Wherefore to come unto you whose judgement is a lantarne of direction for all the rest, you that frame thus the peoples heartes, not altogether (as I willingly perswade my selfe) of a politique intent or purpose, but your selves being first overborne with the waight of greater mens judgementes: on your shoulders is laide the burthen of upholding the cause by argument. For which purpose sentences out of the word of God ye alleage diverse: but so, that when the same are discust, thus it alwayes in a maner falleth out, that what things by vertue thereof ye urge upon us as altogether necessarie, are found to be thence collected onlie by poore and marvelous slight conjectures. I neede not give instance in anie one sentence so alleaged, for that I thinke the instance in any alleaged otherwise a thing not easie to be given. A verie strange thing sure it were that such a discipline as ye speake of should be taught by Christ and his Apostles in the word of God, and no Church have ever found it out, nor receyved it till this present time; contrarywise, the government against which ye bend your selves be observed everywhere throughout all generations and ages of the Christian world, no Church ever perceiving the word of God to be against it. We require you to finde out but one Church upon the face of the whole earth, that hath bene ordered by your discipline, or hath not bene ordered by ours, that is to saie, by episcopall regiment, sithence the time that the blessed Apostles were heere conversant.

As for those of you who are a lantern to the rest and mold the hearts of others (not seeking to manipulate, but because you have already been swayed by greater men), it is your burden to defend this cause by argument. For this you bring forth many verses from Scripture, but such that those things which you say logically and necessarily follow from Scripture, turn out to be cobbled together only by poor and slight conjecture. I need not bring up any particular example of you doing this, since it would in fact be hard to find any examples of you doing otherwise. It is rather peculiar that your presbyterian government, should be so clearly taught by Christ and His Apostles in Scripture, but never discovered by any church until now, while the sort of church government, which you so resolutely oppose, has been observed by Christians everywhere and none of them noticed that it was forbidden by Scripture. I challenge you to find one church upon the face of the earth that has had such a church government, or that has not been episcopally-governed since the time of the Apostles!