Part I Protheoria: Sacred majesty, royal power, and private blemishes made into church marks

I will add also that dispute concerning the Power of Majesty about Sacred things — more restricted by some, turned by others into an Architectonic power; or even concerning the limits of Royal Power and of passive obedience. On that argument a recent Theologian of Copenhagen has, with little modesty, branded the whole Reformed Church — twisting certain sayings or assertions of a few into whatever sense he wished — as adverse and hostile to the rights of Kings and Princes, and even to their divine origin, and indeed to their security: and with no other design than that he might shut out the French Exiles, fled into the bosom of the Most Powerful King, if not from a roof, at least from the Temple and from the liberty of Sacred things. Far be all your fury from my House! So there are sometimes brother Men who, with little Christian spirit, most eagerly snatch sayings — often spoken in the heat of disputation, often hesitatingly or as opinion, often sound in sense but awkward in wording, such as fell in countless numbers from the Writers and Fathers of the early Church — into matter for contention and for battles about words (λογομαχίαι)! There are those who abound in certain private thoughts of their own, or in their own sense, to the prejudice of Ecclesiastical tranquillity and against the laws of Christian prudence! There are those who transform the blemishes of private men into public marks of the Churches: thus taking certain sayings, for example of Zwingli, Calvin, Martyr, Beza, and others, as the judgment of the Reformed Church, and understood in a harsher sense!