Brightman - BS2823 B85 1644

C A P.7. touchingAn.tichri'ft. 6 Tht n every one oftheBilhops,as they followed next order,labou- red, as it were, for a wager, to adde new bafrardly rites to help to make up the full heap, till at length they came to fee the bottomleile Pit opened, when as the whole fogbrake forth, that Reamed out of Hell it fell. Neither did this mifcry ofthe Church lying under this bondage wot fe then. ofBabylon, make an end thus, but at length the tt)o Pro- phets Were killeïi by the'Conncel ofTrent, in which Hell broke Toole; T;iat i ,the Scriptures had their throats cur, and theirnaked carcafes were cAff abroad,as we have (hewed, Chap.i r. 9. By means where- of i t cart to paffe not long after, that the whole Sea of Popifh ,dot trinewas turned into an abominable deal of deadly and filthy core blood by the Jefuits, who undertooke co be the Mailers ofcon- .rovcdies, Chap. x 6. 3. This is the beginning and ffately progreffe of yourfpiritu ll perfecution. Now as for your corporal! perfectitior, that cannot be unknown to any man that liveth now, as the which beginning after the fecond uprifingof theBeafl, excommunicated Le) If nricvst the Emperor, depofed I-rsldcric, the Kin!?, made war with the Emperors, f ri1ped fore of them out of their Empire, rtsthed in upon the peoplecalled rllbingenfrs, with cruel! and noy- Ionic forces, and defiroyed them almoll wterly ; would not fiiffer the Grecians to have any aid given them a,gainft the Turks, uniLffe they;would:fubjed themfelves tirft..unto the : deals:Tope ;-hash con- tinued and w ted ail Ei rope with continual! wars, :by felting arc.- Princes thereof by the cares together, hath burnt up ?am FInf 'e and ?cremeofPragnc, armed Chartes the fifth againff the Proteftant,, made many Chrifiians in France to be burnt with flames of fire, tooke away many worthy. ones in. England with the -like cruelty, made that memorableMaffacre in France,fet up that bloody Entchery ()film Ingasiftion in many of. the Popes Ter-ritories,to conclude,whirh font out that invincibleNavi-e fo called of the Spanyards to deftroy England, invade Ireland with Bands of fouldiers, expofe the Ki dome ofour gracious and remoivned,_ Qten,.to be made a prey .to any T) rant that would affatilt ir, -which alto de tinated her faered per.fon,t e Lords anointed,to manyvillainons'deaths,and her people to thefpoyle; antfthe-whole Nation toa moll barbarous !laughter- ing ; rhefe things are now notorious, andCh.11 bemore and more fa- tnouffy bruised abroad now everyday but while the matters were inaging, they were fo covered, gilded andv+ernifhed over witha goodly Thewofpiety, and ze ale for the LordsHeufe,andSaint Peters Ghair,

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