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ority, and which soon got such a head, that, within a centurj* from the Reformation, it was necessary to gather ail the Protestant churches together into theSyifcod of Dort, in order to put it down. God'^ pnq>osc, howerer, it was not that it should be put down, but testified a^airst and resisted unto the death: therefore it found ii* way into Ragland, and, under I^ud and tlte First Charles^ begun to usurp the mastery of the house, and to drive the saints out of doors ; and with it came in the Divine 878 TIti: THUKk VhCLKAN «?IHtT9, [Pf#. right of abM>luie kings, and the Uiviae tight of Episcopacy, ios^U^nd tit iUn Divine right of int- gisCracy and of church governmcot : wbkht striking against ihe constituted laws of Engiftndr and the ecclesiastical polity of Scotland, drave munj to the other extreme of the Diriae nght of the people, and the Divine right of Preshytery: and so Knglaitd ^va« ^hiiken to the ceDtre, and poor Scotland was driven to di^tracuon, and the true church suffered direfuUy between the two ex- tremes. YourPuritansand Non-contbrmiats^yoaf Martyrs and Covenanters, were ^^itnc^sea ftglunBt ArmintftQism, and its attendant, arbitrary power, which was the first form of infidelity nmongAt the Ktfonneij iihurchcs. But when the Revolution bad given us defence against arbitrary power and an Episcopalian Papacy, uncj when prosperity and peace had abated the watchfu1ne».s and corrupted the faithfulness of all, Satan bcg:Qn to make head against the person of the Son, as well as th sovereignty of the Father, and to revive Arianism again, and to ripen it into Socinianisni, and to fhietify it into Unitarianistn ; by whiclip upon the Continent* he hath entirely prevailed to overthrow both Lutheranism and Calvinism, and in Etiglaud brought the church to deaths door, and but for the Liturgy would have slain it utlei-ly; but in Scotland we brought this heresy before our Gene- ral Assembly, and deprived certain who bad im- bibed it ; so, finding be must work a deeper mine, be proceeded to do so, and hath brought things to the pass which 1 am now to describe. Finding he coutd not overcome the Britiiih churclies, as he had overcome the Couiinenial churches, by direct assault, he fell back upon hit ireh-deJusions and cunning strati^^ems, and pro- i THE TUftEK UKCLEAX SriKllS. 879 ceeded to work indirectly upcm the policy, and literature, and cLi^luTitK uf the country. Tlint vide of politics to wliicli tliu rcUgiuus pt-oplc of tbiR coQDtry had attached themselves^ and which was wont to be composed of almost none