He considered that Popery and defection had made a large step in Britain, and that Arbitrary Government had over-swelled all banks of Law, that it was now at the highest float, and that this sea approaching the farthest border of fancied absoluteness, was at the score of ebbing: and the naked truth is, Prelates, a wild and pushing cattle to the lambs and flock of Christ, had made a hideous noise, the wheels of their chariot did run an equal pace with the blood-thirsty mind of the Daughter of Babel. Prelacy, the daughter planted in her mothers blood, must verify that word, As is the mother, so is the daughter: why, but ⟨image 4⟩do not the Prelates now suffer? True, but their sufferings are not of blood, or kindred, to the calamities of these of whom Lactantius saith, l. 5. c. 19. O quam honesta voluntate miseri erant. The causes of their suffering are, 1. Hope of gain and glory, stirring their Helm to a shore they much affect; even to a Church of Gold, of Purple, yet really of clay and earth. 2. The lye is more active upon the spirits of men, not because of its own weakness, but because men are more passive in receiving the impressions of error, then truth; and opinions lying in the worlds fat womb, are of a conquering nature, what ever notions side with the world, to Prelates and men of their make are very efficacious.
He considered that Popery and defection had made a large step in Britain, and that Arbitrary Government had over-swelled all banks of Law, that it was now at the highest float, and that this sea approaching the farthest border of fancied absolutenes, was at the score of ebbing: and the naked truth is, Prelats, a wild and pushing cattle to the lambs and flock of Christ, had made a hideous noyse, the wheeles of their chariot did run an equall pace with the blood-thirsty mind of the Daughter of Babell. Prelacie, the daughter planted in her mothers blood, must verifie that word, As is the mother, so is the daughter: why, but ⟨image 4⟩do not the Prelates now suffer? True, but their suffrings are not of blood, or kindred, to the calamities of these of whom Lactantius saith, l. 5. c. 19. O quam honesta voluntate miseri erant. The causes of their suffring are, 1. Hope of gain and glory, stirring their Helme to a shoare they much affect; even to a Church of Gold, of Purple, yet really of clay and earth. 2. The lye is more active upon the spirits of men, not because of its own weaknesse, but because men are more passive in receiving the impressions of error, then truth; and opinions lying in the worlds fat wombe, are of a conquering nature, what ever notions side with the world, to Prelates and men of their make are very efficacious.
