her
reformation."

"The celebrated Dean Swift, in a sermon preached on what tories and high
churchmen in England, have styled, "the martyrdom of king Charles I."
makes the following statements:--Upon the cruel persecution raised
against the protestants under queen Mary, among great numbers who fled
the kingdom to seek for shelter, several went and resided at Geneva,
which is a commonwealth, governed without a king, where the religion
contrived by Calvin is without the order of bishops. When the protestant
faith was restored by queen Elizabeth, those who fled to Geneva
returned, among the rest, home to England, and were grown so fond of the
government and religion of the place they had left, that they used all
possible endeavours to introduce both into their own country; at the
same time continually preaching and railing against ceremonies and
distinct habits of the clergy, taxing whatever they disliked as a
remnant of popery; and continued exceedingly troublesome to the church
and state, under that great queen, as well as her successor, king James
I. These people called themselves puritans, as pretending to a purer
faith than those of the established church. And these were the founders
of our dissenters. They did not think it sufficient to leave all the
errors of popery; but threw off many laudable and edifying institutions
of the primitive church, and at last even the government of bishops,
which, having been ordained by the apostles themselves, had continued
without interruption, in all christian churches, for above fifteen
hundred years. And all this they did, not because those things were
evil, but because they were kept by the papists. From hence they
proceeded, by degrees, to quarrel with the kingly government, because,
as I have already said, the city of Geneva, to which their fathers had
flown for refuge, was a commonwealth, or government of the people."
Having thus stated the foundation and principles of puritanism, the Dean
proceeds with an account of its growth till the breaking out of the
civil war, and concludes the narrative as follows: "That odious
parliament had early turned the bishops out of the House of Lords, in a
few years after they murdered their king; then immediately abolished the
whole House of Lords; and so, at last obtained their wishes of having a
government of the people, and a new religion, both after the manner of
Geneva, without a king, a bishop, or a nobleman; and this they
blasphemous