And each may be his own interpreter,

Our airy faith will no foundation find,

The word's a weathercock for every wind:

The bear, the fox, the wolf, by turns prevail;

The most in power supplies the present gale.

The wretched Panther cries aloud for aid

To church and councils, whom she first betrayed;

No help from fathers or tradition's train:

Those ancient guides she taught us to disdain,

And by that scripture, which she once abused