A reply that occasioned some laughter among the nobles, in which the King joined heartily.
"Tut, fule! ye are as daft as the puir body before us," cried James.
"Ken ye not that Melchisedec was a priest and not a prophet; while to judge frae yon fellow's abulyiements, if he belongs to any church at all, it maun be to the church militant.

And yet, aiblins, ye are na sae far out after a'.

Like aneuch, he may be infected with the heresy of the Melchisedecians,--a pestilent sect, who plagued the early Christian Church sairly, placing their master aboon our Blessed Lord himself, and holding him to be identical wi' the Holy Ghaist.

Are ye a Melchisedecian, sirrah ?" "I am a believer in the Gospel," the Puritan replied.

"And am willing to seal my faith in it with my blood.