WO is Me! Ah, Wo is me! For, having by Multipli­city of Business in Plotting, and Conspiring the He­reticks Ruine, reposed my Self, through a Despon­dency of Success; after so many treacherous betray­ings of our Projects, even by those which therein were concerned. And so a Plot was no sooner Contrived; but Discovered; and hereby the Jealousie of the Hereticks against us Enraged, and we Defeated. Thus being Discouraged▪ my drowsy Brain inclin'd me to Sleep; where (me thoughts) my Imagination was pry­ing into Natures Cabiner, my Sleeping Thoughts being the real Sense of my Waking Actions, me thoughts (as my Fancy carryes me) that a Popish Successor would much tend to the Propagating the Catholick In­terest, on these Heretical Kingdoms. I should be entertained with this Voice, It should be so indeed, when the Pope was Converted, and the Jesuits, Priests, Monk [...]nd Fryars become good Protestants. Which Voice much disturbed my Cogitations, wondring whose▪ Sound it should be, and am­biguous who this should be, that should thus seem to Side with Here­ticks? For, I believed these Holy Fathers, &c. would never turn such.

But a while after (me-thoughts) many successless Attempts of the Ho­nest, unwearied Catholicks, to my Joy, I saw in my Dream, that by a Forraign Invasion, together with the joyning Forces, and Assistance of our Faithful Friends at Home, they fell to it with Might and Main, Hew­ing, Hacking, Cutting, and Extirpating the Hereticks, more Nobly, and Couragiously Executing the Sentence of Excommunication, sending them out of the Church and World, than they ever yet did, either on the [Page 2] Albigenses, and Waldenses, &c. or of late, at Paris, or Ireland: insomuch, that all the Heretical Kingdoms in Europe, were Weltring in their Gore, and Streets filled with their Dead Carcasses, the Channels Running with their Blood, and the Rivers thereby Dyed Red. Thus (me-thoughts) it for a short space continued; The Catholicks set up their Government and Worship, possessed the Nation, and all the Earth wondered at them, and the Nations of the Earth Worshipped, and did them Homage; they bearing the Sway over all the Western world. But on a sudden, a Remnant of the Hereticks, who were not Slain in the general overthrow, rose up Valiantly, and Warred against them, being exceeding Mighty, and all their Cry was Deus nobiscum, Deus nobiscum, being in Strength, and Fierceness as so many Lions; yea, a very Impregnable Castle, an Ene­my so Resolute and Formidable, against which, the Catholicks who Flo­rished, but even now Splendidly, and seemed to be the Strength of the whole Earth, could not stand, but great was their Cry, Screeches, and Roarings, Falling exceedingly, Slain of these, and Cursed of God. La­menting, Vae Nobis, Vae Nobis; for all their Sorrows, Plagues, and Mise­ries came on them suddenly, and unexpectedly, even in one Day: For their Enemies Burned them with Fire, gave them a Double Portion of Blood, Crying out, for they are Worthy, and so exceeding Great; and dismal was their Fall, that it made my Heart Ake to think of it. For although the Kings, and Great Men of the Earth had some Regard to them, and Pittied them; yet were unable to Assist, or Help. And af­ter this Total Ruin, and Final Subversion of the Roman Catholicks, me-thoughts I saw their Enemies (whom I used to call Hereticks) Flourish exceedingly, Setting up their Government, Religion, and Worship; and even all the Nations of the Earth Converted to them; and they Prospe­red exceedingly, and had no more Enemies to offer them any Hostility; which thing much amazed me, making me to question the Catholicks, and believe the Protestants (whom we call Hereticks) to be True Chri­stians.

So I awoke, and the influence of my Sleeping Thoughts, I found strongly on my Deliberate Waking Considerations, which has caused me fully to Resolve and Declare, that I believe the Protestants not to be Hereticks; and for my part, that I no longer will be a Papist.