such discord might have been prevented easily enough if each, when they established their respective church orders as most convenient, had not claimed to be following the direct command of God, presenting their system of church government unto their people as something everlastingly required by the law of that Lord of Lords, whose statutes admit of no exceptions. By doing this, they guaranteed that each church, if it found it differed in any way from its neighbors, could hardly help but accuse them of disobeying the will of Christ.
