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

Which licentious insolencies have made all sober Christians so sick, weary and ashamed of them, that they cannot but be infinitely grieved to see and fore-see the low ebb, to which the Reformed Religion in its purity and power, must in time fall in England, while the pristine dignity and authority of the Evangelical Ministry is so invaded baffled and despised; while the authentic derivation, and Catholic succession of that holy power, is so interrupted, innovated, divided, destroyed; while the reverence of primitive customs and examples is so slighted, abated, by Popish innovators; while the cords of Christian harmony and Church-policy are so loosened and ravelled on every side; while the just honour and encouragements of learning and learned men are so much damped and exhausted; while the Ecclesiastic Glory of his Nation, which was the chiefest (in being and owning it self as a true and Reformed Church of Christ) is so much eclipsed, to the great reproach of this present age, and the infinite hazard of posterity; which will hardly ever recover the honour, order, beauty and unity of Christian and Reformed Religion, formerly enjoyed in this Church and Nation, when once the Jewels of it, the learned, ordained, orderly and authoritative Ministers of the Gospel, with all their Ministry and Ministrations, Come to be either trampled under ⟨p. 17⟩feet by Schismatical fury, or invaded and usurped by vulgar insolency; which in time will rake them all up, and bury them in the dunghill of Romish superstitions and Papal usurpations.

Which licentious insolencies have made all sober Christians so sick, weary and ashamed of them, that they cannot but be infinitely grieved to see and fore-see the low ebbe, to which the Reformed Religion in its purity and power, must in time fall in England, while the pristine dignity and authority of the Evangelical Ministry is so invaded baffled and depised; while the authentick derivation, and Catholick succession of that holy power, is so interrupted, innovated, divided, destroyed; while the reverence of primitive customes and examples is so slighted, abated, by Popish innovators; while the cords of Christian harmony and Church-policy are so loosened and ravelled on every side; while the just honour and encouragements of learning and learned men are so much damped and exhausted; while the Ecclesiastick Glory of his Nation, which was the chiefest (in being and owning it self as a true and Reformed Church of Christ) is so much eclipsed, to the great reproach of this present age, and the infinite hazard of posterity; which will hardly ever recover the honour, order, beauty and unity of Christian and Reformed Religion, formerly enjoyed in this Church and Nation, when once the Jewels of it, the learned, ordained, orderly and authoritative Ministers of the Gospel, with all their Ministry and Ministrations, Come to be either trampled under