_Clergy_ should make the best Market of the _meer Lay-men_. And as this Young Gentleman had before resolved with himself not to become a Property to the _Popish Priesthood_, no longer now will he be such to the _Protestant Clergy_ of any Denomination, since both pursue the same Ends. He perceiveth that our _Protestant High-Priests_ do all of them rival the Sovereign Power; the _Bishop_'s House like that of the _King_, must be called his _Palace_, he must still keep up his claim to the _Miter_ and _Crosier_, to vie with the _Crown_ and _Scepter_; and as the Stile of the King's Courts is _Anno Regni nostri_, i.e. In the Year of our Reign: So that of the Bishop's Court is _Anno Consecrationis nostræ_, i.e. In the Year of our Consecration; the Year of the King's Reign being unknown in the Bishop's Court: The King speaking to the People doth usually call 'em his Loving Subjects; the _Bishop_ doth not make himself so familiar, but stileth the People of his _Diocese_ barely his Subjects, _Jurisdictioni nostræ subditos_: The King is _Inthroned_, and the Arch-Bishop _Inthronized_; both derive their Power from a _Divine Right_; but the Bishop is the higher Power, because by the Principles of Episcopacy he can Excommunicate the King, _i.e._ forbid him the very Conversation of his Subjects, and thereby render them uncapable to make good their Oath of Allegiance, in yielding their Aid and Assistance. Nor do's he find that the _Presbytery_ claims any inferior Powers; each Party alledge _Scriptures_ and _Fathers_ on their side; and for ought I can see, (says this Gentleman) they are all in the right. Through an excess of Prejudice thus occasion'd, he makes a further step towards _Deism_, and Reasons after this manner: 'Tis not impossible (continues he) that the ancient _Clergy_ might be possess'd with the same Spirit of Pride, which has prevail'd over the modern. If those Writings, which they call _Holy Scriptures_ are of their side, as they all say they are, I make no doubt but they were of their own inventing; and if _Jesus Christ_ their Patron, laid the Foundation of those Powers, which both _Popish_ and _Protestant Clergy_ claim to themselves from under him, I think the old _Romans_ did him right in punishing him with the death of a Slave. After this manner I have heard it said of late, by another of the same Constitution, that as the Church of _Rome_ was a modelled Faction against all other Christians, so was the Church of _England_, by Law Established, against all other Protestants, who were by Law excluded from every Office of Profit and Trust; who were made subject to the Piques and Malice of every Church-man, and became a constant Revenue to Apparitors and Spiritual Catch-poles. And though at present there be a _Toleration_ by Law granted, yet 'tis full opposed by the Spirit of the Church, as appears by Sermons preached at Visitations, and the constant ordinary Discourses of the _Clergy_, in which the Church of _England_ is