But he _thought_ that every church might make such rules of ordination as they pleased .-- _Swift.

Think, thought, thought, think, thought._ P.154.

_Burnet,_ speaking of a proclamation for shutting up two hundred churches in one day:--Sharp said to myself, that he knew nothing of it.
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He was glad that this was done without his having any share in it: For by it he was furnished with somewhat, in which he was no way concerned, upon which he might cast all the blame of all that followed.
Yet this was suitable enough to a maxim that he and all that sort of people set up, that the execution of laws was that by which all governments maintained their strength, as well as their honour .-- _Swift._ Dunce, can there be a better maxim?
P.157.

_Burnet,_ speaking of those who enforced church discipline, says:--They had a very scanty measure of learning, and a narrow compass in it.