Christ, first for the woman's word, but next and much
rather for his own, so we the Scripture first on the Church's word,
but afterwards and much more for its own as the word of God."]

_Blasphemy._--"But some are ready to cry out 'What shall then
be done to Blasphemy?' Them I would first exhort not thus to
terrify and pose the people with a Greek word, but to teach them
better what it is: being a most usual and common word in that
language to signify any slander, any malicious or evil speaking,
whether against God or man or anything to good belonging."

_Heresy and Heretic_:--"Another Greek apparition stands in our
way, 'Heresy and Heretic': in like manner also railed at to the
people, as in a tongue unknown. They should first interpret to them
that Heresy, by what it signifies in that language, is no word of
evil note; meaning only the choice or following of any opinion,
good or bad, in religion or any other learning."

_A Wrested Text of Scripture_:--"It hath now twice befallen me
to assert, through God's assistance, this most wrested and vexed
place of Scripture [_Romans_ XIII, 'Let every soul be subject
unto the higher powers,' &c.]: heretofore against Salmasius and
regal tyranny over the State; now against Erastus and State-tyranny
over the Church."

_Are Popery and Idolatry to be Tolerated?_--"But, as for
Popery and Idolatry, why they also may not hence plead to be
tolerated, I have much less to say. Their Religion, the more
considered, the less can be acknowledged a Religion, but a Roman
Principality rather, endeavouring to keep up her old universal
dominion under a new name and mere shadow of a Catholic Religion;
being indeed more rightly named a Catholic Heresy against the
Scripture; supported mainly by a civil, and, except in Rome, by a
foreign, power: justly therefore to be suspected, not tolerated, by
the magistrate of another country. Besides, of an implicit faith,
which they profess, the conscience also becomes implicit, and so,
by voluntary servitude to man's law, forfeits her Christian
liberty. Who, then, can plead for such a conscience as, being
implicitly enthralled to man instead of God, almost becomes no
conscience, as the will not free becomes no will? Nevertheless, if
they ought not to be tolerated, it is for just reason of State
more than of Religion; which they who force, though professing to
be Protestants, deserve as