the spirit of the wicked one, in delighting and glorying to be the tormentors and murderers of men. This temper appears written upon the church of Rome, as with an iron pen, and the point of a diamond; as is plain from the cruelties they exercised upon the Waldenses and Albigenses; from the horrid massacre of Paris, where indeed no faith was kept, but all faith broke with the Protestants: And concerning which infernal cruelty, one of the great men of the church of Rome, who had a very particular hand in it, said on his death-bed, That he was so far from repenting of it as a sin, that he looked upon it as a most meritorious action: Yea, the best deed he ever performed.
The same thing is plain from the following narrative, which it is judged expedient to reprint at this time; when the successors of these bloody men are, like beasts of prey, beginning to look out from their dens, and are not ashamed to ly in wait to deceive in our most populous cities. Still they discover their old temper by studying to recover the free exercise of their formerly abused power, and exclaiming against the rigour of those laws which were only imposed upon them as a necessary check to their cruelty. Their complaints of suffering under the present laws in force, tho’ they were put in execution against them, are but like the out-cries of Potiphar’s wife, against that sin, which had it been in her own power, she would have committed with very good will.
