by compulsion, and an outward Law, and some of us they cause to be put in prison, and call us hereticks, deluders, and deceivers, false prophets, and yet could live on our estates, and covet our silver, and gold, and estates, and by law and Justices Warrants straines upon them, and so seeks ours, and would destroy us, like the false prophets which Hosea de∣clared against, who as a company of robbers wait for a man, so the company of Priests murders in the way by con∣sent, and also the false teachers which Peter foretold of, who through covetousnesse, with feigned words make mer∣chandize of the people, or we who are made merchandize of, though we take none of their stoln wares, and make merchandize of none, God is our witness, and so if these be not the false teachers which Paul foretold of to come in the last times, covetous, ▪proud, boasters, blasphemers, dis∣obedient, unthankfull, unholy, without naturall affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traytors, heady, high-minded, lo∣vers of pleasures more then lovers of God, having a form of godlinesse, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away, for of this sort are they that creep into houses, who lead silly women captive, full of sin and corruption, & divers lusts, ever learning, and never come to the know∣ledge of the truth: now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do they withstand the truth, men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith, 2. Tim. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Now see if your Teachers be not lovers of their own selves, who seek for the fleece, and regard not the flock, but feed with the fat, and cloath with the wool, and live by the sweat of others browes, living at ease, devouring the crea∣tion, and spending it upon their lusts, they and their wives and Children, nourishing their hearts as in a day of slaugh∣ter, and of changeable minds, according to the government of man, that they may save & shelter themselves under the power and will of man, as the false prophets did, by which they stood and were upheld, and the same that pray∣ed for the King and Realm, and the same prayes now for the Lord Protector and the State of England. Now see