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Show 386 Part.4. OF THE KINGDOME Chap.4_7. Pm. 4. 0 F D A R K N 15 s s E; elm/2. 47. When the Fair/'55 are difpleafed with any body, they are {aid to Chriits Lieutenant, and the Pompe of them that obtained therein (end their Elves, to pinch them. The Eccle/Zzflzquer, when they are the principall Publique Charges, became by degrees {0 eVident, that difpleafed with any Civill State, make alio their Elves, that is,Super- they bit the inward Reverence due to the Paflorall Funtftion : in to much as the Wifefl men, of them that had any power in the Civill State,needed nothing but the authority of their Pi‘inces,to deny them an further Obedience. For, from the time that me Billiop of Romec , ,by Prctcnc had gotten to be acknowledged for Biihop Univerfall fiitious, Enchanted Subjects, to pinch their Princes , by preaching Sediti0n30r one Prince enchanted with promifes, to pinch another. The Faint: marry not, but there be amongft them 122mb], that have copulation with fleih and bloud. The ijir alfo marry not. The Eec/efiflfliqtter take the Cream of the Land, by Donations of of ofSucceflion to St. Peter, their whole Hierarchy, or hingdome arm; of1. e mgn'om I\ the to unfitly not ed Darkneife, may be compar ignorant men, that {land in aw of them,and by Tythes -. So alfo it is that is, to the old wives Fables in England, concerning Gbofl: and: Spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And it a man confide the originall ofthis great Eccleiiafticall Dominiop , he Will eafily perceive, that the Pap/icy, is no other, than the (via/l oi the deceaied on the Cream, which they skim from the Milk. What kind ofMoney is currant in the Kingdome of Fairier, is not recorded in the Story. But the Etcleflizjliques in their Receipts accept ofthe fame Money that we doe, though when they are to make any Ramane Empire, fitting crowned upon the grate. mereof : Poi: lo did Payment,it is in Canonizations, Indulgences,and MalTes. n the Papacy i‘tart up on a Sudden out of the Ruines or that heathe in the Fable OFF/zines, that they enter into the Dairies,and Fealt up To this, and {uch like refemblances between the Papiicy , and the Kingdome of Fairies, may be added this, that as the Fan-1's: have no POThre Language alio, which they uie, both itt The Churches , and in their Publique Acts, being Laurie, which is notcommonly uled by any Nation now in the world,what is it but the one]: ot the Old exif'tence , but in the Pancies of ignorant people, rifing from the Traditions of old Wives, or old Poets .- {o the Spirituall Power of the Pope ( without the bounds of his own Civill Dominionkoniiiteth onely in the Fear that Seduced people {land in, oftheir Excommuni: Myriam Language-f The fame: in what Nation foever they converfe , have but one eations-7 upon hearing ot‘t‘all‘e Miracles, {.11 1e Traditions , and talie Univerfall King, which {ome Poets of ours call King Oberon-,but the Scripture calls Bee/{35W , Prince of Demons: The Ecclefiaflzquer likewife, in whoie Dominions foevet they be found , acknowledge Interpretations ot‘the Scripture. . It was notthereiore a very difficult matter, for Henry 8. by his Exorcil‘me-7 nor for Q1. Elizabeth by hers,to cait them out. But who knows that this Spirit of Rome, now gone out, and walking by t Unitierfall Kino the ['0 c. . The bu'ISi‘iec lice/{fiaflzqim dbl; Spa/tail! men, and Glzofl 1y, Fathers Millions through the dry places of China, japan, and the Indies,_that Farr/er and 650ij inhabite Dark- veeld him little fruit,may not return,or rather an Aflemblyot Spirits neile, Solitudes, and Graves. . T he Eccleflaflrque: walke in Obicu~ it'orle than he,enter,and inhabite this clean iwept houie, and make the End thereof worfe than the Beginning 2' For it is not the Romanc Fairies are 51217115, and G/zoflx. rity of Doctrine, in Monafteries, Churches, and Churchjyards. The Ecclcfiafllqucs have their Cathedrall Churches-,wliich,1n what Townc foever they be erectediby vertue of Holy Water, and certain Charmes called Exorcifmes, have the power to make tlioie I‘ownes, Cities,that is to fay, Seats of Empire. The Him: alio have their enchanted Caitles, and certain Gigantique Ghoits , that domineer a Over the Regions round about them. The Faint: are not to be feized on-, and brought to aniwer for the hurt they do. So alfo the Euleflafllqms vaniih away irom the Tribunals ofCivill Jufiice: The Etc/(fiathues take from young men, the ufe of heaion , by Certain Charms compounded ot‘Mctaphyfiques, and Miracles , and Traditions, and Abufed Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing die, but to execute what they command them. T he Fame! likewife are iaid to take young Children out or their CradlcS a and ‘0 Change them into Naturall Fools, which Common people do there. fore call Elves, and are apt to mifchief. In what Shop, or Operatory the Fairies make theitpEnchantment, the Old Wives have nOt determined. But the Operatories ot the CIrr£7, 11": well cnouuh known to be the Llnirerhties, that received their Diitipliiie from Ruthority Pontificiall. . W hen Clergy onely, that pretends the Kingdome oi God to be of this TNorld,and thereby to have a Power therein,tiiitinét itom that ofthc Civill State. And this is all I had a defigne to lay , concerning the Dofnine of the POLITILLUES. \Nhith whenl have I‘CVLCWCd, 11113.11 Willingly expofe it to the ceniure ot‘my Countrey. |