The Pastor And the Prelate Or Reformation And Conformity Shortly Compared
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The Prelate hath neither leisure nor liking to look to such exercise, and accounts no heresy so wor- thy his animadversion as the alleged heresy of Arius and his followers. It is manifest in history, from the beginning, that the heresies that most have endan- THE PASTOR AND THE PRELATE. 89 gered the kirk, have either been devised by the engines, or favoured and borne out by the authority and credit, of prelates; and even now divers false and dangerous doctrines are partly vented and partly wink...ed at by them;^ neither thinketh he papists great enemies to the kirk; but as the Jewish priests entertained the Sadducees, albeit enemies to true religion, and hated Christians as their deadly foes, and as the papist can agree with the formal protestant, but thinks the uncon- formable Calvinist his irreconcileable enemy, so the prelate could agree with the common papist, for all his blasphemous doctrine and profession, because he is a friend to his hierarchy, but the reformed Christian, whom he calleth the Calvinist and puritan, he can by no means bear, because he is professedly unfriendly to his hierarchy.
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