('II) in fejiJitical contrivancts, .ttnd undermini~g otkers, and eqr1ivocatiorn andpious frauds : in djlarbtng .Kmgd~ms, killing Kings, Mowing up Parliaments: abfolvmg fub]efls from aUegiance, and givmgaway the Dom~niom of Temeo– ral Lords if they wilL not obey the Pope m exterrlJttMttng . their Heretrcks, ( 44 # Decreed to be done in the Approved General Council at the Lateraneunder Innocent 3• C1n.3.) , nor doth it confift in murdering thirty thoufand or fourty thoufand treacheroujly in afew weeks, tU inFranee, or mucb above twiceas many in Ireland; nor in butchering Chrifli– am by hundreds or thou{ands 44 they did long agoe by the Waldenfes and Albigen[es., and Bohemiam: Nor in racking a11d tormenting them by Inqteifttion, nor in frying them in the flames of fagots, tU in Jl..!!een Marics ·days, and fre– quently el{ewhere : This u the . Religion of the father of malice, th~t thirfts for Mood) andnot of the Merciful Prince ofPeace. Godlir;efs il not the running to arms, and pulling down Governments, to [et up the proud felj-cenceited aE!trs under pretence of Jetting t$p Chri.ft and preparing for his Kingdom:[natching in thdr dream ae Cr(jwm and Kingdoms, and finding when they awake that they httve catcht 4 g.-tllowt. When the Fryers had JP awned the turbulent people among m In England, that thought they muft do emy thing and overturn the Governments of the world to m.rke chr:fl tbe pfth Mon11rchJ andbring him from heaven to Reign vijib/1 on earth before he is willing to came, I muft cenfefs 1 oft thought that their cunning Wt« much mere wonder[Ptl to keep th~fe people from being undeceived, then at jirft to de– cetv.c: them. To keep them (in defl! ight f)f all our dt(co– vertes rmdwarnin1,s) i;i- (uch fttn o:u bl indne fs, a1 f(}. goe on and do their fa!hers wark , and rage againft thef'e that ·told them their_original, -and whither they were going. The p:;or {~dur;-ed people never read {tJch Books ,u Ft) M C am– panella's de Regno Dei, & facerdotio ChriH i, &c. ( c 2 ) ' Jl'herein
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