SECT. 4.
Obj. VVHo are they whom you terme such builders as afore∣said?
Ans. Such as build with unhew••n stones, daubing them with* 1.1 untempered M••rter, and so cover them over, with an Orthodoxall
Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
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- Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
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- Spittlehouse, John.
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varnish, by which Hipocriticall dealing, they have exceedingly inriched themselves, which craft doth cleerly appeare; by the materials which are now found in their dismantled fabrickes of Papacy, Prelacy, and Presbitery, there being few, or none of them fit to rebuild the Temple of Christ.
Obj. True, in the two former buildings you have named, there hath been found much deceit, and cous••••age, whereby they have ve∣ry much inriched themselves, but the Presbiterian buildings is not taken to be such, for the Parliament doth esteeme them builders as honest men, and their buildings without deceit, yea as such a building as they themselves intend to live under; therefore the Presbiterian builders are none of that linniage, with the two former Builders, or buildings.
Ans. As the Pope, and his Hierarchy, prevailed with Empe∣rors, & the Prelates with Kings, so have the Presbiterians lately with Parliaments; to support their powers, and justifie their Doctrines to be Jure Divino. But the falsity of the two first I presume is manifest to all Gods people, & as for that of Presbitery▪ it is one, and the same with them, in many degrees (as I have & shal prove); and therefore, seeing the Lord is pleased to discover the faultinesse, and errours of it, as of the other, the Magistrate ought no more to countenance it then the other of Popery, and Prelacy, they certainly being the three materiall foundations, of* 1.2 the Popes assumption of his Triple Crown, viz. one for Papacy, another for Prelacy, and the other for Presbitery; the three P P Ps of pleasure, profit, and preferment, by which the Dragon, and the Beast hath subsisted, and been supported, that of Pres∣bitery being the Dragons tayle.
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* 1.1
The H••p••cri∣cy o•• ••h•• ••at•• builders▪
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Presbitery ought to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 no more coun¦tenanc••d then Prelacy.