What a hurly-burly is there made! A hundred Independent ministers called together" [the Savoy Synod of the Congregationalists, with Owen, Thomas Goodwin, Nye, Caryl, and others, at their head, convoked Sept.

29, 1658, for framing a Confession of Faith, by permission from the late Protector: see ante p.

844].

"a Council, as you call it, of 200 or 300 officers of a judgment! Remember what has always befallen imposing spirits.

Will not the loins of an imposing Independent or Anabaptist be as heavy as the loins of an imposing Prelate or Presbyter?
And is it a dangerous error that dominion is founded on grace when it is held by the Church of Rome, and a sound principle when it is held by the Fifth Monarchy?
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