giving the title of the following work, as I
have never met with the book itself: _The Trojan Horse, or The Presbyterian
Government Unbowelled_, London, 1646.

In a brochure of Primate Bramhall's, entitled

"A Faire Warning for England to take heed of the Presbyterian
Government.... Also the Sinfulnesse and Wickednesse of the _Covenant_,
to introduce that Government upon the Church of England."

the second paragraph of the first page proceeds:

"But to see those very men who plead so vehemently against all kinds of
tyranny, attempt to obtrude their own dreames not only upon their
fellow-subjects, but upon their sovereigne himself, contrary to the
dictates of his own conscience, contrary to all law of God and man; yea
to compell forreigne churches to dance after their pipe, to worship
that counterfeit image which they feign to have fallen down from
Jupiter, and by force of arms to turne their neighbours out of a
possession of above 1400 years, to make roome for their _Trojan Horse_
of ecclesiastical discipline (a practice never justified in the world
but either by the Turk or by the Pope): this put us upon the defensive
part. They must not think that other men are so cowed or grown so tame,
as to stand still blowing of their noses, whilst they bridle them and
ride them at their pleasure. It is time to let the world see that _this
discipline_ which they so much adore, is _the very quintessence of
refined Popery_."

My copy of this tract has no place or date: but it appears to have been
printed at the Hague in 1649. It was answered in the same year by "Robert
Baylie, minister at Glasgow," whose reply was "printed at Delph."

As the tide of the time and circumstance rolled on, this simile gained
additional force and depth; and to understand the admirable aptitude of its
application in the passage I shall next quote, a few preliminary remarks
are necessary.

There was always in the Church of England a portion of her members who
could not forget that the Puritans, though external to her communion, were
yet fellow Protestants; that they differed not in kind, but in degree--and
that these differences were insignificant compared with those of Rome. At
the same time, they reflected that perhaps the Church of England was not
exactly in the middle, and that she would not lose were she to move a
little nearer the Puritan side. Accordingly, various attempt