458 Cbure-Fdigoky of BiAops favourand wealth, to feed aifo fenfuality with flefhly pleafure, f;y Satans great diligence havecorrupted facred Societies, Do6trine, Worfhip, Difci- pline and Converfation; and when the Prince of pride and darknefs, the God of this World, couldnot diredtly expugne Chriftianity, he bath under pretenceof Government, Unity, and Advancement to the Church, fet his Malignant Minifters in the Chairs and Pulpits of the Church to do his work, and fight down piety, loveand peace in the nameof Chrifi, and as it were by h's Authority ; and inflead ofperfecuting Heathens, Satan hath fet up contentions, dividing, and fileneing, and perfecuting Prelates, tot finite the true Shepherds, and fcatter the Flocks ; and as for Faith and Order, to tread down the true lifeof Faith, Love and Order, and to be the Capital E- nemies of the Church, while they would make themfelves its Heads, Ad- vancersand Defenders ; fo that the chiefgood and the chief mifchief hath come to the Church by the meansof the Pattors : And no Schifines, no He- relies, no Perfeeutionshave been more grievous, than thole that have been caufed by a tyrannical and contentious Clergy ; witnefs all the ConciliaryE- pifcopal Schiff-us, Wars, and Bloodfhedmentioned in thisColleétion ; wit- nefs the many hundred thoufandAlbigenfes, Waldenfes, and Bohemians mur- dered, as for the Faith and£hurch';:witnefs the 3ooco. or 40000. at once murdered at theFrench Maffacre; witnefs the horrid cruelties of the Inqui- lition ; witnefs the Volumes of burned and otherwife murdered Prote- liants ; and witnefs the Irifh Zeal Itirr'd up by their Clergy, that murdered two hundred thoufand info narrowa room as that final] Country, and in fo few Weeks : And whoever is the Antichrifl, certainly in Rome, and the Militant Tyrannical Church-Clergy is found the blood of the Saints, and Martyrs of Jeffs ; and as proud contentious Patriarchs and Prelates ruined Religionand the Empire in the Eaft, and gave it up to Mahometan dark- nefs and cruelty, fohave they under the name ofChriflianity impugnedthe Chriftian Intereft in the Weft. I end withG. Ileebert :. Only the Weft and Rome do keep them free From this contagiousinfidelity : And this is all the Rock whereof they boat, As Rome will one day find unto her colt;. Sin being not able to extirpate quite TheChurches here, bravely refolv'd onenight Tobe a Churchman, and to wearaMitre, The old debauched Ruffian would turnWriter.; Flaw him inhis Study, where he fate Bulle in controverfìe fprungoflate : A Gown and Pen becamehim wondrous well; His grave afpeithad more of Heaven than .Hell ;. Only there was a handfome piéture by, To which he lent a corner of his eye: As Sin in Greece a Prophet was before, And in old Rome a mighty Emperour;:
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