Prophecies concerning the return of popery into England, Scotland and IrelandProphecys concerning the return of popery into England, Scotland and Ireland

Archbishop Grindal.

Two great dangers I really fear, Atheism and Popery; both me thinks, I see arising out of our needless divisions and differences, fomented and cherished, I fear by Satan the enemy of mankind, and the Pope, the enemy of Christendom, that Antichrist, the mystery of whose iniquity yet worketh among us, but that she letteth who also did let, and will let, by her power and authority given her of God, for God, until (which God avert, though their enemies endeavour) she be taken out of the way.— By these differences the enemies of our Religion •gain this, That nothing can be established by Law in the Protestant Religion, whose every part is opposed by one or other of ⟨p. 12⟩her own professors; so that things continuing loose and confused, the Papists have their opportunity to urge their way, which is attended with Order and Government, and our Religion continued thus distracted and divided, some vile wretches lay hold of the Arguments on one side to confute the other, and so hope at last to destroy all: In quae reservamur tempora?

TWo great dangers I really fear, Atheism and Popery; both me thinks, I see arising out of our needless divisions and differences, fomented and cherished, I fear by Satan the enemy of mankind, and the Pope, the enemy of Christendom, that Antichrist, the mystery of whose iniquity yet worketh among us, but that she letteth who also did let, and will let, by her power and authority given her of God, for God, until (which God avert, though their enemies endeavour) she be taken out of the way.— By these differences the enemies of our Religion •gain this, That nothing can be established by Law in the Protestant Religion, whose every part is opposed by one or other of ⟨p. 12⟩