FOr here are many young Schollers lately come o­ver into Jreland young Priests sent from Oxford, & Cambridg, and these young Priests the Committee of Priests Siting at Dublin have approved of them, here they come & Challenge the tenth part of our goods, they say is now their own, and where they can finde an old ruined Mass-house, then they get an Order for the repairing of it; And if any for Conscience sake should refuse paying towards the mending of the Popes old houses, then the evill Justices of the Peace, which the Land is full of, grants forth their warrants to distrain, and take away Peoples goods, because they cannot pay rates for the repairing of the Pa­pists Mass-houses, as lately a widdow woman at Dublin had much goods taken from her, because for Conscience sake she could not pay towards the mending of St. PATRICKS Church so Called; and a friend at Rosse had his Coate tak­en off his back for not paying towards the mending of an old Mass-house in the County of Wexford, and divers others might be instanced in the Nation: Now when this young Priest hath gotten his Mass-house finisht, then he hath three or four Parishes laid together, to maintain himselfe with the tenths thereof, he cares not now, he hath gotten [Page 2] foure or five Parishes (perhaps) not foure Protestant fa­milies in them all, which Tithes formerly vsed to serve foure or five Popish Priests very well, will now scarcely serve this young Protestant priest which makes the Papists to wonder what great Bellies the Protestant Priests have gotten, that they must have foure times more then their Priests used to have; So that these Priests lately come over, are never like to convince the Papists with sound Doctrine, their lives and conversations are so bad, that the Papists beholds what devourers they are, that one of them must have as much as foure of theirs; So judge you the wickedness of these young Priests is so great, that the Pa­pists now abhors to come at their own Mass-houses; ther­fore now there is an Order to compell them to heare these Priests in Jreland once a weeke, or else they must pay halfe a Crown, and then they shall be dispenc'd withall, and here the Papists sees you again, what manner of Christi­ans you are, that can pardon People for mony, like them at Rome, but the Light is come that hath made you mani­fest praysed be the Lord for ever; who will remember your wickedness, and your sins are before him, and the Lord will recompence the evill that you have done upon your own heads, and those that sent you hither shall not e­scape that gave every one of these young Priests a great sum of mony for their transportation, which is a shame to the Nation; and a shame to the Protestants that their Priests should be such great eaters; and have such great sums of mony to bring them over, when many poor fami­lies in England are like to starve for lack of bread.

And the two places Oxford and Cambridg from whence these Schollers come who makes Ministers, the thing wch is seen conserning them is: They are like two woods full of of Black trees, which are Blackned over with smoke and a few leaves hanging drooping on the tops of them, like un­to trees at the fall of the leafe, and they stand as it were in a quagmire, which is made up with the fat of the Na­tions, and the Exactings of poor people, and wringing of them, like a great heape of miery soft Earth; And when the wind blows the quagmire puffs at the bottome of it, & there is but little mosse grows on the trees because of the smoke, and these trees bears noe fruit, but a few droping leaves, as it were in the end of Summer, So they stand as the shaking off with a great wind, whose leafe fads, and so as they are carried out of that quagmire & wood & banke undrest, they are planted in the Country like starved trees in the forrest, beaten with winds and weather, dried with the bark on, and some mosse on them, and scarcely leaves: Now these be the fuell for the fire, which cumbers the ground fruitlesse trees that the Nations & the Earth hath layen like a wildernesse, and these trees have not borne fruit, and their leaf fads and falls, and the fruitfull trees of the field begin to clap their hands who beares the fruit, [Page 4] whose leafe never fads nor falls, that are by the River side, and the smoke of these two woods before mentioned have almost smoked off all the Bark of thē, for they have scarce­ly the out side of them, nor leaves but are droping down continually, and they must all drop off and appeare bare, for they have not any to cover them, and all the worke and intention of their moddell is, to get mony to make Minist­ers, which they have lately put forth in Print; Are these like the Apostles in this? have not they thrust our Christ and denyed the faith, and let Christ have no Roome but in their mouths to talke of him? had ever Christ any Roome but in the manger amongst the professers, and them that lived in lipp service, and their hearts a far off from God? had not the great professors Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, in the dayes of old, the great talkers of Christ, and he had no place amongst them, but in the Manger in the Stable; Are not you making Ministers and beging of the Gentry? and frighting their evill Consciences if they will not give it you, and the highest when you have made them is but He­brew Greek and Latin, which is but naturall; and so is but a naturall man, and the naturall man receives not the things of God, though he hath Hebrew Greek and Latin, & though they may talke of Christ in those Languages, yet will they put Christ in the Stable and in the Manger, and let him have no Roome in the Synnagogues as the Iews would not, but were al full of wrath & rose up against him and put him out, and do not you Ministers put out of your Synnagogues, & put into prison, if they should not put in­to your mouthes, surely people will be wise & not spend their mony any longer for that which is not Bread.