their entrance, there they could never be rid of those Priests,
nor came them, till a Law(as the last remedy) was made, that
if any of them were caught they should be guelded.
But what a misery it is that the fesuit, spewed out of other
Nations, seems to have taken Sanctuary in ours, and by
a kind of transmigration is become altogether English, walking
up and down with the garb and title of a Protestant Minister!
This is not to cast dirt in the face of the Ministry
(for, to such as are Ministers indeed, who can pay more respect
and reverence than we?) but to point at a generation of
men, bere among us, who call themselves Presbyierian, and
would be thought Ministers of the Gospel, but minister only
to the world, and to the God of this world, to carry on
worldly ends and interests, and serve only as Ministers of state
(in the behalf of Foreiners) to overthrow the peace and Freedome
of their native Countrey, which they would betray unto
the Scots; us it hath appeared clearly to the world, upon
the Trial of Mr. Love, before the High court of Justice.
For the carrying on of which traiterous Designe, they have
farr out-stript the Jesuit, both in Practise and Project: For,
they have not only tampered with mens Consciences in private
(beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture) but
they preach open Rebellion and Treason, with a Full mouth,
in the Pulpit; They hols Correspondence with the Enemies
abroad, and with associates of their own humor and
Function here at home; acting their conspiracies in the
Form and Authority of a Body-politick, presuming to commissionate
Agents, give out instructions, write letters, and
treat with the publick enemy, raise monies to supply him,
and carry on the confederacie. To this end, they have their
private Consultations, Fasts, and Contributions: which (in case
of discovery) they are to say were intended for the good of the
Nations, and for charitable uses.
Add to these, the manner of the breeding up their proselyts:
which is farr more serpentine and subtil then that which
the jesuits, use, for the qualifying of their novices: for, first
they initiate them with Fastings, solemn Vowes and Promises,