{70} Peter, the Church of Rome; Martin, the Reformed Church as established by authority in England; Jack, the dissenters from the English Church Establishment. Martin, named probably from Martin Luther; Jack, from John Calvin. The coats are the coats of righteousness, in which all servants of God should be clothed; alike in love and duty, however they may differ in opinion. {71} Covetousness, ambition, and pride, which were the three great vices that the ancient fathers inveighed against as the first corruptions of Christianity.—_W. Wotton_. {72a} The tailor. {72b} A sacred monkey. {75} The Roman Catholics were considered by the Reformers to have added to the simple doctrines of Christianity inventions of their own, and to have laid especial stress on the adoption of them. Upon Swift’s saying of the three brothers, “Now the coats their father had left them were, it is true, of very good cloth, and besides so neatly sewn that you would swear they were all of a piece, but, at the same time, very plain, with little or no ornament,” W. Wotton observes: “This is the distinguishing character of the Christian religion. _Christiana religio absoluta et simplex_, was Ammianus Marcellinus’s description of it, who was himself a heathen.” But the learned Peter argues that if a doctrine cannot be found, _totidem verbis_, in so many words, it may be found in so many syllables, or, if that way fail, we shall make them out in a third way, of so many letters. {76} _Quibusdam veteribus codicibus_ [some ancient MSS.].—S. {77a} There are two kinds—oral tradition and the written record,—reference to the value attached to tradition in the Roman Church. {77b} The flame-coloured lining figures the doctrine of Purgatory; and the codicil annexed, the Apocryphal books annexed to the Bible. The dog-keeper is said to be an allusion to the Apocryphal book of Tobit. {78a} Dread hell and subdue their lusts. {78b} Strained glosses and interpretations of the simple text. {79a} Images in churches. {79b} The locking up of the Gospel in the original Greek or in the Latin of the Vulgate, and forbidding its diffusion in the language of the people. {80a} The Pope’s bulls and decretals, issued by his paternal authority, that must determine questions of interpretation and tradition, or else many absurd things would follow. {80b} Constantine the Great, from whom the Church of Rome was said to have received the donation of St. Peter’s patrimony, and first derived the wealth described by our old Reformers as “the fatal gift of Constantine.” {84a} See Wotton “Of Ancient and Modern Learning.”—S. {84b} Satire and panegyric upon critics.—S. {85} _Vide_ excerpta ex eo apud Photium—S. {86} “Near Helicon and round the learned hill Grow trees whose blossoms with their odour kill.”—_Hawkesworth_. {88} A quotation after the manner of a great author. _Vide_ Bentley’s “Dissertation,” &c.—S.