It needs not perſpicuouſneſſe, for God knowes they are plain enough: nor doe all of them uſe Sem-briefe-Accents for ſome of them have crotchets enough. It may bee they intend not to riſe like glorious Tapers and Torches, but like Thinne-wretched-ſicke-watching-Candles, which languiſh and are in a Divine Conſumption from the firſt minute, yea in their ſnuffe, and ſtink when others are in their more profitable glory. I have thought ſometimes, that out of conſcience, they allow long meaſure to courſe ware. And ſometimes, that uſurping in that place a liberty to ſpeak freely of Kings, they would raigne as long as they could. But now I thinke they doe it out of a zealous imagination, that, It is their duty to preach on till their Auditory wake.
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Why did the Divel reſerve Jeſuites till theſe latter dayes.
Did he know that our Age would deny the Devils poſſeſſing
, and therfore provided by theſe to poſſeſſe men and kingdomes? Or to end the diſputation of Schoolemen, why the Divell could not make lice in Egypt; and whether thoſe things hee preſented there, might be true, hath he ſent us a true and reall plague, worſe than thoſe ten? Or in oſtentation of the greatneſſe of his Kingdome, which even diviſion cannot ſhake, doth he ſend us theſe which diſagree with all the reſt? Or knowing that our times ſhould diſcover the Indies, and aboliſh their Idolatry, doth he ſend theſe to give them another for it? Or peradventure they have beene in the Roman Church theſe thouſand yeeres, though we have called them by other names.