But, in fact, the subscriptions compel young men to it.] [Footnote 2: I remember reading about that time a sentence in one of his Epistles, in which this same Cyprian, the earliest mouthpiece of "proud prelacy," claims for the _populace_ supreme right of deposing an unworthy bishop.

I quote the words from memory, and do not know the reference.

"Pleba summam habet potentatem episcopos seu dignos eligendi seu indignos detrudendi."] [Footnote 3: A critic absurdly complains that I do not account for this.

Account for what?
I still hold the authenticity of nearly all the Pauline epistles, and that the Pauline Acts are compiled from some valuable source, from chap.xiii.

onward; but it was gratuitous to infer that this could accredit the four gospels.] [Footnote 4: He argues from the Bible, that a victory gained by deceit is more to be esteemed than one obtained by force; and that, provided the end aimed at be good, we ought not to call it _deceit_, but a sort of _admirable management_.