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SWithin was Sainted by the Man of Rome, for making a Basket of broken Eggs whole, if you will believe the blind Papists, who swear it with as much Confidence as if they had seen it done: tho 'tis many hundred of years since Swithin was in orbe nostro. And all these Le∣gends were divised to bring Credit and Profit to the Romish Church: whereat even little Children laugh in Scorn▪ And in good Truth, most
Papists have as much reason to curse their own Plot and Plotters as we have; and wish it had never been: for hereby they have set so many Protestant Pens on Work to lay open the falsness, bloodiness, execrable∣ness, ridiculousness and absurdness of their popish Religion to the world: which otherwise had been snent. For, before, People had a pretty good Opinion of the Papists; and would speak favorably of them: yea, and many of their Religion too: but now, they both hate them, and their Religion, for the means aforesaid: so that the more they stir, the more they stink in Peoples nostrils. I say again, That their hellish PLOT, which intended the utter Destruction of the Protestant Cause, seems to me rather an Advantage to it. Yea, though thousands of Protestants should fall by the hands of Papists: which yet would but confirm and illustrate that divine and glorious Apo∣thegm, or Motto of the true Church, viz. Sanguis Martyrum, semen Ecclesiae, i. e. The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church. And I must affirm, That in sanguine Sanctorum Ecclesiae Papisticorum pri∣matiam obtinuit, i. e. The Popish Church obtained the Primacy by shed∣ding the blood of Saints.