_But we must cool this all-believing zeal, That hath enjoy'd so fair a turn so long_, etc. _Dislike of this first by degrees shall steal, As upon souls of men perswaded wrong; And that the sacred power which thus hath wrought, Shall give her self the sword to cut her throat._ _Go therefore thou with all thy stirring train Of swelling Sciences (the gifts of grief) Go loose the links of that soul-binding chain, Enlarge this uninquisitive Belief: Call up mens spirits, that simpleness retain, Enter their hearts, and knowledge make the Thief To open all the Doors to let in Light, That all may all things see but what is right._ _Opinion arm against opinion (grown) Make new-born contradictions still arise, As if Thebes Founder_ (Cadmus) _tongues had sown Indent of teeth, for greater mutinies: Bring new defended faith against faith known, Weary the soul with contrarieties, Till all Religion become Retrograde, And that fair lye the mask of sin be made:_ _And better to effect a speedy end, Let there be found two fatal Instruments, The one to publish, th' other to defend [SN: Printing] Impious contention, and proud discontents: Make that instamped characters may send Abroad to thousands, thousand mens intents; And in a moment may dispatch much more, Than could a world of pens perform before;_ _Whereby all quarrels, titles, secrecies, May unto all be presently made known, Factions prepar'd, parties allur'd to rise, Seditions under fair pretences sown; Whereby the vulgar may become so wise That with a self-presumption overgrown, They may of deepest mysteries debate, Controul their betters, censure acts of State._ _And then when this dispersed mischief shall Have brought confusion in each mystery, Call'd up contempts of State in general, And ripen'd the humour of impiety, Then take the other engine wherewithal [SN: Guns] They may torment their self-wrought misery; And scourge each other in so strange a wise, As time or tyrants never could devise_, etc. See _Bellermontan._ in his _Dissertat. politic. dissert._ 29. and 30.