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

§. 67. II. And to promote their ends, as these men are for the largest Dioceses and turning a thousand Churches into one only, so they are commonly for violent Administration; ruling by constraint, and either usurping the power of the sword themselves, or persuading and urging the Magistrate to punish all that obey not their needless impositions, and reproaching or threatening (at least) the Magistrates that will not be their Executioners. And making themselves the Church snuffers, (or made without ⟨p. 26⟩the Churches consent) their Office is exercised in putting out the Lights, sometimes hundreds of faithful Ministers being silenced by their means in a little time. And they take the sword of Discipline or power of the Keys as the Church used it 300 years to be vain, unless prisons or mulcts enforce it. And to escape the Primitive poverty, they overthrow the Primitive Church, Form, and Discipline, and tell men, All this is for the Churches honour and peace.

§. 67. II. And to promote their ends, as these men are for the largest Diocesses and turning a thousand Churches into one only, so they are commonly for violent Administration; ruling by constraint, and either usurping the power of the sword themselves, or perswading and urging the Magistrate to punish all that obey not their needless impositions, and reproaching or threatning (at least) the Magistrates that will not be their Executioners. And making themselves the Church snuffers, (or made without ⟨p. 26⟩the Churches consent) their Office is exercised in putting out the Lights, sometimes hundreds of faithful Ministers being silenced by their means in a little time. And they take the sword of Discipline or power of the Keys as the Church used it 300 years to be vain, unless prisons or mulcts enforce it. And to escape the Primitive poverty, they overthrow the Primitive Church, Form, and Discipline, and tell men, All this is for the Churches honour and peace.

§. 68. Yea all that like not their arrogances and grandeur, they render odious as Aerian Heretics or Schismatics, provoking men to hate and revile them, and Magistrates to destroy them, as intolerable. And by making their own numerous Canons and Inventions necessary to Ministry and Church-Communion, they will leave no place for true unity and peace, but tear the Churches in pieces by the racks and engines of their brains and wills.