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

O, saith our Saviour Christ, the good shepherd and bishop of our souls, my harvest is beaten down and lost, and there is none that will go abroad and save it. My people run headlong to their own destruction, not of Malice but of very simplicity, only because they are not taught, because they know not my father nor me. Also, it is not my fathers will that any of them should be lost.

But for the hope of posterity, I report me to all you which are fathers, and have children for whom you are careful. Although your selves have a zeal and care for the house of God: yet will you breed them up, keep them at School, until four and twenty years old to your charges, that in the end they may live in glorious poverty? that they may live poorly and naked like the Prophets and Apostles? Our posterity shall rue, that ever such fathers went before them: And Chronicles shall report this contempt of learning among the punishments, and murrains, and other plagues of God. They shall leave it written in what time and under whose reign this was done. Or if we grow so barbarous that we consider not this, or be not able to draw it into Chronicle, yet foreign Nations will not spare to write this, and publish it to our everlasting reproach and shame.

But for the hope of posterity, I report me to all you which are fathers, and have children for whom you are careful. Although your selves have a zeal and care for the house of God: yet will you breed them up, keep them at School, until four and twenty years old to your charges, that in the end they may live in glorious poverty? that they may live poorly and naked like the Prophets and Apostles? Our posterity shall rue, that ever such fathers went before them: And Chronicles shall report this contempt of learning among the punishments, and murrains, and other plagues of God. They shall leave it written in what time and under whose raign this was done. Or if we grow so barbarous that we consider not this, or be not able to draw it into Chronicle, yet fortain Nations will not spare to write this, and publish it to our everlasting reproach and shame.