The Protestants vade mecum, or, Popery display'd in its proper colours, in thirty emblems, lively representing all the Jesuitical plots against this nation, and more fully this late hellish designe against His Sacred Majesty, curiously engraven in copper-plates
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The Protestants vade mecum, or, Popery display'd in its proper colours, in thirty emblems, lively representing all the Jesuitical plots against this nation, and more fully this late hellish designe against His Sacred Majesty, curiously engraven in copper-plates
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London :: Printed for Dan. Browne, Sam. Lee, and Dan. Major,
1680.
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ISAIAH, Chap. 3. v. 15.
What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord of Hosts.
ARe theseThe Engines to disturb our ease?When will Rome ceaseFrom plotting to annoy our Peace?Briareus-like, no sooner one is found,But streight another rises from the ground.Halters and BillsTh'Appartment fills,With num'rous heaps of heads of spears,Huge massie steelWe all should feel,Did Heaven wink when she appears.Still from the doomOf bloody RomeHe has preserv'd the Nation free;Still lent his ayd,When Rome hath said,England shall bend t'Idolatry.What need we thenFear the Consults of bloody men,When from aboveOur God of loveRuines their Cause,And gives her Agents up unto the Laws?This fatal store,Were it much more,Could not dismay us in the least;For being free,We've libertyTo chace and take the Romish beast.
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'Twold be a glorious sight to seeAll those which own Supremacy,Lay down their yoak,And with one stroakStrike off usurp'd Triplicity.Religion! fye,'Tis base deceit,A very Cheat,If it must be maintain'd by Treachery.Rebellious bloodCan nere be good;The prop's too weak to make Religion sure:A well-got ThroneAdmits of none,Yet doth from age to age indure.
Didst thou, O Rome, a Massacre intend?Were we then grown so weak not to defend?Didst thou the fatal Magazine produce,,And has thy Brother taught thee then the use?Or are thy Coffers empty then at home,That o're our bloods our wealth may sayl to Rome?A stranger phrensie never seiz'd on man,To think this Island lay within thy span.He that from harm has sav'd us to this hour,Will still protect and keep us from thy pow'r.Each Pope successively does still invade,Which shows Religion is a thriving Trade.For damning Souls you all the glory have;But true Religion is to teach and save,And then your splendor's vanish'd in the grave.The reason's plain, why still you run on evil;Most Popes have had one Tutor, that's the De—