Page 144.  All he has hitherto said on this matter, with a very little turn, were arguments for Popery:  For, it is certain, that religion had share in very few wars for many hundred years before the Reformation, because they were all of a mind.  It is the ambition of rebels, preaching upon the discontents of sectaries, that they are not supreme, which hath caused wars for religion.  He is mistaken altogether.  His little narrow understanding and want of learning.

Page 145.  “Though some say the high-fliers’ lives might serve for a very good rule, if men would act quite contrary to them,” Is he one of those some?  Beside the new turn of wit, &c. all the clergy in England come under his notion of high-fliers, as he states it.

Page 147.  “None of them (Churchmen) could be brought to acknowledge it lawful upon any account whatever, to exclude the Duke of York.”  This account false in fact.

Ibid.  “And the body-politic, whether ecclesiastical or civil, must be dealt with after the same manner, as the body-natural.”  What, because it is called a body, and is a simile, must it hold in all circumstances?

Page 148.  “We find all wise legislators have had regard to the tempers, inclinations, and prejudices, &c.”  This paragraph false.—­It was directly contrary in several, as Lycurgus, &c.

Page 152.  “All the skill of the prelatists is not able to discover the least distinction between bishop and presbyter.”  Yet, God knows, this hath been done many a time.

Page 158.  “The Epistle to the Philippians is directed to the bishops and deacons, I mean in due order after the people, viz, to the saints with their bishops and deacons.”  I hope he would argue from another place, that the people precede the king, because of these words:  “Ye shall be destroyed both you and your king.”

Page 167.  “The Pope and other great Church dons.”  I suppose, he meaneth bishops:  But I wish, he would explain himself, and not be so very witty in the midst of an argument; it is like two mediums; not fair in disputing.

Page 168.  “Clemens Romanus blames the people not for assuming a power, but for making a wrong use of it, &c.”  His great error all along is, that he doth not distinguish between a power, and a liberty of exercising that power, &c.  I would appeal to any man, whether the clergy have not too little power, since a book like this, that unsettleth foundations and would destroy all, goes unpunished, &c.

Page 171.  “By this or some such method the bishops obtained their power over their fellow presbyters, and both over the people.  The whole tenor of the Gospel directly contrary to it.”  Then it is not an allowable means:  This carries it so far as to spoil his own system; it is a sin to have bishops as we have them.

Page 172.  “The preservation of peace and unity, and not any divine right, was the reason of establishing a superiority of one of the presbyters over the rest.  Otherwise there would, as they say, have been as many schismatics as Presbyters.  No great compliment to the clergy of those days.”  Why so?  It is the natural effect of a worse independency, which he keepeth such a clatter about; an independency of churches on each other, which must naturally create schism.