for the least mitigation. They have excee∣ded the worst of former Ages in the cruelty of their torments; any other eyes would weep but theirs, to see what they inflict on their fel∣low-creatures; any other hearts would soften at the groans and the crys of so many miserable people; but nothing can make an Impression up∣on them, their Dungeons, Gallies, and Racks, and Gibbets, are the only things they can think of wherewith to vex such as are better than them∣selves, such as have been guilty of no crime, un∣less it were an excess of Loyalty to a King, who is an enemy to mankind, as well as their enemy. By whose allowance the vilest of men are permitted to do all those villanous and wicked things which raise a just horror in all that have any zeal to the glory of God. To see such seeding their cruel eyes with woful spectacles of the distressed and sorrowful, whom they have made to be such. The most pathetick melting expressions have not been able to draw the least pity from the breasts of these inhumane Monsters. Will men never be ashamed of their Antichristian barbarity?Pastoral Letter 2d. will they never know that it is the Beast in the Revelations, who makes himself drunk with the blood of Saints, devours their flesh, makes war upon them, and overcomes them; and is therefore called Beast, Lion, Bear, Leopard; for he must have renounced Reason and Humanity, and be tranformed into a Sa∣vage Beast, that behaves himself towards Chri∣stians as the Church of Rome behaves it self to∣wards us. Those French Persecutors are so bad, that they cannot be reproached; we cannot if 0