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strengths and fortresses of the episcopal cause as 

 there were cities in that island, and extort out of 

 our hands this great instance of so many bishops, 

 ordained and governed by their own metropo- 

 litan, so high in the first age ; will be a very Pyr- 

 gopolinices indeed,* qui legiones Spiritu difflat, and 

 deserve the surname of Creticus, better than 

 Metellus the Roman, that subdued the island. 



For our parts, we are not ashamed of our con- 

 formity to so primitive a pattern ; nay, we glory 

 in so handsome and innocent a syncretism : for 

 we are not better than our fathers ; nor wiser 

 than the Apostles of Christ himself. And, had 

 we been of their counsel, who not long since pre- 

 tended to reform us according to the best exam- 

 ples, we might have bespoke them, as once St. 

 Paul did those over hasty and unruly mariners 

 (who would needs put to sea when sailing was 

 dangerous, and thrive accordingly, being quickly 

 forced to abandon the helm, and to let the ship | 

 drive, being not able to bear up against the windj) 



E^et fM.u, (h ai/cT^s?, y.'^ duccyscd'on dzro rriq Kp?3r»5?. ' Sirs, 



you should not have parted from Crete (in the 

 text), and so have gained § harm and disgrace.' If 

 really you be in quest of the best examples of 

 modelling a church, you may certainly find here 

 as fair and as pure ideas, and as well worth 

 your imitation, as the more modern platform can 



* Plaut. in Milite. f Act. xxvii. 15. 



J Ver. 21. § Ibid, mv v^fiy kx) rru* ^rii^iav. 



