Wherin many notorious wrestings of Scripture, and other falsities are observed._"[1] [Footnote 1: Original copies of this pamphlet of Milton must be very scarce.

I could not find one in the British Museum, and I have looked in vain elsewhere.

Probably, at the date when it was published, the Council of State had become very alert in suppressing such things.

I take the title and extracts from Pickering's (1851) collective edition of Milton's Works, "printed from the original editions."] The tract, which is very short, opens thus:-- "I affirmed, in the Preface of a late Discourse, entitled _The Ready Way to establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Dangers of readmitting Kingship in this Nation_, that 'the humour of returning to our old bondage was instilled of late by some deceivers': and, to make good that what I then affirmed was not without just ground, one of those deceivers I present here to the people, and, if I prove him not such, refuse not to be so accounted in his stead." The greater part of the pamphlet consists of an examination of the sermon itself, with minute remarks on its wrestings or misinterpretations of Scripture texts, and on the poverty of the preacher's theology and scholarship generally.

There is no actual disguise of the fact that Milton has the lowest opinion of the intellectual _calibre_ of his antagonist, whom he once names "a pulpit-mountebank," and of whom he once says that "the rest of his preachment is mere groundless chat," Yet, on the other hand, he would evidently have Dr.Griffith taken as a fair enough specimen of the average Church-of-England clergyman.