In denouncing a particular Jesuit (the duke of York), the Act, Declaration and Testimony... by the Reformed Presbytery (1876 ed.), gives an representative statement of Rome's intent and hellish zeal.

It reads, "to promote their grand design of utterly extinguishing the light of the gospel, and bringing in antichrist, with all his poisonous and hellish vermin, and abominable idolatries, and that, with all the murdering violence, diabolical subtlety and malignant rage that hell and Rome could invent and exert. He had formerly published a proclamation..., granting a lawless liberty to several sorts of persons therein specified, called his first indulgence; but breathing nothing but threatenings and slaughter against the people of God."

Here Henry further exposes Rome's "haughtiness and insolence," as the "proud oppressors of God's church."