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very due on either side, that there remains now no 

 ground, either of jealousy among friends, or, one 

 would think, of slander from enemies. And yet 

 even some of our own too, (which we have rea- 

 son more deeply to resent,) would needs bear the 

 world in hand, when time was, that the claim of 

 episcopal power, as from Christ and his Apostles, 

 was an assault upon the right of our kings, and 

 tended to the disherison of the crown. As if 

 the calling might not stand by Divine right, and 

 yet the adjuncts and appendages of it by human 

 bounty : as if the office itself might not be from 

 Christ, and yet the exercise of it only by, and 

 under, the permission of pious kings : or, as if 

 the church might not owe the keys of the king- 

 dom of Heaven, both that of order and that of 

 jurisdiction too (purely spiritual, I mean, and 

 without any temporal effect), to the donation of 

 Christ ; and yet, at the same time, owe all their 

 coactive power in the external regimen (w^hich is 

 one of the keys of the kingdoms of this world, 

 for the enforcing of obedience by constraint) to 

 the political sanction. These things thus clearly 

 distinguished, I cannot see why we may not with 

 some consequence infer the apostolical, and, at 

 least, in consequence thereupon, the divine right 

 of our ecclesiastical hierarchy, how^ harsh soever 

 it sounds, either at Rome or Geneva ; and though 

 the hills about *Trent resounded loud with the 



* Vide Hist. Concil. Trid. lib. 7. 



