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

But I mean that Papal Monarchy, or Ecclesiastical Tyranny, by which the Church, of rather the Court of Rome, (by such sinister Arts and unjust Policies, as were shamefully used and discovered in the Tridentine conventicle) seeks to usurp and continue an imperial power over all Churches and Bishops, as if there had been but one Apostle, or one Apostolic Church planted in the world; also to corrupt and abuse that ancient Purity, Simplicity, and Liberty of Religion, which was preserved among Primitive Churches and their co-ordinate Bishops: Further, without fear of God or reverence of man, opposing some Divine Truths and undoubted institutions of Christ also imposing such erroneous Doctrines and superstitious Opinions upon all Christians, to be believed, and accordingly practised, as become not the severity and sanctity of true Religion, adding to that holy foundation (which was indeed first laid by the great Apostles and continued happily for many hundred years by the successive Bishops of Rome) those after-superstructures, not of ceremonies only, which are tolerable (many of them like feathers, making but little weight in Religion) but of corrupt Doctrines and superstitious Duties, as seem (at best) impertinent to true Piety; but some of them are erroneous, sacrilegious, pernicious. In somethings they are boldly adding to, or detracting from the Doctrine and Institutions of our blessed Lord Jesu• Christ: in other things they impose for sacred and necessary, such opinions and customs, which are but the rust and dross, the disease and deformity of Christian ⟨p. 20⟩Religion, contracted in the long ignorance, darkness, and almost barbarity of times, which God winked at: but now they appear highly and justly scandalous, yea, intolerable to more judicious and less credulous Christians, who are very sensible, not only of that offence, which many Papal Injunctions and Observations give to themselves, as Christians, but also to the very Heathens, to Jews, and to Mahometans, who cannot teconcile in any Reason or Religion the Idolatrous use of Images and Hosts among Papists, to which they must submit, if they will be in communion with them, or converted to be Christians;

But I mean that Papal Monarchy, or Ecclesiastical Tyranny, by which the Church, of rather the Court of Rome, (by such sinister Arts and unjust Policies, as were shamefully used and discovered in the Tridentine conventicle) seeks to usurp and continue an imperial power over all Churches and Bishops, as if there had been but one Apostle, or one Apostolick Church planted in the world; also to corrupt and abuse that ancient Purity, Simplicity, and Liberty of Religion, which was preserved among Primitive Churches and their co-ordinate Bishops: Further, without fear of God or reverence of man, opposing some Divine Truths and undoubted institutions of Christ also imposing such erroneous Doctrines and superstitious Opinions upon all Christians, to be believed, and accordingly practised, as become not the severity and sanctity of true Religion, adding to that holy foundation (which was indeed first laid by the great Apostles and continued happily for many hundred years by the successive Bishops of Rome) those after-superstructures, not of ceremonies onely, which are tolerable (many of them like feathers, making but little weight in Religion) but of corrupt Doctrines and superstitious Duties, as seem (at best) impertinent to true Piety; but some of them are erroneous, scrilegious, pernicious. In somethings they are boldly adding to, or detracting from the Doctrine and Institutions of our blessed Lord Jesu Christ: in other things they impose for sacred and necessary, such opinions and customes, which are but the rust and drosse, the disease and deformity of Christian