I liked the _Bishop_, when he proposed to the _Queen_ to be _Arbitress_ of our Controversy. As I will not here question her Qualifications to judge in it, so the first Opportunity I have of waiting on her _Majesty_, I will join my Requests to her to accept of the Trouble and Office. After she has fix'd the Terms of Disputation, and thought of a proper Reward for the _Victor_, or a Punishment for the _Conquer'd_, then will we proceed, and either dispute the Matter from the Press, or scold it out in the Queen's Presence, as she shall think it most conducive to the Edification of herself, and of her Court-Ladies. But the _Bishop_'s Proposal here, and Compliment on the _Queen_, is but the Copy of his Countenance. He'll submit to no Arbitration: No, no, he's for having the Civil Powers to be immediate Executioners (without further hearing what I have to say for my self) of his Wrath and Vengeance upon me. He's for having them to take it for granted, that he has proved me an _Infidel_ and _Blasphemer_, and would have them to inflict some exemplary Punishment upon me, so as to incapacitate me for ever writing more. Wherefore else does he say thus?[339] "Indeed a more proper Occasion cannot possibly happen in a Nation, where Christianity is establish'd by human _Laws_, to invigorate the Zeal of the Magistrate, in putting the Laws in Execution against so flagrant a Sort of Profaneness, that tramples with such Indignity on the Grounds of the _Christian_ Faith; and to convince the World that the _Minister_ of that _God_, who is so highly affronted, _bears not the Sword in vain_. And certainly the Higher Powers have great Reason to exert their Authority on this and the like Occasions."