--S.
{70} Peter, the Church of Rome; Martin, the Reformed Church as
established by authority in England; Jack, the dissenters from the
English Church Establishment. Martin, named probably from Martin
Luther; Jack, from John Calvin. The coats are the coats of
righteousness, in which all servants of God should be clothed; alike
in love and duty, however they may differ in opinion.
{71} Covetousness, ambition, and pride, which were the three great
vices that the ancient fathers inveighed against as the first
corruptions of Christianity.--W. Wotton.
{72a} The tailor.
{72b} A sacred monkey.
{75} The Roman Catholics were considered by the Reformers to have
added to the simple doctrines of Christianity inventions of their
own, and to have laid especial stress on the adoption of them. Upon
Swift's saying of the three brothers, "Now the coats their father
had left them were, it is true, of very good cloth, and besides so
neatly sewn that you would swear they were all of a piece, but, at
the same time, very plain, with little or no ornament," W.
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