I say, says the Doctor, _very clearly and plainly_, that _such a bishop must be a mad man_, p. 70. Now, if the Doctor will prove from the scriptures this bishop to be a mad man, it must be for the following reasons: _First_, because he had so mean a spirit, as to suffer the son of a bishop to work under a carpenter, as the Redeemer of mankind had done. _Secondly_, because he taught himself and his family to believe that which St. _Paul_ believed, that _having food and raiment, we ought to be therewith content_. _Thirdly_, because he came up to the very letter of the great commandment, of _loving our neighbour as ourselves_. _Fourthly_, because he imitated the spirit of the first Christians at _Jerusalem_, who accounted nothing to be their own that they possessed. _Fifthly_, because he had turned himself and family from all the vanity of this world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. _Sixthly_, because he seemed to have this of the apostle fixed in his mind, “He that saith, he abideth in Christ, ought so to walk, as he walked.” _Seventhly_, because his life was fashioned according to this doctrine of the Holy Jesus, “Learn of me, for I am meek, and lowly of heart: I am among you, as he that serveth: whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; even as the Son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister.” For it may be said with the greatest certainty, that if the Doctor will have any proof from the scripture of the madness of this bishop, it must be as absurd as the reasons here alledged. Come we now to consider this bishop according to the spirit, practice and laws of the church in all ages. Any one versed ever so little in the history of the church, must see at the first sight, that this supposed bishop is a true copy of the first apostolical fathers. And if this bishop was to be accounted a madman, because of the manner of his life, we must come down several ages after _Constantine_, to the _mitre_ and triple crown, before we could find a bishop in his senses. The _Clements_, the _Polycarps_, the _Ignatius’s_, the _Irenæus’s_, the _Cyprian’s_, the _Basils_, the _Ambrose’s_, and a number that have long graced our calenders, as saints, must take their place among bedlamites: for they were all of them to a tittle, the very man I have supposed at _Winchester_. They considered every penny that was brought in by the gospel, as a provision for the poor, and themselves as only entitled to their common share out of it. They durst no more raise any of their relations to a splendor of life, or give them any figure from the revenues of the church, than commit sacrilege. They gloried as much in their own strict poverty and want of worldly figure, as in their having totally renounced idols.