and handling the word of God deceitfully1;” of being a “deceiver,” though he was “true2;” of “terrifying by letters3;” and of “being crafty,” and “catching” his converts “with guile4.” Nay, cast upon it in the person of our Lord, who was called “a deceiver,” and said to “deceive the people.” Priestcraft has ever been considered the badge, and its imputation is a kind of note of the Church; and in part, indeed, truly, because the presence of powerful enemies, and the sense of their own weakness,