is now insisted upon, instantly they cry out, Vicimus Io Paean what a simple generation of Presbyters, and Independents have we that are ignorant of all Antiquity, or do not understand what they read and look upon.