Oh, that none butpapists would become guilty of my blood!
The emperor," said they, "is a young man whom the papists and bishops lead at pleasure by their flattery.
The Papists believed we were priests and we could not get rid of them; they would have us confess them, baptize their children, and perform mass; and they continued in this opinion.
Nor were there wanting many ready to bear witness they had seen these dreaded papists fling fire-balls into houses of honest citizens, and depart triumphing in their fiendish deeds.
Indignation against the papists daily increasing in height, the decrees issued regarding them became more rigorous in severity.
Two days later a bill was framed "for more effectually preserving the king's person and government, by disabling papistsfrom sitting in either House of Parliament.
But belief that the dreaded papists had set fire to the city, lingered in the minds of many citizens.
Accordingly a rumour was soon brought before the House of Commons of a horrible plot hatched by the papists to burn London to the ground.
Men's spirits were so sharpened," says Burnet, "that it was looked on as a very great happiness that the people did not vent their fury upon the papists about the town.
For suddenly news was spread that the French, Dutch and English papists were marching on them, prepared to cut their throats.
And, notwithstanding the rigorous Test Acts, it was believed many high positions at court were held by those who were papists at heart.
Ye may not say, neither, that because we may not oppose against authority, that we may not oppose against Papists or against Prelates; for that were to make ourselves slaves to men.
So among the papists there are, besides the common ones, as many sorts of hypocrites as they have self-devised orders.
But I confess I was more afraid that the papists had too much derogated from the Scripture, than given too much to it.
Even among the papists there are some spiritual, serious, holy persons, who are derided and opposed by the profane that are of their own church.
Men deal with Christ as the papists with the reformed churches: because we reject their formalities and ceremonious toys, they say we take down all religion.
I marvel that manypapists tremble not when they read the character of the Pharisees!
The papists are not a third part, if a fourth, of the whole church.
He treated with Mr. Nye about an agreement with the independents, in a moderate scheme; and he was often engaged in disputes with the papists also.
It seems among papists and barbarians, the serpent's seed do hiss in the same manner against the good among themselves, as they do against us.
And on the contrary, some papists that look only at the body as their enemy, are much in fastings, and bodily exercises, while they neglect the mortifying of their carnal minds.
You see in all this, what our doctrine is about good works, and how far those papists are to be believed, who persuade their ignorant disciples, that we account them vain and needless things.
This may be thought a poor compliment to Protestantism, since religious scruples, it is said, are all that keep the Papists out; but is not the desire to be in, pushing them on almost to rebellion at this moment?
M666) On the accession of James II the obnoxious inscription was removed, but the feeling against Papists had obtained so strong a hold over the popular mind, that it was again set up as soon as William III came to the throne.
The same with Papists and all suspicious persons found in the city.
Thirteen years later the belief that the Papists had a hand in causing the wholesale destruction of the city was formally promulgated by the House of Commons (10 Jan.
Here be daily proclamations come forth; one strict enough against papists and recusants, if it may be duly executed; but it is thought to look forward to the parliament, which is to begin the 6th of February.
He did this because he understood that the inhabitants of the city were much alarmed at the great resort of Papists to the city who were believed to be meditating some attack upon London.
On the 7th December the mayor issued a precept to the aldermen of each ward for a careful search to be made in the city for all Papists and suspicious persons.
The House was further reminded that the City was dissatisfied with the remissness shown in disarming Papists and pressing of soldiers, as well as in displacing the lieutenant of the Tower, and appointing one well approved by parliament.
The country was over-run with Papists from abroad.
His hand still grasped the hatchet for the stroke, And bitter wrath he breathed, and fierce the words he spoke.
He spake, and with his left hand grasped amain His helmet.
Dolphins of silvery sheen Lash the white eddies with their tails in play, Cleaving the surges.
Then, but that the Heaven-taught seer Warned him that each was but an empty shade, A shapeless soul, vain onset he had made, And slashed the shadows.
AEneas is wounded while endeavouring to restrain his men from reprisals, and the fray becomes general.
And now, her work begun, Juturna shows a lying sign on high, That shakes Italian hearts, and cheats the wondering eye.
Far off there lies, across the rolling wave, An ancient land, which Greeks Hesperia name; Her soil is fruitful and her people brave.
Tiber flow Red with the blood of Trojans, ay, and all Evander's house and progeny laid low, And fierce Arcadians vanquished at a blow?
And offering frankincense and sacred grain, Troy's household gods adores, and hoary Vesta's fane.
A worthy husband for thy child provide, And peace shall with the lasting pact abide.
I hear no news my lord, only, God's Papists can get no preferment, because the King's Papists swarm so thick.
Marry," he answered in a light manner, "by that same token or text, papists can then not serve the queen and also the Pope!
But one that was more bold than the rest took heart, and cried, "God send it does not forbode that the Papists will murder us all in our beds!
And many loudly affirmed none could be Papists, or wish them well, and be friends to the queen's government, and so it did stand to reason that Papistswere traitors.
But I hope she will serve God with great and comfortable examples, and have all such notorious papists presently committed to prison.
I hear such things said on all sides touching Papists as I can scarce credit, and I pray to God they be not true.
But that I was to remember many Protestants were burnt in the late queen's time, and that if Papists were not kept under by strict laws, the like might happen again.
So, albeit the papists fought like devils, as they are, his pride got a fall, which well-nigh killed him.
And as I could not stay my weeping, he asked in a scornful manner, "Do papists so dote on their priests as to die of sorrow when they get their deserts?
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