The travels of true godliness. From the beginning of the world to this present…

Now these Enemies had divers strange and ridiculous Orders of Men amongst them, and all cruel Enemies to true Godliness, but one Order proved more suitable and implacable than all the rest called (by some) Loyalties, being as 'tis said, the spurious Off spring of one Ignatius Loyola, who where Men of such base Spirits, that they were content to become mere Pimps and Panders to the great Whore, endeavouring all Ways to allure Kings, Princes and mighty Men to commit Fornication with her; and if they could not effect that, then they persuade Subjects to cast off their Allegiance to their temporal Sovereigns, and to own the usurped Power and Jurisdiction of their great Master the^* King of Babylon.

Now these Enemies had divers strange and ridiculous Orders of Men amongst them, and all cruel Enemies to true Godliness, but one Order proved more suitable and implacable than all the rest called (by some) Loyalties, being as 'tis said, the spurious Off spring of one Ignatious Loyala, who where Men of such base Spirits, that they were content to become meer Pimps and Panders to the great Whore, endeavouring all Ways to allure Kings, Princes and mighty Men to commit Fornication with her; and if they could not effect that, then they perswade Subjects to cast off their Allegiance to their temporal Sovereigns, and to own the usurp'd Power and Jurisdiction of their great Master the^* King of Babylon.

1. *The Pope.

Now, these Men remembering what a great Enemy true Godliness had been to them in the same Isle former Times, and how he had forced them to pack up their ⟨p. 68⟩Trumpery and begone: Nay, and not only so, but also they found that he had got a great Number of the Inhabitants of the said Isle to side with him, against their beloved Mistress and great Goddess Diana, which they feared might stand in the Way of her mounting the Saddle once again; they sought out many Ways to root out and utterly destroy true Godliness, and this they did, by contriving divers Plots and sham Plots; the first was in the Year 1661, when they craftily ensnaring a Company o poor miss-led Men, called Fifth Monarchy Men, who thought in their own Time, and by their own Strength, by outward force, to have erected true Godliness a most glorious visible Kingdom; and by this Means the common Enemy took an Occasion to call all the Friends and Favourites of true Godliness, Traitors, and utter Enemies to Kings and civil Magistracy, which he and they ever abhorred: But upon this a great Persecution was raised and many of the chiefest Friends to true Godliness were imprisoned, and some executed and divers died in filthy Prisons; but after this they raised a worse Persecution, and another after that, and at last they maliciously an traitorously resolved, by a Devilish Conspiracy to destroy true Godliness, and all that favoured him, and to set up false and counterfeit Godliness in his stead; and indeed they so far proceeded, that the friends of true Godliness viz. the two Witnesses of Jesus were brought under […] civil Death, being divested of all Power, Help, or Hope, and like dead Men were cast out by the Walls, yet God defeated their Conspiracy so far as to discover the Conspirators, or else doubtless true Godliness, and all his Favourites had received the most fatal Blow as ever was known; but God would not have the dead Bodies of his Witnesses to be put into Graves, yet divers holy Persons were cut off by their bloody and traitorous Hands in the