Five disputations of church-government and worship

I meddle not here with the Manner of demolishing Episcopacy, but with the Matter: because I would not mix other Controversies with this. But I am confident those men that usually own the late Episcopacy, and revile them that demolished it, shall one way or other feel ere long, that they have owned a very unprofitable cause, and such as they shall wish, they had let alone, and that it made not for their honour to be so much enemies ⟨p. 104⟩to the welfare of the Church, as the enemies of the abolition of that Prelacy will appear to be.

I meddle not here with the Manner of demolishing Episcopacy, but with the Matter: because I would not mix other Controversies with this. But I am confident those men that usually own the late Episcopacy, and revile them that demolisht it, shall one way or other feel ere long, that they have owned a very unprofitable cause, and such as they shall wish, they had let alone, and that it made not for their honour to be so much enemies ⟨p. 104⟩to the welfare of the Church, as the enemies of the abolition of that Prelacy will appear to be.

¹Cons. II. The matter of that clause in the National Covenant, which concerneth the abolition of this Prelacy before mentioned, was so far from deserving the Reproaches and Accusations that are bestowed on it by some, that it was just and necessary to the well being of the Church.

1. 1Cons. 2.