“He made us, and we not ourselves.” (Ps.c. 3.) –but not that ye should presume to fashion and shape a new portraitor or a kirk and a new form of divine service which God in His Word has not allowed, because that were to extend your authority farther than the calling ye have of God which does permit. As namely, if ye should (As God forbid!) authorize the authority of bishops and the preeminence above their brethren, ye should bring unto the kirk of God the ordinance of man, and that thing which experience of preceding ages has testified to being the ground great idleness, palpable ignorance, insufferable pride, pitiless tyranny, and shameless ambition in the kirk of God; and finally to have been the ground of that antichristian hierarchy, which mounted upon the steps of pre-eminence of bishops until that man of sin came forth, as the ripe fruits of man’s wisdom, whom God shall consume with the brightness of his coming, and the breath of his mouth. Let the sword of God pierce that belly which has brought forth such a monster, and let the staff of God crush that egg which hath hatched such a cockatrice; and let not only that Roman antichrist be thrown down from the high bench of his usurped authority, but also let all the steps whereby he mounted up unto that unlawful pre-eminence be cut down and utterly abolished in this land.
Exceprt from “A Protestation offered To the Parliament at Perth the First of July 1606″ Modernized spelling and English but in essence from the version given in Row’s Coronis.

“He made us, and we not ourselves.” (Ps.c. 3.) –but not that ye should presume to fashion and shape a new portraitor or a kirk and a new form of divine service which God in His Word has not allowed, because that were to extend your authority farther than the calling ye have of God which does permit. As namely, if ye should (As God forbid!) authorize the authority of bishops and the preeminence above their brethren, ye should bring unto the kirk of God the ordinance of man, and that thing which experience of preceding ages has testified to being the ground great idleness, palpable ignorance, insufferable pride, pitiless tyranny, and shameless ambition in the kirk of God; and finally to have been the ground of that antichristian hierarchy, which mounted upon the steps of pre-eminence of bishops until that man of sin came forth, as the ripe fruits of man’s wisdom, whom God shall consume with the brightness of his coming, and the breath of his mouth. Let the sword of God pierce that belly which has brought forth such a monster, and let the staff of God crush that egg which hath hatched such a cockatrice; and let not only that Roman antichrist be thrown down from the high bench of his usurped authority, but also let all the steps whereby he mounted up unto that unlawful pre-eminence be cut down and utterly abolished in this land.
Exceprt from “A Protestation offered To the Parliament at Perth the First of July 1606″ Modernized spelling and English but in essence from the version given in Row’s Coronis.