178 CHARGE AGAINST MR. OWEN. 



Mabometanism, and heresy, he shall find they do 

 not attain to this height. Take the examples of 

 damnable memory amongst the heathens. The pro 

 scriptions in Rome of Sylla, and afterwards of the 

 Triumvirs, what were they ? They were but of a 

 finite number of persons, and those not many that 

 were exposed unto any man s sword. But what is 

 that to the proscribing of a king, and all that shall 

 take his part ? And what was the reward of a soldier 

 that amongst them killed one of the proscribed ? A 

 small piece of money. But what is now the reward 

 of one that shall kill a king ? The kingdom of heaven. 

 The custom among the heathen that was most scan 

 dalised was, that sometimes the priest sacrificed 

 men ; but yet you shall not read of any priesthood 

 that sacrificed kings. 



The Mahometans make it a part of their religion 

 to propagate their sect by the sword ; but yet still 

 by honourable wars, never by villanies and secret 

 murders. Nay, I find that the Saracen prince, of 

 whom the name of the assassins is derived, which 

 had divers votaries at commandment, which he sent 

 and employed to the killing of divers princes in the 

 east, by one of whom Amu rath the first was slain, 

 and Edward the first of England was wounded, was 

 put down and rooted out by common consent of the 

 Mahometan princes. 



The Anabaptists, it is true, come nearest. For 

 they profess the pulling down of magistrates : and 

 they can chaunt the psalrn, &quot; To bind their kings in 

 &quot; chains, and their nobles in fetters of iron.&quot; This 



