9. For, first, How do you hope to be saved? “By doing thus and thus? By doing no harm, and paying every man his own, and saying your prayers, and going to church and sacrament?” Alas! alas! Now you have thrown off the mask. This is _Popery_ barefaced. You may just as well speak plain, and say, “I trust to be saved by the _merit_ of my own works.” But where is CHRIST all this time? Why, he is not to come in, till you get to the end of your _prayer_. And then you will say, for JESUS CHRIST’s sake――because so it stands in your book. O my friend, your very foundation is Popish. _You_ seek salvation by your own _works_. You trample upon the _blood of the covenant_. And what can a poor _Papist_ do more? 10. But let us go on. Are you clear of idolatry any more than the _Papists_ are? It may be indeed, yours is in a different way. But how little does that signify? They set up their idols in their _churches_: you set up yours in your _heart_. Their idols are only _covered with gold_ or _silver_: but yours is _solid gold_. They worship the picture of the queen of _heaven_; you, the picture of the queen or king of _England_. In another way, they idolize a dead man or woman; whereas your idol is yet alive. O how little is the difference before God? How small pre-eminence has the money-worshipper at _London_, over the image-worshipper at _Rome_? Or the idolizer of a living sinner, over him that prays to a dead saint? 11. Take one step farther. Does the _Papist_ abroad _persecute_? Does he _force_ another man’s conscience? So does the _Papist_ at home, as far as he can; for all he calls himself a _Protestant_. Will the man in _Italy tolerate_ no opinion but his own? No more, if he could help it, would the man in _England_. Would _you_? Don’t you think the government much overseen, in _bearing_ with any but those of the _church_? Don’t you wish, they would _put down_ such and such people? You know what _you_ would do, if you was in their place.――And by the very same spirit you would continue the inquisition at _Rome_, and rekindle the fires in _Smithfield_. 12. It is because our nation is over-run with _such Protestants_, who are full of their own _good-deservings_, as well as of abominable _idolatry_, and of blind, fiery zeal of the whole spirit of _persecution_; that the sword of God, the great, the just, the jealous God, is even now drawn in our land: that the armies of the aliens are hovering over it, as a vulture over his prey; and that the _open Papists_ are on the very point of swallowing up the _pretended Protestants_.¹ ¹ This was wrote during the late rebellion.