The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…

And if Princes and people will believe all this, and will be deceived, and will voluntarily subject themselves to such an Usurper, who can help it? Though it excuse not the Pope, yet they have little reason to complain, that they lose that power which they voluntarily give away, and that the Pope shall exercise that power which they ⟨p. 14⟩give him. And so much to your Cause against the Papacy.

II. But in your Epistle to Mr. Areskin and several others, you lay much of the like charge upon the Reformed Churches, and you take our great Reforming Divines, to have kept up the Mystery of Iniquity in their Discipline. Concerning which give me leave to deal freely with you, and to tell you, that I am persuaded that your meaning is sincere and good, and that it is an usurpation or devised imitation of Secular Government by the Clergy which you condemn; and that too great a part of the Protestant Clergy have given you some occasion for these complaints: But that really you deal not accurately in the Controversy, and Accurateness is the thing you want. You do not here exactly describe the true difference between the several powers where you seem to describe them; you leave out much that should be said. It is a more distinct way of handling this point, that must decide the Controversy. To which end I have laid you down an hundred Propositions, on occasion of your former Writings sent me.

II. But in your Epistle to Mr. Areskin and several others, you lay much of the like charge upon the Reformed Churches, and you take our great Reforming Divines, to have kept up the Mysterie of Iniquity in their Discipline. Concerning which give me leave to deal freely with you, and to tell you, that I am perswaded that your meaning is sincere and good, and that it is an usurpation or devised imitation of Secular Government by the Clergy which you condemn; and that too great a part of the Protestant Clergy have given you some occasion for these complaints: But that really you deal not accurately in the Controversie, and Accurateness is the thing you want. You do not here exactly describe the true difference between the several powers where you seem to describe them; you leave out much that should be said. It is a more distinct way of handling this point, that must decide the Controversie. To which end I have laid you down an hundred Propositions, on occasion of your former Writings sent me.