s in the church, and the
prosperous successes of a rebellious _Impostor_, whose steps we have
pursued in so many pregnant instances; giving countenance to those unheard
of impieties, and delusions, as if God be not infinitely merciful, must
needs involve us under the same disasters? For, whilst there is no order
in the Church, no body of Religion agreed upon, no government established,
and that every man is abandoned to his own deceitfull heart: whilst
learning is decried, and honesty discountenanc'd, rapine defended, and
vertue finds no advocate; what can we in reason expect, but the most
direfull expressions of the wrath of God, a universall desolation, when by
the industry of _Sathan_ and his crafty Emissaries, some desperate
_enthusiasme_, compounded (like that of _Mohomet_,) of Arian, Socinian,
Jew, Anabaptist, and the impurer _Gnostick_, something I say made up of
all these heresies, shall diffuse it self over the Nation, in a universall
contagion, and nothing lesse appear then the _Christian_ which we have
ingratefully renounced?

_For this plague is already beginning amongst us, and there is none to
take the Censer, and to stand between the living and the dead, that we be
not consumed as in a moment; for there is wrath gone out from the Lord._
Let us then _depart from the tents of these wicked men_ (who have brought
all this upon us) _and touch nothing of theirs, lest we be consumed in all
their sins_.

But you will say, the King is not to be trusted: judg not of others by
your selves; did ever any man observe the least inclination of revenge in
his breast? has he not betides the innate propensity of his own nature to
gentlenesse, the strict injunctions of a dying father and a _Martyr_, to
forgive even greater offenders then you are? Yes, I dare pronounce it with
confidence, and avouch it whith all assurance, that there is not an
individuall amongst you, whose crimes are the most crimson, whom he will
not be most ready to pardon, and graciously receive upon their repentance;
nor any thing that can be desired of him, to which he would not cheerfully
accommode, for the stopping of that torrent of blood, and extream
confusion, which has hitherto run, and is yet imminent over us. Do but
reason a little with your self, and confider sadly, whether a young
Prince, mortified by so many afflictions, disciplin'd by much experience,
and instructed by the miscarriages of others, be not the most excellently
qualified to gov