(383.)
A certain Minister of the Reformed Religion, preaching one Sabbath day in Amsterdam, took an occasion to loose his text, that he might find out a digressive discourse on the Magistrates of that ci∣ty, several whereof were present at that time; in his Sermon he first proved, that Magistrates were as Gods on Earth, and that the Ministers were as Angels; after this he much inveighed against the supiness and carelesness of the former, in suffering Popish Idolatrie to be so openly professed, with Ju∣daism, &c. And his zeal prompted him to say, that they should one day be answerable for their negligence, reproveing them also for many noto∣rious Sins, &c, After Sermon, some of the Ma∣gistrates sent for him, and haveing severely checkt him for his Insolence, and seditious Eloquence, told him, that if he ever did the like, that though he made them Gods, they would make a Devil of him, and throw him out of the Paradise of his Liveing, into the Hell of a Dungeon.