Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

Yea, I believe, that among the Papists themselves, five to one of the people, were they free from danger, would declare their dislike of a great part of the actions and Doctrines of their Prelates, and that the greatest part that are named Papists, are not such throughly and at the heart.

When the Rulers, Scribes, and Pharisees were against Christ, and persecuted him and the truth, the common people so much adhered to him, that the persecutors durst not seize on him openly by force, but were fain to use a Traitor, to apprehend him in the night, and in a solitary place, lest they should be stoned by the people, who said, Never man spake as this man speaketh.

When the Rulers, Scribes, and Pharisees were against Christ, and persecuted him and the truth, the common people so much adhered to him, that the persecutors durst not seize on him openly by force, but were fain to use a Traytor, to apprehend him in the night, and in a solitary place, lest they should be stoned by the people, who said, Never man spake as this man speaketh.

§. 44. Let us not therefore turn Church-History into a temptation, nor think basely of the Church, or Christianity, or Christ, because of Papal and Prelatical pride and tyranny. God can make use of a surly porter to keep his doors; yea, a mastiff-dog may be a keeper of the house; and his Corn hath grown in every Age, not only with straw and chaff, but with some tares: And yet he hath gathered, and will gather, all his chosen.

§. 44. Let us not therefore turn Church-History into a temptation, nor think basely of the Church, or Christianity, or Christ, because of Papal and Prelatical pride and tyranny. God can make use of a surly porter to keep his doors; yea, a mastiff-dog may be a keeper of the house; and his Corn hath grown in every Age, not only with straw and chaffe, but with some tares: And yet he hath gathered, and will gather, all his chosen.