Spiritual whoredom discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…Spirituall vvhordome discovered in a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…

Doth not indeed the punishing and suppressing of Spiritual whoredoms against God, Idolatry, Heresy, Blasphemy, and the rest: doth it not belong unto you, as well as the punishing of bodily whoredoms, theft, murder &c.? Doth it indeed belong to you only to look to the Civil peace, and to let Religion, and truth, and the worship of God, stand or fall to their own master? fight God, fight Devil, fight Christ, fight Antichrist; catch that catch can; you have nothing to do but to stand by, and look on! Say so then; speak out, publish it in your declarations to the world, and let the people of England know, that it is the right and liberty, to which the subjects of England are born, that every man hold what he please, and publish and preach what he holds: that it is the birth-right (as some would have it) of the free-born people of England, every man to worship God according to his own Conscience; and to be of what religion his own Conscience shall dictate: ⟨p. 34⟩do so, and see (fathers and brethren) how long your Civil peace will secure you, when religion is destroyed; how long it will be ere your Civil peace, be turned into Civil war! for no doubt if this once be granted them, but they may in good time come to know also (there be them that are instructing them, even in these principles too) that it is their birth-right to be freed from the power of Parliaments, and from the power of Kings; and to take up arms against both, when they shall not vote and act according to their humours: Liberty of Conscience (falsely so called) may in good time, improve it self into liberty of estates, and liberty of houses, and liberty of wives, and in a word, liberty of perdition, of souls and bodies.

Doth not indeed the punishing and suppressing of Spiritual whoredoms against God, Idolatry, Heresie, Blasphemie, and the rest: doth it not belong unto you, as welas the punishing of bodily whoredoms, theft, murder &c.? Doth it indeed belong to you only to look to the Civil peace, and to let Religion, and truth, and the worship of God, stand or fall to their own master? fight God, fight Divel, fight Christ, fight Antichrist; catch that catch can; you have nothing to do but to stand by, and look on! Say so then; speak out, publish it in your declarations to the world, and let the people of England know, that it is the right and liberty, to which the subjects of England are born, that every man hold what he please, and publish and preach what he holds: that it is the birth-right (as some would have it) of the free-born people of England, every man to worship God according to his own Conscience; and to be of what religion his own Conscience shal dictate: