s. xiii. p. 289.
Here therefore it became law, was established by an act of Parliament, was made solemn by an appendant penalty against all that on either hand did prevaricate a sanction of so long and so prudent consideration.
Truly evangelical way of solemnizing a party measure, and sapientizing Calvin's
tolerabiles ineptias
by making them
ineptias usque ad carcerem et verbera intolerantes!
Ib.
s. xiv. ib.
But the Common Prayer Book had the fate of St. Paul; for when it had scaped the storms of the Roman See, yet a viper sprung out of Queen Mary's fires, &c.
As Knox and his friends confined themselves to the inspired word, whether vipers or no, they were not adders at all events.