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

But the end or effect following their actions, (though possibly not some of their intentions) will be this, to prepare by these various windings, confused circulations and distorted wrestings of the Reformed Religion, the way for Roman factors, Papal interests and Jesuitic designs, whose learned abilities, orderly industry, and indefatigable activity is such, that by that time the old ⟨p. 26⟩stock of Reverend, orderly and authoritative Bishops and Presbyters, (the truest and most unquestionable Ministers of the Church of Christ) are worn out in England, and the reformed Religion is reduced with its titular and extenuate Ministers to a mere medley, or popular Chaos of confusions, (the most of sober people being either sick, or shamed, or weary of their home bred disorders, and unremedied diseases in Religion). By this time (I say) the Romish agitators will not only devour all these petty parties, and feeble factions of Reformers, with as much ease as the Stork did the Frogs; but they will (in time) utterly destroy the remains of the defamed Doctrine and deformed Religion, which your fore fathers owned, and to the death professed, as most true and well reformed, with great Honour, Holiness, and Happiness, which yet the ignorance and insolence, the Illiterateness, and Rusticity, the Barrenness and Barbarity of novel Sects have already rendered poor and despicable, much to be pitied and deplored both at home and abroad.

But the end or effect following their actions, (though possibly not some of their intentions) will be this, to prepare by these various windings, confused circulations and distorted wrestings of the Reformed Religion, the way for Roman factors, Papal interests and Jesuitick designes, whose learned abilities, orderly industry, and indefatigable activity is such, that by that time the old ⟨p. 26⟩stock of Reverend, orderly and authoritative Bishops and Presbyters, (the truest and most unquestionable Ministers of the Church of Christ) are worn out in England, and the reformed Religion is reduced with its titular and extenuate Ministers to a meer medly, or popular Chaos of confusions, (the most of sober people being either sick, or shamed, or weary of their home bred disorders, and unremedied diseases in Religion). By this time (I say) the Romish agitators will not onely devour all these petty parties, and feeble factions of Reformers, with as much ease as the Stork did the Frogs; but they will (in time) utterly destroy the remains of the defamed Doctrine and deformed Religion, which your fore fathers owned, and to the death professed, as most true and well reformed, with great Honour, Holiness, and Happiness, which yet the ignorance and insolence, the Illiterateness, and Rusticity, the Barrenesse and Barbarity of novel Sects have already rendred poor and despicable, much to be pitied and deplored both at home and abroad.