abroad;
  Those able heads expound a wiser way,
  That their own sheep their shepherd should obey. 
  But if you mean yourselves are only sound,
  That doctrine turns the Reformation round,
  And all the rest are false reformers found;
  Because in sundry points you stand alone,
  Not in communion join’d with any one;
  And therefore must be all the Church, or none. 
  Then, till you have agreed whose judge is best, 440
  Against this forced submission they protest: 
  While sound and sound a different sense explains,
  Both play at hardhead till they break their brains;
  And from their chairs each other’s force defy,
  While unregarded thunders vainly fly. 
  I pass the rest, because your Church alone
  Of all usurpers best could fill the throne. 
  But neither you, nor any sect beside,
  For this high office can be qualified,
  With necessary gifts required in such a guide. 450
  For that which must direct the whole must be
  Bound in one bond of faith and unity: 
  But all your several Churches disagree. 
  The consubstantiating Church and priest
  Refuse communion to the Calvinist: 
  The French reform’d from preaching you restrain,
  Because you judge their ordination vain;
  And so they judge of yours, but donors must ordain. 
  In short, in doctrine, or in discipline,
  Not one reform’d can with another join:  460
  But all from each, as from damnation, fly;
  No union they pretend, but in Non-Popery. 
  Nor, should their members in a Synod meet,
  Could any Church presume to mount the seat,
  Above the rest, their discords to decide;
  None would obey, but each would be the guide: 
  And face to face dissensions would increase;
  For only distance now preserves the peace. 
  All in their turns accusers, and accused: 
  Babel was never half so much confused:  470
  What one can plead, the rest can plead as well;
  For amongst equals lies no last appeal,
  And all confess themselves are fallible. 
  Now since you grant some necessary guide,
  All who can err are justly laid aside: 
  Because a trust so sacred to confer 476
  Shows want of such a sure interpreter;
  And how can he be needful who can err? 
  Then, granting that unerring guide we want,
  That such there is you stand obliged to grant:  480
  Our Saviour else were wanting to supply
  Our needs, and obviate that necessity. 
  It then remains, the Church can only be
  The guide, which owns unfailing certainty;
  Or else you slip your hold, and change your side,
  Relapsing from a necessary guide. 
  But this annex’d condition of the crown,
  Immunity from errors, you disown;
  Here then you shrink, and lay your weak