6/72 His style was rather too fine .-- _Swift._ Burnet is not guilty of that. _Burnet._ Leightoun did not stand much upon it. He did not _think_ orders given without bishops were null and void. He _thought_, the forms of government were not settled by such positive laws as were unalterable; but only by apostolical practices, which, as he _thought_, authorized Episcopacy as the best form. Yet he did not _think_ it necessary to the being of a church. |