say thus? To bespatter a man, that his doctrine might be disregarded. ‘Is not this the carpenter?’ And, ‘His bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible’ (1 Cor 10:10), did not use to be in the mouths of the saints; for they knew that ‘the wind bloweth where it listeth’ (John 3:8). Neither is it high birth, worldly breeding, or wealth; but electing love, grace, and the wisdom that comes from heaven, that those who strive for strictness of order in the things and kingdom of Christ, should