or confounded, none vvould hurt or destroy in all the mountaine of Gods holinesse. None would hatch the Cock∣atrise egges, or weaue the Spyders web, of Gun-powder treasons, and milhons of other trayterous complots, and bloudy conspiracies.
You, you are they who in very deed trouble Israell, and bring the whole Christian world into combusti∣on. It is a statute enacted in the heauēs, that euery soule, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, (as saith Chrysos̄tome writing vpon those words) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; be hee an Apostle, or Euangelist, or Prophet, or a∣ny other, Peter, Pope, or whosoeuer: should bee subiect to the higher Powers for conscience sake. But by the Popes statute or Canon, the vilest shaueling Priests aforesaid, are so exempted frō subiection to the highest Powers, Kings, and Emperours, that they are not bound to o∣bey them or their lawes, for Conscience, but onelie for Order sake.
Therefore they are not bound to giue, neither will they giue, to Caesar, that which is Caesars, viz. Tribute; for, Tribute belongs to him: nor Custom; yet Custom is due to him. They will not, as Saint Paul did, stand at Caesars iudgement seat, to be tryed there: much lesse will they, as Christ did, present themselues to that tri∣bunall vvhich hath power giuen to it from aboue, to bee condemned there. Some kind of reason they may haue for it; as this: They hold with Antichrist, why then should they follow Christ?
Touching the popish Layicks, If (as the Iesuit heere saith) all the Kings subiects vvithin his Realmes, are bound to obey the King; why doe they disobey him, euen in the face (beeing open and professed wilfull Recusants) to