298 APPENDIX. 



By making proselytes to hell ; and he 



Joys in it, that he may have company 



In rapines, murders, thefts ; now none can have 



His own, except he be, like them, a knave. 



The Church is stripped by sacrilegious hands. 



They that divided all, divide the lands.^' 



Hiulca gens, 8lc. 



Wolves are of late turn'd shepherds, surely we. 

 That have such guardians, are extremely free. 



That eternal Majesty, which raised so brave a 

 fabric out of such indisposed materials ; that 

 wields the world with his finger ever since it 

 was made; that controuls the waves, and 

 checks the tumult of the people ; that sits 

 above, and laughs at the malignant counsels 

 and devices of wicked men : let his mercy be 

 implored for the speedy succour of his dis- 

 tressed Church; that the rod of Aaron may 

 blossom ; that the tabernacle of David may be 

 raised ; that the subtle may be caught in their 

 own snare ; and that the result of all afflictions 

 may be the greatening of his glory, and exalt- 

 ing of his sceptre. 



* Novi ego hoc seculum quibus moribus sit j malus bonuni 

 malum esse vult, ut sit sui similis ; turbant, miscent mores mali -, 

 rapax, avarus, invidus, sacrum prophanum, publicum privatum 

 habebit. 



