If you would likewise ask some of the limbs of the law, who attended your meeting, they would inform you, that in Acts of Parliament, that in deeds, and in the drawing up almost all the various instruments of the law, there are certain forms, which to _us_ appear most ridiculous, and outrageous, and if you questioned them on these points, and asked them, about all this strange rigmarole of words and of phraseology, they would tell you, it is only a certain necessary form in law, and that although it may appear strange _to other_ people, still, it is perfectly understood _by all_, who are versed in the laws of the land.[D] Why cannot these gentlemen, therefore, have the good sense to extend this explanation to the Pope's Bull, and then they would find this parcelling out the land by the Pope's Bull, and this delegation of spiritual power, of Archbishops, and Bishops, as if extending to Protestants, was a mere phantom of their own imagination, and that in reality, it regarded _none_, but the _spiritual_ subjects of the _Pope_ in this kingdom, and that it did not regard _even them_, only in a _spiritual_, and _not_ in a _temporal_ point of view, either directly or indirectly. I observe, in your public notice for your meeting, two Dissenting Ministers, put their names to the requisition. Now, although the Protestant Church may _honour_ these gentlemen, with the name of _Reverend_, does it consider them to be ministers? It certainly does not.[E] And I will prove it to you. If these Ministers were to go over to the _Protestant_ Church, it would ordain them, and by that act, tell them that _before_, they were mere _phantoms_ of Ministers, and that they had _never_ had any spiritual power, or jurisdiction whatever. If therefore the orthodox Protestant gentleman, whose name stands so conspicuously between these two Dissenting Reverends, were to be asked, why he styled them Reverends, when his own Church, considers them as mere phantoms of Ministers, what would he say? Of course he would tell us, it was a mere matter of courtesy, for he was obliged to agree with his Church, that they were mere phantoms of Ministers. Now, gentlemen, just apply this to the Pope's Bull in _your_ regard. You read the Pope's Bull, and erroneously imagine that the spiritual powers, which it asserts, really regards (or is to regard) you Protestants. Whereas you ought to consider it, as a _mere phantom_ of _spiritual_ power in _your_ regard, and I moreover add, you ought to consider it, as a mere phantom in any _temporal_ point of view, even as it regards _the Catholics_. Do this, gentlemen, and then, you will perceive, that the idea of it extending to _you_ Protestants, either in any _spiritual_, or _temporal_ point of view, whatever, is a mere chimera of your own imaginations.