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

but by those who have most done the Popes work, while they have seemed most furiously to fly in the Popes face as popularly zealous against Popery, and yet at the same time by a strange giddiness, headiness, and madness, they have risen up against that Mother-Church which bare them, and those Fathers in it, who heretofore mightily defended them and theirs from the talons and gripes of that Roman Eagle: and this not with childish scufflings or light skirmishings, to which manner of sight the illiterate weakness and rudeness of our new Masters and Champions hath reduced those Controversies? but with such a Panoply or complete Armour of proof, such sharp Weapons, such ponderous Engines, such rare dexterity of well-man-aged Powers, raised from all Learning, both Divine and Humane, that the high places and defences of Rome were not able to stand before them heretofore, when they were battered by our Jewels, our Lakes, our Davenants, our Whites, our Halls, our Mortons, our Andrews, and the late invincible Usher, who deserved to be Primate, not only of Ireland, but of all the Protestant Forces in the world. All these were Bishops, Worthies of the first three, seconded in their ranks by able and orderly Presbyters, as Whitakers, Perkins, Reynolds, Whites, Crakenthorps, Sutcliffs, and innumerable others, while our Regiments were orderly, our Marchings comely, and our Forces both united and encouraged.

but by those who have most done the Popes work, while they have seemed most furiously to fly in the Popes face as popularly zealous against Popery, and yet at the same time by a strange giddiness, headiness, and madness, they have risen up against that Mother-Church which bare them, and those Fathers in it, who heretofore mightily defended them and theirs from the talons and gripes of that Roman Eagle: and this not with childish scufflings or light skirmishings, to which manner of sight the illiterate weakness and rudeness of our new Masters and Champions hath reduced those Controversies? but with such a Panoply or compleat Armour of proof, such sharp Weapons, such ponderous Engines, such rare dexterity of well-man-aged Powers, raised from all Learning, both Divine and Humane, that the high places and defences of Rome were not able to stand before them heretofore, when they were battered by our Jewels, our Lakes, our Davenants, our Whites, our Halls, our Mortons, our Andrews, and the late invincible Vsher, who deserved to be Primate, not only of Ireland, but of all the Protestant Forces in the world. All these were Bishops, Worthies of the first three, seconded in their ranks by able and orderly Presbyters, as Whitakers, Perkins, Reynolds, Whites, Crakenthorps, Sutcliffs, and innumerable others, while our Regiments were orderly, our Marchings comely, and our Forces both united and encouraged.