A very strange thing sure it were, that such a discipline as you speak of should be taught by Christ and his apostles in the word of God, ans no church ever found it out, nor received it until this present time.

—Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Preface 4.1

I find it fascinating how things never change. While not speaking about scripture per se, a similar charge could be leveled at the revisionists in all the mainline Christian denominations today who seek to rewrite Scripture in their own image.