speak,  I  know  what  you  would  say.  You  would
show  me  all  these  things  on  paper,  and  in  the  lives  of
a  few  men.  This  suffices  not.  I  will  consent  to
judge  no  Church  by  documents  merely,  or  a  small
party,  which  has  from  time  to  time  been  put  down
among  you.  You  say  Rome  is  not  to  be  judged  by
synodal  acts  or  Tridentine  documents;  so  neither
are  you  to  be  esteemed  according  to  a  ritual  dis-
countenanced and  neglected,  or  doctrines  at  best
only  permitted,  and  put  down  when  that  can  be  done
decently.  The  measure  ye  mete  to  Rome  shall  now
be  meted  to  yourselves :  better  had  it  been  for  you,
that  ye  had  meted  that  measure  more  mercifully.
