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same race, both sire and dam, begotten by the 

 father of lies upon a slanderous tongue, and so 

 sent post about the world, to tell false tidings of 

 the English ; as credible, as that our kings excom- 

 municate, or Queen Elizabeth preached. Would 

 they have been just, or ingenuous, they should have 

 laid the brat at the physician's door, who was the 

 father of it : not the beloved Physician, though 

 his name comes nigh; (Erastus,butnot'A<)/a7r>iTo?;) 

 no, his praise was not in the Gospel, but a phy- 

 sician in Geneva, learned, and eminent enough. 

 It is remarkable that, in the same place, and 

 about the same time (so unlucky an ascendant 

 hath error and mistake upon some persons !) 

 should three conceits be hatched concerning 

 church-government, which, like three furies, have 

 vexed the quiet of the church ever since. For the 

 consistorial, and congregational pretences were 

 twins of the same birth ; though the younger 

 served the elder, and, being much overpowered, 

 sunk in the stream of time, till it appeared again 

 in this unhappy age, amongst the ghosts of so 

 many revived errors, that have escaped from their 

 tombs to walk up and down and disturb the 

 world. And, not long after, this physician too 

 would needs step out of his own profession, to 

 mistake in two other at once, policy and divinity, 

 running a risk of setting ill-understanding be- 

 twixt them, had not abler and wiser heads than 

 he stepped in, and so evenly cut the thread, so 

 exactly stated the controversy, and asserted the 



