( 61 J . V. Ic would make us uncapable ofTrufi, Traf– ·fick, and Friendlhip with any Forreign Land : Open National _Perjury .is fo odious againft the Light and Law of Nature , that EngliaJmen would be to other Lands, as Man-eating Canibals are to us. None could u:eat with us or trufl: us. VI. This would be a mofi heinous wrong to the King, to have the Hifiory of his Reign fo odi- , oully blotted to all Po11erity, as that under him the Land fbould be turned tobiabolifm, and made the hatred and fcorn of all the Earth; when God had honoured it with fo many Blefiings above . mofi ·others. VII. It would render Popery it felf more odi– ous than it· is, as if it lived by the moft horrid crimes,. and muft revive by National Perjury: And would confirm thofe felf- conceited \-Vhim- .fical Expofitors of-Rr:v. I 3. thatthink the mark in the Forehead imp9fed upon all that muft buy and fell, and be Fre~men is PERjury with. I:ERfecution; and that dream that the Letters of the Name of the Beaft, are not to be underftood .meerly Numerally, but Materially and Nominally, and that x ~ s- )(j, xi, figma~tau are our Ch. and St. cbnjoyned by a Serpentine [X] or [and] to fig– nifie that our Swearing and Forfwearing was for [Church and Sta_te.] ' Yea and the ·more odious fancy of another Name in them will become their ·Sport. VIII. It would make the Nonconforrnifts fay that never Men on Earth were dealt with fo inhu– manely, and Challenge the World to give any fuch infcance in any Hiftory, Chriftian, Mahome– tan or Pagan, if the fame men that have reviled · ·· , ' them •
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